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* June is Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) Pride Month! *
Learn more about it by checking out a related book from our book display in the Library, or from our post here.
Teens, find our LBQTQIA+ reading list--designed for you--on our website's Teen page, listed under the Services tab!

Library Staff

Books selections for LGBTQ Pride Month

June 10, 2022 By Library Staff

For more information, including 2022 events, resources, and audio/video, visit the Library of Congress.

Find our selections below. Click through the links to our catalog where you can place books on hold:

 

NON-FICTION

Culture and groups

  • We are everywhere : protest, power, and pride in the history of Queer Liberation / Riemer, Matthew
  • Pride : the LGBTQ+ rights movement : a photographic journey / Measom, Christopher
  • The book of pride : LGBTQ heroes who changed the world / Funk, Mason
  • Transgender children and youth : cultivating pride and joy with families in transition / Nealy, Elijah C.
  • A queer history of the United States / Bronski, Michael
  • ¡Hola papi! : how to come out in a Walmart parking lot and other life lessons / Brammer, John Paul
  • Queer city : gay London from the Romans to the present day / Ackroyd, Peter
  • “You can tell just by looking” : and 20 other myths about LGBT life and people / Bronski, Michael
  • She/he/they/me : for the sisters, misters, and binary resisters / Ryle, Robyn
  • LGBTQ stats : lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people by the numbers / Deschamps, David
  • Sissy : a coming-of-gender story / Tobia, Jacob
  • Tomorrow will be different : love, loss, and the fight for trans equality / McBride, Sarah
  • Punch me up to the gods / Broome, Brian
  • When we rise : my life in the movement / Jones, Cleve
  • Rainbow warrior : my life in color / Baker, Gilbert
  • Queer intentions : a (personal) journey through LGBTQ+ culture / Abraham, Amelia
  • Queer : the ultimate LGBTQ guide for teens / Belge, Kathy

Vocal Music, Stage Presentations, Public Performances, Drawing

  • Naturally Tan / France, Tan
  • How do I un-remember this? : unfortunately true stories / Pellegrino, Danny
  • Start without me : (I’ll be there in a minute) / Janetti, Gary
  • Are you my mother? : a comic drama / Bechdel, Alison
  • Tranny : confessions of punk rock’s most infamous anarchist sellout / Grace, Laura Jane
  • Mercury : an intimate biography of Freddie Mercury / Jones, Lesley–Ann
  • Me / John, Elton
  • Save yourself / Esposito, Cameron

Poetry and Literature

  • The price of the ticket : collected nonfiction 1948-1985 / Baldwin, James
  • How we fight for our lives : a memoir / Jones, Saeed
  • The collected poems of Audre Lorde / Lorde, Audre
  • Homie : poems / Smith, Danez
  • The tradition / Brown, Jericho
  • Nature poem / Pico, Tommy
  • How to love a country : poems / Blanco, Richard
  • Girls can kiss now : essays / Gutowitz, Jill
  • Against memoir : complaints, confessions & criticisms / Tea, Michelle

History of North America

  • Burn the page : a true story of torching doubts, blazing trails, and igniting change / Roem, Danica

FICTION

  • Find me / Aciman, André
  • With teeth / Arnett, Kristen
  • Count your lucky stars : a novel / Bellefleur, Alexandria
  • Delilah Green doesn‘t care / Blake, Ashley Herring
  • Queerly beloved : a novel / Dumond, Susie
  • The death of Vivek Oji / Emezi, Akwaeke
  • Middlesex / Eugenides, Jeffrey
  • Innate magic / Fay, Shannon
  • Something fabulous / Hall, Alexis J.
  • We do what we do in the dark / Hart, Michelle
  • D’Vaughn and Kris plan a wedding / Higgins, Chencia C.
  • Shuggie Bain : a novel / Stuart, Douglas
  • Real life / Taylor, Brandon (Brandon L. G.)
  • Memorial : a novel / Washington, Bryan

Filed Under: News + Events

Celebrate Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month — browse our reading list

May 9, 2022 By Library Staff

May is Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month, so Smiley Library is offering a sampling of our books as a celebration of those Americans of Asian and Pacific islands descent. Read summaries and reviews of the selected books, listed below, by accessing our catalog through the books’ links.

We also recommend https://asianpacificheritage.gov/ to connect with online events, exhibits, and collections.

A rather broad term, Asian/Pacific encompasses all of the Asian continent and the Pacific islands of Melanesia (New Guinea, New Caledonia, Vanuatu, Fiji and the Solomon Islands), Micronesia (Marianas, Guam, Wake Island, Palau, Marshall Islands, Kiribati, Nauru and the Federated States of Micronesia) and Polynesia (New Zealand, Hawaiian Islands, Rotuma, Midway Islands, Samoa, American Samoa, Tonga, Tuvalu, Cook Islands, French Polynesia and Easter Island).

NON-FICTION

Rise : a pop history of Asian America from the nineties to now / Yang, Jeff

See no stranger : a memoir and manifesto of revolutionary love / Kaur, Valarie

Minor feelings : an Asian American reckoning / Hong, Cathy Park

Asian American dreams : the emergence of an American people / Zia, Helen

The loneliest Americans / Kang, Jay Caspian

The truths we hold : an American journey / Harris, Kamala

Speak, Okinawa : a memoir / Brina, Elizabeth Miki

New kings of the world : dispatches from Bollywood, Dizi, and K-Pop / Bhutto, Fatima

The baddest bitch in the room : a memoir / Chang, Sophia

Cookbooks

The wok : recipes and techniques / López-Alt, J. Kenji
The Korean vegan cookbook : reflections and recipes from Omma’s kitchen / Lee Molinaro, Joanne
The Red Boat fish sauce cookbook : beloved recipes from the family behind the purest fish sauce / Pham, Cuong

Poetry, Essays, Literature

Dear memory : letters on writing, silence, and grief / Chang, Victoria
Yellow rain : poems / Vang, Mai Der
A god at thedoor / Doshi, Tishani
All the flowers kneeling / Tran, Paul
Why not me? / Kaling, Mindy
The impossible city : a Hong Kong memoir / Cheung, Karen
The best American poetry 2021 / Smith, Tracy K.
Time is amother / Vuong, Ocean
Beast at every threshold : poems / Wee, Natalie
The curious thing : poems / Lim, Sandra
Murakami T : the t–shirts Ilove / Murakami, Haruki
Vessel : a memoir / Cai, Chongda
They called us enemy / Takei, George (graphic novel)
Rebels against the Raj : Western fighters for India’s freedom / Guha, Ramachandra

