Spring 2021: Library Events and Online Displays

“In Anthony Burgess’s influential nightmare vision of the future, where the criminals take over after dark, the story is told by the central character, Alex, a teen who talks in a fantastically inventive slang that evocatively renders his and his friends’ intense reaction against their society. Dazzling and transgressive, A Clockwork Orange is a frightening fable about good and evil and the meaning of human freedom.” -Amazon.com

“This first comprehensive book on Maine’s black history is a mosaic of early history, slavery, the Underground Railroad, arts, sciences, law, politics, civil rights, education, religion, military, and sports. Forty-two contributors write about black families and communities.” - Politics-prose.com

“Haunted is a novel made up of twenty-three horrifying, hilarious, and stomach-churning stories. They’re told by people who have answered an ad for a writer’s retreat and unwittingly joined a “Survivor”-like scenario where the host withholds heat, power, and food. As the storytellers grow more desperate, their tales become more extreme, and they ruthlessly plot to make themselves the hero of the reality show that will surely be made from their plight.” - Amazon.com

“This spiral-bound book is another of the series by Donald Soctomah that preserves records of Passamaquoddy life in the 1800's. Many detailed records are assembled chronologically to present a moving picture of the relationships between Europeans and Native Americans, often showing clearly how Europeans took advantage of the people they found here when they arrived.” - Mainehistorystore.com

“A companion to "Passamaquoddy at the Turn of the Century" and "Hard Times at Passamaquoddy," author Donald Soctomah- with assistance from many people who love the Passamaquoddy people- detail Passamaquoddy history in the nineteenth century. All proceeds from this book and others in this series will be used to support the Passamaquoddy Cultural Heritage and Resource Center.” - Mainehistorystore.com

“This is a snapshot in time, which reflects a small segment of Passamaquoddy life in this era. The Tribal people survived these hard times, as did the Tribal community & our culture and traditions. This is a story of a proud people, the People of the Dawn, the Passamaquoddy, the Skicin.” -Donald Soctomah

“Freedom Farmers expands the historical narrative of the black freedom struggle to embrace the work, roles, and contributions of southern Black farmers and their organizations. Whereas existing scholarship views agriculture as a site of oppression and exploitation of black people, this book reveals agriculture as a site of resistance. It provides a historical foundation for current conversations around the resurgence of food justice/sovereignty movements in urban spaces.” - Amazon.com

“Yetu holds the memories for her people—water-dwelling descendants of pregnant African slave women thrown overboard by slave owners—who live idyllic lives in the deep. Too traumatic to be remembered regularly, their past is forgotten by everyone, save one—the historian. Yetu remembers for everyone, and the memories, painful and wonderful, traumatic and terrible and miraculous, are destroying her. Yetu will learn more than she ever expected about her past—and the future of her people. If they are all to survive, they’ll need to reclaim the memories, reclaim their identity—and own who they are” - Amazon.com.

“Beyond a deliciously voyeuristic excursion, Sex in the Sea uniquely connects the timeless topic of sex with the timely issue of sustainable oceans. Through overfishing, climate change, and ocean pollution, we disrupt the creative procreation that drives the wild abundance of life in the ocean. With wit and scientific rigor, Hardt introduces us to the researchers who study the sex lives of ocean life and offer solutions that promote, rather than prevent, successful sex in the sea. Part science, part erotica, Sex in the Sea discusses the shift from a prophylactic to a more propagative force for life in the ocean.” -Amazon.com

“In this brilliant book, Isabel Wilkerson portrays an unseen phenomenon as she explores how America today and throughout its history has been shaped by a hidden caste system, a rigid hierarchy of human rankings.
Beyond race, class, or other factors, a powerful caste system influences people’s lives and behavior and the nation’s fate. Linking the caste systems of America, India, and Nazi Germany, Wilkerson explores eight pillars that underlie caste systems across civilizations, including the divine will, bloodlines, stigma, and more.” -Amazon.com

“Hooks has written provocatively about race, gender, and class, and in this book, she turns her attention to focus on issues of land and land ownership. Reflecting that 90% of all black people lived in the agrarian South before mass migration to northern cities in the early 1900s, she writes about black farmers: folks who have been committed to local food production, to being organic, and to finding solace in nature. Reflecting on the racism that continues to find expression in the world of real estate, she writes about segregation in housing and economic racialized zoning.” -Amazon.com

“This brilliant arrangement of essays, poems, and images includes the voices and rebuttals of others: white men in first class responding to, and with, their white male privilege; a friend’s explanation of her infuriating behavior at a play; and women confronting the political currency of dying their hair blond, all running alongside fact-checked notes and commentary that complements Rankine’s own text, complicating notions of authority and who gets the last word.” - Amazon.com