Books
Kudos to Delacorte Press for publishing not one but two middle-grade books about the dangers of book banning.
Check out the book to absorb the trajectory of Doc Watson’s career from impoverished guitar player to becoming an icon of Americana, and a repeat winner of Grammy Awards.
The all-too-human propensity for not only telling yourself what you want to hear but taking what you see at face value is what drives the action.
For those with an appetite for lyrical absurdity, this dark and demanding journey into a bedeviled night will repay the effort.
Richard Kreitner’s narrative shows that, in general, Jews were apparently no more intolerant of slavery than any other Americans – notwithstanding their spiritual and national history of liberation from bondage.
Everyone who loves jazz, or makes a living somewhere in its world, owes a debt to many of the hard-working and under-paid writers of the Jazz Journalists Association (JJA).
Historian Tsuyoshi Hasegawa’s towering achievement is to show that, while Nicholas II was betrayed, he lost his throne because he had made it impossible for anyone who loved Russia to be loyal to him.
Erich Maria Remarque’s 1929 novel of an ordinary soldier’s life in the trenches of WWI remains shocking and shattering today.
“Heart-work,” Roberta Silman’s new collection of stories, looks at the knotty intricacies of domestic life.
Two picture books explore issues of gender, self-identity, and gender stereotypes for a young audience.
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