Have you heard the news? The 2024-2025 Go Big Read book is 'Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body’ by Rebekah Taussig, a riveting memoir that explores disability and evolving identity.
For more information on the book, visit https://t.co/MyMZehl1Td
Barbara Kingsolver’s PRODIGAL SUMMER is “a blend of breathtaking artistry, encyclopedic knowledge of the natural world. . . and ardent commitment to the supremacy of nature.” (San Francisco Chronicle)
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With THE SECRET TO SUPERHUMAN STRENGTH, Alison Bechdel “set out to write a light book about her lifelong commitment to exercise…. As usual, her story and art are about so much more.” (Washington Post)
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“A brilliant rendering of what 'the open space of democracy' must be if we are to survive its present state of erosion.” –Terry Tempest Williams
Read a sample of THIS AMERICA OF OURS at our book page: https://t.co/v6sbiOyqr1
Learn more of the true story of THE BONDSWOMAN'S NARRATIVE with THE LIFE AND TIMES OF HANNAH CRAFTS. Read an excerpt at our book page: https://t.co/HQcxRGjWyF
Now available in hardcover (and ebook and audio!) is OPINIONS, a new collection of essays by Roxane Gay. Learn more at our book page: https://t.co/VOFJNkWl2V
Adam Hochschild’s AMERICAN MIDNIGHT is a "masterly" (NY Times) reassessment of the period between World War I and the 1920s, when American democracy was threatened by war, pandemic, and violence fueled by battles over race, immigration, and the rights of labor.
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We’re honoring ITALO CALVINO on the 100th anniversary of his birth. Among his many works are Invisible Cities, The Baron in the Trees, and other novels, as well as many collections of fiction, folktales, criticism, and essays.
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Ursula K. Le Guin’s THE DISPOSSESSED “is science fiction, but the tradition is humanistic, reducing life to its essentials and examining human beings in a real world.” (Chicago Daily News)
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We're thrilled that a recent @AmistadBooks poetry collection, SIDE NOTES FROM THE ARCHIVIST, has received an incredible course adoption at the University of Washington, Seattle. Two hundred students will read the collection. Learn more here: https://t.co/dmqAwILJw4 #poetry
Which senior UK diplomat referred to American Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy as "a very foul specimen of double-crosser and defeatist"? Find out in NEED TO KNOW, Nicholas Reynolds's book on the history of American intelligence service. Read a sample: https://t.co/LKuZlK4uMx