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by Anne Rivers Siddons
Audiobook narrated by Kate Reading. Thayer Wentworth marries an Irish professor and moves into her deceased grandmother's house in Atlanta, a short distance away from the summer camp she attended as a child. Her husband is hired at the summer camp to tell stories and when she notices changes in his personality she begins to question whether he is the man she thought she knew.
Olga Niemasz, Adult Services
by Cameron McWhirter
This book tells the disturbing story of racial violence in America less than a century ago during the summer of 1919. As the country struggled toward normalcy after winning World War I, many returning veterans found that jobs were scarce, prices rising, and pressure growing for social change to undo Jim Crow laws. While President Wilson concentrated on his ultimately unsuccessful campaign for the League of Nations - a campaign which destroyed his own health -- domestic trouble spots exploded in an unprecedented season of racial violence -- almost entirely due to white Americans attacking blacks -- resulting in many deaths and extensive property damage. Riots occurred in Chicago, Washington, D.C., Omaha, Knoxville, and other cities as well as rural southern locales. Awakened to equality by their war experiences, black Americans joined the NAACP and other organizations in record numbers to demand their civil rights. This year showed that they would not tolerate lynchings and other outrages and discrimination indefinitely.
Bill McCully, Administration
