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Tune In Tuesdays: Rest In Power
Tune in to watch Sybrina Fulton & Tracy Martin discuss their new memoir, Rest In Power: The Enduring Life of Trayvon Martin, with New York Daily News’ Shaun King.
https://www.facebook.com/randomhouse/videos/1223653194349098/
To learn more, click here.
March: Book Three, the third installment in the civil rights leader's memoir, won the Coretta Scott King Award for best African-American author. The Caldecott and Newbery medals also were announced.
Cannot recommend this award winning three part graphic memoir enough!!
From our Bay Ridge Library – something to always remember. 💙
#FRIDAY READS: Global Warming
Did you know that 2016 marked the third year in a row of Earth’s highest temperature in recorded history? Government scientists say the cause is mostly man-made global warming with help from a natural El Nino. The announcement came this week from NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. They said last year passed 2015 as the hottest year on record. This news comes on the heels of one of President Obama’s final environmental actions while in office: He transferred a reported $500 million to the UN’s Green Climate Fund, a key program set up to finance climate change adaptation and renewable energy projects in developing countries. To further inform yourself on the topic that affects us all, we present the following titles on climate change.
FEATURED TITLES
EARTH CALLING: A CLIMATE CHANGE HANDBOOK FOR THE 21ST CENTURY by Ellen Gunter, Ted Carter, Caroline Myss
Our earliest mythologies tell us we all start as a little bit of dirt. These stories carry a profound message: each of us is born with a deep and abiding connection to the earth, one that many of us have lost touch with. The Silent Spring for today’s environmental activists, this book offers an invitation to reestablish our relationship with nature to repair our damaged environment.
THE WHOLE STORY OF CLIMATE: WHAT SCIENCE REVEALS ABOUT THE NATURE OF ENDLESS CHANGE by E. Kirsten Peters
This book, written by a geologist, describes the important contributions that geology has made to our understanding of climate change. What emerges is a much more complex and nuanced picture than is usually presented.
FINDING HIGHER GROUND: ADAPTATION IN THE AGE OF WARMING by Amy Seidl
In Finding Higher Ground, Amy Seidl takes the uniquely positive—yet realistic—position that humans and animals can adapt and persist despite these changes. Drawing on an emerging body of scientific research, Seidl brings us stories of adaptation from the natural world and from human communities.
FOSSIL CAPITAL: THE RISE OF STEAM POWER AND THE ROOTS OF GLOBAL WARMING by Andreas Malm
The more we know about the catastrophic implications of climate change, the more fossil fuels we burn. How did we end up in this mess? In this masterful new history, Andreas Malm claims it all began in Britain with the rise of steam power.
SIX DEGREES: OUR FUTURE ON A HOTTER PLANET by Mark Lynas
Possibly the most graphic treatment of global warming that has yet been published, Six Degrees uses accessible journalistic prose to distill what environmental scientists portend about the consequences of human pollution for the next hundred years.
FOR YOUNGER READERS
A WARMER WORLD: FROM POLAR BEARS TO BUTTERFLIES HOW CLIMATE CHANGE AFFECTS WILDLIFE by Caroline Arnold, Jamie Hogan
The golden toad used to inhabit the cloud forests of Costa Rica, but when the weather became too warm and dried up the pools where its eggs hatched, the golden toad disappeared. It has not been seen in more than twenty years. This amphibian is just one of several species in A WARMER WORLD, a thought-provoking and informative account of how global climate change has affected wildlife over the past several decades.
LET’S SAVE THE ANIMALS: A FLIP THE FLAP BOOK by Frances Barry
Bold illustrations, big flaps, and an ingenious die-cut design invite young readers to peek at the lives of endangered animals — and learn how to help.
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC INVESTIGATES: EXTREME WEATHER: SCIENCE TACKLES GLOBAL WARMING AND CLIMATE CHANGE by Kathleen Simpson, Jonathan D. W. Kahl
Join the weather scientists who are using modern technology, including satellites and supercomputers, to produce a weather forecast for Earth’s future. Extreme Weather gives readers the expert’s views and highlights the climate changes that may be on the horizon.
AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH: THE CRISIS OF GLOBAL WARMING (Middle grade edition) by Al Gore
Dramatic full-color photos, illustrations, and graphs combine with Gore’s effective and clear writing to explain global warming in very real terms: what it is, what causes it, and what will happen if we continue to ignore it. An Inconvenient Truth will change the way young people understand global warming and hopefully inspire them to help change the course of history.
For more on these and related titles visit the collection: Global Warming
Rory Gilmore Reads...A LOT of books!
On November 25th, 2016, Netflix released its’ much anticipated series, Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life. Even those unfamiliar with the television show (2000 - 2007) one can recall that Rory Gilmore reads…A LOT of books! This book list is comprised of titles that were not only referenced by Rory herself, but ones that we feel she would check out today. So, if you are unfamiliar with those Gilmore Girls, or just getting acquainted, come and check out what Rory Gilmore reads!
For the complete book list, go here:
https://lawrence.bibliocommons.com/list/share/279600817_lpl_readersservices/726145187_lawrence_picks_rory_gilmore_reads
Activism & Awareness: A Reading List For The Holidays
It’s been a tough year, and many of us are trying to figure out where to go next. But education is essential before we take informed action, so do a deep dive into some of the issues we face in America with these books.
Bad News: Last Journalists in a Dictatorship by Anjan Sundaram
White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America by Nancy Isenberg
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right by Jane Mayer
Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy by Heather Ann Thompson
Jackson, 1964, And Other Dispatches from Fifty Years of Reporting on Race in America by Calvin Trillin
Blood and Earth: Modern Slavery, Ecocide, and the Secret to Saving the World by Kevin Bales
Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution by Janette Sadik-Khan and Seth Solomonow
Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul by Eddie S. Glaude, Jr.
