“Firekeeper's Daughter” by Angeline Boulley
“Firekeeper’s Daughter,” the debut work of Chippewa author Angeline Boulley, tells the story of Daunis Fontaine, a half-white, half-native 18-year-old...
Johannesburg, South Africa — At the entrance to Collector’s Treasury, a bookstore in the Braamfontein neighborhood of Johannesburg, customers are greeted with a book-lined cement staircase and that...
Bhambayi, South Africa –– One Saturday morning in mid-June, Charles Khora gathered a group of children in a circle and had them join hands, just as he does every week. They ran back and forth...
Joanne Joseph is an established South African news personality with more than 20 years of experience hosting radio and television shows for major South African broadcasters. In 2013, she published “Drug...
A selection of books written by female St. Joe's professors
Tipping on a Tightrope: Divas in African American Literature (2012) by Aisha Lockridge, Ph.D., associate professor of English
Girls...
The Hate U Give - Angie Thomas, (Sehar Macan-Markar ’22, Assistant Opinions Editor)
In this novel about the racism that Black people have to face at such a young age, the main character Starr witnesses...
St. Joe's professor turned her love of cheese into her life's work
Tenaya Darlington, M.F.A., associate professor of English, never thought her world would revolve around a ball of cheese. However, what...
How one book protests the idea of perfection
“The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck” by Mark Manson has been in the top of The New York Times bestseller list for 144 weeks (and counting) in the Advice,...
Anticipating Chanel Miller’s new book
In 2015, a case came before the Santa Clara County Superior Court in which the defendant in the matter was eventually found guilty for “three felonies: assault...
Lack of funding hurts libraries and their communities
Branches of the Free Public Library of Philadelphia are still feeling the effects of budget cuts from the 2008 recession, affecting their...
Fascinating finds at the Spiral Bookcase.
Located just off Manayunk’s Main Street, The Spiral Bookcase is a small but cozy secondhand bookshop full of fascinating finds.
Upon walking into the shop,...
Anticipating the new novel from John Green.
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Fans of teen fiction novels, rejoice. Author and vlogger John Green is making...
