Pima County Public Library Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Life of a Slave Girl
Harriet Jacobs
Folks know about Frederick Douglass or TWELVE YEARS A SLAVE, but might not be as familiar with INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OF A SLAVE GIRL by Harriet Jacobs, which is definitely a necessary read! #AskALibrarian https://t.co/IpfQsurR4y
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On a Sunbeam
Tillie Walden
We read ON A SUNBEAM by Tillie Walden for our #RainbowReads book club last weekend and it was a DELIGHT! Couldn't put it down. #AskALibrarian https://t.co/hpUP97fQgc
Paperback, 2018
$22.99$11.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
A Little Devil in America: In Praise of Black Performance
Hanif Abdurraqib
Still reading THE 1619 PROJECT because it is LONG and intense, but also just started listening to A LITTLE DEVIL IN AMERICA: NOTES IN PRAISE OF BLACK PERFORMANCE by Hanif Abdurraqib, which is a much more joyful look at Black history in the US. #AskALibrarian https://twitter.com/PrinceWmLibrary/status/1496893762701824004
Paperback, 2022
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Iola Leroy or Shadows Uplifted
E. W. Harper Frances E. W. Harper
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, a long-neglected voice in the Black canon. And we got a LOT of her work, including IOLA LEROY, OR SHADOWS UPLIFTED, considered one of the earliest influences for Black romance, when we added hoopla to our resources! Hooray! #AskALibrarian https://t.co/5GXDDHJV10
Paperback, 2007
$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
African-American Six Book Treasury - The Souls of Black Folk, Up From Slavery, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass,: Incidents in the Life of
W. E. B. Du Bois
Folks know about Frederick Douglass or TWELVE YEARS A SLAVE, but might not be as familiar with INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OF A SLAVE GIRL by Harriet Jacobs, which is definitely a necessary read! #AskALibrarian https://t.co/IpfQsurR4y
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Angel in the Rubble: The Miraculous Rescue of 9/11's Last Survivor
Genelle Guzman-McMillan
@alexaplaybts1 Hi! Sorry this got lost in our notifications but we have some great recommendations. Angel in the Rubble by Genelle Guzman-McMillan tells the story of the last survivor pulled from the 9/11 Ground Zero debris.
Paperback, 2014
$16.99$8.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Love Hypothesis
Ali Hazelwood
We agree, THE LOVE HYPOTHESIS is great! We also recommend THE SOULMATE EQUATION by Christina Lauren, THE FASTEST WAY TO FALL by Denise Williams, and RAMON AND JULIETA by Alana Quintana Albertson, which just came out! #AskALibrarian https://twitter.com/opl_bpo/status/1489293475963154439
Paperback, 2021
$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Yesterday Is History
Kosoko Jackson
Kosoko Jackson's YESTERDAY IS HISTORY and Tiffany Reisz's THE NIGHT MARK are two favorites in this office (JP) #AskALibrarian https://t.co/H8R3dIauWu
Paperback, 2022
$10.99$5.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Music Is History
Questlove
On our website: Drum Roll, Please: Join Big Library Read & Enjoy Questlove’s “Music Is History” https://t.co/S95NBGOibi
Paperback, 2022
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Ordinary Heroes: A Memoir of 9/11
Joseph Pfeifer
@alexaplaybts1 Ordinary Heroes by Joseph Pfeifer is a memoir from former assistant chief of the New York City Fire Department who was working that day.
Hardcover, 2021
$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book