Show notes
Maurice highlights African American History Month, career development, and leisure programs. Molly talks about four Open Book/Open Mind events as well as a few more. Kiersten shares fiction titles that won Youth Media Awards in 2021 that are available digitally or physically in our collection. Ken shares new February adult fiction titles. Adrienne explores the beginning of There There by Tommy Orange. Ariel interviews local author Gabrielle Glaser on her new book, "American Baby: A Mother, a Child, and the Shadow History of Adoption."Books Discussed:A Bright Ray of Darkness by Ethan HawkeThe Bad Muslim Discount by Syed M. MasoodThe Paris Library by Janet Skeslien CharlesBlood Grove by Walter MosleyFour Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 edited by Ibrim X. KindiEverything Sad Is Untrue (a true story, by Daniel NayeriDragon Hoops by Gene Luen YangEvery Body Looking by Candice IlohWe Are Not Free by Tracy CheeAll the Days Past, All the Days to Come,” by Mildred D. TaylorLegendborn by Tracy DeonnThis is My Brain in Love by I. W. GregorioFuria by Yamile Saied MéndezWe Are Not from Here by Jenny Torres SanchezYou Should See Me in a Crown by Leah JohnsonFelix Ever After by Kacen CallenderThis Light Between Us, by Andrew FukudaThey Went Left by Monica HesseX: A Novel, by Kekla Magoon, co-written by Ilyasah ShabazzHow It Went Down by Kekla MagoonThe Rock and the River by Kekla MagoonFire in the Streets by Kekla Magoon

