Reader's Place Online: March 2020
Celebrating Maplewood Ideas Festival 2020
Although the Maplewood Ideas Festival is postponed and the Library is closed to the public, the library’s online resources are available to Maplewood Library cardholders around the clock. Here is a selection of works by this year’s participants available online as an eBook or eAudiobook.
The Toni Morrison Book Club by Juda Bennett et. al. 2020
Four friends - black and white, gay and straight, immigrant and American-born - offer a radical vision for book clubs as sites of self-discovery and communal healing. The Toni Morrison Book Club insists that we make space to find ourselves in fiction and turn to Morrison as a spiritual guide to our most difficult thoughts and ideas about American literature and life.
The ungrateful refugee: What immigrants never tell you, by Dina Nayeri. 2019.
In her first work of nonfiction, winner of the 2018 UNESCO City of Literature Paul Engle Prize Dina Nayeri examines what it means to be a refugee through her own story of childhood escape from Iran, and through the stories of other refugees and asylum seekers.
The Moth presents occasional magic: True stories about defying the impossible , by Catherine Burns. 2019.
From storytelling phenomenon and hit podcast The Moth—and featuring contributions from Meg Wolitzer, Adam Gopnik, Krista Tippett, Andrew Solomon, Rosanne Cash, Ophira Eisenberg, Wang Ping, and more—a new collection of unforgettable true stories about finding the strength to face the impossible, drawn from the very best ever told on its stages
American oligarchs: The Kushners, the Trumps, and the marriage of money and power , by Andrea Bernstein, 2020.
Beginning with the Kushner family's dramatic escape during the Holocaust and immigration to New York, Bernstein charts the rise of their real estate empire. At the same time, she explores the beginnings of the Trump family's business and shows how both families benefited from taxpayer money to build their livelihoods. Later chapters delve into shady business dealings by both families, and their desire to enrich themselves at the expense of others, which Bernstein argues they have continued to do while serving in public office.
Breaking Free: True Stories of Girls Who Escaped Modern Slavery, by Abby Sher
Remarkable, timely, and incredibly inspiring, Breaking Free: True Stories of Girls Who Escaped Modern Slavery, will strike a chord with all young readers as it recounts the stories of courageous young women who escaped the unspeakable abuse of sexual slavery.
Also available as a HooplaDigital title.
Compiled by Ina Rimpau