This month we start with Media/@BarnardIMATS Director Melanie Hibbert's rec. She warns you Ocean Vuong's On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous will make you cry.

Book cover Ocean Vuong

 

@zinelib recommends Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Know by @sam_aye_ahm and The Madness of Mercury by @askzodia--a murder with an astrologer playing detective. Both books with mad* in the title!

Book cover Mad, Bad, and Dangerous

 

Archives associate @sarahelbow's recs are Felicity by Mary Oliver and Go Tell it On the Mountain by James Baldwin & Media Center post-bac Ruby wants you to read All My Puny Sorrows by @BranchMiriam and Country by @michaelehughes.

Book covers Felicity and Go Tell it On the Mountain

 

Social Science Librarian Jennie feels strongly about “All the Real Indians Died Off”: And 20 Other Myths About Native Americans by @rdunbaro and @DinaGWhit.

Book cover All the Real Indians Died Off

 

Cataloging Specialist Albert is feeling “Apocalypse of settler colonialism: the roots of slavery, white supremacy, and capitalism in seventeenth-century North America and the Caribbean” by Gerald Horne.

Book cover pocalypse of settler colonialism: the roots of slavery, white supremacy, and capitalism in seventeenth-century North America and the Caribbean