Popular Reading Collection - Health Sciences Libraries: PRC - FBRI HS&T Library
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Title: Africa Town: inspired by the true story of the last American slave ship Authors: Irene Latham and Charles Waters Summary - Chronicles the story of the last Africans brought illegally to the United States on the Clotilda in 1860. 1859. The transatlantic slave trade has been banned for more than fifty years, and the South is facing the threat of a civil war. Timothy Maeher resents the government interference in his right to make a living. Making a bet that he can smuggle enslaved Africans into the United States without being caught, he commissions the Clotilda, and brings back 110 African captives. Among them are Abilè, Gumpa, Kêhounco, Kossola, and Kupolee, who survive the voyage and arrive in Alabama still clinging to the hope of one day returning home. -- adapted from jacket In 1860, long after the United States outlawed the importation of enslaved laborers, 110 men, women and children from Benin and Nigeria were captured and brought to Mobile, Alabama aboard a ship called Clotilda. Their journey includes the savage Middle Passage and being hidden in the swamplands along the Alabama River before being secretly parceled out to various plantations, where they made desperate attempts to maintain both their culture and also fit into the place of captivity to which they'd been delivered. At the end of the Civil War, the survivors created a community for themselves they called African Town, which still exists to this day. Told in 14 distinct voices, including that of the ship that brought them to the American shores and the founder of African Town, this powerfully affecting historical novel-in-verse recreates a pivotal moment in US and world history, the impacts of which we still feel today.
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Title: Eternally Yours Authors: Patrice Caldwell Summary - Publisher Annotation: Give in to this irresistible paranormal romance anthology filled with tales of the mortal and the monstrous. In Eternally Yours, fifteen of today’s bestselling writers explore love in its many forms . . . A girl in a graveyard goes on an un-expected date, a shipwrecked sailor makes a connection on a forbidden island, a piano melody summons a soul mate. Creatures of folktales and legend, of land and sea, of centuries past and life after life, all wrapped into one spellbinding compendium. Once you sink into its pages, it’ll never let you go. |
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Title: Lucha of the Night Forest Author: Tehlor Kay Meija Summary - An edge-of-your-seat fantasy about a girl who will do anything to protect her sister—even if it means striking a dangerous bargain. Dark forces, forgotten magic, and a heart-stopping queer romance make this young adult novel a must-read. |
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Title: Pride and Prejudice in Pittsburgh Author: Rachael Lippincott Summary - When disheartened Pittsburgh teen Audrey transports back to 1812 England, she expects to find love as a Regency romance heroine, but surprisingly sparks fly when she meets Lucy Sinclair. |
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Title: Raw Dog Author: Jamie Loftus Summary - "Part travelogue, part culinary history, all capitalist critique-comedian Jamie Loftus's debut, Raw Dog, will take you on a cross-country road trip in the summer of 2021, and reveal what the creation, culture, and class influence of hot dogs says about America now. Hot dogs. Poor people created them. Rich people found a way to charge fifteen dollars for them. They're high culture, they're low culture, they're sports food, they're kids' food, they're hangover food, and they're deeply American, despite having no basis whatsoever in America's Indigenous traditions. You can love them, you can hate them, but you can't avoid the great American hot dog. Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs is part investigation into the cultural and culinary significance of hot dogs and part travelog documenting a cross-country road trip researching them as they're served today. From avocado and spice in the West to ass-shattering chili in the East to an entire salad on a slice of meat in Chicago, Loftus, her pets, and her ex eat their way across the country during the strange summer of 2021. It's a brief window into the year between waves of a plague that the American government has the resources to temper, but not the interest. So grab a dog, lay out your picnic blanket, and dig into the delicious and inevitable product of centuries of violence, poverty, and ambition, now rolling around at your local 7-Eleven. The hardcover edition of Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs includes gorgeous endpapers, an illustrated case, as well as illustrations by the author throughout. "One of the freshest and most insightful new comedic voices of this decade." -LINDSAY ELLIS"-- Provided by publisher. |
