Celebrating Black History, Black Excellence, and Black Joy Juneteenth is the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States. It commemorates June 19, 1865, when Union troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, to announce the freedom of the more than 250,000 enslaved Black people in Texas. The newly freed Black Americans observed Juneteenth as a celebration of freedom and its fulfillment. Juneteenth, also known as Freedom Day or Jubilee Day, is marked by celebrations, family gatherings, picnics, and readings of the Emancipation Proclamation as a measure of progress against freedom. As Juneteenth is an occasion for…
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///////////////THE LAST DAYS OF NIGHT Turns the “Current War” into a Thriller
Imagine being in New York, circa 1888, when gas lamps still flickered in the city streets and the miracle of electric light was in its…
A Letter from J. Patrick Black, Author of Ninth City Burning
As patrons, we've all got some great inspirational stories that have stemmed from our local libraries. Well, our beloved authors feel the same way. Centuries…
17 Reads for NYC Fashion Week
Celebrate Fashion Week with these 17 Fashion Inspired Reads! "New York Fashion Week, held in February and September of each year, is a semi-annual series…
Hot Titles Hitting Shelves This Week
FICTION RAZOR GIRL by Carl Hiaasen RAZOR GIRL is the new full-tilt, unstoppably hilarious and entertaining novel from the best-selling author of SKINNY DIP and BAD…
For Book Clubs: The Tea Planter’s Wife
Selected by Librarians as a September LibraryReads pick, The Tea Planter’s Wife by Dinah Jefferies is about a young Englishwoman who marries a charming tea plantation owner and…