September/October 2020
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What a Library Means to a Woman by Sheila Liming
When writer Edith Wharton died in 1937, without any children, her library of more than five thousand volumes was divided …
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An Illuminated Life: Belle da Costa Greene's Journey from Prejudice to Privilege by Heidi Ardizzone Ph.D.
What would you give up to achieve your dream? When J. P. Morgan hired Belle da Costa Greene in 1905 …
sarah says: August 2020
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Bluffing Texas Style by Michael Vinson
In 1989 a woman fishing in Texas on a quiet stretch of the Colorado River snagged a body. Her “catch” …
sarah says: November/December 2020
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Dispossessed Lives by Marisa J. Fuentes
In the eighteenth century, Bridgetown, Barbados, was heavily populated by both enslaved and free women. Marisa J. Fuentes creates a …
sarah says: January 2021
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Forgotten readers by Elizabeth McHenry
Over the past decade the popularity of black writers including E. Lynn Harris and Terry McMillan has been hailed as …
sarah says: March 2024
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Natural Enemies Of Books by M. Fanni, M. Flodmark, S. Kaaman
The Natural Enemies of Books is a response to the groundbreaking 1937 publication Bookmaking on the Distaff Side, which brought …
sarah says: April 2021
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Dorothy Porter Wesley at Howard University
4 stars
When Dorothy Burnett joined the library staff at Howard University in 1928, she was given a mandate to administer a …
sarah says: February 2023
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Reading the romance by Janice A. Radway
Originally published in 1984, Reading the Romance challenges popular (and often demeaning) myths about why romantic fiction, one of publishing's …
sarah says: February 2024
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Japan in Print by Mary Elizabeth Berry
5 stars
A quiet revolution in knowledge separated the early modern period in Japan from all previous time. After 1600, self-appointed investigators …
sarah says: May 2021
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The Feminist Bookstore Movement: Lesbian Antiracism and Feminist Accountability by Kristen Hogan
From the 1970s through the 1990s more than one hundred feminist bookstores built a transnational network that helped shape some …
sarah says: June 2021
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Eat My Words by Janet Theophano
Some people think that a cookbook is just a collection of recipes for dishes that feed the body. In Eat …
sarah says: November 2021
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It’s 1953, and Simon Putnam, a recent Harvard graduate newly hired by a distinguished New York publishing firm, has entered …
sarah says: July 2022
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Dark Archives by Megan Rosenbloom
There are books out there, some shelved unwittingly next to ordinary texts, that are bound in human skin. Would you …
sarah says: October 2021
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Burning the Books by Richard Ovenden
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The director of the famed Bodleian Libraries at Oxford narrates the global history of the willful destruction -- and surprising …
sarah says: January 2022
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The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict, Victoria Christopher Murray
1 star
The remarkable, little-known story of Belle da Costa Greene, J. P. Morgan's personal librarian--who became one of the most powerful …
sarah says: August 2021
