Book
Ragtime
Musical style that enjoyed its peak popularity between 1895 and 1919. Its cardinal trait is its syncopated or “ragged” rhythm.
This House of Sky
1978 memoir by Ivan Doig about the author’s early life in Montana.
The Auberge of the Flowering Hearth
Non-fiction food book by Roy Andries De GrootPublished in 1973, the book is about the time de Groot spent at an inn called L’Auberge de l’Atre Fleuri in St-Pierre-de-Chartreuse in the Savoy region of France, and about the good meals he ate there
Microbe Hunters
American microbiologist and author of Dutch descent
The Souls of Black Folk
1903 work of American literature by W. E. B. Du Bois