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February 24, 2023
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 | Essential Books About World War II Women Days after the attack on Pearl Harbor brought the United States into the Second World War, President Franklin Roosevelt's wartime confidante, Anna Rosenberg, exhorted American women to “keep things going, no matter what happens..to take the men's places in the shops and factories...We must carry on when those we hold dearest are fighting.” She was right. As never before, women were pulled by the gravity of a total war that stretched from Singapore to Stalingrad. Women risked torture and death as spies; they chronicled the war as correspondents; they built the bombers that delivered deadly payloads over enemy cities; they tormented the enemy as partisan fighters; shouldered rifles in combat; deciphered codes; and helped guide their nations as policy-makers. After decades of relative silence, several recent works have uncovered the stories of the women who did their part to fight totalitarianism. As war again rages in Ukraine, where untold numbers of women died eight decades ago, these works have a timely resonance. Check them out here |
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 | Books on the Air An overview of talked-about books and authors. This weekly update, published every Friday, provides descriptions of recent TV and radio appearances by authors and their recently released books. See the hot titles from the media this week. |
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 | Ann Napolitano Ann Napolitano's novel, Dear Edward, was an instant New York Times bestseller, a Read with Jenna selection, and was released as an Apple TV+ series starring Connie Britton. She is also the author of the novels A Good Hard Look and Within Arm's Reach. She was the Associate Editor of One Story literary magazine from 2014-2020. She received an MFA from New York University; she has taught fiction writing for Brooklyn College's MFA program, New York University's School of Continuing and Professional Studies and for Gotham Writers' Workshop. In November 2019, Ann was long-listed for the Simpson/Joyce Carol Oates Literary Prize. Ann lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two children. Check out her books here. |
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 | Library Reads Library Reads-The top ten books published this month that library staff across the country love, with additional hall of fame authors. Check them out here |
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| You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.-James Baldwin
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