St. Helena Public Library

Voices Collection

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Created to bridge the gap between historically underrepresented readers and writers, the Voices Collection endeavors to offer something for everyone, regardless of color, class, gender, belief, or ability. With 400 titles and growing, the books in this collection offer a balance between fiction and non-fiction, youth and adult.

Imagined and funded by local author and longtime library patron, Holly Hubbard Preston, the collection will serve as a springboard for future programming and further book acquisitions—all with the aim of fostering broader community representation and understanding. “I imagine the Voices collection being a mirror for some readers and a window for others,” said Preston who first came up with the idea for the collection while attending a literary conference in Brooklyn, New York, in September 2019. “For two straight days I listened to talented writers from every walk of life, sharing compelling stories I’d never really seen reflected on bookshelves anywhere.” Preston, who raised three readers in St. Helena, went home determined to find a way to connect the community with the underrepresented stories and voices she’d heard at the conference.

Voices Collection - Adult Fiction

Title: Afterlife : A Novel
Title: The House of Broken Angels
Title: Their Eyes Were Watching God : A Novel
Title: Invisible Man
Title: Song of Solomon
Title: Dominicana : A Novel
Title: Real Life : A Novel
Title: The Underground Railroad : A Novel
Title: Sing, Unburied, Sing : A Novel
Title: Such a Fun Age : A Novel
Title: The Sellout : A Novel
Title: Lost Children Archive : A Novel
Title: The Last Story of Mina Lee : A Novel
Title: Monkey Boy : A Novel
Title: A Lucky Man : Stories
Title: The Arsonists' City : A Novel
Title: The Bluest Eye
Title: On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous : A Novel
Title: A Long Petal of the Sea : A Novel
Title: Giovanni's Room
Title: Fruit of the Drunken Tree : A Novel
Title: The House on Mango Street
Title: Patsy : A Novel
Title: Native Son
Title: The Book of Unknown Americans : A Novel
Title: The Shape of the Ruins : A Novel
Title: Libertie : A Novel
Title: We Need New Names : A Novel
Title: Bastard Out of Carolina : A Novel
Title: Prayers for the Stolen : A Novel

Voices Collection - Adult Biography & Memoir

Title: The Devil's Highway : A True Story
Title: The Beautiful Struggle : A Memoir
Title: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Title: Black Boy : (American Hunger) : A Record of Childhood and Youth
Title: Rez Life : An Indian's Journey Through Reservation Life
Title: My Beloved World : A Memoir
Title: Rebel Chef : In Search of What Matters
Title: Undocumented : A Dominican Boy's Odyssey From a Homeless Shelter to the Ivy League
Title: How We Fight for Our Lives : A Memoir
Title: Willow Weep for Me : A Black Woman's Journey through Depression, A Memoir
Title: Real American : A Memoir
Title: The Fixed Stars : A Memoir
Title: Sissy : A Coming-of-Gender Story
Title: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Title: Reading with Patrick : A Teacher, a Student, and a Life-Changing Friendship
Title: The Distance Between Us : A Memoir
Title: A Dream Called Home : A Memoir
Title: Never Caught : The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge
Title: Just Mercy : A Story of Justice and Redemption
Title: Conditional Citizens : On Belonging in America
Title: The Rules Do Not Apply : A Memoir
Title: Solitary : Unbroken by Four Decades in Solitary Confinement. My Story of Transformation and Hope
Title: The Grace of Silence : A Memoir
Title: The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace : A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark For the Ivy League but Did Not Survive
Title: When They Call You a Terrorist : A Black Lives Matter Memoir
Title: The Woman Warrior : Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
Title: Fifty Miles From Tomorrow : A Memoir of Alaska and the Real People
Title: The Kikuchi Diary : Chronicle From an American Concentration Camp : The Tanforan Journals of Charles Kikuchi
Title: Sitting Pretty : The View From my Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body
Title: Black Man in a White Coat : A Doctor's Reflections on Race and Medicine
Title: A Hope in the Unseen : An American Odyssey From the Inner City to the Ivy League
Title: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Title: Good Talk : A Memoir in Conversations
Title: The Woman They Could Not Silence : One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear
Title: Untamed
Title: The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Title: Haben : The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law
Title: Disability Visibility : First-Person Stories From the Twenty-First Century
Title: Fun Home : A Family Tragicomic
Title: Men We Reaped : A Memoir
Title: The Death and Life of Aida Hernandez : A Border Story
Title: The Book of Rosy : A Mother's Story of Separation at the Border
Title: Minor Feelings : An Asian American Reckoning
Title: No Ashes in the Fire : Coming of Age Black & Free in America
Title: Mean
Title: Thinking in Pictures : And Other Reports From My Life with Autism
Title: Between Two Kingdoms : A Memoir of a Life Interrupted
Title: Speak, Okinawa : A Memoir
Title: The Deeper the Roots : A Memoir of Hope and Home

