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Mary Ball Washington
Craig Shirley
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The Mother of the Father of our Country. Mary Ball Washington was an unlikely candidate to be the mother of history's most famous revolutionary. In fact, George Washington's first fight for independence was from his controlling, singular mother. Stubborn, aristocratic Mary Ball Washington... |
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The Widow Washington
Martha Saxton
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The Widow Washington is the first life of Mary Ball Washington, George Washington's mother, based on archival sources. Her son's biographers have, for the most part, painted her as self-centered and crude, a trial and an obstacle to her oldest child. But the records tell a very different... |
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Dear Girls
Ali Wong
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAli Wong's heartfelt and hilarious letters to her daughters (the two she put to work while they were still in utero) cover everything they need to know in life, like the unpleasant details of dating, how to be a working mom in a male-dominated profession, and how she trapped... |
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Wild Game
Brodeur, Adrienne
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A daughter&;s tale of living in the thrall of her magnetic, complicated mother, and the chilling consequences of her complicity. |
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Motherhood So White
Nefertiti Austin
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The story every parent in America needs to readThe path to creating a family is almost never easy or straightforward. As a single African American woman, Nefertiti Austin knew her journey would be more challenging than most. Eager to finally join the motherhood ranks, Nefertiti felt discouraged... |
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How to Be an Antiracist
Ibram X. Kendi
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom the National Book Award–winning author of Stamped from the Beginning comes a "groundbreaking" (Time) approach to understanding and uprooting racism and inequality in our society—and in ourselves."The most courageous book to date on the problem of race in the Western... |
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They Called Us Enemy
George Takei
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George Takei has captured hearts and minds worldwide with his captivating stage presence and outspoken commitment to equal rights. But long before he braved new frontiers in Star Trek, he woke up as a four-year-old boy to find his own birth country at war with his father's-and their entire... |
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The Yellow House
Sarah M. Broom
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In 1961, Sarah M. Broom's mother Ivory Mae bought a shotgun house in the then-promising neighborhood of New Orleans East and built her world inside of it. It was the height of the Space Race and the neighborhood was home to a major NASA plant-the postwar optimism seemed assured. Widowed,... |
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