Englewood Public Library’s Comments (group member since May 13, 2020)

Englewood Public Library’s comments from the Englewood Public Library (Colorado) Goodreads Group group.

There's a new list of August Best Sellers on our library goodreads account. Here's the link: https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...

Anything catch your eye? Here's a link to our catalog page where you can request any of the books on this list: https://englewood.marmot.org/MyAccoun...

This list contains some Children's books that may be useful to explain race to children:

I Am Enough by Grace Byers

Hair Love by Matthew A. Cherry

Rosa by Nikki Giovanni

Sit-in: How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down by Angela Davis Pinkney

Sojourner Truth’s Step-Stomp Stride by Angela Davis Pinkney

Who Was Frederick Douglass? by April Jones Prince

Martin’s Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. by Doreen Rappaport

We Are Grateful, Otsaliheliga by Traci Sorrell

Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library by Carole Boston Weatherford

Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer: The Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement by Carole Boston Weatherford and Ekua Holmes

The Day You Begin by Jacqueline Woodson

Each Kindness by Jacqueline Woodson

The following list contains Nonfiction books by Black authors which we have at Englewood Public Library:

Nonfiction by Black Authors

Dear Ijeawele, or, A feminist manifesto in fifteen suggestions by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

We Should All be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie,

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Color-Blindness by Michelle Alexander

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

Letter to My Daughter by Maya Angelou

The Yellow House by Sarah Broom

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

We Were Eight Years in Power by Ta-Nehisi Coates

How to Be an Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi

Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People about Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge

They Can't Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America’s Racial Justice Movement by Wesley Lowery

The Source of Self-regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations by Toni Morrison

The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama

Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama

Becoming by Michelle Obama

Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor by Layla F. Saad

Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly

Feel Free: Essays by Zadie Smith

How We Fight White Supremacy: A Field Guide to Black Resistance by Abika Solomon and Kenrya Rankin

Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet A. Washington

The following list contains some of the fiction books by Black authors which we have at Englewood Library:

Fiction by Black Authors

The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Another Country by James Baldwin

If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin

The Sellout by Paul Beatty

Kindred by Octavia Butler

Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler

The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James

Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James

The City We Became by NK Jemisin

How Long ‘Til Black Future Month: Stories by NK Jemisin

An America Marriage by Tayari Jones

See Now Then by Jamaica Kincaid

Beloved by Toni Morrison

Home by Toni Morrison

A Mercy by Toni Morrison

The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell

On Beauty by Zadie Smith

Swing Time by Zadie Smith

White Teeth by Zadie Smith

Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward

Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward

The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead

Sag Harbor by Colson Whitehead

The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

Zone One by Colson Whitehead

Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson

Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson

Excellent resource for those looking for further information about the Black experience:

https://www.nypl.org/blog/2020/06/09/...

Patrons are welcome to put holds on items either by calling the library or making requests using our online catalog. We will only be able to fulfill holds for items that are on our shelves at the Englewood Public Library. When searching for items in our online catalog, click the "Available Now" button to find items that are on our shelves.

Right now we cannot fill holds for items from other libraries. The courier service that runs between libraries is working to restore service as soon as possible. We will provide an update to our website and Facebook page when we are able to get items from other libraries again.

The library remains closed. We do not yet have a reopening date. We are operating under the Colorado Safer at Home order and guidance from Tri-County Health Department. We will reopen when we are authorized to do so by the relevant authorities and when it is safe for our staff and patrons. In the meantime we are offering curbside service, virtual programs, and encouraging library users to explore our collection of digital resources including downloadable e-books, audiobooks, and streaming movies.

While the library is still closed, we have begun a curbside pick-up service for patrons to pick up their holds. Once you receive an email that items you've put on hold are available, you can schedule an appointment to pick up your items on the parking garage side of the library. Our pick-up service runs Monday through Friday with various appointment times available.