Feb 2021 - African American History Month, Award Winning Recommendations, Author Gabrielle Glaser Check Us Out

Maurice highlights African American History Month, career development, and leisure programs. Molly talks about four Open Book/Open Mind events as well as a few more. Kiersten shares fiction titles that won Youth Media Awards in 2021 that are available digitally or physically in our collection. Ken shares new February adult fiction titles. Adrienne explores the beginning of There There by Tommy Orange. Ariel interviews local author Gabrielle Glaser on her new book, "American Baby: A Mother, a Child, and the Shadow History of Adoption."

Books Discussed:
A Bright Ray of Darkness by Ethan Hawke
The Bad Muslim Discount by Syed M. Masood
The Paris Library by Janet Skeslien Charles
Blood Grove by Walter Mosley
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 edited by Ibrim X. Kindi
Everything Sad Is Untrue (a true story, by Daniel Nayeri
Dragon Hoops by Gene Luen Yang
Every Body Looking by Candice Iloh
We Are Not Free by Tracy Chee
All the Days Past, All the Days to Come,” by Mildred D. Taylor
Legendborn by Tracy Deonn
This is My Brain in Love by I. W. Gregorio
Furia by Yamile Saied Méndez
We Are Not from Here by Jenny Torres Sanchez
You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah Johnson
Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender
This Light Between Us, by Andrew Fukuda
They Went Left by Monica Hesse
X: A Novel, by Kekla Magoon, co-written by Ilyasah Shabazz
How It Went Down by Kekla Magoon
The Rock and the River by Kekla Magoon
Fire in the Streets by Kekla Magoon