“James”
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Fiction: James by Percival Everett
“James” is a retelling of “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim’s point of view. When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby Jackson Island until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck Finn has faked his own death to escape his violent father, recently returned to town. As all readers of American literature know, thus begins the dangerous and transcendent journey by raft down the Mississippi River toward the elusive and too-often-unreliable promise of the Free States and beyond. While many narrative set pieces of “Huckleberry Finn” remain in place, Jim’s agency, intelligence and compassion are shown in a radically new light.
Nonfiction: “Ghost Town Living: Mining for Purpose and Chasing Dreams at the Edge of Death Valley” by Brent Underwood
A vision for setting impossible goals and being brave enough to see them through, no matter the risk or the challenge, from the creator of hit YouTube channel “Ghost Town Living.”
Youth: “Wings of Fire: Winter Turning” (Graphic Novel Book 7) by Tui T. Sutherland
Winter has always been a disappointment to his royal IceWing family. Now he has a chance to save his sister, Icicle, from making a terrible mistake—if he can find her. Winter’s new
clawmates, Moon, Kinkajou, and Qibli, insist on joining his dangerous journey. They don’t understand that IceWings, the most superior of all dragon tribes, can fix their own problems. When their search leads the dragonets straight into Queen Scarlet’s vicious talons, Winter is grateful to have some help. But even the bravest dragons can’t follow him to the Ice Kingdom. There, he’ll have to face the greatest threat of all: his own family.
