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What to Read Next? Something on the Lighter Side

By Pamela Bobker|2020-06-23T10:20:33-04:00June 23rd, 2020|

Here are some reading recommendations for a non-stressful, “gentle” reading experience. Click on the title to check […]

What to Read Next? New Historical Fiction

By Pamela Bobker|2020-06-15T11:24:36-04:00June 15th, 2020|

Looking for reading recommendations? Here are new historical fiction titles, recently added to the collection, as well […]

What to Read Next? New Nonfiction

By Pamela Bobker|2020-06-08T09:45:24-04:00June 8th, 2020|

Looking for reading recommendations? Here are nonfiction books that have been added to the Curtis collection in recent […]

Explore ME: Privilege & Race

By Hazel Onsrud|2020-06-03T21:15:28-04:00June 3rd, 2020|

Explore ME is a series of ME or Maine-related blog posts meant to point a reader to a variety of resources held at Curtis Memorial […]

What to Read Next? New Mysteries and Thrillers

By Pamela Bobker|2020-06-02T14:03:36-04:00June 2nd, 2020|

Looking for new mysteries and thrillers? Here are some books that are available at Curtis right now. […]

Entrepreneurship

By Sarah Brown|2020-05-29T17:01:05-04:00May 29th, 2020|

This week I helped someone develop a business plan. How awesome is that! This is why I […]

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BOOKS ABOUT RACE AVAILABLE TO REQUEST FOR CURBSIDE PICKUP

How to Be Less Stupid About Race: On Racism, White Supremacy, and the Racial Divide by Crystal Marie Fleming

Highway of Tears: A True Story of Racism, Indifference, and the Pursuit of Justice of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Woman and Girls by Jessica McDiarmid

Reproducing Racism: How Everyday Choices Lock in White Advantage by Daria Roithmayr

The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations by Toni Morrison

Breathe: A Letter to My Sons by Imani Perry

We Want to do More than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom by Bettina L. Love

A Bound Woman is a Dangerous Thing: The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland, by DaMaris B. Hill

Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

It Was Never About the Babe: How the Boston Red Sox Overcame Decades of Mismanagement and Racism and Built a Dynasty by Jerry M, Gutlon

A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History by Jeanne Theoharis

Everything You Love Will Burn: Inside the Rebirth of White Nationalism in America by Vegas Tenold

Beneath a Ruthless Sun: A True Story of Violence, Race, and Justice Lost and Found by Gilbert King

What Truth Sounds Like: Robert F. Kennedy, James Baldwin, and Our Unfinished Conversation about Race in America by Michael Eric Dyson

Have Black Lives Ever Mattered? by Mumia Abu-Jamal

My Brown Baby: On the Joys and Challenges of Raising African American Children by Denene Millner

Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul by Eddie S. Glaude jr.

The Making of Black Lives Matter : A Brief History of an Idea by Christopher J. Lebron

Policing the Black Man: Arrest, Prosecution, and Imprisonment by Angela J. Davis

Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America by Michael Eric Dyson

Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankin

The Fire this Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race by Jesmyn Ward