FICTION

Red thread of fate / Butler, Lyn Liao
The family Chao : a novel / Chang, Lan Samantha
Activities of daily living : a novel / Chen, Lisa
Edge case : a novel / Chin, YZ
Spirits abroad : stories / Cho, Zen
Skinship : stories / Choi, Yoon
Disorientation / Chou, Elaine Hsieh
Seoulmates / Frederick, Jen
Fiona and Jane / Ho, Jean Chen
Tales from the cafe : a novel / Kawaguchi, Toshikazu
People from my neighborhood : stories / Kawakami, Hiromi
The cabinet / Kim, Ŏn-su
Lemon / Kwŏn, Yŏ-sŏn
Leave society / Lin, Tao
The wedding party / Liu, Xinwu
A place for us / Mirza, Fatima Farheen
Earthlings : a novel / Murata, Sayaka
My annihilation / Nakamura, Fuminori
Love in the big city : a novel / Park, Sang Young
She who became the sun / Parker-Chan, Shelley
The ministry of utmost happiness / Roy, Arundhati
Gold diggers / Sathian, Sanjena
Untold night and day : a novel / Suah, Bae
Hao : stories / Ye, Chun
Interior Chinatown / Yu, Charles
Tokyo Ueno station / Yū, Miri
The disaster tourist : a novel / Yun, Ko-ŭn
How much of these hills is gold / Zhang, C Pam

SCIENCE FICTION

Light years from home / Chen, Mike
Kundo wakes up / Hossain, Saad Z.
Sinopticon 2021 : a celebration of Chinese science fiction / Ni, Xueting Christine
The way spring arrives and other stories / Yu, Chen

Filed Under: News + Events

If we each can do a little, together we can do a lot! Variety of Earth Day topics, all ages; local event April 27

April 25, 2022 By Library Staff

“Invest in our Planet” is the theme for Earth Day, April 22, 2022.

Use the following reading list for adults, young adults, and children to find a way you can help!

 

But first, how you can invest in our community ~

Learn about local efforts to reduce climate change and positively influence our collective health and sustainability on a local level:

What: Presentations by Accelerate Neighborhood Climate Action (ANCA), Redlands Conservancy, and CA Climate Action Group. Table presentations by Citizens’ Climate Lobby, Friends of A.K. Smiley Public Library, Redlands Conservancy, and ANCA

When: Wednesday, April 27, at 6:30 pm (doors open at 6:00 pm)

Where: A.K. Smiley Public Library Contemporary Club, 173 S. Eureka St., Redlands

It’s free to the public; no registration is required.

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Also, enjoy the Great Outdoors in a state park in honor of Earth Day ~

Visit participating California state parks for free with your library card by checking out a vehicle’s day-use state park pass! Some restrictions apply; give us a call at 909-798-7565 for more information.

  • California State Library Parks Pass / California State Library, Parks Pass Program, 2022

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READING LIST OF BOOKS FOR ADULTS:

Activists, Innovators, & Inspiration

  • A bigger picture : my fight to bring a new African voice to the climate crisis / Nakate, Vanessa, 2021
  • Diary of a young naturalist / McAnulty, Dara, 2021
  • As the world burns : the new generation of activists and the landmark legal fight against climate change / Van der Voo, Lee, 2020
  • Natural rivals : John Muir, Gifford Pinchot, and the creation of America’s public lands / Clayton, John, 2019
  • Visionary women : how Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs, Jane Goodall, and Alice Waters changed our world / Barnet, Andrea, 2018
  • The wizard and the prophet : two remarkable scientists and their dueling visions to shape tomorrow’s world / Mann, Charles C., 2018
  • Nature’s allies : eight conservationists who changed our world / Nielsen, Larry A., 2017
  • Engineering Eden : the true story of a violent death, a trial, and the fight over controlling nature / Smith, Jordan Fisher, 2016
  • Rachel Carson and her sisters : extraordinary women who have shaped America’s environment / Musil, Robert K., 2014
  • The genius of Earth Day : how a 1970 teach-in unexpectedly made the first green generation / Rome, Adam, 2013
  • On a farther shore : the life and legacy of Rachel Carson / Souder, William, 2012
  • A force for nature : the story of NRDC and the fight to save our planet / Adams, John H. (John Hamilton), 2010
  • The man from Clear Lake : Earth Day founder Gaylord Nelson / Christofferson, Bill, 2004

Animals & Plants

  • The nation of plants / Mancuso, Stefano, 2021
  • Hurricane lizards and plastic squid : the fraught and fascinating biology of climate change / Hanson, Thor, 2021
  • Garden allies : the insects, birds, & other animals that keep your garden beautiful and thriving /Lavoipierre, Frédérique, 2021
  • Born to rewild : triumphs of a now fearless woman / Kalimian, Manda, 2021
  • How to love animals : in a human-shaped world / Mance, Henry, 2021
  • Iwígara : American Indian ethnobotanical traditions and science / Salmón, Enrique, 2020
  • Stronghold : one man’s quest to save the world’s wild salmon / Malarkey, Tucker, 2019
  • Fraser’s penguins : a journey to the future in Antarctica / Montaigne, Fen, 2010

Climate Change, Global Warming, and the effects on our environment

  • Fire and flood : a people’s history of climate change, from 1979 to the present / Linden, Eugene, 2022
  • The Greatest Polar Expedition of All Time : The Arctic Mission to the Epicenter of Climate Change / Rex, Markus/ Pybus, Sarah (TRN), 2022
  • The last winter : the scientists, adventurers, journeymen, and mavericks trying to save the world / Fox, Porter, 2021
  • Disasterology : dispatches from the frontlines of the climate crisis / Montano, Samantha, 2021
  • Overheated : how capitalism broke the planet–and how we fight back / Aronoff, Kate, 2021
  • Our house is on fire : scenes of a family and a planet in crisis / Thunberg, Greta, 2020
  • The fragile earth : writing from the New Yorker on climate change / Remnick, David, 2020
  • The uninhabitable earth : life after warming / Wallace-Wells, David, 2019
  • Wild at heart : America’s turbulent relationship with nature, from exploitation to redemption / Outwater, Alice, 2019
  • Drawdown : the most comprehensive plan ever proposed to reverse global warming / Hawken, Paul, 2017
  • A climate of crisis : America in the age of environmentalism / Allitt, Patrick, 2014
  • An inconvenient truth : the planetary emergency of global warming and what we can do about it / Gore, Al, 2006

Environmental Toxins

  • Toxic legacy : how the weedkiller glyphosate is destroying our health and the environment / Seneff, Stephanie, 2021
  • Our daily poison : from pesticides to packaging, how chemicals have contaminated the food chain and are making us sick / Robin, Marie-Monique, 2014
  • Silent spring / Carson, Rachel. Published 1962.

