The Puppets of Spelhorst by Kate DiCamillo
Available at the Richland County Library in print, ebook, and eAudiobook formats. Shut up in a trunk by a taciturn old sea captain with a secret, five friends—a king, a wolf, a girl, a boy,…
Small Shoes, Great Strides: How Three Brave Girls Opened Doors to School Equality written by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson and illustrated by Alex Bostic
Available from the Richland County Library in print format. Leona Tate, Gail Etienne, and Tessie Prevost didn’t set out to make history. But when these three Black first graders stepped into the all-white…
Cosmic Wonder: Halley’s Comet and Humankind written and illustrated by Ashley Benham-Yazdani
Available at the Richland County Library in print format. First recorded traveling overhead in 240 BCE, Halley’s Comet returns every seventy-six years or so for a fresh glimpse of life on bountiful…
Our Country First, Then Greenville by Courtney L. Tollison Hartness
Available from the University of South Carolina Press. Published July 2023. Places Greenville’s experience during World War I within the context of the progressive era to better understand the rise of…
The Rhetoric of Outrage Why Social Media Is Making Us Angry by Jeff Rice
Published May 2023 Available from the University of South Carolina Press. On any given day, at any given hour, across the various platforms constituting what we call social media, someone is angry.
Defining Wealth for Women by Bonnie Koo
This book is available from Amazon or your preferred bookstore. From the outside, you have it all: the advanced degree and fulfilling career, the loving family and nice home. But inside, it’s a different…
A Spoonful of Time by Flora Ahn
Available from the Richland County Library in print format. Maya’s grandmother, Halmunee, may be losing her memory, but she hasn’t lost her magic touch in the kitchen. Whether she serves salty miyeok-guk or sweet songpyeon,…
Outrun the Moon by Stacey Lee
Published 2017 Available from the Richland County Library in print format. Fifteen-year-old Mercy Wong is determined to break from the poverty of Chinatown, San Francisco in 1906, and an education at St. Clare’s School for…
Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh
Available from the Richland County Library in print, ebook, and eAudiobook formats. Most Anticipated Book of the Year for GoodReads, Bookish, New Scientist, FanFiAddict, and Nerd Daily, a Spring Book Pick for Library Journal, and a Summer Book Pick for Publishers…
Schooling the Movement: The Activism of Southern Black Educators
Available from the University of South Carolina Press. Published May 2023. The Activism of Southern Black Educators from Reconstruction through the Civil Rights Era Edited by Derrick P. Alridge, Jon N. Hale, and…