Colorization: One Hundred Years of Black Films in a White World by Wil Haygood Setting: United States Length: 17:36 Published on October 19, 2021 Pages: 464 Source: Library A NEW YORK TIMES CRITICS’ TOP BOOK OF THE YEAR – BOOKLISTS’ […]
Micronesian Blues
Micronesian Blues by Bryan Vila, Cynthia Morris Published on May 31, 2013 Pages: 295 Format: eBook Source: Kindle Unlimited His plane nearly crashed, the cops he’d been hired to train almost killed him, and he ingested a substance that bore […]
The Boys
The Boys : A Memoir of Hollywood and Family by Ron Howard, Clint Howard, Bryce Dallas Howard Setting: California Narrator: Ron Howard, Clint Howard Published on October 19, 2021 Pages: 393 Format: Audiobook Source: Library Happy Days, The Andy Griffith […]
The Gilded Cage on the Bosphorus
The Gilded Cage on the Bosphorus Published on January 1, 2021 Pages: 530 Format: eBook Source: Book Tour Brothers bound by blood but fated to be enemies. Can their Empire survive or will it crumble into myth? Istanbul, 1903. Since […]
Hooverville
Hooverville by Kayla Joy Published on April 15, 2021 Pages: 256 Format: eARC Source: From author/publisher Annaleise Winston can never seem to fit in with the Society Girls, the strict rules that govern them, or their selfish indulgence during the […]
Wartime with the Tram Girls
Setting: England Format: eBook July 1914: Britain is in turmoil as WW1 begins to change the world. While the young men disappear off to foreign battlefields, the women left at home throw themselves into jobs meant for the boys. Hiding […]
Twilight of Democracy
Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism by Anne Applebaum Published on July 21, 2020 Pages: 208 Format: eBook From the United States and Britain to continental Europe and beyond, liberal democracy is under siege, while authoritarianism is on […]
Colour Bar
Colour Bar: The Triumph of Seretse Khama and His Nation by Susan Williams Published on 2007 London, 1947. He was the heir to an African kingdom. She was a white English insurance clerk. When they met and fell in love, […]
Black Titan – The Story of A.G. Gaston
Black Titan: A.G. Gaston and the Making of a Black American Millionaire by Carol Jenkins, Elizabeth Gardner Hines Setting: Alabama Published on December 2003 Pages: 330 The grandson of slaves, born into poverty in 1892 in the Deep South, A. […]
Hidden Figures
Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly Published on December 6th 2016 Pages: 368 “Set against the backdrop of the Jim Crow South […]
The Girls of Atomic City
The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II by Denise Kiernan Setting: Tennessee Published on March 5th 2013 Pages: 373 Buy on Amazon “The incredible story of the young women of […]
Vivian in Red – Historical Fiction and a Ghost Story
Vivian In Red by Kristina Riggle Setting: New York Published on September 13th 2016 Pages: 352 Buy on Amazon “Famed Broadway producer Milo Short may be eighty-eight but that doesn’t stop him from going to the office every day. So […]
67 Shots
67 Shots: Kent State and the End of American Innocence by Howard Means Published on April 12th 2016 Pages: 288 Buy on Amazon At midday on May 4, 1970, after three days of protests, several thousand students and the Ohio […]
The Wright Brothers
The Wright Brothers by David G. McCullough Published on 2015-05 Pages: 368 Format: Audiobook Source: Owned On a winter day in 1903, in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, two unknown brothers from Ohio changed history. But it would take […]
Freedom’s Daughters by Lynne Olson
Freedom’s Daughters by Lynne Olson Published on 2001 Pages: 460 Format: Hardcover Source: Library Buy on Amazon The first comprehensive history of the role of women in the civil rights movement, Freedom's Daughters fills a startling gap in both the […]
