Lure by Lane Milburn is a new adult graphic novel that explores tech, art, ethics and tourism. Anyone who has lived in a ski area for a time will recognize the forces at work in this story about an exotic vacation spot where economic leaders are busy shaping a new world for the elite. It’s science fiction. Honestly.
“Crossing the Line”
Crossing the Line: A Fearless Team of Brothers and the Sport that Changed Their Lives Forever, by Kareem Rosser resonates with every athlete and seeker who has been gatekept from participating in sports, arts, or educational opportunities due to social and monetary barriers.
Two brothers from West Philly are allowed the opportunity to relate to horses, and use their talent and determination to fight their way into college and a most unlikely sport: polo.
Well Behaved Women Rarely Make History
“They didn’t ask to be remembered,” Pulitzer Prize-winning author Laurel Ulrich wrote in 1976 about the pious women of colonial New England. And then she added a phrase that has since gained widespread currency: “Well-behaved women seldom make history.” Today those words appear almost everywhere—on T-shirts, mugs, bumper stickers, plaques, greeting cards, and more. But what do they really mean? In this engrossing volume, Laurel Ulrich goes far beyond the slogan she inadvertently created and explores what it means to make history.
Her volume ranges over centuries and cultures, from the fifteenth-century writer Christine de Pizan, who imagined a world in which women achieved power and influence, to the writings of nineteenth-century suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton and twentieth-century novelist Virginia Woolf. Ulrich updates de Pizan’s Amazons with stories about women warriors from other times and places. She contrasts Woolf’s imagined story about Shakespeare’s sister with biographies of actual women who were Shakespeare’s contemporaries. She turns Stanton’s encounter with a runaway slave upside down, asking how the story would change if the slave rather than the white suffragist were at the center. She uses daybook illustrations to look at women who weren’t trying to make history, but did. Throughout, she shows how the feminist wave of the 1970s created a generation of historians who by challenging traditional accounts of both men’s and women’s histories stimulated more vibrant and better-documented accounts of the past.
Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History celebrates a renaissance in history inspired by amateurs, activists, and professional historians. It is a tribute to history and to those who make it.
The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine
The Gates of Europe (2015) by Serhii Plokhy (Harvard) explores the deep history of the Ukraine at the crossroads in Europe, and its fight for territorial integrity and political independence. This book provides solid grounding for the conditions driving the erupting chaos today.
“Spin the Dawn” by Elizabeth Lim
A Mulan-inspired fantasy about a talented tailor who can’t realize her dream, because she is female. Posing as a boy, she sets out on an impossible quest to sew three magic dresses from the sun, the moon, and stars. This book is a Young Reader’s Choice Nominee. Voting opens March 15th.
“Yellowstone for Kids”
March marks the 150-year anniversary of America’s first and most beloved National Park. “Yellowstone for Kids” by Yellowstone Forever is a user-friendly, fun-filled guide for all things Yellowstone designed for curious kids and families.
