Among the Hood Library’s recent acquisitions is But Will You Love Me Tomorrow?: An Oral History of the ’60s Girl Groups.

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.

All our new acquisitions are listed below.

• But Will You Love Me Tomorrow?: An Oral History of the ’60s Girl Groups

  by Laura Flam and Emily Sieu Leibowitz

  Rated by NPR, Rolling Stone, and Variety as one of the best books of 2023, the book features over 300 hours of interviews with 100+ subjects. Here are the stories of early these 60s groups, such as The Ronettes, The Shirelles, The Supremes, and Martha and the Vandellas.  Pictured: The Shangri-Las.

• The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year

  by Margaret Renkl

  In The Comfort of Crows, Margaret Renkl presents a literary devotional: fifty-two chapters that follow the creatures and plants in her backyard over the course of a year. With fifty-two original color artworks by the author’s brother, Billy Renkl, The Comfort of Crows is a lovely and deeply moving book from a cherished observer of the natural world.

• Lion and the Lamb

  by James Patterson and Duane Swierczynski

  The city is in a state of shock over the fate of two hometown heroes: Eagles starting quarterback Archie Hughes, and his even more famous wife, Grammy-winning singer Francine Hughes. One spouse is murdered. The other is suspect #1. Even before the case hits the courtroom, it’s the hottest ticket in town. 

   

• The Romantic: A Novel

  by William Boyd

  Cashel Greville Ross experiences more of everything than most, from the rapturous to the devastating, from surprising good luck to unexpected loss. Born in 1799, Cashel seeks his fortune across the turbulence of multiple continents, from County Cork to rural Massachusetts, from Waterloo to Zanzibar, embedded with the East Indian Army in Sri Lanka, sunning himself alongside the Romantic poets in Pisa. He travels the world as a soldier, a farmer, a felon, a writer, even a father.

• Knowing Him by Heart: African Americans on Abraham Lincoln

  Edited by Fred Lee Hord and Matthew D. Norman

  Though not blind to Abraham Lincoln’s imperfections, Black Americans long ago laid a heartfelt claim to his legacy. The selections in this anthology move from speeches to letters to book excerpts, mapping the changing contours of the bond, emotional and intellectual, between Lincoln and Black Americans over the span of one hundred and fifty years.