September/October 2020
BookishBookClub past reads Viešas
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What a Library Means to a Woman 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 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 sako: August 2020
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Bluffing Texas Style Michael Vinson
In 1989 a woman fishing in Texas on a quiet stretch of the Colorado River snagged a body. Her “catch” …
sarah sako: November/December 2020
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Dorothy Porter Wesley at Howard University
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When Dorothy Burnett joined the library staff at Howard University in 1928, she was given a mandate to administer a …
sarah sako: February 2023
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Forgotten readers Elizabeth McHenry (New Americanists)
Over the past decade the popularity of black writers including E. Lynn Harris and Terry McMillan has been hailed as …
sarah sako: March 2024
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Natural Enemies Of Books 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 sako: April 2021
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Dark Archives Megan Rosenbloom
There are books out there, some shelved unwittingly next to ordinary texts, that are bound in human skin. Would you …
sarah sako: October 2021
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The Personal Librarian Marie Benedict, Victoria Christopher Murray
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The remarkable, little-known story of Belle da Costa Greene, J. P. Morgan's personal librarian--who became one of the most powerful …
sarah sako: August 2021
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Dispossessed Lives Marisa J. Fuentes
In the eighteenth century, Bridgetown, Barbados, was heavily populated by both enslaved and free women. Marisa J. Fuentes creates a …
sarah sako: January 2021
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The Feminist Bookstore Movement: Lesbian Antiracism and Feminist Accountability Kristen Hogan
From the 1970s through the 1990s more than one hundred feminist bookstores built a transnational network that helped shape some …
sarah sako: June 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 sako: July 2022
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Burning the Books 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 sako: January 2022
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An expert and intimate exploration of a life in clothes: their memories and stories, enchantments and spells.
A linen sheet, …
sarah sako: March 2022
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Some people think that a cookbook is just a collection of recipes for dishes that feed the body. In Eat …
sarah sako: November 2021
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Image, Knife, and Gluepot Kathryn M. Rudy
"In this ingenious study, Kathryn Rudy takes the reader on a journey to trace the birth, life and afterlife of …
sarah sako: April 2022
