There are lots of new books hitting our shelves this February! We can’t possibly name them all in one list, but here are the ones at the top of the list. Feel free to click on the title or book cover to place your hold. Black Brother, Black Brother by Jewell Parker Rhodes Donte…
“I had reasoned this out in my mind; there was on of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other; for no man should take me alive.” ― Harriet Tubman February is Black History Month, where we take time to recognize African American…
“KINDNESS IS THE LANGUAGE WHICH THE DEAF CAN HEAR AND THE BLIND CAN SEE” —Mark Twain My BFF and I went shopping. It was the middle of summer, and we decided to break at a popular shaved ice stand. It was blazing hot, and the line was a million people long. The thought of our…
I’d give you a cookie, but I ate it. -Cookie MOnster February is a time of LOVE! There is no better thing to love than COOKIES! Did you know that the word “cookie” comes from the Dutch “koekje,” meaning little cake. British people call them biscuits. One type of “cookie” originated in Persia in 7th…
“Racism separates, but it never liberates. Hatred generates fear, and fear once given a foothold; binds, consumes and imprisons. Nothing is gained from prejudice. No one benefits from racism.” ― Thurgood Marshall Books About Social Justice Just mercy : adapted for young people : a true story of the fight for justice Bryan Stevenson The young…
Author Mary Higgins Clark died last week, on January 31. “The Queen of Suspense,” as she was known, wrote over fifty novels and sold over 100 million copies in the U.S. alone. She said in a 1997 interview that she wanted to create stories that would make the reader say, “This could be me. That…