Voices Collection - Adult Non-Fiction

Title: Between the World and Me
Title: Hood Feminism : Notes from the Women that a Movement Forgot
Title: The Origin of Others
Title: The Possessive Investment in Whiteness : How White People Profit From Identity Politics
Title: Sister Outsider : Essays and Speeches
Title: The Ballot or the Bullet : [Speech] : 3rd April 1964
Title: White Fragility : Why it's so Hard for White People to Talk about Racism
Title: The New Jim Crow : Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Title: The Warmth of Other Suns : The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Title: Charged : The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration
Title: How to Be an Antiracist
Title: Stamped From the Beginning : The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
Title: Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee : An Indian History of the American West
Title: Biased : Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice that Shapes What We See, Think, and Do
Title: An African American and Latinx History of the United States
Title: Women, Race & Class
Title: This Land is Their Land : The Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the Troubled History of Thanksgiving
Title: Mediocre : The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America
Title: Me and White Supremacy : Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor
Title: If They Come in the Morning : Voices of Resistance
Title: Afropessimism
Title: Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee : The Illustrated Edition
Title: Uncomfortable Conversations With a Black Man
Title: Real Queer America : LGBT Stories From Red States
Title: Are Prisons Obsolete?
Title: A Terrible Thing to Waste : Environmental Racism and its Assault on the American Mind
Title: Chokehold : Policing Black Men
Title: I'm Still Here : Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
Title: The Undocumented Americans
Title: The Line Becomes a River : Dispatches From the Border
Title: So You Want to Talk About Race
Title: The End of Policing
Title: Finding Latinx: In Search of the Voices Redefining Latino Identity
Title: How the Word Is Passed : A Reckoning With the History of Slavery Across America
Title: How to Kill a City : Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood
Title: Racism : A Very Short Introduction
Title: Separate No More : The Long Road to Brown v. Board of Education
Title: The Souls of Black Folk : With "The Talented Tenth" and "The Souls of White Folk"
Title: This Is the Fire : What I Say to My Friends About Racism
Title: Twilight of Democracy : The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism
Title: Unapologetic : A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements
Title: We Are Not Yet Equal : Understanding Our Racial Divide
Title: Whistling Vivaldi : How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do
Title: The Stonewall Reader
Title: Race for Profit : How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership
Title: This Will Be My Undoing : Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America
Title: Algorithms of Oppression : How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
Title: Black, White, Other : Biracial Americans Talk About Race and Identity
Title: My Soul Looks Back in Wonder : Voices of the Civil Rights Experience
Title: The Myth of Race : The Troubling Persistence of an Unscientific Idea
Title: Trouble in Mind : Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow
Title: When Affirmative Action was White : An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America
Title: The Fire Next Time
Title: Care Work : Dreaming Disability Justice
Title: From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry : The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial that Galvanized the Asian American Movement
Title: Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? : And Other Conversations About Race
Title: Growing Up Poor : A Literary Anthology
Title: Demystifying Disability : What to Know, What to Say, and How to be an Ally
Title: Black Birds in the Sky : The Story and Legacy of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
Title: The Three Mothers : How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation

