The Mother of All Things by Alexis Landau

Kept busy by her obligations as a wife and mother, art history professor Ava Zaretsky has little time to devote to her research and writing. Now tagging along on her film-producer husband's shoot in Bulgaria for the summer, where she's mostly solo parenting her sweet son and rebellious budding tween...

Rednecks by Taylor Brown

A historical drama based on the Battle of Blair Mountain, pitting a multi-ethnic army of 10,000 coal miners against mine owners, state militia, and the United States government in the largest labor uprising in American history. Rednecks is a tour de force, big canvas historical novel that dramatizes...

Grown Women by Sarai Johnson

A novel about four generations of Black women contending with motherhood and daughterhood, generational trauma and the deeply ingrained tensions and wounds that divide them as they redefine happiness and healing for themselves.

Nobel Prize for Literature, Han Kang

Han Kang, the South Korean author best known for her book "The Vegetarian", was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature on October 10th. The Academy said she was selected in honor of her "intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life."
Han Kang won the...

The Movement by Clara Bingham

For lovers of both Barbie and Gloria Steinem, The Movement is the first oral history of the decade that built the modern feminist movement. Through the captivating individual voices of the people who lived it, The Movement tells the intimate inside story of what it felt like to be at the forefront...

The Secret Lives of Numbers by Kate Kitagawa

Mathematics shapes almost everything we do. But despite its reputation as the study of fundamental truths, the stories we have been told about it are wrong--warped like the sixteenth-century map that enlarged Europe at the expense of Africa, Asia and the Americas. In The Secret Lives of Numbers...

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Nigerian Independence Day Display

A new display is featured in the library this month. Gloria Oladejo '25 created a display for Nigerian Independence Day. Gloria selected books by some of her favorite Nigerian authors - Chinua Achebe, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Ayobami Adebayo, and Helen Oyeyemi. These authors are deemed as some of...

Banned Books

Josh Ho's '25 Banned Books Display Featured in the Library

Senior year often brings moments of inspiration and creativity. During
one of Josh Ho’s recent English 4 classes, his teacher, Dr. Pitts,
discussed banned books, and Josh saw an opportunity to bring
awareness to this topic through a book display in the school's library.
With the support of the...

Banned Books

Banned Book Week 2024

Banned Books Week 2024: Freed Between the Lines

Banned Books Week 2024, taking place from September 22 to September 28, celebrates the freedom to read with the powerful theme, "Freed Between the Lines." This annual event, launched in 1982, highlights the value of free and open access to information...

Summer Reading Discussions

Summer Reading Discussion Groups

The first Friday afternoon of the first week of school, the annual book discussion groups was held. There were over 40 different groups discussing all the different genres of books offered on the 2024 Summer Reading List. The variety of books discussed was incredible, from thrilling mysteries to...