Since we featured a Teen Loft display last week, we wanted to show off one of our current Adult displays this week! We currently have a Summer Reading themed display, along with this featured display: Books to Celebrate Freedom and Independence. While there are also fiction books on the display, this blog post will highlight nonfiction titles since we’ve been showing off so much fiction recently. This is only a selection of the titles you might find, so come on in and browse it!
All links will go directly to the catalog for an easy request if you find something interesting. Titles are alphabetical by the author’s last name.
Akyol, Mustafa – Reopening Muslim Minds: A Return to Reason, Freedom, and Tolerance
Berlinerblau, Jacques – How to be Secular: A Call to Arms for Religious Freedom
Best, Mat – Thank You for My Service
Brand, Russell – Recovery: Freedom from our Addictions
Clinton, Catherine – Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom
DeRamus, Betty – Freedom by Any Means: Con Games, Voodoo Schemes, True Love and Lawsuits on the Underground Railroad
Douglass, Frederick – Autobiographies: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
Dugard, Jaycee Lee – Freedom: My Book of Firsts
Ellis, Joseph J. – Revolutionary Summer: The Birth of American Independence
Foner, Eric – Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad
Gates, Henry Louis Jr – Life Upon These Shores: Looking at African American History, 1513-2008
Greenwood, Janette Thomas – First Fruits of Freedom: The Migration of Former Slaves and Their Search for Equality in Worcester, Massachusetts, 1862-1900
Harden, Blaine – Escape from Camp 14: One Man’s Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West
Hinton, Anthony Ray – The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
Ilgunas, Ken – Walden on Wheels: On the Open Road from Debt to Freedom
Kritzler, Edward – Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean
Kyle, Taya – American Spirit: Profiles in Resilience, Courage, and Faith
Languirand, Mary A. – How to Age in Place: Planning for a Happy, Independent, and Financially Secure Retirement
Mandela, Nelson – Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela
Manseau, Peter – One Nation, Under Gods: A New American History
Mckesson, DeRay – On the Other Side of Freedom: The Case for Hope
Mickenberg, Julia L. and Nel, Philip – Tales for Little Rebels: A Collection of Radical Children’s Literature
Miles, Tiya – The Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the Straits
Norton, Mary Beth – 1774: The Long Year of Revolution
Offerman, Nick – Gumption: Relighting the Torch of Freedom with America’s Gutsiest Troublemakers
Phaneuf, W. et al – The Struggle for Freedom: The History of African Americans in Western Massachusetts
Rice, Condoleezza – Democracy: Stories From the Long Road to Freedom
Ricks, Thomas E. – Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom
Scarborough, Joe – Saving Freedom: Truman, the Cold War, and the Fight for Western Civilization
Siegel, Barry – Manifest Injustice: The True Story of a Convicted Murderer and the Lawyers Who Fought for his Freedom
Sullivan, Patricia – Lift Every Voice: The NAACP and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement
Theoharis, Jeanne – The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks
Traister, Rebecca – All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation
Watson, Bruce – Freedom Summer: The Savage Season that made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy
Willink, Jocko – Discipline Equals Freedom: Field Manual
