Need a reading recommendation? Join the Augusta County Librarians as they read the first chapter of some of their favorite books from a variety of different genres including middle grade and YA!
Pauli Murray was an activist, lawyer, priest, and so much more. While not as well-known as those who lauded her work like Thurgood Marshall and Ruth Bader Ginsberg, she worked for decades to dismantle discriminatory practices in the United States for people of color, women, and the poor. Born a mixed-race orphan in the 1910s, Murray always felt that she was "in-between" genders, and likely would have identified as transgender today. This recording contains adult language and themes.
Find Jane Crow in print (https://tlcweb.valleylibraries.org:8480/#section=resource&resourceid=1363290094&currentIndex=0&view=fullDetailsDetailsTab)and as an e-audiobook on Hoopla (https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/13263259).
This episode was read by Churchville Branch Library manager, Ali. Jane Crow: The Life of Pauli Murray was written by Rosalind Rosenberg and published in 2017 by Oxford University Press.
19 Feb 2021
A Princess in Theory
Naledi Smith is working on her graduate degree and has no time for the annoying emails claiming she's the disappeared betrothed of Prince Thabiso of Thesolo. Thabiso can't resist the opportunity to track her down and see what life and love are like as a regular person. Can their undeniable chemistry outweigh the burden of the long-hidden truth?
Find A Princess in Theory by Alyssa Cole in print (https://tlcweb.valleylibraries.org:8480/?config=Novelist#section=resource&resourceid=1592434014&currentIndex=0&view=fullDetailsDetailsTab), and on Libby (https://tlcweb.valleylibraries.org:8480/?config=Novelist#section=resource&resourceid=1921446210&currentIndex=1&view=fullDetailsDetailsTab)and Hoopla (https://www.hoopladigital.com/search?page=1&q=a+princess+in+theory&scope=everything&type=direct).
A Princess in Theory was written by Alyssa Cole and published in 2018 by Avon Books, part of Harper Collins Publishers.
12 Feb 2021
Everything Sad is Untrue (a true story)
This week's winner is the recent recipient of the Printz Award, given to the best work of young adult fiction each year.
Everything Sad is Untrue (a true story) by Daniel Nayeri is a semi-autobiographical novel is about a boy named Khosrou (whom everyone calls "Daniel") who stands, trying to tell a story. His story. But no one believes a word he says. To them, he is a dark-skinned, hairy-armed boy with a big butt whose lunch smells funny; who makes things up and talks about poop too much.
But Khosrou's stories, stretching back years, and decades, and centuries, are beautiful, and terrifying, from the moment his family fled Iran in the middle of the night with the secret police moments behind them, back to the sad, cement refugee camps of Italy. and further back to the fields near the river Aras, where rain-soaked flowers bled red like the yolk of sunset burst over everything, and further back still to the Jasmine-scented city of Isfahan.
Place your hold on Everything Sad is Untrue today! (https://tlcweb.valleylibraries.org:8480/#section=search&term=everything%20sad%20is%20untrue&page=0&sortKey=Relevancy&db=ls2pac&branchFilters=[]&facetFilters=[]&audience=[])
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