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Don't get stuck home without a NEW BOOK to read (during Women's History Month (or National Reading Month))

by Nic Netzel on 2020-03-11T08:00:00-07:00 in General Interest | 0 Comments
If you find yourself with a lot of time on your hands, little reason to leave the house, and in the situation where being on screens is synonymous with being "at work," you may want to make sure you've stocked-up on NEW BOOKS to read. Luckily for you, the library has a bunch of them! (we have old books too, and most of them aren't going anywhere  (except the stuff that's ooooooooold and bad)).    Books are pretty well established as excellent tools for non-digital learning.
Plus, March is National Reading Month AND Women's History month, so there's that, too.
This batch is fiction-heavy (some of which makes for light reading), but the non-fiction is also heavy.  Tiffany Jewell's This Book is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on how to Wake Up, Take Action, and do the Work is a simple text on a complex subject. While it's aimed at teens, the messages and ideas are broadly useful.
Other heavy topics, suitable for long-term, deep study and reflection, include Wendell Berry's The Hidden Word Paolo Freire's seminal Pedagogy of the Oppressed,  and the Flowers in the Gutter: The True Story of The Edelweiss Pirates, Teenagers who Resisted the Nazis, by K.R. Gaddy.
Fall River Dreams: A Team's Quest for Glory, a Town's Search for Its Soul,  by Bill Reynolds, follows a High School Basketball team in the mid 1990s, and Basketball Junkie is the story of the rise to success,  descent into addiction, and ongoing redemption of that team's star player, Chris Herren.
And coming very soon, Jason Reynolds'  fantastic Not-a-History-Book remix of Ibram X. Kendi's Stamped from the Beginning,  Stamped: Racism, Anti-Racism, and You. 
For Women's History month we have many books by and about women (but for everyone to read for Reading Month).
Fiction includes:
  • Marie Lu's The Kingdom of Back explores an alternate history/fantasy of the life of Wolfgang Mozart's sister. 
  • Echo Brown's Black Girl Unlimited is magical realism that tackles social issues. Abigail Hing Wen's Loveboat, Taipei is the coming of age story of a new adult on a study abroad in Taiwan.  
  • Becky Albertalli and Aisha Saeed share a story of reluctant activists in Yes, No, Maybe So.  
  • Karol Silverstein's 2020 Schneider Family Award winner (for excellence in portraying the disability experience), Cursed, is a humorous story starring a young woman living with a painful chronic illness. 
  • Sharon Cameron's The Light in Hidden Places is based on the true story of a young Catholic woman whose family hid 13 Jews in their attic while being forced to house Nazi soldiers in their home.  
  •  Isabel Greenberg tells an imaginative story about the young Bronte sisters in her graphic novel, Glass Town.  
  • Corrie Wang's City of Beasts places a gender divide at the heart of a post-apocalyptic conflict.
  • In Kathryn Ormsbee's Tash Hearts Tolstoy,  a teen vlogger faces the challenges of fame after her web-series adaptation of Anna Karenina becomes a viral hit
  • Emily Lloyd-Jones' The Bone Houses is a horror/fairy tale with gravediggers and zombies
The past 6 months have been a "Teenaged Woman Solves Murders At/For School" book reading era for me, and we've added a few of the best of them, including...
  • the first Charlotte Holmes book, A Study in Charlotte (Sherlock and Watson's grand children meet at boarding school in the US),
  •  the Truly Devious trilogy (Truly, Devious; The Vanishing Stair; The Hand on the Wall) by Maureen Johnson, which feature a teen sleuth raised on true-crime podcasts solving murder cases both cold- and fresh-  at a remote boarding school in Vermont, and
  • A Good Girls Guide to Murder, kind of like the Serial podcast meets Nancy Drew*, meets I Know What you Did Last Summer  (Teen woman re-opens and investigation into a murder/suicide as her senior project). 
  • The sequel to One of Us is Lying: One of Us is Next by  Karen McManus
* (this came during the time that some publishers decided that the best way to celebrate the 90th Anniversary of "Nancy Drew" was to have her get dead and let the Hardy Boys solve her murder... ugh).
 
