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| A Danger to the Minds of Young Girls: Margaret C. Anderson, Book Bans, and the Fight to... by Adam MorganAmerican editor Margaret C. Anderson was a champion of early modernists including Djuna Barnes and James Joyce, giving their experimental works voice in her upstart literary journal The Little Review. Critic Adam Morgan documents her fierce advocacy of the arts, romances with various high-profile women, and independence from the 20th-century status quo. Readers will savor this “enlightening depiction of a[n]…influential figure of both modernism and queer history” (Publishers Weekly). |
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America's Most Gothic: Haunted History Stranger Than Fiction by Andrea JanesWe often think of the enduring tropes of the Gothic in terms of fiction and film--breath-catching escapes that tap into our fears, anxieties, forbidden desires, and unsettling dreams. But what if some of these chilly vibes are rooted in the experiences of real and tragic people who danced a macabre waltz with love and death? Take the case of teenage Mercy Brown, victim--or was it predator?--of Rhode Island's vampire hysteria of the 1890s. Marguerite de la Roque, a French noblewoman condemned for sexual crimes to Canada's long-lost Isle of Demons. And Mad Lucy Ludwell, the decidedly peculiar eighteenth-century high-society hauteur driven mad in the Virginia estate she prowls to this day. President Helen Peabody's spirit still stringently watches over her Women's College, now part of Ohio's Miami University. Ghosts of workers lost in horrific conditions while building the Hoosac Tunnel warn of imminent danger. Settle in. There are more. Welcome to the phantom ships, haunted academic halls, menacing landscapes, and family curses of America's Most Gothic--a tour of true spectral sightings and disordered minds. But beware: it's sure to get under your skin. The haunted--and haunting--figures herein want it that way. |
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American Canto by Olivia NuzziOlivia Nuzzi spent a third of her life observing those in power. She became a reporter in 2014, when the political landscape began to reconfigure itself around a singular personality whom she was uniquely primed to understand. Over the next ten years, she used her access and eye for detail to chronicle his campaigns, trials, and government in blockbuster feature stories that drove the national conversation and propelled her to the heights of her profession. Then, in 2024, her personal life collided with the public interest in a scandal that cost Nuzzi her job and reputation. Amid a full-blown tabloid frenzy, Nuzzi went quiet, drove west, and spent the next year in self-imposed exile at the edge of the country, where she wrote this ... account of what she--and we--have experienced over the last decade-- |
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Black Dahlia: Murder, Monsters, and Madness in Midcentury Hollywood by William J. MannIlluminating and captivating, New York Times bestselling author of Tinseltown and Bogart, offers the first definitive account of the Black Dahlia murder--the most famous unsolved true crime case in American history--which humanizes the victim and situates the notorious case within an anxious, postwar country grappling with new ideas, demographics, and technologies. The brutal murder of Elizabeth Short--better known as the Black Dahlia--in 1947 has been in the public consciousness for nearly eighty years, yet no serious study of the crime has ever been published. Short has been mischaracterized as a wayward sex worker or vagabond, and--like the seductive femme fatales of film noir--responsible for and perhaps deserving of her fate. William J. Mann, however, is interested in the truth. The Black Dahlia promises to be the definitive study about the most famous unsolved case in American history. |
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Sailing Alone: A Surprising History of Isolation and Survival at Sea by Richard J. King2024 National Outdoor Book Award Silver Medal Winner, a masterfully curated collection...You don't have to be a sailor to be blown away by this fascinating, bighearted book. A story as vast and exhilarating as the open ocean itself, Sailing Alone chronicles the daring, disastrous, and often absurd history of those who chose to sail across the ocean, in very small boats, alone. Sailing Alone tells the story of some of the remarkable people who, over the last four centuries, have spent weeks and months, moving slowly over the world's largest laboratory: a capricious and startling place in which to observe oneself, the weather, the stars, and countless sea creatures, from the tiniest to the most massive and threatening. Richard J. King profiles characters famous, diverse, international, and obscure, from Joshua Slocum of 1898 to modern teenagers daring to take the challenge. They see strange hallucinations, lie to us (and themselves) on their travel logs, encounter sharks, befriend birds, and experience ESP, all part of the unnerving reality of extended isolation. And some disappear altogether. Sailing Alone also recounts the author's own nearly catastrophic solo crossing of the Atlantic, and the mystery of his inexplicable survival one sunny afternoon. An enormously engaging new book for skippers and armchair voyagers alike. |
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Witness to War: The Story of the Civil War Told By Those Who Lived It by J. Mark PowellFrom the first shots at Fort Sumter to the mourning of Lincoln's death-experience the Civil War as it happened, through the voices of those who were there. History comes to life in the words of those who lived through the American Civil War. This book prints more than 500 letters-all of them in print for the first time-to reveal life during the Civil War. Presented chronologically from Abraham Lincoln's election in 1860 through his assassination in 1865, the letters follow the entire arc of the Civil War as it unfolds in real time through the words of everyday people-military and civilian, Union and Confederate, white and black, men, women, and even a few children. Witness to War lets the participants speak for themselves, offering a fresh, human perspective on a war that still holds and haunts us more than 150 years later. |
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Augustine the African by Catherine ConybeareA NEW YORKER BOOK OF THE YEAR An extraordinary work of revisionist history that centers Africa in the life of one of our greatest philosophers: Excellent, short, and highly readable.... Traces a grittier story of a life lived almost entirely in a small area of what is now eastern Algeria, where Augustine's local origins and experience profoundly shaped both his life and his thought. Conybeare's argument is that because of his contributions to the genres of philosophy, autobiography, and Christian theology, 'a core strand of the culture that Europe claims as its own stems from Africa. |
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Dear Black Girls: How to Be True to You by A'ja WilsonWNBA power forward and Olympic gold medalist A'ja Wilson's bestselling
blend of memoir and self-help offers an upbeat celebration of overcoming adversity, with each chapter serving as a letter written to young Black girls. Try this next: Coming Home by Brittney Griner. Available in Print and in Libby as eAudioBook. |
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Mamba & Mambacita Forever by Vanessa BryantA beautiful and moving testament to the enduring life of Kobe Bryant and the Mamba Mentality-- Provided by publisher.
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Available in Print and in Libby as eBook. |
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On Morrison by Namwali SerpellToni Morrison, Nobel Laureate and one of our most beloved writers, has inspired generations of readers. But her artistic genius is often overshadowed by her monumental public persona, perhaps because, as Namwali Serpell puts it, she is our only truly canonical black, female writer-and her work is highly complex. This is Morrison as you've never encountered her before, a journey through her oeuvre-her fiction and criticism, as well as her lesser-known dramatic works and poetry-with contextual guidance, archival discoveries, and original close readings. This dialogue on the page between two black women artist-readers is stylish, edifying, and thrilling in its scope and intelligence. |
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