It’s sixteen days until Jolabokaflod*– time to start planning what your December 24 read is going to be and to pick up some hot cocoa. Why not consider some of our new books? Maybe read something to complete your Read Great Things 2020 Challenge? 

Books pictured (from bottom row to top):

• Complete English All-in-One for ESL Learners
• Intermediate English Grammar for ESL Learners
• Easy English Step-by-Step for ESL Learners
• The Racial Healing Handbook: Practical Activities to Help you Challenge Privilege, Confront Systemic Racism & Engage in Collective Healing by Anneliese A. Singh  
• How to Self-Publish Your Book: A Complete Guide to Writing, Editing, Marketing & Selling your own Book by Jan Yager
• Exploring the US Census: Your Guide to America’s Data by Frank Donnelly
• The Book of Gutsy Women by Hillary Rodham Clinton and Chelsea Clinton
• A Subversive History of Music by Ted Gioia
• The Queens of Animation: The Untold Story of the Women who Transformed the World of Disney and Made Cinematic History by Nathalia Holi
• Fight of the Century: Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases edited by Michael Chabon
• The Feminism Handbook: Big Ideas Simply Explained 
• Caste: The Origins of our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
• Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
• The Ravens by Kass Morgan & Danielle Paige
• These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong
• Indistractable: How to Control your Attention and Choose your Life by Nir Eyal
• The Second Chance Club: Hardship and Hope after Prison by Jason Matthew Hardy
• Rachel Maddow: A Biography by Lisa Rogak
• Syria’s Secret Library: Reading and Redemption in a Town Under Siege by Mike Thomson
• What’s Your Pronoun? Beyond He & She by Dennis E. Baron
• Our Dogs, Ourselves: The Story of a Singular Bond by Alexandra Horowitz
• Stolen Justice: The Struggle for African-American Voting Rights by
  Lawrence Goldstone
• Stamped:  Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds & Ibram X. Kendi
• Stay Woke: A People’s Guide to Making all Black Lives Matter by
  Tehama Lopez Bunyasi
• Superior: The Return of Race Science by Angela Saini
• Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Stories by Zora Neale Hurston
• The Stonewall Reader by Jason Baumann
• Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor by Layla F. Saad  
• Queer:  The Ultimate LGBT Guide for Teens by Kathy Belge & Marke Bieschke
• ESL Games for the Classroom: 101 Interactive Activities to Engage your Students with Minimal Prep by Michael DiGiacomo 
• El Norte: The Epic and Forgotten Story of Hispanic North America by Carrie Gibson
• The Memo: What Women of Color Need to Know to Secure a Seat at the Table by Minda Harts
• Spotify Teardown: Inside the Black Box of Streaming Music by Maria Eriksson
• The Infographic Guide to American Government: A Visual Reference for Everything You Need to Know by Carissa Lytle

To request one (or several) of these books, contact the library or you can put a hold on it yourself through the link provided in the title if you already have a Durham Tech Library account. Need more info? Check out our blog post. 

*It’s a year of lots of new things, so why not start a new tradition–the Icelandic tradition of reading and drinking hot cocoa on December 24. True, the books are often given as gifts, but who says you can’t read something from the library? Jolabokaflod (or Jólabókaflóðið) translates loosely as “flood of books” and has its origins after World War II, where paper was  one of the few things that were not rationed. Hence, the publishing industry pushed to make books the go-to gift for the holidays and a new tradition was born.