by envisionmg | Aug 24, 2020 | Staff Picks
Books I have on hold and am hoping to read but probably won’t because I have been in a slump: Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close by Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman (Overdrive & print) Now two friends, Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman, tell the story of...
by envisionmg | Jul 27, 2020 | Staff Picks
About the documentary: “Filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished, Remember This House. It is a journey into black history that connects the Civil Rights movement to #BlackLivesMatter. It questions black representation in Hollywood and...
by envisionmg | Dec 19, 2017 | Reading Lists, Staff Picks
We asked our staff for the titles of books they read and loved this year. Here are the ones they shared. Happy reading! The Hate You Give – Angie Thomas “Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the...
by envisionmg | Nov 2, 2015 | Non-fiction, Staff Picks
The following titles are recommended by Charlotte. Waking Up White, and Finding Myself in the Story of Race by Debby Irving About the book: “For twenty-five years, Debby Irving sensed inexplicable racial tensions in her personal and professional relationships....
by envisionmg | Oct 9, 2015 | Mystery, Staff Picks
Quieter Than Sleep by Joanne Dobson “Karen Pelletier abandoned her life in New York for a professorship at Massachusetts’s elite Enfield College. But she quickly learns that New England is not the peaceful enclave she had imagined–and that not even...
by envisionmg | Sep 28, 2015 | Fiction, Staff Picks
“Jim Harrison is a test pilot in the United States Air Force, one of the exalted few. He spends his days cheating death in the skies above the Mojave Desert and his nights at his friend Pancho’s bar, often with his wife, Grace. She and Harrison are...
