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Welcome to the Owl's Nest Blog from the Westbury Children's Library, officially known as Children's Library - Robert Bacon Memorial. If you've visited us before, you may have noticed the bust over the fireplace. It is a portrait of former Secretary of...
Librarian’s Pick: The Code Breaker – Walter Isaacson
"When Jennifer Doudna was in sixth grade, she came home one day to find that her dad had left a paperback titled The Double Helix on her bed. She put it aside, thinking it was one of those detective tales she loved. When she read it on a rainy Saturday, she discovered...
Librarian’s Pick: The Marathon Don’t Stop – Rob Kenner
"In the ten years since he first met Nipsey Hussle in the offices of Vibe, journalist Rob Kenner followed Hussle’s career, paying close attention to the music and business movement he was building in Los Angeles. Ten years later, they spoke again. To Kenner, it became...
Librarian’s Pick: Black Boy Out Of Time – Hari Ziyad
"One of nineteen children in a blended family, Hari Ziyad was raised by a Hindu Hare Kṛṣṇa mother and a Muslim father. Through reframing their own coming-of-age story, Ziyad takes readers on a powerful journey of growing up queer and Black in Cleveland, Ohio, and of...
Librarian’s Pick: Limitless – Mallory Weggemann
"On January 21, 2008, a routine medical procedure left Mallory Weggemann paralyzed from her waist down. Less than two years later, Mallory had broken eight world records, and by the 2012 Paralympic Games, she held fifteen world records and thirty-four American...
Librarian’s Pick: Come Fly The World – Julia Cooke
"In 1967, Coffee, Tea, or Me? The Uninhibited Memoirs of Two Airline Stewardesses captured the world’s imagination with tales of amorous adventures. Decades later, Donald Blain revealed that as a publicist for American Airlines, he actually wrote the book and its...
Librarian’s Pick: You Don’t Belong Here – Elizabeth Becker
"Award-winning journalist Elizabeth Becker turns her insightful gaze on three women who covered the Vietnam War in You Don’t Belong Here. Becker, who has firsthand experience of Southeast Asia and the challenges facing women in the field of journalism, begins her book...
Librarian’s Pick: Confident Women – Tori Telfer
"“Con men” is a familiar term for slick, slippery dudes who are out to relieve their victims of money—often taking honor, dignity and a prosperous future along with it. Now meet Tori Telfer’s Confident Women: Swindlers, Grifters, and Shapeshifters of the Feminine...
Librarian’s Pick: The Daughters Of Kobani – Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
"The story of how young Kurdish women brought down terrorists from the Islamic State group has been waiting to be told. If Kobani, Syria, is a city that has gone unnoticed in the saga of Middle Eastern wars, then The Daughters of Kobani: A Story of Rebellion, Courage,...
Librarian’s Pick: The Doctors Blackwell – Janice P. Nimura
"Florence Nightingale and Dorothea Dix loom large as women who reformed health care in the 19th century—in the fields of nursing and mental health, respectively—but Elizabeth and Emily Blackwell have remained largely unrecognized for their roles in medical history. No...
Librarian’s Pick: The Three Mothers – Anna Malaika Tubbs
" In The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation, Anna Malaika Tubbs tells three stories that are often overlooked but deeply important to civil rights history. Tubbs explores the lives of “the women...