*Corrado Library at Central Catholic High School*: New Materials in the Collection

 

And also, lest we forget History is still being made right now, we have books that deal with current events and politics:  Etan Thomas collects his interviews with over a dozen professional athletes and coaches in We Matter: Athletes and Activism,   Patrisse Khan-Cullors has a short memoir:   When they call you a terrorist : a Black Lives Matter memoir,  and Morgan Jenkins, called "a writer to be reckoned with" by Roxanne Gay,  has a collection of essays entitled This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America.   

 

Amy Reed (Nowhere Girls) edited a collection of essays called Our Stories, Our Voices: 21 YA Authors Get Real about Injustice, Government, and Growing up Female in America, which partners nicely with this year's Multnomah County Everybody Reads book We Should All Be Feminists,  by Chimimanda Ngozi Adichie. 

 

Jill Lepore, author of an excellent book on the history behind the creation of Wonder Woman, ( and also giving a talk for Portland Literary Arts at "the Schnitz" on October 11th) has a new single volume history of the United States called  These Truths: A History of the United States.  For a more academic, but still readable, take on modern politics and "Identity,'  University of Maryland Professor Lilliana Mason's Uncivil Agreement: How Politics became our Identity is worth your time.  If you're a podcast person, you can hear her discuss it on episode 133 of "You Are Not So Smart",  (or read the transcript here), it includes the fun fact that threats to your identity can be detected in your saliva*!