Hope

  • The book of hope : a survival guide for trying times / Goodall, Jane, 2021
  • Saving us : a climate scientist’s case for hope and healing in a divided world / Hayhoe, Katharine, 2021
  • Hope matters : why changing the way we think is critical to solving the environmental crisis / Kelsey, Elin, 2020
  • No one is too small to make a difference / Thunberg, Greta, 2019
  • Climate of hope : how cities, businesses, and citizens can save the planet / Bloomberg, Michael, 2017
  • Being the change : live well and spark a climate revolution / Kalmus, Peter, 2017
  • Atmosphere of hope : searching for solutions to the climate crisis / Flannery, Tim F. (Tim Fridtjof), 2015

Mitigation, Preparation

  • Electrify : an optimist’s playbook for our clean energy future / Griffith, Saul, 2021
  • The new climate war : the fight to take back the planet / Mann, Michael E., 2021
  • The climate diet : 50 simple ways to trim your carbon footprint / Greenberg, Paul, 2021
  • How to avoid a climate disaster : the solutions we have and the breakthroughs we need / Gates, Bill, 2021
  • Cómo evitar un desastre climático : las soluciones que ya tenemos y los avances que aún necesitamos / Gates, Bill, 2021
  • Simply climate change / DK Publishing, Inc., editor, 2021
  • How to prepare for climate change : a practical guide to surviving the chaos / Pogue, David, 2021
  • What can I do? : my path from climate despair to action / Fonda, Jane, 2020
  • The (almost) zero waste guide : 100+ tips for reducing your waste without changing your life / Mannarino, Melanie, 2020
  • Extreme conservation : life at the edges of the world /Berger, Joel, 2018
  • Climate-wise landscaping : practical actions for a sustainable future / Reed, Sue, 2018
  • Sustainability made simple : small changes for big impact / Byrd, Rosaly, 2017
  • Getting to green : saving nature : a bipartisan solution / Rich, Frederic C., 2016
  • The planet remade : how geoengineering could change the world / Morton, Oliver, 2016
  • Renewable : the world-changing power of alternative energy / Shere, Jeremy, 2013
  • Growing food in a hotter, drier land : lessons from desert farmers on adapting to climate uncertainty / Nabhan, Gary Paul, 2013
  • The atlas of climate change : mapping the world’s greatest challenge / Dow, Kirstin, 2011
  • Urban homesteading : heirloom skills for sustainable living / Kaplan, Rachel, 2011

Plastics & Recycling

  • Can I recycle this? : a guide to better recycling and how to reduce single-use plastics / Romer, Jennie, 2021**
  • Plastic : an autobiography / Cobb, Allison, 2021
  • Living without plastic : more than 100 easy swaps for home, travel, dining, holidays, and beyond / Allen, Brigette, 2021
  • **For more information on recycling in the City of Redlands, visit the City’s website,  https://www.cityofredlands.org/solid-waste-recycling-services

Pollinators: why birds, bats, butterflies, moths, flies, beetles, wasps, small mammals, and most importantly, bees are vital to our environment

  • 100 plants to feed the monarch : create a healthy habitat to sustain North America’s most beloved butterfly : the Xerces Society / Lee-Mader, Eric, 2021
  • Where have all the bees gone? : pollinators in crisis / Hirsch, Rebecca E., 2020
  • How to attract birds to your garden / Rouse, Dan, 2020
  • The pollinator victory garden : win the war on pollinator decline with ecological gardening : how to attract and support bees, beetles, butterflies, bats, and other pollinators / Eierman, Kim, 2020
  • Our native bees : North America’s endangered pollinators and the fight to save them/ Embry, Paige, 2018
  • 100 plants to feed the bees : provide a healthy habitat to help pollinators thrive / Lee-Mäder, Eric, 2016

The Science: let’s figure this out

  • The physics of climate change / Krauss, Lawrence M., 2021
  • Unsettled : what climate science tells us, what it doesn’t, and why it matters / Koonin, Steven E., 2021
  • Brave green world : how science can save our planet / Forman, Christopher, 2021
  • The field guide to citizen science : how you can contribute to scientific research and make a difference / Cavalier, Darlene, 2020
  • Unstoppable : harnessing science to change the world / Nye, Bill, 2015

Trees & Forests

  • The treeline : the last forest and the future of life on earth / Rawlence, Ben, 2022
  • Ever green : saving big forests to save the planet / Reid, John W., 2022
  • Trees in trouble : wildfires, infestations, and climate change / Mathews, Daniel, 2021

MAGAZINES

  • Audubon / National Audubon Society, <1953-current>
  • Environment / Helen Dwight Reid Educational Foundation, <1993-current>
  • The Mother earth news / The Mother Earth News, Inc., <1973-current>
  • National Geographic / National Geographic Society (U.S.), <1905-current>
  • Natural history / American Museum of Natural History, <1921-current>
  • Sierra [serial (magazine)] : the Sierra Club bulletin / Sierra Club, <1985-current>

YOUNG ADULT

Fiction

  • My Chemical Mountain – Vacco, Corina (YA VAC)
  • The Crazy Things Girls Do for Love – Sheldon, Dyan (YA SHE)
  • Salvage – Duncan, Alexandra (YA DUN)

Nonfiction

  • An Inconvenient Truth: The Crisis of Global Warming – Gore, Al 363.738 G66in
  • Where Have All the Bees Gone? Pollinators in Crisis – Hirsch, Rebecca E. 595.79 H615w

Graphic Novels

  • How to Fake a Moon Landing: Exposing the Myths of Science Denial – Cunningham, Daryl 001.9 C917h

CHILDREN

Picture Books

  • Peppa Pig and the Earth Day Adventure – (JE PEP)
  • Be a Tree – Gianferrari, Maria (JE GIA)
  • Arthur Turns Green – Brown, Marc Tolon (JE BRO)
  • Biscuit’s Earth Day Celebration – Capucilli, Alyssa Satin (JE CAP)
  • Dear Earth…: From Your Friends in Room 5 – Dealey, Erin (JE DEA)
  • These Seas Count! – Formento, Alison (JE FOR)
  • A Small History of a Disagreement – Fuentes, Claudio (JE FUE)
  • We Are Water Protectors – Lindstrom, Carole (JE LIN)
  • Ballyhoo Bay – Sierra, Judy (JE SIE)
  • Miss Fox’s Class Goes Green – Spinelli, Eileen (JE SPI)
  • Greta and the Giants: Inspired by Greta Thunberg’s Stand to Save the World – Tucker Zoe (JEFO TUC)
  • Just a Dream – Van Allsburg, Chris (JEFO VAN)
  • Earth Day, Birthday – Wright, Maureen (JE WRI)
  • My Forever Dress – Ziefert, Harriet (JE ZIE)