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Title: Red Rabbit Author: Alex Grecian Summary: A folk horror epic about a ragtag posse that must track down a witch through a wild west beset by demons and ghosts―and where death is always just around the bend. |
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Title: Run Rose Run Author: Dolly Parton and James Patterson Summary: Nashville is where she's come to claim her destiny. It's also where the darkness she's fled might find; and destroy, her. |
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Title: Silver Nitrate Author: Silvia Moreno-Garcia Summary: A meld of Mexican horror movies and Nazi occultism: a dark thriller about the curse that haunts a legendary lost film--and awakens one woman's hidden powers"-- Provided by publisher. |
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Title: Star Wars Return Of The Jedi From a Certain Point Of View Author: NA Summary: Any work worth doing / Amal El-Mohtar -- Fancy man / Phil Szostak -- The key to remembering / Olivia Chadha -- Fortuna favors the bold / Kwame Mbalia -- Dune sea songs of salt and moonlight / Theo Guanzon -- The plan / Saladin Ahmed -- Reputation / Tara Sim -- Kickback / K. Arsenault Rivera -- Everyone's a critic / Sarah Glenn Marsh -- Satisfaction / Kristin Baver -- My mouth never closes / Charlie Jane Anders -- Kernels and husks / Jason Fry -- The light that falls / Akemi Dawn Bowman -- From a certain point of view / Alex Jennings -- No contingency / Fran Wilde -- The burden of leadership / Danny Lore -- Gone to the winner's circle / Paricia A. Jackson -- One normal day / Mary Kenney -- Divine(?) intervention / Paul Crilley -- The buy-in / Suzanne Walker -- The man who captured Luke Skywalker / Max Gladstone -- Ackbar / Jarrett J. Krosoczka -- The impossible flight of ash angels / Marike Nijkamp -- Ending protocol / Hannah Whitten -- The last flight / Ali Hazelwood -- Twenty and out / Lamar Giles -- The ballad of Nanta / Sarah Kuhn -- Then fall, Sidious / Olivie Blake -- Impact / Sean Williams -- Trooper trouble / Laura Pohl -- To the last / Dana Schwartz -- The Emperor's Red Guards / Gloria Chao -- Wolf trap / Alyssa Wong -- The extra five percent / M.K. England -- When fire marked the sky / Emma Mieko Candon -- The chronicler / Danielle Paige -- The veteran / Adam Lance Garcia -- Brotherhood / Mike Chen -- The steadfast soldier / Adam Christopher -- Return of the whills / Tom Angleberger. |
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Title: The Escape Artist Author: Jonathan Freedland Summary: "The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World" by Jonathan Freedland tells the true story of Rudolf Vrba, a Jewish prisoner who escaped Auschwitz to expose the horrors of the Holocaust, and the world's largely indifferent response. |
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Title: The Invisible Hour Author: Alice Hoffman Summary: One June day when Mia Jacob can no longer see a way to survive, the power of words saves her. The Scarlet Letter was written almost two hundred years earlier, but it seems to tell the story of Mia’s mother, Ivy, and their life inside the Community—an oppressive cult in western Massachusetts where contact with the outside world is forbidden. But how could this be? How could Nathaniel Hawthorne have so perfectly captured the pain and loss that Mia carries inside her? |
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Title: The Q Author: Amy Tintera Summary: When the president's son, Lennon, is kidnapped and pushed out of an airplane over the Q, a vast quarantine zone, Maisie gives him a seventy-two hour vaccine and together the two teenagers attempt to fight their way through the Q in order to survive. |
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Title: The Women Who Changed Art Forever Author: Valntina Grand and Eva Rosseti Summary: These women changed art forever - told in colourful graphic novel form, this is the story of four pioneers of feminist art: Judy Chicago, Faith Ringold, Ana Mendieta, and the Guerilla Girls. |
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Title: This Close To Ok Author: Leesa Cross-Smith Summary: On a rainy October night in Kentucky, recently divorced therapist Tallie Clark is on her way home from work when she spots a man precariously standing on the side of a bridge. Without a second thought, Tallie pulls over and jumps out of the car into the pouring rain. She convinces the man to join her for a cup of coffee, and he eventually agrees to come back to her house, where he finally shares his name: Emmett. |
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Title: Zyla & Kai Author: Kristina Forest Summary: The story of how a cynic and a hopeless romantic become friends, fall in love, and break up unfolds from their different perspectives. |
