The Help: Read It Before You See It

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The movie opens August 10. Several copies of the book are available in our library. Come check them out!

Book Recommendation: The Help

The Help by Kathry Stockett


The Help was one of last year's Name That Book reads and is incontrovertibly this summer's must read!

Here are a few quote from Stockett's synopsis:

"Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, ... she would normally find solace in her beloved maid Constantine, the woman who raised her, but Constantine has disappeared"

"Aibileen is a black maid, a wise, regal woman raising her seventeenth white child. Something has shifted inside her after the loss of her own son, who died while his bosses looked the other way."

"Minny, Aibileen's best friend... finds a position working for someone too new to town to know her reputation. But her new boss has secrets of her own."

Our library has several copies. Pick one up and read it before the movie premieres in August.

Book Recommendation: Incantation

Incantation, by Alice Hoffman brings to life the Spanish Inquisition. Here is a quote from the book: "A monster is hard to see and even harder to kill. It takes time to grow so huge, time to crawl up into the open air."

Teen Reads review

Check it out this summer. We have several copies, including MP3 audio book.

African-American History: Book Recommendation

NPR's New Discoveries in Black History host Michel Martin speaks with Rick Bowers, author of Spies of Mississippi: The True Story of the Spy of the Network that Tried to Destroy the Civil Rights Movement. Listen

African-American History: Book Recommendation

The Help, by Kathryn Stockett

We have several copies in our library. Check it out and bring it back as soon as you finish. It is a Name That Book selection.

African-American History: Book Recommendation

Lucent Library of Black History We have these books in our collection. Come check them out!

African-American History: Book Recommendation

Arc of Justice by Kevin Boyle