Chapter Books

  • Willodeen – Applegate, Katherine (J APP)
  • Violet Mackerel’s Pocket Protest – Branford, Anna (J BRA)
  • Watch Out World, Rosy Cole is Going Green: Rosy Cole’s Bright, Though Not Exactly Popular, Ideas About Garbage, Worms, Dirt, and Other Gifts of Nature – Greenwald, Shelia (J GRE)
  • Scat – Hiaasen, Carl (J HIA)
  • Flush – Hiaasen, Carl (J HIA)
  • Hoot – Hiaasen, Carl (J HIA)
  • Save the Earth – Klein, Abby (J KLE)
  • Marty McGuire Digs Worms! – Messner Kate (J MES)

Mysteries

  • Nate the Great and the Earth Day Robot – Sharmat, Andrew (J M SHA)
  • Cam Jansen and the Green School Mystery – Adler, David (J M ADL)
  • Earth Day Escapade – Keene, Carolyn (J M KEE)

Graphic Novels

  • Luz Sees the Light – Davila, Claudia 741.5 D289L
  • Getting to the Bottom of Global Warming – Collins, Terry 363.738 C696g

Nonfiction

  • The Wild World Handbook: How Adventurers, Artists, Scientists – and YOU – Can Protect the Earth’s Habitats – Debbink, Andrea 333.95 D35w
  • It Starts with a Bee – Gallagher, Aimee 595.79 G135i
  • How to Change Everything: The Young Human’s Guide to Protecting the Planet and Each Other – Klein, Naomi with Stefoff, Rebecca 363.738 K672h
  • Earth Day – Cella, Clara 394.262 C33e
  • Earth Day – Hooray – Murphy, Stuart 513 M597e
  • What a Waste – French, Jess 363.72 F888w
  • The Brilliant Deep: Rebuilding the World’s Coral Reefs – Messner, Kate 333.95 M564b
  • Caillou: Every Drop Counts – Johanson, Sarah Margaret 333.91 J599c
  • Sustainable Water Resources – Rooney, Anne 363.61 R674s
  • One Child, One Planet: Inspiration for the Young Conservationist – Llewellyn, Bridget McGovern 363.7 L77o
  • Our House in on Fire: Greta Thunberg’s Call to Save the Planet – Winter, Jeanette 333.7 W734o
  • Trash Revolution: Breaking the Waste Cycle – Fyvie, Erica 363.72 F999t
  • Join the No-Plastic Challenge! A First Book of Reducing Waste – Ritchie, Scot 363.72 R51j
  • The Plastic Problem – Salt, Rachel 363.72 Sa37p
  • Discover It Yourself: Pollution and Waste – 363.73 D631
  • Taming Plastic: Stop the Pollution – Bates, Albert 363.738 B318t
  • Our Environment: Everything You Need to Know – Pasquet, Jacques 577 P265o
  • Climate Change: The Science Behind Melting Glaciers and Warming Oceans, with Hands-On Activities – Sneideman, Joshua 551.6 Sn26c
  • If Bees Disappeared – Williams, Lily 595.79 W673i

Easy Readers

  • Earth Day – McNamara, Margaret (JER MCN)

Spanish

  • El Guardian del Pantano – Garrett, Ann (JSPE GAR)
  • Calentamiento Global – Buchanan, Shelly (JSP 363.738 B851c)

Filed Under: News + Events

Recent Smiley additions by and about remarkable women

February 25, 2022 By Library Staff

“Well-behaved women seldom make history.” – Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Celebrate Women’s History Month in March with these titles, on display in the Library

In addition to considering the books below, visit https://womenshistorymonth.gov/ for more information on Women’s History Month and its 2022 events. The Library of Congress, National Archives and Records Administration, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Gallery of Art, National Park Service, Smithsonian Institution, and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum join in commemorating and encouraging the study, observance and celebration of the vital role of women in American history.

  • The Correspondents: Six Women Writers on the Front Lines of World War II / Mackrell, Judith
  • Cokie: a Life Well Lived / Roberts, Steven V.
  • Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality / Brown-Nagin, Tomiko
  • My Remarkable Journey: a Memoir / Johnson, Katherine G.
  • Guerrilla Girls: the Art of Behaving Badly / Guerrilla Girls (Group of artists)
  • All in: an autobiography / King, Billie Jean
  • Seeing Serena / Marzorati, Gerald
  • Women on Waves: a Cultural History of Surfing : from Ancient Goddesses and Hawaiian Queens to Malibu Movie Stars and Millennial Champions / Kempton, Jim
  • Call Us What We Carry: Poems / Gorman, Amanda
  • This Will All Be Over Soon: a Memoir / Strong, Cecily
  • Miss Dior: a Story of Courage and Couture / Picardie, Justine
  • The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line: Untold Stories of the Women Who Changed the Course of World War II / Eder, Mari K.
  • The Nine: the True Story of a Band of Women Who Survived the Worst of Nazi Germany / Strauss, Gwen
  • My Name Is Selma: the Remarkable Memoir of a Jewish Resistance Fighter and Ravensbrück Survivor
  • Angela Davis: an Autobiography / Davis, Angela Y. (Angela Yvonne)

Filed Under: News + Events

ASALH’s 2022 Black History Month theme, virtual events, and the Library’s newest offerings

January 31, 2022 By Library Staff

The Association for the Study of African American Life and History, founded in 1915, assigns a theme each February for the observance of Black History Month. In 2022 the theme on which the Association is focusing is Black Health and Wellness. The intention, as ASALH writes, is not to “limit the exploration of the Black experience, but to bring to the public’s attention important developments that merit emphasis.” We encourage you to visit the Association’s website and learn more about this year’s theme and previous ones. You may also wish to participate in its month-long 2022 Black History Month Virtual Festival.

Events and programming are also available at these sites, the Library of Congress at https://www.africanamericanhistorymonth.gov, and the Public Broadcasting System (PBS) at https://www.pbs.org/about/about-pbs/blogs/news/pbs-showcases-rich-collection-of-stories-to-celebrate-black-history-month/.

In recognition of Black History Month 2022 here at Smiley Library, our staff has created an addendum, directly below, to our lists of 2020-21. Peruse our most recent acquisitions featuring Black history and cultural themes, and Black authors, with which to continue to remember, honor, celebrate, and inspire. These books are on display in the Library near the Circulation Desk. As always, ask a librarian for help finding anything.

