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Listening Is Reading: An Audiobook Celebration Community Event Tuesday, February 16, 2021 - 7:00pm to 8:00pm Join Bookmarks as we proclaim that “Listening Is Reading”. Learn about audiobooks and the independent audiobook model from Libro.fm, a social purpose corporation that makes it possible to buy audiobooks through local bookstores. We will also be joined by Ladee Hubbard, author of The Rib King (our January Signed First Editions Club title), who will be in conversation with the narrators of her audiobook, Korey Jackson and Adenrele Ojo. In The Rib King, Hubbard deconstructs pa...

Ladee Hubbard and Nicole Blades discuss The Rib King, Princeton Public Library Ladee Hubbard And Nicole Blades Discuss The Rib King Princeton Princeton area community website with events, comprehensive business listings, and local information Share:

Lake Region Public Library: in the news Celeste Ertelt, Guest Writer DEVILS LAKE - The Lake Region Public Library will be starting up their book club with Abercrombie Trail on Feb 3 via Zoom. Please see library staff for books and details. Also a new book display entitled Books to Inspire a New You in 2021. Let Me Tell You What I Mean by Joan Didion (Adult Fiction). Twelve early pieces never before collected that offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of Joan Didion. Mostly drawn from the earliest part of her astonishing five-decade career, the wide-ranging pieces in this col...

Book World: A meaty novel about ambition, race and revenge Naomi Jackson, The Washington Post Jan. 22, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail - - - Ladee Hubbard's sophomore novel, "The Rib King," is a fascinating story about the intersection of ambition, race and revenge. The book opens in 1914 in a mythic Northern city reminiscent of Chicago and follows the fortunes of the Black servants for the White Barclay family. The first section is narrated by Mr. Sitwell, a longtime groundskeeper and newly minted butler for the Barclays who later becomes the face of a popular meat sauce. Sitwell's decision to se...

Amistad: 384 pages, $28 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. After Reconstruction, the Gilded Age and Progressive Era marked a period of dramatic change for African Americans, particularly those migrating north in search of jobs and other opportunities. Advances in the social, economic and political arenas continued to be stymied, however, by racism. ,” Ladee Hubbard zeroes in on a group of Black servants in a well-to-do home in Washington, D.C.; then she pans out to the city streets, illustrating ...