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

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