The October SBR Shelf
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Where the Crawdads Sing meets The Four Winds as award-winning author Donna Everhart immerses readers in a unique setting—a turpentine camp buried deep in the vast pine forests of Georgia during the Great Depression—for a captivating story of friendship, survival, and three vagabonds’ intersecting lives…
In the debut middle grade novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Gayle Forman comes a poignant and powerful coming-of-age story that follows a young girl and her new friend as they learn about family, friendship, allyship, and finding your way in a complicated world.
From the bestselling author of Women Talking and All My Puny Sorrows, a compassionate, darkly humorous, and deeply human new novel about three generations of women.
This exhibition catalog to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts’ The Dirty South: Contemporary Art, Material Culture, and the Sonic Impulse chronicles the pervasive visual and sonic parallels in the work of Black artists from the southern United States. It looks to contemporary southern hip-hop as a portal into the roots and aesthetic legacies that have shaped contemporary art from the 1920s to the present.
“There is a fierce current of remembrance that pulses within these stories, which will not allow a Cumberland River community to be erased by water or time. Waldrop is a very talented writer and in Drowned Town she vividly renders the human cost of what those in power call progress.”
—Ron Rash
Prairie Cub has returned to the world of his birth where his white heritage allows for a future in Michael's world. With help from his friend, Scot Robinson, Michael journeys east to start life again with Scot's friend, Jay Miller, a locomotive engineer for the Virginia and Truckee Railroad in Snow Shoe, West Virginia. At Jay's suggestion, he adopts the name Michael P. C. Freeman, determined to never forget his Sioux heritage. With Jay Miller's help, Michael finds a new home with the Tyler family, leading to new friends and a new life in Michael's world in Snow Shoe. Corresponding with friends in his old world, he wonders if he'll ever see his family again.