February Finds
by Delores Redman
As February is Black History Month, it is an opportune time to check out some of these titles from Langsdale Library …
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth
Black rebellion
New York : Da Capo Press, 1998.
E447 .H53 1998
Hudson, J. Blaine.
Encyclopedia of the Underground Railroad
Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., 2006
E450 .H855 2006
Joseph, Peniel E.
Waiting til the Midnight Hour
New York : Henry Holt and Co., 2006
E185.615 .J68 2006
Mosley, Walter
Fortunate Son
New York: Little, Brown and Co., 2006
PS3563 .O88456 F67 2006
Mumford, Kevin J.
Newark: A History of Race, Rights and Riots in America
New York : New York University Press, 2007
F144.N6 M86 2007
Sidbury, James.
Becoming African in America
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007
E185.18 .S53 2007
Smorkaloff, Pamela Marķa
If I Could Write this in Fire
New York : New Press, c1994
PN849.C3 I4 1994
You can see more suggestions on our Black History Month page.
And if you are looking for something else to read…
They say you can’t judge a book by its cover, but at Langsdale Library, we have a lot of books with titles that are more than a little intriguing. These interesting titles might encourage you to pick up a book or two:
Abagnale, Frank W.
Stealing Your Life
New York : Broadway Books, 2007
HV6684.U6 A23 2007
Brown, Ethan
Snitch: Informants, Cooperators, and the Corruption of Justice
New York : PublicAffairs, 2007
HV8141 .B74 2007
Crowley, Katherine.
Working with you is Killing Me
New York : Warner Books, 2006 HF5548.8 .C685 2006
Frankfurt, Harry G.
Demons, dreamers, and madmen
Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2008
B1854 .F7 2008
Hollis, James
Why Good People do Bad Things
New York : Gotham, 2007
BF175.5.S55 H65 2007
Samenow, Stanton E.
The Myth of the Out of Character Crime
Westport, CT : Praeger, 2007 HV6080 .S224 2007
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