by JVBrown | Feb 26, 2021 | Staff Picks, Tracey
She was born to loving but drug-addicted parents in the Bronx. At the age of 15, she was living on the streets. While homeless, Liz got her high school diploma and eventually made it into Harvard. This book is so inspiring. Against all odds, this unforgettable woman...
by JVBrown | Dec 9, 2020 | Staff Picks, Tracey
In a French village in 1714, a young desperate woman is being forced in to a marriage she does not want; therefore she enters into a bargain with the devil, to live forever. Thus begins the adventurous story of Addie as she attempts to leave her mark on the world,...
by JVBrown | Nov 2, 2020 | Staff Picks, Tracey
The Vanishing Half follows the lives of two twin girls, both light-skinned Black girls, who run away from home at the age of sixteen. Desiree marries a dark-skinned Black man and has a child, while Stella lives her life passing as white. The book tracks their lives...
by JVBrown | Jun 2, 2020 | Staff Picks, Tracey
Joanna Teale, researcher of nesting birds, is interrupted from her work in the woods by a mysterious child, barefoot and covered in bruises. Jo and her neighbor Gabe take on a protective role toward the child, calling herself Ursa. Ursa is extremely bright and refuses...
by JVBrown | Apr 1, 2020 | Staff Picks, Tracey
Set in the 1930’s in the Appalachian hills of Kentucky, 19 year old Bluet (her skin is tinged blue) has used up her last chance for respectability through marriage. Her passion is riding horseback as part of the Pack Horse Library Project, over dangerous...
by JVBrown | Jan 8, 2020 | Staff Picks, Tracey
Deep in the woods of Kentucky there lives a bluet woman (“a colored woman with blue tinted skin”). Cussy Carter, 19 years old lives with her dear old father. Cussy is an inspiration to any reader. She joins the historical Pack Horse Library Project of Kentucky and...
