|
Read our blog post, "Civic Lab Online: What is Pride Month?," to learn more.
|
 |
|
Stonewall: The Definitive Story of the LGBTQ Rights Uprising that Changed America
Martin Duberman · Plume
Pages: 432
Format: Paperback
|
|
The definitive account of the Stonewall Riots, the first gay rights march, and the LGBTQ activists at the center of the movement. "Martin Duberman is a national treasure." - Masha Gessen, The New YorkerOn June 28, 1969, the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York's Greenwich... |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
The Stonewall Reader
New York Public Library · Penguin Classics
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
|
For the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, an anthology chronicling the tumultuous fight for LGBTQ rights in the 1960s and the activists who spearheaded it, with a foreword by Edmund White.
June 28, 2019 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, which... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Before & After Stonewall: 25th Anniversary Edition
John Scagliotti · FIRST RUN FEATURES
Format: DVD
|
|
On June 28, 1969, the NYPD raided the Stonewall Inn, a mafia-run gay bar in New York's Greenwich Village, leading to three nights of rioting by the city's gay community. With this outpouring of courage and unity the gay pride movement had begun. These two seminal documentaries tell the remarkable... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Read more about the Stonewall Uprising in World Book Online
|
|
|
View archival footage, "Spokane's first Pride Parade"
|
|
|
Listen to the podcast, "Making Gay History"
|
|
|
Read our blog post, "Explore Random Acts of Art and Ways to Participate," to learn more.
|
|
|
The Art Abandonment Project: Create and Share Random Acts of Art
Michael deMeng · North Light Books
Format: Paperback
|
|
Art sharing at its sneakiest!Art sharing at its sneakiest!The Art Abandonment Project is your guide to expressing yourself through random acts of art! Create something for the joy of making it, and then leave it for an unsuspecting person to find--be it on a shelf at the library, a park... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Easy Weekend Crochet Hats: A Ski-Style Collection for the Entire Family
Jennifer J. Cirka · Fons & Porter
Format: Book
|
|
F&W Media-Fons & porter books: easy weekend crochet hats. The ski- slope inspired hats in this collection will do more than just keep your family warm; these hats will give you a style all your own! choose from sixteen different hats for boys girls men and women with styles ranging from... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Knit Beanies: Easy to Make, Fun to Wear
Karen M Burns · Martingale
Pages: 64
Format: Print book
|
|
Quick to knit and great for gifts, beanies will top off your personal style like nothing else. Whether you're new to knitting or looking for an easy stash-busting project, you'll find fun stitches and techniques to give your beanies terrific texture and fantastic flair.Knit beanies... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Kids? Easy Guide to Rock Painting: Learn to Paint Ladybug, Caterpillar, Butterfly, Turtle, Snake, Whale, Tulip, Rose & So Much More
Hax Shannon · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Pages: 90
Format: Paperback
|
|
Kids' Easy Guide to Rock PaintingLearn to Paint Ladybug, Caterpillar, Butterfly, Turtle, Snake, Whale, Tulip, Rose & So Much MoreEvery kid has a creative side, and as a parent, it is our responsibility to open up their creativity at an early age. This helps their active brain to explore... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Rock Art!: Painting and Crafting with the Humble Pebble
Denise Scicluna · Barron's Educational Series
Format: Print book
|
|
Great uses for rocks: throwing, skipping, kicking ... how about painting? Rock painting is one of the oldest forms of artistic expression known to man. The varied surfaces, shapes, and sizes of rocks also make them perfect for crafts. From brooches to bookends, paperweights to place cards,... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Pavement Chalk Artist: The Three-Dimensional Drawings of Julian Beever
Julian Beever · Firefly Books; Second Edition, Expanded with New Artwork edition
Format: Book
|
|
Fascinating pavement chalk art by a master of the craft, now with 16 pages of new art. Praise for the first edition: Beever's mastery and unbridled humor are on full display in these dazzling drawings, each accompanied by a description that details artistic techniques, discusses... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Operation Beautiful: One Note at a Time
Caitlin Boyle · Grosset & Dunlap
Format: Paperback
|
|
Spread a positive message with Operation Beautiful! You're beautiful just the way you are. Smile! Let your inner beauty shine. Imagine walking into a dressing room and finding notes like these stuck to the mirror. How would it make you feel? Operation Beautiful is a movement that promotes... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Craftivism: The Art of Craft and Activism
Betsy Greer · Arsenal Pulp Press
|
|
Craftivism is a worldwide movement that operates at the intersection where craft and activism meet Craftivism the book is full of inspiration for crafters who want to create works that add to the greater good. With interviews and profiles of craftivists who are changing the world with their... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Crafting the Resistance: 35 Projects for Craftivists, Protestors, and Women Who Persist
Heather Marano · Skyhorse Publishing
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback
|
|
Knit, sew, and craft your way to self-empowerment. Are you a Nasty Woman ready to smash the patriarchy with a needle and thread? Proudly proclaim your feminism with your very own DIY Bleeding Heart T-shirt? Or stage a protest with the rest of the girls, wearing knitted Pussyhats? ... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Yarn Bombing: The Art of Crochet and Knit Graffiti
Mandy Moore · Arsenal Pulp Press
Pages: 231
Format: Paperback
|
|
As seen in The New York Times and The New Yorker On city street corners, around telephone posts, through barbed wire fences, and over abandoned cars, a quiet revolution is brewing. "Knit graffiti" is an international guerrilla movement that started underground and is now embraced... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Read our blog post, "Yummy Reads and Recipes for National Doughnut Day," to learn more.
|
|
|
The Hole Story of the Doughnut
Pat Miller · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 40
Format: Print book
|
|
In 1843, fourteen-year-old Hanson Gregory left his family home in Rockport, Maine, and set sail as a cabin boy on the schooner Achorn, looking for high-stakes adventure on the high seas. Little did he know that a boatload of hungry sailors, coupled with his knack for creative problem-solving,... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
The Doughnut Fix
Jessie Janowitz · Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
|
|
Superfudge meets The Lemonade War in this funny, heartwarming series debut about change, adventure, family, and of course, doughnuts. Tristan isn't Gifted or Talented like his sister Jeanine, and he's always been okay with that because he can make a perfect chocolate chip cookie... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Survival of the Fritters
GINGER BOLTON · Kensington
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
|
Emily Westhill runs the best donut shop in Fallingbrook, Wisconsin, alongside her retired police chief father-in-law and her tabby Deputy Donut. But after murder claims a favorite customer, Emily can't rely on a sidekick to solve the crime - or stay alive.
If Emily has learned... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Glazed Murder: A Donut Shop Mystery
Jessica Beck · St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pages: 301
Format: Paperback
|
|
Meet Suzanne Hart, owner and operator of Donut Hearts coffee shop in April Springs, North Carolina. After her divorce from Max, an out-of-work actor she's dubbed "The Great Impersonator," Suzanne decided to pursue her one true passion in life: donuts. So she cashed in her settlement... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Doughnuts: 90 Simple and Delicious Recipes to Make at Home
Lara Ferroni · Sasquatch Books
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
|
|
There's nothing quite like a fresh doughnut! With instructions written for home cooks, this book makes it easy to create doughnuts in your own kitchen. Be prepared to be tempted by favorite classics like old-fashioned sour cream, maple-bacon bars, or red velvet, and new delights such... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
