August 2020
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An Illuminated Life by Heidi Ardizzone Ph.D.
What would you give up to achieve your dream? When J. P. Morgan hired Belle da Costa Greene in 1905 …
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The Binding by Bridget Collins
4 stars
Books are dangerous things in Collins's alternate universe, a place vaguely reminiscent of 19th-century England. It's a world in which …
sarah says: June 2023
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What a Library Means to a Woman by Sheila Liming
When writer Edith Wharton died in 1937, without any children, her library of more than five thousand volumes was divided …
sarah says: September/October 2020
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Forgotten readers by Elizabeth McHenry (New Americanists)
Over the past decade the popularity of black writers including E. Lynn Harris and Terry McMillan has been hailed as …
sarah says: March 2024
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Dorothy Porter Wesley at Howard University
When Dorothy Burnett joined the library staff at Howard University in 1928, she was given a mandate to administer a …
sarah says: February 2023
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sarah says: October 2021
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Natural Enemies Of Books by M. Fanni, M. Flodmark, S. Kaaman
The Natural Enemies of Books is a response to the groundbreaking 1937 publication Bookmaking on the Distaff Side, which brought …
sarah says: April 2021
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The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris
3 stars
Urgent, propulsive, and sharp as a knife, The Other Black Girl is an electric debut about the tension that unfurls …
sarah says: July 2021
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Dispossessed Lives by Marisa J. Fuentes
In the eighteenth century, Bridgetown, Barbados, was heavily populated by both enslaved and free women. Marisa J. Fuentes creates a …
sarah says: January 2021
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Bluffing Texas Style by Michael Vinson
In 1989 a woman fishing in Texas on a quiet stretch of the Colorado River snagged a body. Her “catch” …
sarah says: November/December 2020
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The Feminist Bookstore Movement: Lesbian Antiracism and Feminist Accountability by Kristen Hogan
From the 1970s through the 1990s more than one hundred feminist bookstores built a transnational network that helped shape some …
sarah says: June 2021
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Japan in Print by Mary Elizabeth Berry (Asia - Local Studies/Global Themes)
A quiet revolution in knowledge separated the early modern period in Japan from all previous time. After 1600, self-appointed investigators …
sarah says: May 2021
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Burning the Books by Richard Ovenden
3 stars
The director of the famed Bodleian Libraries at Oxford narrates the global history of the willful destruction -- and surprising …
sarah says: January 2022
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sarah says: October 2023
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Old books, rare friends by Leona Rostenberg, Stern, Madeleine B.
4 stars
You'd think a book about antiquarian bookselling wouldn't be loaded with suspense or keep us laughing, or make us shake …
sarah says: February 2022
