Tuesday, August 28, 2018

Titles for the last quarter of 2018





*** Subject to change, based on availability within PLS ****



Sept 10-- Homegoing -- Yaa Gyasi  (15+ books, 8 audio, 4 LT)
Stretching from the tribal wars of Ghana to slavery and Civil War in America, 
from the coal mines in the north to the Great Migration to the streets of 
20th century Harlem, Yaa Gyasi's has written a modern masterpiece, a novel 
that moves through histories and geographies ...

Oct 1 -- Glass Universe -- Dava Sobel  (14 books, 1 audio, 3 LT)
The little-known true story of the unexpected and remarkable contributions to 
astronomy made by a group of women working in the Harvard College Observatory
from the late 1800s through the mid-1900s

Nov 5 --  News of the World -- Paulette Jiles  (15+ books, 6 audio, 2 LT)
In the aftermath of the Civil War, an aging itinerant news reader agrees to transport 
a young captive of the Kiowa back to her people in this exquisitely rendered, morally 
complex, multilayered novel of historical fiction.

Dec 3-- Killers of the Flower Moon --David  Grann (15+ books, 7 audio, 2 LT)
Presents a true account of the early twentieth-century murders of dozens of wealthy 
Osage and law-enforcement officials, citing the contributions and missteps of a
fledgling FBI that eventually uncovered one of the most chilling conspiracies in 
American history.