Other prominent sequels include the fourth book of Libba Bray's Diviners series, The King of Crows,   and  The Deathless Divide, by Justina Ireland, sequel to Dread Nation (black women as reconstruction-era zombie hunters).
Non-Fiction also finds Julia Arce's Someone Like Me: How One Undocumented Girl Fought for Her American Dream.
Of course there was also a request for two non-fiction books on raising boys as well: Boys & Sex and Decoding Boys.
All this, plus short stories where people are also wolves (Salt Slow), Alien first contact and the end of the world (I Hope You Get This Message), the book version of the musical (Working by Studs Terkel  -- BOTH copies got checked out immediately), A Book About Cancer (With a Happy Ending), new sci-fi by Tochi Onyebuchi (Riot Baby),  and more!  As always, see the full list below.
And don't get caught home without a book  (because you can still enjoy/learn from them by candlelight when the power is out and digital devices fail).

 

Call Number Title Author
305.8 JEW This book is anti-racist : 20 lessons on how to wake up, take action, and do the work Jewell, Tiffany
305.8 BER The hidden wound .Berry, Wendell, 1934-
306.708 ORE Boys & sex : young men on hookups, love, porn, consent, and navigating the new masculinity Orenstein, Peggy.
331.2 TUR Working : people talk about what they do all day and how they feel about what they do Terkel, Studs, 1912-2008.
338.7 CAR Bad blood : secrets and lies in a Silicon Valley startup Carreyrou, John.
370.1 FRE Pedagogy of the oppressed Freire, Paulo, 1921-1997,.
649.125 NAT Decoding boys : new science behind the subtle art of raising sons Natterson, Cara Familian, 1970-
796.323 REY Fall River dreams : a team's quest for glory, a town's search for its soul Reynolds, Bill, 1945-
940.53 GAD Flowers in the gutter : the true story of the Edelweiss Pirates, teenagers who resisted the Nazis Gaddy, K. R.
B ARC Someone like me : how one undocumented girl fought for her American dream Arce, Julissa.
B HER Basketball junkie : a memoir Herren, Chris.
DVD 324.7 PLEASE Please vote for me an experiment in democracy by Chinese 8-year-olds a film by Weijun Chen.
FIC ALB Yes no maybe so Albertalli, Becky.
FIC BER Lovely war Berry, Julie, 1974-
FIC BRA The King of Crows Bray, Libba.
FIC BRO Black girl unlimited : the remarkable story of a teenage wizard Brown, Echo.
FIC CAM The light in hidden places Cameron, Sharon, 1970-
FIC CAV A study in Charlotte : a Charlotte Holmes novel Cavallaro, Brittany.
FIC DES A story about cancer (with a happy ending) Desjardins, India, 1976-
FIC FRE Shadowscent Freestone, P.M.
FIC GAI Coraline Gaiman, Neil.
FIC GIL Not so pure and simple Giles, L. R. (Lamar R.)
FIC HEM The descendants : a novel Hemmings, Kaui Hart.
FIC IRE Deathless divide Ireland, Justina.
FIC JAC A good girl's guide to murder Jackson, Holly, 1992-
FIC JOH The hand on the wall Johnson, Maureen, 1973-
FIC JOH Truly devious Johnson, Maureen, 1973-
FIC JOH The vanishing stair Johnson, Maureen, 1973-
FIC LLO The bone houses Lloyd-Jones, Emily.
FIC LU The Kingdom of Back Lu, Marie, 1984-
FIC MCA Blood sport McAdam, Tash.
FIC MCG Heroine McGinnis, Mindy.
FIC MCM One of us is next McManus, Karen M.
FIC NAP Dear Edward : a novel Napolitano, Ann.
FIC NAW Laughing all the way to the Mosque Nawaz, Zarqa.
FIC ONY Riot baby Onyebuchi, Tochi.
FIC ORM Tash hearts Tolstoy Ormsbee, Katie.
FIC RIS I hope you get this message Rishi, Farah Naz.
FIC RUS Birthday Russo, Meredith.
FIC SIL Cursed Silverstein, Karol Ruth.
FIC WAN City of beasts Wang, Corrie.
FIC WEN Loveboat, Taipei Wen, Abigail Hing.
GNOV FIC GRE Glass Town Greenberg, Isabel.
GNOV FIC TAM Laura Dean keeps breaking up with me Tamaki, Mariko.
PROF 372.6 HOL Culturally and linguistically responsive teaching and learning : classroom practices for student success Hollie, Sharroky, 1967-
SC ARM Salt slow : stories Armfield, Julia.
SC BRA The Martian chronicles Bradbury, Ray, 1920-2012.
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