February 2017 Newsletter
Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson
August is an anthropologist studying mourning rituals in different cultures. She has returned to Brooklyn following the death of her father and running into one of her old friends leads to reflection on her childhood and adolescence in the borough during the 1970s. Born in Tennessee, August moved to Brooklyn, her father’s hometown, after the death of her mother. The borough is changing; as it becomes more multicultural, white residents flee for the suburbs. For August, it is overwhelming and she must adjust to her new urban life without her mother’s guidance. She bonds with three girls in the neighbourhood and together they share the joys and traumas of life while they figure out who they are and who they want to be amid the turbulence of 1970s America.
Jacqueline Woodson was born in 1963 in Columbus, Ohio. Her childhood was split between South Carolina and Brooklyn. She loved the sense of community and slow pace of the South and vibrant multiculturalism of the North. She has written extensively for children and young adults and has won numerous awards including the 2014 National Book Award (Young People’s Category) for Brown Girl Dreaming.
Another Brooklyn is her first book written for an adult audience. It was a finalist for the 2016 National Book Award.
Upcoming Schedule:
March
News of the World by Paulette Jiles
• Regular Print
• eBook
1870, Texas. Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd, ageing veteran of two wars, is working as a travelling news reader when he is offered an unusual mission. A young girl, who has spent the past several years living with Kiowa Indians following the deaths of the rest of her family, has been “rescued”. Kidd is enlisted to accompany the child on a treacherous journey to her relatives in San Antonio.
April
The Conjoined by Jen Sookfong Lee
• Regular Print
• eBook
Cleaning her mother’s home after her death, social worker Jessica Campbell discovers the bodies of two dead girls in the basement freezers. Campbell believes they may be a pair of sisters who were briefly housed as foster children with the family. As she struggles to understand what has happened, Campbell finds herself reevaluating everything in her life.
May
Victoria by Daisy Goodwin
• Regular Print
• Audiobook
• eAudiobook
• eBook
• Large Print
• Talking Book (Restricted to Print Disabled patrons)
Alexandrina Victoria is a teenager until one day, just after her eighteenth birthday when the death of her uncle makes her Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Exhaustively researched, this novel uses Victoria’s diaries to capture the transition of Victoria from young woman to powerful ruler.
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