Library Newsletter
January Edition
BBA's 2018 Read Harder Challenge
New to Our Collection
Killers of the Flower Moon
In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Indian nation in Oklahoma. Then, one by one, the Osage began to be killed off, dying under mysterious circumstances. Killers of the Flower Moon is the utterly compelling, but also emotionally devastating true story of one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history.
The Inexplicable Logic of My Life
Born to white parents, Salvador (Sal) was adopted at the age of 3 by a gay, Mexican-American man and embraced by his extended family. Sal thinks of himself as controlled and reasonable, but when he finds himself resorting to violence during a conflict, he starts to question his identity and his biological background.
In the Shadow of Liberty
Billy Lee was purchased by George Washington as a teenager and served as his manservant until Washington took office. Paul Jennings, enslaved by President James Madison, was part of the White House staff that fled Washington, D.C., during the War of 1812. This book helps set the record straight about the role slavery played in the founding of America, that a nation "conceived in liberty" was also born in shackles.
In the Country We Love
Diane Guerrero, the television actress from the megahit Orange is the New Black and Jane the Virgin, was just fourteen years old on the day her parents and brother were arrested and deported while she was at school. This memoir is a tale of personal triumph that also casts a much-needed light on the fears that haunt the daily existence of families likes the author's and on a system that fails them over and over.
The Wendy Project
16-year-old Wendy Davies crashes her car into a lake on a late summer night in New England with her two younger brothers in the backseat. When she wakes in the hospital, she is told that her youngest brother, Michael, is dead. Wendy shocks her family by insisting that Michael is alive and in the custody of a mysterious flying boy. Placed in a new school, Wendy negotiates fantasy and reality as students and adults around her resemble characters from Neverland.
Thunderhead (Arc of a Scythe Book 2)
Book 2 of the Scythe series is finally here! Find out what happens to Citra, now a junior Scythe under Scythe Curie, and Rowan, who is off the grid engaging in vigilante tactics. BBA Students who have read it so far are loving it and can’t wait for Book 3! If you are unfamiliar with this exciting, fantasy series, come check out Book 1: Scythe.
Margi Putney
Burr and Burton Academy
Email: mputney@burrburton.org
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