New Books – Fiction

On Girlhood : 15 Stories from the Well-Read Black Girl Library / Edim, Glory
Harlem Shuffle / Whitehead, Colson
Skye Falling : a Novel  / McKenzie, Mia
Palmares / Jones, Gayl
Black Girls Must Die Exhausted : a Novel / Allen, Jayne
In Every Mirror She’s Black / Akinmade-Akerström, Lola
The Sweetness of Water / Harris, Nathan, Sgt.
The Year We Learned to Fly / Woodson, Jacqueline (Young Readers) – coming soon
Filthy Animals / Taylor, Brandon (Brandon L. G.)
While We Were Dating / Guillory, Jasmine

New Books – Nonfiction

Recitatif : a Story / Morrison, Toni
Lorraine Hansberry : the Life Behind A Raisin in the Sun / Shields, Charles J
Call Us What We Carry : Poems / Gorman, Amanda
The Disordered Cosmos : a Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred / Prescod-Weinstein, Chanda
The Essential June Jordan / Jordan, June
Letters to My White Male Friends / Ross, Dax-Devlon
Dear Black Girl : Letters from Your Sisters on Stepping into Your Power / Winfrey Harris, Tamara
Hip Hop (and Other Things) : a Collection of Questions Asked, Answered, Illustrated / Serrano, Shea
Colorization : One Hundred Years of Black Films in a White World / Haygood, Wil
The Black History Book / Blyden, Nemata Amelia
Such Color : New and Selected Poems / Smith, Tracy K.
The Matter of Black Lives : Writing from The New Yorker / Cobb, Jelani
Changes : an Oral History of Tupac Shakur / Pearce, Sheldon
King of the Blues : the Rise and Reign of B.B. King / De Visé, Daniel
Dear Senthuran : a Black Spirit Memoir / Emezi, Akwaeke
Toni Morrison’s Spiritual Vision : Faith, Folktales, and Feminism in her Life and Literature / Nittle, Nadra
Ghost in a Black Girl’s Throat : Poems / Rae, Khalisa
Unprotected : a Memoir / Porter, Billy
On Juneteenth / Gordon-Reed, Annette
The 1619 Project : a New Origin Story / Hannah-Jones, Nikole
My Remarkable Journey : a Memoir / Johnson, Katherine G.
Black Food : Stories, Art & Recipes from across the African Diaspora / Terry, Bryant
Pilot Imposter / Hannaham, James
Carefree Black Girls: A Celebration of Black Women in Popular Culture / Blay, Zeba
Stones : Poems / Young, Kevin

2020 – 2021

Dr. Carter G. Woodson, a son of formerly enslaved parents, embarked on the establishment of February as Black History Month. He was a teacher and school administrator who in 1912 became the second African American, after W.E.B. Du Bois, to earn a PhD from Harvard University. In February 1926 he launched the precursor of the celebration with “Negro History Week,” designated for the second week in February to coincide with the birthdays of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass. Dr. Woodson also founded the Association for the Study of African American Life and History. Each year the Association, which continues to support Dr. Woodson’s cause, assigns a theme to the celebration. The theme for 2021 is “The Black Family: Representation, Identity, and Diversity” — ideas to ponder as we read.

Please refer to previous blog post Celebrating Black Authors and Black Lives for additional titles. Take a look too at our extensive Catalog for older items on the subject, as well as those for children and young adults. Check them out through our Books to Go program or in person during our new public hours.

Also, don’t forget our eLibrary which includes, besides e-items for download, the new Black Life in America database. This primary source collection provides materials in which you may research the experience and impact of African Americans as recorded by the news media, from 1704 to today. It is an expansive window into centuries of African American history, culture, and daily life — as well as the ways the dominant culture has portrayed and perceived people of African descent.

Streaming video service Kanopy, also located in our eLibrary, features films about racial and social injustice. Inspiring documentaries, like “The Talk: Race in America,” “P.S. I Can’t Breathe,” and many others, can help contribute to a more open dialogue about race relations in modern America.

And finally, for even more ways in which to learn about Black history, view the Heritage Room’s Black History Month webinar series. available for viewing at the AKSPL Special Collections YouTube Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCx1V0OiVDDpGORavA_W6icQ,  or on Facebook under the Video tab.

The offerings include:

  • “African American Literature” by Professor Charles Williams of Chaffey College
  • “Lincoln’s Greatest Decision: Emancipation and the Use of Black Troops” with Smiley Library Director Don McCue
  • “Black Voice News and the History of the Black Press” by Dr. Paulette Brown-Hinds
  • (Link here to local newspaper Black Voice News)
  • “Hidden in Plain Sight: African Americans in the Library’s Historic Collections” with Archivist Dr. Nathan Gonzales

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Centennial Anniversary of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre

The Tulsa race massacre took place on May 31 and June 1, 1921, when mobs of White residents, many of them deputized and given weapons by city officials, attacked Black residents and destroyed homes and businesses of the Greenwood District in Tulsa, Oklahoma. It is alternatively known as the “Tulsa race riot” or the “Black Wall Street massacre.”

See also, the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial Commission website, https://www.tulsa2021.org/, and find our books on the subject here:

  • The Burning : Massacre, Destruction, and the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921, by Tim Madigan
  • Riot and Remembrance : the Tulsa Race War and its Legacy, by James S. Hirsch

Juneteenth, on June 19

Juneteenth (a combination of June and nineteenth) is also known as Freedom Day, Jubilee Day, Liberation Day, and Emancipation Day. It is a holiday celebrating the emancipation of those who had been enslaved in the United States. Originating in Galveston, Texas, it is now celebrated annually throughout the United States, with increasing official recognition resulting in its declaration as a federal holiday on June 17, 2021. It is commemorated on the anniversary date of the June 19, 1865 announcement of General Order No. 3 by Union Army general Gordon Granger, proclaiming freedom from slavery in Texas.

For more information check out our Blog post, Juneteenth, the celebration of emancipation from slavery, now recognized as a federal holiday, and find our books on the subject here:

  • On Juneteenth / Gordon-Reed, Annette, 2021
  • African-American Holidays / Winchester, Faith (YRR)
Visit the University of Redlands website to learn about its Inaugural Juneteenth Celebration, which took place virtually from June 15 through June 17, 2021.

