Among the Hood Library’s recent acquisitions is:  King:  A Life by Jonathan Eig.

All our new acquisitions are listed below.

Please visit the Hood Library this coming Sunday to borrow this book - or any other of our recent acquisitions.  The Hood Library’s fine collection - a congregational treasure since 1931 - is open on Sundays for perusal and borrowing.

A Cryptic Clue (A Hunter and Clewe Mystery)

by Victoria Gilbert

Sixty-year-old Jane Hunter, forced into early retirement from her job as a university librarian, is seeking a new challenge to keep her spirits up and supplement her meager pension.  But as she’s about to discover, a retiree’s life can bring new thrills—and new dangers.  Cameron “Cam” Clewe, an eccentric 33-year-old collector, is also seeking something—an archivist to inventory his ever-expanding compendium of rare books and artifacts.

The 1619 Project:  A New Origin Story

In late August 1619, a ship arrived in the British colony of Virginia bearing a cargo of twenty to thirty enslaved people from Africa.  Their arrival led to the barbaric and unprecedented system of American chattel slavery that would last for the next 250 years.

King:  A Life

by Jonathan Eig

Vividly written and exhaustively researched, Jonathan Eig’s King:  A Life is the first major biography in decades of the civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr.―and the first to include recently declassified FBI files

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow:  A Novel 

by Gabrielle Zevin

Sam and Sadie—two college friends, often in love, but never lovers—become creative partners in a dazzling and intricately imagined world of video game design, where success brings them fame, joy, tragedy, duplicity, and, ultimately, a kind of immortality.  It is a love story, but not one you have read before.

Stories of Books and Libraries (Everyman's Pocket Classics)

An enchanting book about books:  a beautiful anthology of stories that testify to the irresistible power of the written word

The Librarianist:  A Novel

by Patrick deWitt

The story of Bob Comet, a man who has lived his life through and for literature, unaware that his own experience is a poignant and affecting narrative in itself.