by admin | Jun 14, 2019 | Novels - Adult, Novels - Young Adult
The Hate U Give is a 2017 debut novel and New York Times bestseller by Angie Thomas. Readers get to live alongside 16-year-old Starr Carter as she navigates her urban neighborhood of Garden Heights and the suburban Williamson Prep, where she attends school. A police... 
by admin | May 15, 2019 | Other Nonfiction
Melancholy Accidents: Three Centuries of Stray Bullets and Bad Luck by Peter Manseau Melancholy Accidents contains reprinted newspaper notices of unintentional shootings, then known as “melancholy accidents,” from 1739-1916, in chronological order. There is no single... 
by admin | May 15, 2019 | Other Nonfiction
SHOT: 101 Survivors of Gun Violence in America by Kathy Shorr The increasing ubiquity of gun violence has become the norm across the world and particularly in the United States, where we have begun to hear horror after horror on a daily basis. So much so that it has... 
by admin | May 15, 2019 | Poetry
This book features work by well-known poets, such as Natalie Diaz, Billy Collins, Danez Smith and more, in direct response to gun violence. Each poem is followed by a reflection from a GVP advocate, survivor, or political figure. Brian Clements, one of the editors, is... by admin | May 15, 2019 | Poetry
“4th of July: San Bernardino 2015” and “a few notes about public grief,” by Casandra Lopez at the feminist wire.