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Friday, August 14, 2020
Happy National Creamsicle Day
On August 14th celebrates the creamy citrus dessert on a stick. During the height of summer, what better way to enjoy refreshment than with a creamsicle.
Summer Reading Prize Pick-up
End of Summer Activity
Author Feature
Toni Morrison, was an American novelist, essayist, book editor, and college professor who died August 2019, exactly one year ago. She has a national bestselling collection that spans four decades of essays and speeches. Toni Morrison has received the Pulitzer Prize, as well as the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Nobel Prize for Literature. See her collection at The Town of Ballston Community Library
DVD: The Pieces I am
An artful and intimate meditation on the life and works of the acclaimed novelist.
From her childhood in the steel town of Lorain, Ohio to '70s-era book tours with Muhammad Ali, from the front lines with Angela Davis to her own riverfront writing room, Toni Morrison leads an assembly of her peers, critics, and colleagues on an exploration of race, America, history and the human condition as seen through the prism of her own literature.
Non-Fiction: The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations
These pages give us her searing prayer for the dead of 9/11, her Nobel lecture on the power of language, her searching meditation on Martin Luther King Jr., her heart-wrenching eulogy for James Baldwin. She looks deeply into the fault lines of culture and freedom: the foreigner, female empowerment, the press, money, human rights, the artist in society
Electronic Resource: God help the child
Spare and unsparing, God Help the Child is a searing tale about the way childhood trauma shapes and misshapes the life of the adult.
At the center: a woman who calls herself Bride, whose stunning blue-black skin is only one element of her beauty, her boldness and confidence, her success in life; but which caused her light-skinned mother to deny her even the simplest forms of love until she told a lie that ruined the life of an innocent woman.
YA Fiction
This week as we celebrate International Youth Day we highlight books from some of our favorite authors and breathtaking debuts from fresh voices.
No matter what you love, whether it is thrillers, romance, fantasy, nonfiction, or graphic novels, you’ll find a wide variety of books sure to satisfy every kind of reader.
The Stepping Off Place by Cameron Kelly Rosenblum
From debut author Cameron Kelly Rosenblum comes a stunning teen novel that tackles love, grief, and mental health as one girl must process her friend’s death and ultimately learn how to stand in her own light.
It’s the summer before senior year. Reid is in the thick of Scofield High’s in-crowd thanks to her best friend, Hattie, who has been her social oxygen since middle school.
But summer is when Hattie goes to her family’s Maine island home. Instead of sitting inside for eight weeks, waiting for her to return, Reid and their friend, Sam, enter into a pact—to live it up, one party at a time.
The Queen's Assassin by Melissa de la Cruz
If you love YA fantasy novels with deadly assassins and forbidden romance, you're in luck. Melissa de la Cruz's newest book is the first in a duology about Cal, an assassin magically bound to serve the queen. When he collides with Shadow, a girl bound to the court, they team up and uncover the corruption and secrets hidden in the kingdom.
Available in Print and e-book
All the Days Past, All the Days to Come by Mildred D. Taylor
Cassie Logan is a young woman searching for her place in the world, a journey that takes her from Toledo to California, to law school in Boston, and, ultimately, in the 60s, home to Mississippi to participate in voter registration.
She is witness to the now-historic events of the century: the Great Migration north, the rise of the civil rights movement, preceded and precipitated by the racist society of America, and the often violent confrontations that brought about change.
Available in Print and e-book
Left Handers Day
This week, we all celebrated Left-Handers Day. What do Barack Obama, George H.W. Bush, Oprah Winfrey and Lady Gaga have in common?
Aside from their philanthropy, popularity, and all-around inspiration, they're also all left-handed. So, if you're a lefty, give yourself a round of applause.
Your left-handed child : making things easy for left-handers in a right-handed world by Lauren Milsom.
Leading expert in left-handedness Lauren Milsom describes simple but effective strategies to help kids, from the very young to teenagers, overcome the many hurdles they encounter at school and home.
Lefty : a handbook for left-handed kids by Singer, Beth Wolfensberg
Book pages turn from left to right. Cover is where back of normal book would be.
Includes Facts, trivia, and riddles about left-handedness.
Loving lefties : how to raise your left-handed child in a right-handed world by Jane M. Healey
Loving Lefties is the first ever guide to address all the issues pertinent to left-handedness: the biology, the physiology, and the psychological and practical effects of being a left-handed child.
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