August 2020
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An Illuminated Life: Belle da Costa Greene's Journey from Prejudice to Privilege 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