The Only Game in Town: Central Banks, Instability, and Avoiding the Next Collapse by Mohamed A. El-Erian
American Character: A History of the Epic Struggle Between Individual Liberty and the Common Good by Colin Woodard
its all fun and games until you open to the wrong page in your book and read a spoiler
When I see someone reading my favourite book
And on the subject of burning books: I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength or their powerful political connections or their great wealth, who, all over this country, have staunchly resisted anti-democratic bullies who have tried to remove certain books from their shelves, and have refused to reveal to thought police the names of persons who have checked out those titles. So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.
Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country (via penguinrandomhouse)
Maya Angelou on how a library saved her life.
Super hero.
Ottessa Moshfegh at Columbia University, 11/9/16
If you haven’t read Ottessa Moshfegh’s fascinatingly dark, grimly funny Eileen, our critic Jean Zimmerman says “I pushed the book on my 20-something daughter, who yelped at the darkness but read to the last page.”
You can also check out Moshfegh’s interview with Scott Simon here.
She’s got a story collection coming out in January and we’re looking forward to it!
– Petra
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Trevor Noah opened up to NPR’s Renee Montagne today about growing up mixed-race in apartheid-era South Africa, where his parents’ relationship was illegal. His mother, he said, had to disguise herself as a maid so people wouldn’t ask why she was in a white area:
She looked like she was my caretaker as opposed to my mother. The same would go for my father, not holding my hand or anything because he couldn’t be seen to be the father of a mixed race child. You know, I’m running down the street, and he’s running away because he doesn’t want us to get into trouble — and I think I’m playing a game. And what you don’t realize is that they’re basically running away from the law.
Find the full conversation here (and spare a good thought or two for Renee – today was her last day on Morning Edition and we miss her already).
– Petra
A recent cartoon for the Guardian.
We all scream for THE MOTHERS!
Riverhead is known for combining two of life’s most necessary pleasures—books and food. Don’t believe me? Just take a look at Riverhead Table, one of our most celebrated projects, and Riverhead Bar, the fun and boozy spinoff. So we jumped at the opportunity to partner up with one of our favorite Instagram accounts, Ice Cream Books, and innovative ice cream parlor, Morgenstern’s Finest Ice Creams, on a limited edition flavor inspired by one of our most buzzed about Fall debuts, The Mothers by Brit Bennett.
Ice Cream Books took the world by storm when they launched this summer, sharing stunning, evocative photos of frozen delights paired with great reads. This is the first time they have collaborated to release an original literary-themed flavor, and who better to partner with than Lower East Side favorite Morgenstern’s Finest Ice Cream, known for their collaborations, unique events, and hands-on, small batch approach to ice cream.
Morgenstern’s crafted the exclusive Sour Plum Jam Sorbet—a mix of sour, sweet, and creaminess, inspired by an evocative quote from The Mothers:
“All good secrets have a taste before you tell them, and if we’d taken a moment to swish this one around our mouths, we might have noticed the sourness of an unripe secret, plucked too soon, stolen and passed around before its season.”
The flavor was served during the week of October 17th, and to kick it all off, Ice Cream Books released a stunning image of the Sour Plum Jam Sorbet atop the book.
On a balmy Tuesday afternoon in New York, during the second week of Brit’s book tour, Morgenstern’s hosted an Ice Cream Social in their parlor. Senior Publicity Manager Liz, Brit, and I took the time in the middle of a busy day of book interviews to celebrate the good things in life—the long awaited release of The Mothers, a successful beginning to Brit’s first tour, and of course, the unforgettable sorbet.
Joining us were Michael and Chantal of the Snapchat media group Sweet for a video and photo shoot. Thankfully, we “reserved” (using this term loosely, although we did get cute card placements in front of a few seats!) the parlor during non-peak hours, so that we could move freely around the shop and enjoy the view of The Mothers sitting next to the register.
By the time Brit started reading excerpts from The Mothers, as one usually does in an ice cream shop, customers started to roll in for a rush. Ice cream attendants reached over the glass, shouting, “Chocolate chip!” as Brit read some of the more moving sections of the novel, suppressing the urge to laugh.
We then went outside with the Sweet team for an introduction shot very much à la MTV Cribs. Suddenly, we knew what it must feel like to be a Kardashian. More photos were taken while Brit held onto a dripping ice cream cone, trying not to get her shirt dirty.
“Maybe if you hold the cone closer to yourself? It will make it look more natural?” Michael suggested.
Natural, in the most unnatural sense, of course.
After the video and photo shoot and after the rush, Liz, Brit, and I sat by the counter, gulping spoonful after spoonful of ice cream. We took a breather from all of the wonderful chaos. “This is so surreal,“ I remember Brit repeating several times.
The sorbet was too delicious not to share, so we carried a few pints in a bright mini cooler (provided by Brit’s Editor Sarah) to Brit’s event in conversation with Angela Flournoy in Fort Greene, Brooklyn’s beloved Greenlight Bookstore. While Brit named the books she would bring if she were trapped on a desert island, the audience enjoyed bowls of the sorbet. I stood in the back by the shelves in awe at the turnout. We had arrived 30 minutes early so that Brit could do a short signing beforehand, and even then, all of the seats had already been taken. The store was packed to the brim and even spilling out onto the streets.
Brit was right—it was surreal. Surreal, but we had known all along that it was possible.