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2020 – 2021

Autobiographies, Biographies, and Memoirs

  • Triumph : the Untold Story of Jesse Owens and Hitler’s Olympics / Schaap, Jeremy
  • The Black Civil War Soldier : a Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship / Willis, Deborah
  • 42 Today : Jackie Robinson and his Legacy / Long, Michael G., editor
  • Courage to Soar : A Body in Motion, a Life in Balance / Biles, Simone
  • The Fierce 44 : Black Americans Who Shook Up the World / Reiss, Stephen
  • Just As I Am : a Memoir / Tyson, Cicely
  • The Truths We Hold : an American Journey / Harris, Kamala
  • Finding My Voice : My Journey to the West Wing and the Path Forward / Jarrett, Valerie
  • His Truth is Marching On : John Lewis and the Power of Hope / Meacham, Jon
  • A Promised Land / Obama, Barack
  • Becoming / Obama, Michelle
  • Tough Love : My Story of the Things Worth Fighting For / Rice, Susan E.
  • I Will Not Fear : My Story of a Lifetime of Building Faith under Fire / Beals, Melba
  • Black Radical : the Life and Times of William Monroe Trotter / Greenidge, Kerri K.
  • Fannie Lou Hamer : America’s Freedom Fighting Woman / Brooks, Maegan Parker
  • Greyboy : Finding Blackness in a White World / Brown, Cole / Reyburn, Susan
  • The Dead Are Arising : the Life of Malcolm X / Payne, Les
  • Frederick Douglass : Prophet of Freedom / Blight, David W. *Pulitzer Prize winner, History, 2019
  • Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass : an American Slave / Douglass, Frederick
  • The Chiffon Trenches : a Memoir / Talley, Andre Leon
  • Officer Clemmons / Clemmons, Francois S.
  • Black Is the Body : Stories from My Grandmother’s Time, My Mother’s Time, and Mine / Bernard, Emily
  • George Washington Carver : a Life / Vella, Christina
  • Alex Haley and the Books that Changed a Nation / Norrell, Robert J.
  • I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings / Angelou, Maya
  • My Journey with Maya / Smiley, Tavis
  • My Grandfather’s Son : a Memoir / Thomas, Clarence
  • Thurgood Marshall : a Twentieth-Century Life / Crowe, Chris
  • Black Klansman : Race, Hate, and the Undercover Investigation of a Lifetime / Stallworth, Ron
  • Zora and Langston : a Story of Friendship and Betrayal / Yuval, Taylor
  • Mighty Justice : My Life in Civil Rights / Roundtree, Dovey Johnson

Cookbooks

  • The Full Plate / Curry, Ayesha
  • The Rise : Black Cooks and the Soul of American Food / Samuelsson, Marcus
  • Jubilee : Recipes from Two Centuries of African American Cooking / Tipton-Martin, Toni
  • Sweet Home Cafe Cookbook : A Celebration of African American Cooking / Lukas, Albert

DVDs

  • Harriet [videorecording (DVD and Blu-ray disc)] / Erivo, Cynthia
  • Marshall [videorecording (Blu-ray disc and DVD)] / Hudlin, Reginald
  • Hidden Figures [videorecording (DVD)] / Melfi, Theodore
  • Blackkklansman [videorecording (DVD)] / Lee, Spike
  • Jackie Robinson [videorecording (DVD)] / Burns, Ken
  • 42 : [videorecording (DVD)] the Jackie Robinson Story / Helgeland, Brian
  • The Hate U Give [videorecording (DVD and Blu-ray disc)] / Tillman, George
  • Beloved [videorecording (DVD)] / Winfrey, Oprah
  • If Beale Street Could Talk [videorecording (DVD and Blu-ray disc)] / Jenkins, Barry
  • Green Book [videorecording (DVD and Blu-ray disc)] / Farrelly, Peter
  • Us [videorecording (DVD and Blu-ray disc)] / Peele, Jordan
  • Black Panther [videorecording (Blu-ray disc)] / Coogler, Ryan
  • Get Out [videorecording (DVD)] / Peele, Jordan
  • Moonlight [videorecording (DVD)] / Jenkins, Barry
  • 12 Years a Slave [videorecording (DVD)] / McQueen, Steve
  • Django Unchained [videorecording (DVD)] / Tarantino, Quentin
  • Lincoln [videorecording (DVD)] / Spielberg, Steven
  • The Help [videorecording (DVD)] / Stockett, Kathryn
  • Precious (based on the novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire) [videorecording (DVD)] / Daniels, Lee
  • The Secret Life of Bees [videorecording (DVD)] / Prince-Bythewood, Gina
  • The Great Debaters [videorecording (DVD)] / Washington, Denzel
  • The Tuskegee Airmen [videorecording (DVD)] / Markowitz, Robert
  • Glory [videorecording (DVD)] / Fields, Freddie
  • Roots [videorecording (DVD)] / Margulies, Stan
  • To Kill a Mockingbird [videorecording (DVD)] / Mulligan, Robert

DVD Documentaries

  • John Lewis [videorecording (DVD) : Good Trouble / Porter, Dawn
  • Been to the Mountaintop [videorecording (DVD)] documentary / King, Martin Luther, Jr.
  • Up from Slavery [videorecording (DVD)] documentary / Hershberger, Kevin R.
  • Alice’s Ordinary People [videorecording (DVD)] documentary / Dudnick, Craig
  • A.k.a. Cassius Clay [videorecording (DVD)] / Ali, Muhammad

Fiction

  • How Long ‘Til Black Future Month? / Jemisin, N. K.
  • The Tubman Command : a Novel / Cobbs, Elizabeth
  • Confessions in B-flat / Hill, Donna (Donna O.)
  • Yellow Wife / Johnson, Sadeqa
  • Deacon King Kong / McBride, James
  • Trouble the Saints / Johnson, Alaya Dawn
  • His Only Wife : a Novel / Medie, Peace A.
  • Take a Hint, Dani Brown : Novel / Hibbert, Talia
  • The Secret Lives of Church Ladies / Philyaw, Deesha
  • At Night All Blood is Black / Diop, David
  • Black Buck / Askaripour, Mateo
  • Ring Shout, or, Hunting Ku Kluxes in the End Times / Clark, P. DjèlÍ
  • Lakewood : a Novel / Giddings, Megan
  • The Boyfriend Project / Rochon, Farrah
  • Memorial : a Novel / Washington, Bryan
  • Black Bottom Saints : a Novel / Randall, Alice
  • The Vanishing Half / Bennett, Brit
  • Luster / Leilani, Raven
  • The Prophets : a Novel / Jones, Robert Jr.
  • Dirty Music / Sinclair, Shaun
  • How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House / Jones, Cherie
  • Transcendent Kingdom / Gyasi, Yaa
  • The Girl with the Louding Voice / Dare, Abi
  • Red at the Bone / Woodson, Jacqueline
  • Careful What You Click For / Morrison, Mary B.
  • Influence : Death on the Beach / Weber, Carl
  • The Color Purple : a Novel / Walker, Alice
  • Beloved : a Novel / Morrison, Toni *Pulitzer Prize winner, Literature, 1988
  • The Bluest Eye / Morrison, Toni
  • A Mercy / Morrison, Toni
  • Song of Solomon / Morrison, Toni
  • Later Novels / Baldwin, James
  • The Help / Stockett, Kathryn
  • Push / Sapphire
  • The Secret Life of Bees / Kidd, Sue Monk
  • Uncle Tom’s Cabin / Stowe, Harriet Beecher
  • To Kill a Mockingbird / Lee, Harper

