Even with the pandemic ruling our daily lives, we still make time to pick up a good book. Sometimes it is a biography or a historical look back. Other times it is a grand adventure story that sweeps us away from the day-to-day trials. The NHTI Library blog has made many great suggestions for you covering a variety of subjects but this time lets take a different approach – lets take a look at what you have been taking out. Below are just some of the books/audio books finding their way off the shelves and into your hands and minds.
Martin & Malcolm & America: A Dream or a Nightmare by James H. Cone
In his book, James Cone re-examines the two most influential African-American leaders of this century. By analyzing the social, economic and religious backgrounds of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X the author helps the reader understand how the philosophy of one brought forward the notion of the unfulfilled dream of America and the other to a nightmare version of America.
The Vignes twin sisters will always be
identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community
and running away at age sixteen, it's not just the shape of their daily lives
that is different as adults, it's everything: their families, their
communities, their racial identities. Many years later, one sister lives with
her black daughter in the same southern town she once tried to escape. The
other secretly passes for white, and her white husband knows nothing of her
past. Still, even separated by so many miles and just as many lies, the fates
of the twins remain intertwined. What will happen to the next generation, when
their own daughters' storylines intersect?
At the height of WWI, history's most lethal influenza virus
erupted in an army camp in Kansas, moved east with American troops, then
exploded, killing as many as 100 million people worldwide. It killed more
people in twenty-four months than AIDS killed in twenty-four years, more in a
year than the Black Death killed in a century. But this was not the Middle
Ages, and 1918 marked the first collision of science and epidemic disease.
Magisterial in its breadth of perspective and depth of research and now revised
to reflect the growing danger of the avian flu, The Great
Influenza is ultimately a tale of triumph amid tragedy, which
provides us with a precise and sobering model as we confront the epidemics
looming on our own horizon. John M. Barry has written a new afterword for this
edition that brings us up to speed on the terrible threat of the avian flu and
suggest ways in which we might head off another flu pandemic.
Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories
of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the
South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life. From 1915 to
1970, this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of America.
Wilkerson compares this epic migration to the migrations of other peoples in
history. She interviewed more than a thousand people, and gained access to new
data and official records, to write this definitive and vividly dramatic
account of how these American journeys unfolded, altering our cities, our
country, and ours
The fragmented tale of an unemployed young writer who trails
strangers through London, hoping that they will provide inspiration for his
first novel. He gets more than he bargained for with one of his unwitting
subjects, who leads him down a dark, criminal path.
