E.C. Schroeder Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Retired director @BeineckeLibrary @Yale; librarian; train commuter & fan; hiker; closet English Football fan; Red Sox; tall guy; now New Englander in Midwest

Constructing Community: Urban Governance, Development, and Inequality in Boston
Jeremy Levine
Interesting read for Omaha and it’s current round of development and planning kerfuffle #omaha Constructing Community: Urban Governance, Development, and Inequality in Boston a book by Jeremy R. Levine https://t.co/uH9kZMz3Dk
Paperback, 2021
$32.00$16.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Coming of the Railway: A New Global History, 1750-1850
David Gwyn
#summerreading on the porch - David Gwyn’s The Coming of the Railway: a New Global History (YaleUniv. Press, 2023) https://t.co/8Vo3eOht6B
Hardcover, 2023
$35.00$17.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Lift Every Voice and Sing
James Weldon Johnson
Tonight’s @uconn @creighton women’s basketball included the singing of James Weldon Johnson’s Lift Every Voice and Sing - great to hear live ; more info at https://t.co/qLGEhD0hbL
Hardcover, 2019
$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Ghosts of Gold Mountain: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad
Gordon H. Chang
@UPRRMuseum For more about the building of the transcontinental railroad from the Chinese perspective see Gordon Chang’s Ghosts of Gold Mountain - a great read https://t.co/WD6VwpgGxr
Paperback, 2020
$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book