by Tracy Horodyski | Mar 10, 2020 | Librarian's Pick
“Even in this time of rethinking women’s roles, we define genius almost exclusively through male achievement. When asked to name a genius, people mention Albert Einstein, Leonardo da Vinci, and Steve Jobs. As for great women? In one survey, the only female...
by Tracy Horodyski | Mar 9, 2020 | Librarian's Pick
“Over the past 50 years, Zora Neale Hurston has been restored from nearly forgotten to a canonical writer, in no small part due to the efforts of Alice Walker and Toni Morrison. One of the seminal writers of the Harlem Renaissance, Hurston is most known today...
by Tracy Horodyski | Mar 8, 2020 | Librarian's Pick
“When Lissa Yellow Bird was released from prison in 2009, she found her home, the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota, transformed by the Bakken oil boom. In her absence, the landscape had been altered beyond recognition, her tribal government...
by Tracy Horodyski | Mar 6, 2020 | Librarian's Pick
“Rose Pastor arrived in New York City in 1903, a Jewish refugee from Russia who had worked in cigar factories since the age of eleven. Two years later, she captured headlines across the globe when she married James Graham Phelps Stokes, scion of one of the...
by Tracy Horodyski | Mar 4, 2020 | Librarian's Pick
“Julian Jessop, an eccentric, lonely artist and septuagenarian believes that most people aren’t really honest with each other. But what if they were? And so he writes–in a plain, green journal–the truth about his own life and leaves it in his...
by Tracy Horodyski | Mar 2, 2020 | Librarian's Pick
” It’s New Year’s Eve 1982, and Oona Lockhart has her whole life before her. Should she go to London to study economics, or remain at home in Brooklyn to pursue her passion for music and be with her boyfriend? As the countdown begins, Oona faints and awakens...
