Smithsonian 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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Polaris: The Chief Scientist's Recollections of the American North Pole Expedition, 1871-73
Emil BesselsSmithsonianWe're big fans of sweater weather over here. German naturalist Emil Bessels poses in this 1880 @SmithsonianArch image. He worked at the Smithsonian after returning from the 1871 Polaris expedition to the Arctic, where he was the surgeon and chief of the scientific staff. https://t.co/pDr855CHyq
Paperback, 2016
$44.95$22.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Night
Elie WieselSmithsonianElie Wiesel devoted his life to ensuring the Holocaust and its victims are never forgotten. A survivor of the concentration camps where his family was murdered, he wrote the memoir "Night." @smithsoniannpg's Miriam Baker sculpture: https://t.co/BRlMWom4sO #HolocaustRemembranceDay https://t.co/SVJ9VpREVH
Hardcover, 2006
$22.45$11.23 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric CarleSmithsonianWe remember children's book author and illustrator Eric Carle. The U.S. Postal Service issued this stamp honoring his story "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" in 2006. Designed by Derry Noye, it's now in our @PostalMuseum. ©USPS; all rights reserved. https://t.co/E7Jx4J2reh
Board Book, 1994
$10.99$5.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Tailor of Gloucester: (Annotated Edition)
Beatrix PotterSmithsonianThe perfect evening doesn't exi— This scene of mice sewing is from Beatrix Potter’s “The Tailor of Gloucester.” It's in the Rare Book Collection on Juvenile Literature at our @cooperhewitt, one of many of Potter’s books in the museum’s branch of @SILibraries. https://t.co/moY8STnXFe
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Eastern Winds
R. Eden HobbsSmithsonianThis poster from @SmithsonianACM was designed by Miu Eng for D.C.'s 1983 observance of Asian Pacific American Heritage Week, which was extended to a month in the 1990s. See Eng's designs for Eastern Wind, an Asian American student group: https://s.si.edu/3MEmKBh #APAHM https://t.co/YwftPSXcXF
Paperback, 2012
$18.95$9.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Story of the Jubilee Singers: With Their Songs
J. B. T. MarshSmithsonianThe Fisk Jubilee Singers preserved African American spirituals and brought them to a wider audience in the U.S. and Europe. They formed in 1871 to raise money for Fisk University. J. B. T. Marsh's "The story of the Jubilee Singers" in @silibraries: https://t.co/Xlfsz3XQMY #BHM https://t.co/BbhY1NDiYb
Paperback, 2022
$22.95$11.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Tailor of Gloucester
Beatrix PotterSmithsonianThe perfect evening doesn't exi— This scene of mice sewing is from Beatrix Potter’s “The Tailor of Gloucester.” It's in the Rare Book Collection on Juvenile Literature at our @cooperhewitt, one of many of Potter’s books in the museum’s branch of @SILibraries. https://t.co/moY8STnXFe
Paperback, 1997
$6.95$3.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Night
Elie WieselSmithsonianElie Wiesel devoted his life to ensuring the Holocaust and its victims are never forgotten. A survivor of the concentration camps where his family was murdered, he wrote the memoir "Night." @smithsoniannpg's Miriam Baker sculpture: https://t.co/BRlMWom4sO #HolocaustRemembranceDay https://t.co/SVJ9VpREVH
Paperback, 2006
$13.00$6.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Charlotte Cushman: Her Letters and Memories of Her Life
Emma StebbinsSmithsonian@USLatinoMuseum @PostalMuseum @Folkways @NMAAHC @SmithsonianSec Read about the 19th-century relationship of Charlotte Cushman and Emma Stebbins from @SILibraries: https://t.co/ULSV8o3RTb
Paperback, 2022
$23.95$11.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book