Reading Road Trip

Charity and Sylvia

2026-08-11T11:12:44-04:00

An openly Lesbian couple survives and thrives in 19th century Vermont–a true story, as told by Tillie Walden

The month is February in the year 1807. The place is Weybridge, Vermont: small, cold, lonely, and beautiful. Sylvia Drake is exhausted. As an unwed woman with few prospects, she is residing with and caring for her sister’s rambunctious family.…

Charity and Sylvia2026-08-11T11:12:44-04:00

What Is Otherwise Infinite

2026-08-11T11:12:44-04:00

Written in four sections with incisive and vivid lyrical language, Bianca Stone’s What Is Otherwise Infinite considers how we find our place in the world through themes of philosophy, religion, environment, myth, and psychology. “I deal only in the hardest pain-revivers, symbols and tongues,” writes Stone.…

What Is Otherwise Infinite2026-08-11T11:12:44-04:00

In the Time of the Butterflies

2026-08-11T11:12:44-04:00

Set in the Dominican Republic during the waning days of the Trujillo dictatorship of the 1960s, this extraordinary novel tells the story the Mirabal sisters–four women who opposed Trujillo, and became immortalized as Las Mariposas, “The Butterflies”.

It is November 25, 1960, and three beautiful sisters have been found near their wrecked Jeep at the bottom of a 150-foot cliff on the north coast of the Dominican Republic.…

In the Time of the Butterflies2026-08-11T11:12:44-04:00

The Gates of the Alamo

2026-07-13T11:50:20-04:00

It’s 1836, and the Mexican province of Texas is in revolt. As General Santa Anna’s forces move closer to the small fort that will soon be legend, three people’s fates will become intrinsically tied to the coming battle: Edmund McGowan, a proud and gifted naturalist; the widowed innkeeper Mary Mott; and her sixteen-year-old son, Terrell, whose first shattering experience with love has led him into the line of fire.…

The Gates of the Alamo2026-07-13T11:50:20-04:00

Lonesome Dove

2026-09-02T13:10:07-04:00

Journey to the dusty little town of Lonesome Dove, where retired Texas Rangers Augustus McCrae and Woodrow Call undertake a perilous cattle drive to the untamed plains of Montana. Along the way, they face danger, adventure, and an unforgettable cast of characters.…

Lonesome Dove2026-09-02T13:10:07-04:00

The Blacker the Berry: A Novel of Negro Life

2026-07-09T12:33:35-04:00

The Blacker the Berry (1929), Wallace Thurman’s debut novel, broke new ground as an exploration of issues of “colorism,” intra-racial prejudice, and internalized racism in African American life. Its protagonist, the young Emma Lou Morgan, is simply “too dark” for a world in which every kind of advancement seems to require a light complexion.…

The Blacker the Berry: A Novel of Negro Life2026-07-09T12:33:35-04:00

American Indian Stories

2026-07-09T12:33:57-04:00

Bright and carefree, Zitkála-Šá grows up on the Yankton Sioux reservation in South Dakota with her mother until Quaker missionaries arrive, offering the reservation’s children a free education. The catch: They must leave their parents behind and travel to Indiana. Curious about the world beyond the reservation, Zitkála-Šá begs her mother to let her go—and her mother, aware of the advantages that an education offers, reluctantly agrees.…

American Indian Stories2026-07-09T12:33:57-04:00

The Mountain Meadows Massacre

2026-07-09T12:34:24-04:00

In the Fall of 1857, some 120 California-bound emigrants were killed in lonely Mountain Meadows in southern Utah; only eighteen young children were spared. The men on the ground after the bloody deed took an oath that they would never mention the event again, either in public or in private.…

The Mountain Meadows Massacre2026-07-09T12:34:24-04:00
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