| Lit Up With Love: Becoming Good-News People to a Gospel-Starved World. | 269 GRAY, DERWIN |
| Jesus wept: seven popes and the battle for the soul of the Catholic church | 282.09 SHENON, PHILIP |
| I (think) I want out | 306.89 WHETSTONE, BECKY |
| 222 cemeteries to see before you die | 363 RHOADS, LOREN |
| Find Your Path Through Depression: Mindful Techniques for Dark Times | 616 GILPIN, RICHARD |
| Bibliophobia: a memoir | 92 CHIHAYA, SARAH |
| The countess and the Nazis | 92 WHITE, MURIEL |
| The Swans of Harlem: Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History | 920 VALBY, KAREN |
| Rising from the ashes : | YNF 305.8 YOO, PAULA |
| Shackled : a tale of wronged kids, rogue judges, and a town that looked away / | YNF 364.1 COOPER, CANDY |
New Nonfiction-February 2025
Young Adult Books for Black History Month
Victory. Stand! : raising my fist for justice
Tommie Smith, Derrick Barnes, Dawud Anyabwile
A groundbreaking and timely graphic memoir from one of the most iconic figures in American sports-and a tribute to his fight for civil rights. On October 16, 1968, during the medal ceremony at the Mexico City Olympics, Tommie Smith, the gold medal winner in the 200-meter sprint, and John Carlos, the bronze medal winner, stood on the podium in black socks and raised their black-gloved fists to protest racial injustice inflicted upon African Americans. Both men were forced to leave the Olympics, received death threats, and faced ostracism and continuing economic hardships. In his first-ever memoir for young readers, Tommie Smith looks back on his childhood growing up in rural Texas through to his stellar athletic career, culminating in his historic victory and Olympic podium protest. Cowritten with Newbery Honor and Coretta Scott King Author Honor recipient Derrick Barnes and illustrated with bold and muscular artwork from Emmy Award-winning illustrator Dawud Anyabwile, Victory. Stand! paints a stirring portrait of an iconic moment in Olympic history that still resonates today.
Poemhood, our black revival : history, folklore & the Black experience: a young adult poetry anthology
edited by Amber McBride, Taylor Byas & Erica Martin
Featuring contributions from an award-winning, bestselling group of Black voices, past and present, this powerful poetry anthology elicits vital conversations about race, belonging, history and faith to highlight Black joy and pain.
Cool. Awkward. Black
edited by Karen Strong
Featuring exclusively Black characters, this multi-genre story collection–drawing from contemporary, historical, fantasy, sci-fi, magical and realistic–celebrates and redefines the many facets of Blackness and geekiness, both in the real world and those imagined.
A long time coming: a lyrical biography of race in America from Ona Judge to Barack Obama
Ray Anthony Shepard ; art by R. Gregory Christie
Meticulously researched and drawn from numerous primary sources, this biography-in-verse tells the story of racism in the U.S. through six important Black Americans from different eras who struggled for justice, chronicling how much and how little racism has changed since our country’s founding.
Read and Watch Before the Oscars 2025
Check out the movies and the books they are based on before the Oscars! Here are the Oscar 2025 nominations that we have available at our library or through our consortium libraries.
Watch the Movie
A Complete Unknown (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Costume Design, Best Sound)
Conclave (Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Costume Design, Best Film Editing, Best Production Design, Best Original Score)
Dune : Part two(Best Picture, Best Cinematography, Best Production Design, Best Sound, Best Visual Effects)
The Substance (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Original Screenplay, Best Makeup and Hairstyling)
Wicked (Best Picture, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, Best Costume Design, Best Film Editing, Best Production Design, Best Original Score, Best Sound, Best Visual Effects, Best Makeup and Hairstyling)
The Apprentice (Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor)
September 5 (Best Original Screenplay)
Inside out 2 (Best Animated Feature)
The Wild Robot (Best Animated Feature, Best Original Score, Best Sound)
Nosferatu(Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design, Best Makeup and Hairstyling)
Gladiator II (Best Costume Design)
Alien : Romulus (Best Visual Effects)
Better Man (Best Visual Effects)
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (Best Visual Effects)
Read the Book
Conclave by Robert Harris (Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Costume Design, Best Film Editing, Best Production Design, Best Original Score)
Dune by Frank Herbert (Best Picture, Best Cinematography, Best Production Design, Best Sound, Best Visual Effects)
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead (Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay)
Wicked by Gregory Maguire (Best Picture, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, Best Costume Design, Best Film Editing, Best Production Design, Best Original Score, Best Sound, Best Visual Effects, Best Makeup and Hairstyling)
The Wild Robot by Peter Brown (Best Animated Feature, Best Original Score, Best Sound)
Dylan Goes Electric! by Elijah Wald (A Complete Unknown) (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Costume Design, Best Sound)
Magic Candies by Heena Baek (Best Animated Short)