Barbara’s Recommends...
that you don’t mistake a little nice weather for springtime–stay
in by the fire and read!
Bright
Boulevards, Bold Dreams
The Story of Black Hollywood
By Donald
Bogle
Donald Bogle tells–for the first time–the story
of a place both mythic and real: Black Hollywood. Spanning sixty
years, this deliciously entertaining history uncovers the audacious
manner in which many blacks made a place for themselves in an
industry that originally had no place for them.
Love
and Other Impossible Pursuits
A Novel
By Ayelet
Waldman
With wry candor and tender humor, acclaimed novelist Ayelet
(Nursery Crimes) Waldman has crafted a strikingly beautiful
novel for our time, tackling the absurdities of modern life
and reminding us why we love some people no matter what.
The
Pale Horseman
By Bernard
Cornwell
This sequel to THE LAST KINGDOM, takes readers back
to 9th century England and to struggle between the forces of
the dark ages and of the newer world waiting to be born. This
is high adventure at its most exciting.
My
New Orleans
Ballads to the Big Easy by Her Sons, Daughters, and Lovers
Bury
the Chains
Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire’s
Slaves
By Adam
Hochschild
In 1787 twelve men came together in a London print shop and
began the world’s first grass-roots movement, battling for the
rights of people on another continent. This deft chronicle of
an antislavery crusade and its powerful enemies gives a little-celebrated
human rights watershed its due at last.
Kornwolf
A Novel
By Tristan
Egolf
Depending on the phase of the moon, Ephraim changes from a meek
Amish lad in to a hideous, foul-smelling werewolf with a taste
for Satanic thrash-metal and an uncanny resemblance to Richard
Nixon. Now tell me you don’t want to read this book.
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