Graphic Novels

  • Octavia E. Butler’s Kindred : A Graphic Novel Adaptation / Duffy, Damian
  • Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower : A Graphic Novel Adaptation / Duffy, Damian
  • I Am Alfonso Jones [text (graphic)] / Medina, Tony
  • Black Panther [text (graphic)] / Coates, Ta-Nehisi
  • To Kill a Mockingbird [text (graphic)] : A Graphic Novel / Fordham, Fred

History

  • The 1619 Project : a New Origin Story / Hannah-Jones, Nikole
  • River of Blood : American Slavery from the People Who Lived It : Interviews & Photographs of Formerly Enslaved African Americans / Cahan, Richard, editor
  • The Crooked Path to Abolition : Abraham Lincoln and the Antislavery Constitution / Oakes, James
  • The Other Madisons : the Lost History of a President’s Black Family / Kearse, Bettye
  • The Kidnapping Club : Wall Street, Slavery, and Resistance on the Eve of the Civil War / Wells, Jonathan Daniel
    Stony the Road : Reconstruction, White supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow / Gates, Henry Louis, Jr.
  • Black Origins in the Inland Empire / Skinner, Byron Richard
  • Guest of Honor : Booker T. Washington, Theodore Roosevelt, and the White House Dinner That Shocked a Nation / Davis, Deborah
  • The Broken Heart of America : St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States / Johnson, Walter
  • Stakes is High : Life after the American Dream / Smith, Mychal DenzelWhen It Was Grand : the Radical Republican History of the Civil War / Keith, LeeAnna
  • We Were Eight Years in Power : an American Tragedy / Coates, Ta-Nehisi
  • The Kidnapping Club : Wall Street, Slavery, and Resistance on the Eve of the Civil War / Wells, Jonathan Daniel
  • Overground Railroad : the Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America / Taylor, Candacy A.
  • 50 Events That Shaped African American History : An Encyclopedia of the American Mosaic / Wilson, Jamie Jaywann
  • Team of Rivals : the Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln / Goodwin, Doris Kearns
  • Keeping Hope Alive : Sermons and Speeches of Reverend Jesse L. Jackson Sr. / Jackson, Jesse
  • The Black Calhouns : from Civil War to Civil Rights with One African American Family / Buckley, Gail Lumet
  • Daisy Turner’s Kin : an African American Family Sage / Beck, Jane C.

Humor

  • Surrender, White People! : Our Unconditional Terms for Peace / Hughley, D.L.
  • You’ll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey : Crazy Stories About Racism / Ruffin, Amber
  • The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell : Tales of a 6′ 4″, African American, Heterosexual, Cisgender, Left-leaning, Asthmatic, Black and proud Blerd, Mama’s Boy, Dad, and Stand-up Comedian / Bell, W. Kamau

Literature

  • Letters to the Future : Black Women, Radical Writing / Hunt, Erica
  • The Toni Morrison Book Club / Bennett, Juda
  • In Search of The Color Purple : the Story of an American Masterpiece / Tillet, Salamishah
  • The Awkward Black Man : Stories / Mosley, Walter
  • Being Property Once Myself : Blackness and the End of Man / Bennett, Joshua
  • A Measure of Belonging : Twenty-One Writers of Color on the New American South / Barnes, Cinelle
  • Black Ink : Literary Legends on the Peril, Power, and Pleasure of Reading and Writing / Oliver, Stephanie Stokes
  • Rainbow in the Cloud : the Wisdom and Spirit of Maya Angelou / Angelou, Maya
  • The Measure of Our Lives : A Gathering of Wisdom / Morrison, Toni
  • The Source of Self-Regard : Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations / Morrison, Toni
  • Goodness and the Literary Imagination : Harvard Divinity School’s 95th Ingersoll Lecture : With Essays on Morrison’s Moral and Religious Vision / Morrison, Toni
  • The Selected Letters of Langston Hughes / Hughes, Langston
  • Well-read Black Girl : Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves : an Anthology / Edim, Glory
  • Feel Free : Essays / Smith, Zadie

Music

  • Wild Thing : The Short, Spellbinding Life of Jimi Hendrix / Norman, Philip
  • The Butterfly Effect: How Kendrick Lamar Ignited the Soul of Black America/Moore, Marcus J
  • Queen Bey : a Celebration of the Power and Creativity of Beyoncé Knowles-Carter / Chambers, Veronica
  • Odetta : A Life in Music and Protest / Zack, Ian
  • Hustle Harder, Hustle Smarter / Jackson, Curtis “50 Cent”
  • Let Love Rule / Kravitz, Lenny
  • More Myself : A Journey / Keys, Alicia
  • I Am Restored : How I Lost My Religion But Found My Faith / Lecrae
  • Straighten Up and Fly Right : The Life & Music of Nat King Cole / Friedwald, Will
  • The Meaning of Mariah Carey / Carey, Mariah
  • The Beautiful Ones / Prince
  • Black Diamond Queens : African American Women and Rock and Roll / Mahon, Maureen
  • Billie Holiday : the Musician and the Myth / Szwed, John F.

