ACTIVE TITLES

“Reading grew into passion…the novels created moods which I lived in for days.”

- Black Boy by Richard Wright

We have carefully selected our titles from some of the best American authors. Our audiences can see life through the eyes of a young Hmong refugee and her family’s journey into the U.S., or can live the dreams of an overweight nerd from the Dominican Republic nicknamed ‘Oscar Wao’. They walk in the shoes of a young black man living in the Jim-Crow south, learn how to survive on the streets with poet Lemon Andersen, or get a glimpse in the future world of Jonas and The Giver. These stories expose different ways of looking at the world, dealing with issues such as racism and social justice in If Beale Street Could Talk, and conformity, poverty, and slavery in Incidents of a Slave Girl.

Header image: Painting of James Baldwin (1969) by Lyle Suter at the Langston Hughes Library; Re-gifted by former director of Langston Hughes & former Borough President, Helen Marshall