Winter is the perfect time of year to indulge in some feel-good reading. Here is a selection of recent titles to spark a bit of joy and offer comfort when you need it most.
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November is National American Indian Heritage Month. Select and read from the following titles by contemporary Native American writers…
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Monsters, witches and haunted houses feature in this month’s suitably scary titles.
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Banned Books Week celebrates the freedom to read, the value of free and open access to information, and the freedom to seek and to express ideas, even those some consider unorthodox or unpopular.
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Making their way in a world often hostile to at least one if not more of their identities, these Latinos and Latinas, real and fictional, open up their worlds to us.
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There’s still time to soak up a few more weeks of summer reading this season! Check out these recommendations from our Adult Summer Reading program participants.
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The Anthropocene is the current geological age, in which human activity has profoundly shaped the planet and its biodiversity. As we are living the very real consequences of global warming, we can read about our warming planet in a variety of genres.
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Books about writers, plants and gardening…
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Once again, we celebrate our LGBTQIA communities, neighbors, friends, families and selves. Politicians, a perfumer, an actor and an academic offer glimpses into their very diverse lives.
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As the days get longer, dip into a short story collection to get a taste for a new favorite author, genre, or storytelling style.
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The Asian disaporic experience in graphic novels. Here are some titles focusing on the experience of living in diaspora.
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April is National Poetry Month.
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This Women’s history month we’re celebrating women artists working in a variety of media, over 3 centuries.
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In the mood for a good family saga to sweep you away? These stories chronicle the intergenerational dynamics of complicated families buffeted through time by secrets and global events.
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Writers from the continent of Africa are some of the most exciting new authors being read in the west. Here’s a tasting of a few new voices, along with a well-established one.
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Speculative fiction imagines alternate realities, dystopian futures, fantastical possibilities, and much more. Discover new worlds to explore within these recently published works of speculative imagination.
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How do we define a cult? How does it differ from a religion? What draws people to a cult? One thing all cults have in common is that the people in them do not consider themselves to be in a cult.
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We’re heading into the darkest time of the year now, so let’s EMBRACE it. Curl up in your favorite chair, have a hot cup or a glass of wine handy, and read …
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November is National Native American Heritage Month -- check out these new and noteworthy titles by Native American writers, spanning from works of memoir to poetry to fiction.
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The “we” in these titles range from Native American comics to American political activists to African American farmers to Japanese American resistors to imprisonment to a startup that flopped.
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