Poetry

  • African American Poetry : 250 years of Struggle & Song / Young, Kevin
  • We Inherit What the Fires Left : Poems / Evans, William, III (William H.)
  • White Blood : A Lyric of Virginia / Petrosino, Kiki
  • Finna : Poems / Marshall, Nate
  • Living Weapon / Phillips, Rowan Ricardo
  • The Malevolent Volume : Poems / Reed, Justin Phillip
  • Owed / Bennett, Joshua
  • Make Me Rain : Poems & Prose / Giovanni, Nikki
  • How to Carry Water : Selected Poems of Lucille Clifton / Clifton, Lucille
  • Magical Negro : Poems / Parker, Morgan
  • The Tradition / Brown, Jericho
  • / Clark, Tiana
  • Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart : Poems / Walker, Alice
  • Semiautomatic / Shockley, Evie

Politics, Civil Rights, Law

  • Let the People See : the Story of Emmett Till / Gorn, Elliott J.
  • Unsung : Unheralded Narratives of American Slavery & Abolition / Young, Kevin
  • Rise Up : Confronting a Country at the Crossroads / Sharpton, Al
  • Fight of the Century : Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases / Chabon, Michael
  • The Sword and the Shield : the Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. / Joseph, Peniel E.
  • When They Call You a Terrorist : a Story of Black Lives Matter and the Power to Change the World / Khan-Cullors, Patrisse
  • On the Other Side of Freedom : the Case for Hope / Mckesson, DeRay
  • Driving While Black : African American Travel and the Road to Civil Rights / Sorin, Gretchen Sullivan
  • The Black Cabinet : the Untold Story of African Americans and Politics During the Age of Roosevelt / Watts, Jill
  • Vanguard : How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All / Jones, Martha S.
  • Blackout : How Black America Can Make Its Second Escape from the Democrat Plantation / Owens, Candace
  • Our Time is Now : Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America / Abrams, Stacey
  • Say It Louder! : Black Voters, White Narratives, and Saving Our Democracy / Cross, Tiffany D.
  • The Zealot and the Emancipator : John Brown, Abraham Lincoln and the Struggle for American Freedom / Brands, H. W.
  • For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Politics / Brazile, Donna
  • Franchise : the Golden Arches in Black America / Chatelain, Marcia
  • On Account of Race : the Supreme Court, White Supremacy, and the Ravaging of African American Voting Rights / Goldstone, Lawrence
  • Deep Delta Justice : a Black Teen, his Lawyer, and their Groundbreaking Battle for Civil Rights in the South / Van Meter, Matthew
  • The Names of All the Flowers / Valentine, Melissa
  • Make Change : How to Fight Injustice, Dismantle Systemic Oppression, and Own Our Future / King, Shaun
  • The Annotated African American Folktales / Gates, Henry Louis, Jr.

Sciences, Philosophy, Journalism, Language, Mathematics, Technology, Performing Arts

  • A Fool’s Errand : Creating the National Museum of African American History and Culture in the Age of Bush, Obama, and Trump / Bunch, Lonnie G.
  • Trailblazer : a Pioneering Journalist’s Fight to Make the Media Look More Like America / Gilliam, Dorothy Butler
  • The Path Made Clear : Discovering Your Life’s Direction and Purpose / Winfrey, Oprah
  • Talking Back, Talking Black : Truths About America’s Lingua Franca / McWhorter, John H.
  • Beyond Ebonics : the Linguistic Legacy of American Slavery / Baugh, John
  • Spoken Soul : the Story of Black English / Rickford, John R.
  • Black Talk : Words and Phrases from the Hood to the Amen Corner / Smitherman, Geneva
  • Talkin That Talk : Language, Culture, and Education in African America / Smitherman, Geneva
  • Hidden Figures : the American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race / Shetterly, Margot Lee
  • Letters from an Astrophysicist / Tyson, Neil deGrasse
  • We Could Not Fail : the First African Americans in the Space Program / Paul, Richard
  • Black Broadway : African Americans on the Great White Way / Lane, Stewart F.
  • The Compton Cowboys : the New Generation of Cowboys in America’s Urban Heartland / Thompson-Hernandez, Walter

Social Sciences

  • The Souls of Black Folk / Du Bois, W.E.B.
  • Distributed Blackness : African American Cybercultures / Brock, André L., Jr.
  • Hood Feminism : Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot / Kendall, Mikki
  • A Black Women’s History of the United States / Berry, Daina Ramey
  • A Bound Woman is a Dangerous Thing : the Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland / Hill, DaMaris B.
  • Girl Gurl Grrrl : on Womanhood and Belonging in the Age of Black Girl Magic / Hunt, Kenya
  • The Purpose of Power : How We Come Together When We Fall Apart / Garza, Alicia
  • Caste : the Origins of our Discontents / Wilkerson, Isabel
  • Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man / Acho, Emmanuel
  • Race Man : Selected Works, 1960-2015 / Bond, Julian
  • A Peculiar Indifference : the Neglected Toll of Violence on Black America / Currie, Elliott
  • Long Time Coming : Reckoning with Race in America / Dyson, Michael Eric
  • White Tears/Brown Scars : How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color / Hamad, Ruby
  • Daughter of the Boycott : Carrying On a Montgomery Family’s Civil Rights Legacy / Houston, Karen Gray
  • Culture Warlords : My Journey into the Dark Web of White Supremacy / Lavin, Talia
  • Dispatches from the Race War / Wise, Tim
  • Wilmington’s Lie : the Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy / Zucchino, David
  • Black Futures / Drew, Kimberly
  • Conversations in Black on Power, Politics, and Leadership / Gordon, Ed
  • Wandering in Strange Lands : a Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots / Jerkins, Morgan
  • Just Us : an American Conversation / Rankine, Claudia
  • How to Make a Slave and Other Essays / Walker, Jerald
  • Black Fatigue : How Racism Erodes the Mind, Body, and Spirit / Winters, Mary-Frances
  • South to Freedom : Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War / Baumgartner, Alice
  • A Question of Freedom : The Families Who Challenged Slavery from the Nation’s Founding to the Civil War / Thomas, William G.

Sports

  • 42 Today : Jackie Robinson and his Legacy / Long, Michael G., editor
  • 24 : Life Stories and Lessons from the Say Hey Kid / Mays, Willie
  • The Last Hero : a Life of Henry Aaron / Bryant, Howard
  • Hank Aaron and the Home Run That Changed America / Stanton, Tom
  • Courage to Soar : A Body in Motion, a Life in Balance / Biles, Simone
  • The Mamba Mentality : How I Play / Bryant, Kobe
  • Mentalidad Mamba : Los Secretos de mi Exito / Bryant, Kobe
  • Olympic Pride, American Prejudice : the Untold Story of 18 African Americans Who Defied Jim Crow and Adolf Hitler to Compete in the 1936 Berlin Olympics / Draper, Deborah Riley
  • A Most Beautiful Thing : the True Story of America’s First All-Black High School Rowing Team / Cooper, Arshay
  • The Second Life of Tiger Woods / Bamberger, Michael
  • Serena Williams : Tennis Champion, Sports Legend, and Cultural Heroine / Corbett, Merlisa Lawrence.
  • Jackie & Campy : the Untold Story of their Rocky Relationship and the Breaking of Baseball’s Color Line / Kashatus, William C.
  • Rickey & Robinson : the True, Untold Story of the Integration of Baseball / Kahn, Roger

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