Rock star Amanda Palmer was the first musician to raise more than 1 million dollars on Kickstarter. In 2012, $1,192,793 was pledged by 24,883 people in 30 days in support of her work. How’d she manage such a feat?

Hidden Figures tells the true story of African American women who contributed their superb mathematical skills to help fulfill John F. Kennedy’s dream of getting a man on the moon by the end of the 1960’s.

Few first ladies rival Jackie O. when it comes to style, wit, dignity, and poise.

Abrams shows how to take passion and conviction, become empowered, and help make society better for all.

Based on interviews with Ruth Bader Ginsburg herself and her close friends and family members and in homage to the Notorious B.I.G. and his lyrics. The Notorious RBG was committed to bringing up other women and underrepresented people even when it seemed impossible. You can also check out this title as eBook on OverDrive/Libby, as eAudio on OverDrive/Libby, as eBook on Hoopla or as eAudio on Hoopla.

Obama’s White House photographer captures our former president in more than 300 photographs creating a visual biography of his eight year presidency.

Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon, a novel of large beauty and power, creates a magical world out of four generations of black life in America, a world we enter on the day of the birth of Macon Dead, Jr. (known as Milkman), son of the richest black family in a mid-western town; the day on which the lonely insurance man, Robert Smith, poised in blue silk wings, attempts to fly from a steeple of the hospital, a black Icarus looking homeward…

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The founder of the Well-Read Black Girl book club gathers a selection of inspiring essays by Black women writers, on the theme of the importance of representation in literature. 

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