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The Seminarian: Martin Luther King Jr. Comes of Age by Patrick Parr
Martin Luther King Jr. was a cautious nineteen-year-old rookie preacher when he left Atlanta, Georgia, to attend divinity school up north. At Crozer Theological Seminary, King, or “ML” back then, immediately found himself surrounded by a white staff and white professors. Even his dorm room had once been used by wounded Confederate soldiers during the Read more…
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Redemption: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Last 31 Hours by Joseph Rosenbloom
At 10:33 a.m. on April 3, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., landed in Memphis on a flight from Atlanta. A march that he had led in Memphis six days earlier to support striking garbage workers had turned into a riot, and King was returning to prove that he could lead a violence-free protest. King’s Read more…
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The Promise and the Dream: The Untold Story of Martin Luther King, Jr. And Robert F. Kennedy by David Margolick
No issue in america in the 1960s was more vital than civil rights, and no two public figures were more crucial in the drama of race relations in this era than Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy. Fifty years after they were both murdered, noted journalist David Margolick explores the untold story of Read more…
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The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations by Toni Morrison
The Source of Self-Regard is brimming with all the elegance of mind and style, the literary prowess and moral compass that are Toni Morrison’s inimitable hallmark. It is divided into three parts: the first is introduced by a powerful prayer for the dead of 9/11; the second by a searching meditation on Martin Luther King Jr., Read more…
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There, There by Tommy Orange
There There is a wondrous and shattering portrait of an America few of us have ever seen. It’s “masterful…white-hot…devastating” (The Washington Post) at the same time as it is fierce, funny, suspenseful, thoroughly modern, and impossible to put down. Here is a voice we have never heard—a voice full of poetry and rage, exploding Read more…
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Francine Poulet Meets the Ghost Raccoon by Kate DiCamillo
Host Rich Fahle talks with Kate DiCamillo about her latest book, “Francine Poulet Meets the Ghost Raccoon,” at the 2015 National Book Festival. FROM THE PUBLISHER: Francine Poulet is the greatest animal control officer in Gizzford County. She hails from a long line of Animal Control Officers. She’s battled snakes, outwitted squirrels, and stared down Read more…
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Leo: A Ghost Story by Mac Barnett & Christian Robinson
Guest host Kwame Alexander and host Rich Fahle talk with Mac Barnett and Christian Robinson about their new collaboration, “Leo: A Ghost Story,” at the 2015 National Book Festival. FROM THE PUBLISHER: You would like being friends with Leo. He likes to draw, he makes delicious snacks, and most people can’t even see him. Because Read more…
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The Witches: Salem, 1692 by Stacy Schiff
Host Rich Fahle talks with Stacy Schiff about her book, “The Witches: Salem, 1692” at the 2015 Miami Book Fair. FROM THE PUBLISHER: It began in 1692, over an exceptionally raw Massachusetts winter, when a minister’s daughter began to scream and convulse. It ended less than a year later, but not before 19 men and Read more…
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Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
DAVID GRANN is a #1 New York Times bestselling author and an award-winning staff writer at The New Yorker magazine. His latest book, Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI, will be released in April. Based on years of research, it explores one of the most sinister crimes Read more…
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Mind of Winter by Laura Kasischke
Laura Kasischke talks with Rich Fahle about her latest literary work, Mind of Winter and The Infinitesimals at the 2016 AWP Conference & Book Fair. FROM THE PUBLISHER: Laura Kasischke, the critically acclaimed and nationally bestselling poet and author ofThe Raising, returns Mind of Winter, a dark and chilling thriller that combines domestic drama with Read more…