Gold Medal Reads
If you don’t feel like waiting for the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, pick up one of these inspiring books!
Some Girls Are Born to Lead
A bounty of new biographies for children provide a fresh look at women in politics from the birth of the women’s rights movement to today’s presidential race.
Real Life “Games of Thrones”!
If you’re like me, you’ve grown more than impatient waiting for the next update in the “Game of Thrones” book series and TV show. Fortunately, there are plenty of stories in history just as intriguing, juicy and fun to read about, even if the only dragons are on flags.
Hamilton: The Revolution
Being the complete libretto of “Hamilton” with a true account of its creation and concise remarks on Hip-Hop, the power of stories, and the new America.
Evicted!
A vivid, heartrending account of the struggles of eight families trying to keep a roof over their heads. This is nonfiction that reads like fiction.
Between the World and Me – a testament of love
A father guides his teenage son through the perils of today’s world in this powerful love “letter.”
Celebrating America’s National Parks
The National Park system includes over 84 million acres that are preserved and protected for the people of the United States and this includes the National Parks and most of … Continued
All the Single Ladies
Rebecca Traister’s book explores the force of single women that are influencing the current and future of American society, and discovers that it is not such a new phenomenon.
Siberian Education: Growing Up in a Criminal Underworld
“First of all, you had to respect all living creatures- a category which did not include policemen, people connected with the government, bankers, loan sharks, and all those who had the power of money in their hands and exploited ordinary people.”
Fight Like a Girl: 50 Feminists Who Changed the World
An informative (and fun!) collection of important trailblazers within the feminist movement.