Books High and Low

  I really enjoyed this powerful, semi-autobiographical, first novel by James Baldwin. It tells the story of John Grimes on his 14th birthda...

  This is an informative and interesting exploration of the political issues that divide and unite the country, with chapters devoted to ele...

  This book contains chapters reprinted from Edwin Corle's book Desert Country, 1941 , a book in the American Folkways series, and is ac...

  This was my book club's pick for our February meeting, and it was a hit with everyone. The writing is very good, and the plot is compe...

  While the acting in this film is very good, I was not impressed with the film as a whole. It dragged, and I became very impatient with the...

  Safiya Noble was a speaker at the 2020 Association of Research Libraries fall forum, and attendees received a copy of her book prior to th...

  This is a fun collection of Ruth Bader Ginsburg quotes. My favorite: "Waste no time on anger, regret, or resentment; just get the job...

  I bought this small book (4.3 x 4.7 inch) at the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. It is introduced with an essay by C...

  This is an interesting collection of black and white photography by an artist who begins by creating a 3-D sculpture and then photographin...

  This is a lovely collection of black and white photographs, with a foreword by Ansel Adams. Ms. De Cock was Adams' assistant for many ...

  I'm not normally a fan of short stories, but I was bowled over by this collection; it's no wonder that it won the National Book Aw...

  This oversized book is a collection of photographs and accompanying text by Ansel Adams and a few dozen other photographers. Many of Adams...

  This is the third book in The Ansel Adams Photography Series , and the only one that the UAlbany Libraries own. It includes many prints th...

  This is a fascinating account of the investigation that led to Harvey Weinstein's outing as a sexual predator. Mike gave me this book ...

  I've been watching bits of Sarah Millican's comedy routines online for a while now (thanks, Facebook, for introducing us!), and ha...

  This is a touching, heartfelt, yet brief memoir by poet Saeed Jones, who shares his experiences growing up gay and black in rural Texas, a...

  This brief volume (114 pages) is part of the Great Religious Composers series, and much of the book is a discussion of De Machaut's M...

  I've become interested in the music and poetry of Guillaume de Machaut, born in 1300. He's more well-known for his secular music, ...

  I loved this book about twelve Native Americans who are coming together in Oakland, CA, for a powwow. In chapters that rotate between the ...

I'm a little late to the party on this collection of climate change books and films, but better late than never! The film shows Al Gore ...

  This is a fascinating and provocative look at Americans' penchant for believing the fantastical over the realistic, starting with the ...

  This is a history of photography from 1839 through 1949, when it was published. Containing almost exclusively black and white illustration...

  Brassa ï was one of the most influential French photographers of the 20th century. This book collects many of his most famous photos, gr...

This is a collection of essays and accompanying photographs that pulls together many of the earliest pictures taken in the American Southwes...

  I really enjoyed this short novel (191 pages) set in 1980s Poland. It tells the story of two young men who meet and fall in love the summe...

  This book contains a collection of 109 photographs by Ansel Adams from the 1920s through the 1960s. They include landscapes, portraits, st...

  This is a nice collection of 75 of Ansel Adams' most well-known photographs. It's introduced by John Szarkowski, a photographer hi...

This is a powerful novel about a refugee couple from Aleppo whose son died in a bombing. Nuri and his wife Afra, who was blinded in the bomb...

  I loved this novel by James McBride. It's set in a Brooklyn housing project in the 1960s, when heroin is beginning to be widely availa...

  To a certain extent, this book is similar to Woodward's last book, Fear, in that it simply reinforces everything you know about Trump ...