This month the library book club is reading Barracoon.  Copies available for checkout at the circulation desk.

A newly published work from the author of the American classic Their Eyes Were Watching God, author Zora Neale Hurston brilliantly illuminates the horror and injustices of slavery by telling the true story of one of the last-known survivors of the Atlantic slave trade - abducted from Africa on the last "Black Cargo" ship to arrive in the United States.