This beautifully written historical novel is
based on the life of American librarian, Dorothy Reeder. It intertwines two
stories—that of Lily, a lonely teenager in 1980s Montana, and Odile Souchet
(Reeder), who worked as Director of the American Library in Paris through World
War II.
Having married and returned to Montana after the war, Souchet is
widowed and lonely when Lily knocks on her door. In their conversations,
Souchet reveals her extraordinary part in the efforts of staff at the American
Library to deliver books first to soldiers and then, against Nazi orders, to
Jewish Parisians during World War II.
This is a cross-generational love story
about the power of books and of friendships.
Hugo Marston’s friend Paul Rogers dies unexpectedly in a locked room at the American Library in Paris. The police conclude that Rogers died of natural causes, but Hugo is certain mischief is afoot. As he pokes around the library, Hugo discovers that rumors are swirling around some recently donated letters from American actress Isabelle Severin. The reason: they may indicate that the actress had aided the Resistance in frequent trips to France toward the end of World War II. Even more dramatic is the legend that the Severin collection also contains a dagger, one she used to kill an SS…
Kitasei combines a science fiction
thriller with a searing exploration of women’s friendships across time, race,
ethnicity, and politics.
With Earth increasingly uninhabitable, a group of 80
women of childbearing age are sent into space with vials of semen to recreate human
life on a distant planet.
Kitasei reveals the growing conflicts among the
women, which intensify when one of them dies while trying to repair the ship. Asuka, the beautifully drawn central character,
feels insecure about her place among the women and worries that, as their anxieties intensify, she might be targeted as the traitor in their midst.
Yume Kitasei's The Deep Sky is an enthralling sci fi thriller debut about a mission into deep space that begins with a lethal explosion that leaves the survivors questioning the loyalty of the crew.
They left Earth to save humanity. They'll have to save themselves first.
It is the eve of Earth's environmental collapse. A single ship carries humanity's last hope: eighty elite graduates of a competitive program, who will give birth to a generation of children in deep space. But halfway to a distant but livable planet, a lethal bomb kills three of the crew and knocks The Phoenix…
As a professional historian for 40 years, I enjoy books
that transform my understanding of our nation’s past. I also love strong female
characters who are not well known but who contributed powerfully to social and
political change.
Cahill provides a lively and beautifully crafted story of six
women of color who fought for ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment and then
continued their efforts as federal and state governments sought to exclude
women of color from the ballot box after 1920.
Although these Native American, Spanish
American, African American, and Chinese American suffragists embraced common
goals, they employed distinct arguments and strategies. Their complex
relationships are revealed here by placing them in conversation not only with
white suffragists but also with each other.
We think we know the story of women's suffrage in the United States: women met at Seneca Falls, marched in Washington, D.C., and demanded the vote until they won it with the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment. But the fight for women's voting rights extended far beyond these familiar scenes. From social clubs in New York's Chinatown to conferences for Native American rights, and in African American newspapers and pamphlets demanding equality for Spanish-speaking New Mexicans, a diverse cadre of extraordinary women struggled to build a movement that would truly include all women, regardless of race or national origin. In…
The
100th anniversary of US women’s suffrage in 2020 commemorated the
work of national leaders and inspired many cities and towns to recognize local
women central to that fight. Thus, Rochester, New York celebrated not only
Susan B. Anthony but also Amy Kirby Post.
In the mid-nineteenth century, Post, a radical Quaker and mother of six, hosted Sojourner Truth,
Frederick Douglass, and other leading activists at her home. For half a century, she campaigned for women’s rights, abolition, racial justice,
health reform, religious liberty, and suffrage within interracial and mixed-sex
networks.
Inspired by books on local activists’ critical
roles in civil rights campaigns, I wrote Post’s biography to honorthe work of
an earlier generation of grassrootsactivists.
