TITLE: 1919: The Year That Changed America
AUTHOR: Martin W. Sandler CALL NUMBER: 973.91 San SUMMARY: Examines the pivotal events in United States history during the year 1919, from women's suffrage and labor union strikes to communism scares and the temperance movement, discussing their relevance to significant issues in American life today. |
TITLE: The Poet X
AUTHOR: Elizabeth Acevedo CALL NUMBER: FIC Ace - NOVELS SUMMARY: Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood. Ever since her body grew into curves, she has learned to let her fists and her fierceness do the talking. She discovers slam poetry as a way to understand her mother's religion and her own relationship to the world. |
TITLE: Sing, Unburied, Sing
AUTHOR: Jesmyn Ward CALL NUMBER: FIC War - NOVELS SUMMARY: Living with his grandparents and sister on a Gulf Coast farm, Jojo navigates the challenges of his mother's addictions and his grandmother's cancer before the release of his father from prison prompts a road trip of danger and hope. |
TITLE: The Underground Railroad
AUTHOR: Colson Whitehead CALL NUMBER: FIC Whi - HISTORICAL SUMMARY: After Cora, a slave in pre-Civil War Georgia, escapes with another slave, Caesar, they seek the help of the Underground Railroad as they flee from state to state and try to evade a slave catcher, Ridgeway, who is determined to return them to the South. |
TITLE: Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
AUTHOR: Ibram X. Kendi CALL NUMBER: 305.8 Ken SUMMARY: A comprehensive history of anti-black racism focuses on the lives of five major players in American history, including Cotton Mather and Thomas Jefferson, and highlights the debates that took place between assimilationists and segregationists and between racists and antiracists |
TITLE: March: Book Three
AUTHOR: John Lewis CALL NUMBER: 323 Lew - GRAPHIC SUMMARY: A graphic novel account of some pivotal moments in the Civil Rights Movement. |
TITLE: Between the World and Me
AUTHOR: Ta-Nehisi Coates CALL NUMBER: 305.8 Coa SUMMARY: The author presents a history of racial discrimination in the United States and a narrative of his own personal experiences of contemporary race relations, offering possible resolutions for the future. |
TITLE: Future Smiles
AUTHOR: Adam Johnson CALL NUMBER: FIC Joh - NOVELS SUMMARY: A collection of six short stories by American author Adam Johnson. |
TITLE: Challenger Deep
AUTHOR: Neal Shusterman CALL NUMBER: FIC Shu - NOVELS SUMMARY: As he struggles with schizophrenia, a teenage boy believes he is on a journey to reach the bottom of Challenger Deep, the deepest place on Earth. |
TITLE: Redeployment
AUTHOR: Phil Klay CALL NUMBER: FIC Kla - NOVELS SUMMARY: A collection of short stories by a former Marine captain and Iraq veteran focuses on the complexities of life for soldiers on the front lines and after, exploring themes ranging from brutality and faith to guilt and survival. |
TITLE: Brown Girl Dreaming
AUTHOR: Jacqueline Woodson CALL NUMBER: 921 Woo SUMMARY: The author shares her childhood memories and reveals the first sparks that ignited her writing career in free-verse poems about growing up in the North and South. |
TITLE: The Round House
AUTHOR: Louise Erdrich CALL NUMBER: FIC Erd - NATIVE COLLECTION SUMMARY: After Geraldine Coutts is attacked on the Ojibwe reservation in North Dakota, her husband Bazil, a tribal judge, tries to find justice for his wife, and their teenage son Joe tries to help his mother heal. |
TITLE: Behind the Beautiful Forevers
AUTHOR: Katherine Boo CALL NUMBER: 305.5 Boo SUMMARY: Examines and provides real-life accounts of urban poor families living in Bombay, India. |
TITLE: Salvage the Bones
AUTHOR: Jesmyn Ward CALL NUMBER: FIC War - NOVELS SUMMARY: Pregnant fifteen-year-old Esch and her family live in Bois Sauvage, Mississippi, which puts them in the path of Hurricane Katrina, and as they try to stock the small amount of food they have in preparation for the disaster, the family's love for each other will be their only hope for survival. |
TITLE: The Swerve
AUTHOR: Stephen Greenblatt CALL NUMBER: 940.2 Gre SUMMARY: Retraces the story of when Poggio Bracciolini found Lucretius' poem "On the Nature of Things," during the Renaissance and how the recirculation of this poem changed history. |
TITLE: Head Off & Split
AUTHOR: Nikky Finney CALL NUMBER: 811 Fin SUMMARY: A collection of poetry by contemporary African American author Nikky Finney that discusses significant figures and events in African American life. |
TITLE: Inside Out & Back Again
AUTHOR: Thanhha Lai CALL NUMBER: FIC Lai - NOVELS SUMMARY: Through a series of poems, a young girl chronicles the life-changing year of 1975, when she, her mother, and her brothers leave Vietnam and resettle in Alabama. |