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The World in Our Stacks
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By J. Harold
This feature links items in the news to various books, authors, and subjects that our NOVA libraries own. Take a look at the ways the world shows up in our stacks!
Susan Brownmiller (February 15, 1935 - May 24, 2025) was an American journalist, author and feminist activist, best known for her 1975 book Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape, which was selected by The New York Public Library as one of the 100 most important books of the 20th century. [Wikipedia] The libraries have four titles by her, including one novel.
The College of Cardinals convened on May 7th, to appoint the pope of the Catholic Church. Catholics consider the pope to be the apostolic successor of Saint Peter and the earthly head of the Catholic Church. A two-thirds supermajority vote was required to elect the new pope, Robert Francis Prevost. The libraries have four titles on the process.
Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston (September 26, 1934-December 21, 2024) was an American writer. Her writings primarily focused on ethnic identity formation in the United States of America. She is best known for her autobiographical novel Farewell to Manzanar that narrates her personal experiences in World War II incarceration camps. The book has been credited with sharing the story of the Japanese American incarceration with generations of young people. The Woodbridge Campus Library has a copy of Farewell to Manzanar.
Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa (28 March 1936-13 April 2025) was a Peruvian novelist, journalist, essayist and politician. Vargas Llosa was one of the most significant Latin American novelists and essayists and one of the leading writers of his generation. Some critics consider him to have had a more substantial international impact and worldwide audience than any other writer of the Latin American Boom. In 2010, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature for "his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat." [Wikipedia] "Peruvian was a luminary of the Spanish-language literature boom of the '60s" - John Otis, The Washington Post, April 2025. The libraries have 22 titles by him as well as four titles about him.
Edmund Valentine White III (January 13, 1940-June 3, 2025) was an American novelist, memoirist, playwright, biographer and essayist. A pioneering figure in LGBTQ and especially gay literature after the Stonewall riots, he wrote with rare candor about gay identity, relationships, and sex. [Wikipedia] "Acclaimed novelist of modern gay life blended honesty, humor in his work" - Juno Carmel, The Washington Post, June 5, 2025. The libraries have seven titles by him and one title about him.
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