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| Hemings book wins national award (UPI) |
| NEW YORK, Nov. 20 (UPI) -- The National Book Award for non-fiction was bestowed on Annette Gordon-Reed in New York Wednesday night for her book, "The Hemingses of Monticello." |
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| Hemings book wins national award (Moldova.org) |
| The National Book Award for non-fiction was bestowed on Annette Gordon-Reed in New York Wednesday night for her book, The Hemingses of Monticello.Gordon-Reed's book tells the multigenerational story of the family of Sally Hemings, a black slave owned by President Thomas Jefferson and alleged to have had at least one child by him.In accepting the award, Gordon-Reed talked of the journey that ... |
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| County Library Floods Again; Books Damaged (The Shenandoah Valley-Herald) |
| EDINBURG - It was another leaky day for the main branch of the Shenandoah County Library last Thursday. During the night, water came through the ceiling down into the main room of the library, ruining some 150 books in the non-fiction and reference section, and drenching the lighting fixtures. The facility was closed last Thursday, and reopened |
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| Go Bulldogs! (New York Press) |
| “We like to pretend that no such thing as a ruling class has ever darkened an American shore or danced by the light of an American moon,” writer Lewis Lapham says in his on-screen introduction to John Kirby’s 2005 The American Ruling Class, a cleverly contrived non-fiction film that premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival that same year but was too challenging to get a regular commercial release. |
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