
20th Century Jewish Lives
These Pulitzer winners – including two exploring cartooning – chronicle the Jewish experience throughout the 1900s.
Elayne Clift is a writer, journalist lecturer, and writing workshop leader. A regular columnist for the Keene Sentinel and the Brattleboro Commons, a book reviewer for The New York Journal of Books, and a regular contributor to Vermont Woman and Artscope Magazine, her work has appeared in The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, The Christian Science Monitor and The Chronicle of Higher Education, among other publications. A longtime senior correspondent for the India-based syndicate Women’s Feature Service, she published her first novel, Hester’s Daughters, in 2012. Her third book of short stories, Children of the Chalet, won First Prize/Fiction 2014 from Greyden Press, published in 2015. Her fourth anthology, TAKE CARE: Tales, Tips and Love from Women Caregivers, was published in 2017.
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These Pulitzer winners – including two exploring cartooning – chronicle the Jewish experience throughout the 1900s.
The books in this series, comprised of Pulitzer-winning reporting and research, dig deep, revealing facts and stories that continue to be relevant years after they were brought to the surface.
Personal writing by African-American authors can transcend self-reflection, becoming meditations on history, justice, and freedom from oppression.
This series pairs Isabel Wilkerson’s masterful history of this Great Migration with fiction and memoir that illuminate the north/south divide.
This series features a history of the era alongside texts that have come to define the Harlem Renaissance.
A multi-session group is the ideal environment in which to relish these classic works of literature of a certain size and heft.
Each book in this series is a Pulitzer-winning work of fiction, with portions based on one person’s real life story.
Established in 1968, England’s Booker Prize is awarded annually to a citizen of the U.K., the Commonwealth, Ireland, Pakistan, or South Africa who has written the year’s best novel according to a panel of critics, writers, and academics.
A book of short stories, a memoir and two novels bring us to present day consideration of migration, immigration and refuge.
Travel through Canada with four critically acclaimed books that make manifest Canada’s cultural diversity.
These books take the reader deeply inside the world of someone experiencing life differently from the rest of us. Topics include bipolar disorder, physical disability, and Alzheimer s disease.
This series examines families displaced by the dictatorial regimes of Trujillo and Castro, exploring the complicated, ongoing relationships that those who come to the United States have with their home countries and cultures.