Turning Pages: June 2025 Book Suggestions

“Lincoln said that if he could save the Union without freeing the slave, he would…As for the Emancipation Proclamation, sir, it was an empty document. If it freed the slaves, why, a century later, are we still battling for civil rights?”

- Alex Haley interviews Malcolm X, May 1963.

• "Can’t Get Enough (novel)" by Kennedy Ryan

• "Dark Maestro (novel)" by Brendan Slocumb

• "Great Idea Malia! (Children)" by Alliah Agostini

• "Happy Land (novel)" by Dolen Perkins-Valdez

• "Malcolm Lives" by Ibram X. Kendi

• "The Odyessey of Phillis Wheatley" by David Waldstreicher

• "Scarecited on the First Day of School (children)" by Alliah L. Agostini

• "Uncommon Favor" by Dawn Staley

  
  

Visit us at Buffalo Juneteenth on June 14-15 at tent #127 (Fillmore near North Parade). Book signing with Alliah Agostini on Saturday from 3-4:30 at Zawadi Books tent.