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Want some tips for what to read next? Find one of us whose tastes match yours, or explore new horizons with something you might never have picked up on your own. If you are store-side, come talk to us and experience our enthusiasm firsthand.
Eve's Hollywood, cruelly out of print for four decades or some equally ridiculous length of time, is categorized as fiction but could just as easily be used as a travel guide to a bygone L.A. or possibly a user's guide to life. Effortlessly witty and armed to the teeth with an inimitable style, Babitz is in a class by herself.
Finding Winnie is a nearly perfect picture book; a great story, well told and married to exquisite illustrations. Linday Mattick tells the story of her great grandfather who rescues a bear cub, names her Winnie after his hometown of Winnipeg and takes her with him when he joins the Canadian army at the beginning of World War I. When Harry is called to the front he is forced to leave Winnie behind at the London Zoo. There she meets one Robin Milne, the son of A.A. Milne. You might guess the rest for Winnie is the inspiration for that most unforgettable bear, Winnie-the-Pooh. The magic of this book lies not just in the story, as wonderful as it is, but in the marvelous illustrations. Blackall won the Caldecott Award for this book and it is well deserved. Did I say I loved this book?
This book was written during the Harlem Renaissance in 1931, but the aim of its critique is just as germane today, and echoed in films like Get Out and Sorry to Bother You. Part Afrofuturism, part satire, this novel lampoons both the KKK and the NAACP. It highlights the biological artificiality of race, while also making clear the very real ways it acts as a social force. Mostly, this book is hilarious.