Voices Collection - Picturebooks

Title: Chocolate Me!
Title: Parker Looks Up : An Extraordinary Moment
Title: The Proudest Blue : A Story of Hijab and Family
Title: The First Step : How One Girl put Segregation on Trial
Title: Speak Up
Title: Whoever You Are
Title: You Matter
Title: Black is a Rainbow Color
Title: All Because You Matter
Title: The Undefeated
Title: Dreamers
Title: Julián is a Mermaid
Title: I am Jazz!
Title: Sulwe
Title: My Papi has a Motorcycle
Title: The Day You Begin
Title: Alma and How She Got Her Name
Title: Carmela Full of Wishes
Title: Jacob's New Dress
Title: Rise : From Caged Bird to Poet of the People, Maya Angelou
Title: This Day in June
Title: Just Like Me
Title: The Bell Rang
Title: Eyes That Kiss in the Corners
Title: Waiting for the BiblioBurro
Title: Islandborn
Title: Saturday
Title: Watercress
Title: Crown : An Ode to the Fresh Cut
Title: I Am Every Good Thing
Title: The Rabbit Listened
Title: The Other Side
Title: Where are You From?
Title: The Family Book
Title: I Believe I Can
Title: A is for Activist
Title: Lillian's Right to Vote : A Celebration of the Voting Rights Act of 1965
Title: Grandfather Gandhi
Title: Something Happened in Our Town : A Child's Story About Racial Injustice
Title: Stepping Stones : A Refugee Family's Journey
Title: What Can a Citizen Do?
Title: The Girl Who Thought in Pictures : The Story of Dr. Temple Grandin
Title: The Big Bad Wolf in My House
Title: A Friend for Henry
Title: Happy in Our Skin
Title: Painting for Peace in Ferguson
Title: Peaceful Fights for Equal Rights
Title: Six Dots : A Story of Young Louis Braille
Title: The Sound of Colors : A Journey of the Imagination
Title: Boy and a Jaguar
Title: My Three Best Friends and Me, Zulay
Title: Benji, the Bad Day, and Me
Title: Moses Goes to a Concert
Title: Slug Days
Title: Mango, Abuela, and Me
Title: Pride : The Story of Harvey Milk and the Rainbow Flag
Title: Thank You, Mr. Falker
Title: All the Way to the Top : How One Girl's Fight for Americans with Disabilities Changed Everything
Title: A Family is a Family is a Family
Title: The Fearless Flights of Hazel Ying Lee
Title: Hello Goodbye Dog
Title: Just Ask! : Be Different, Be Brave, Be You
Title: My First Day
Title: My Ocean is Blue
Title: The Oldest Student : How Mary Walker Learned to Read
Title: Susan Laughs
Title: Voice of Freedom : Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement
Title: Schomburg : The Man Who Built a Library
Title: What Can You do With a Paleta?
Title: Saturday at the Food Pantry
Title: Why are You Looking at Me? : I Just Have Down Syndrome
Title: My Travelin' Eye
Title: Nobody Owns the Moon
Title: Marisol McDonald Doesn't Match
Title: I Am Golden
Title: Change Sings : A Children's Anthem

Voices Collection - J Books

Title: Kid Activists : True Tales of Childhood from Champions of Change
Title: Inside Out & Back Again
Title: What Lane?
Title: Count Me In : A Novel
Title: 90 Miles to Havana
Title: Harbor Me
Title: Just a Drop of Water
Title: Ninth Ward
Title: Red Scarf Girl : A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution
Title: The Night Diary
Title: The Parker Inheritance
Title: Clean Getaway
Title: Brown Girl Dreaming
Title: From the Desk of Zoe Washington
Title: Merci Suárez Changes Gears
Title: New Kid
Title: Little Leaders : Bold Women in Black History
Title: Ghost Boys
Title: The Season of Styx Malone
Title: Esperanza Rising
Title: The First Rule of Punk
Title: The Only Black Girls in Town
Title: Stella by Starlight
Title: Hurricane Child
Title: One Crazy Summer
Title: Let's Talk About Race
Title: George
Title: The Misadventures of the Family Fletcher
Title: Finding Langston
Title: The Stars Beneath Our Feet
Title: My Life as an Ice Cream Sandwich
Title: Dark Sky Rising : Reconstruction and the Dawn of Jim Crow
Title: Dictionary for a Better World : Poems, Quotes, and Anecdotes From A to Z
Title: The Distance Between Us : Young Readers Edition
Title: For the Right to Learn : Malala Yousafzai's Story
Title: In the Shadow of Liberty : The Hidden History of Slavery, Four Presidents, and Five Black Lives
Title: Intersection Allies : We Make Room for All
Title: Not My Idea : A Book About Whitenes
Title: Number the Stars
Title: Rules
Title: Saga of the Sioux : An Adaptation of Dee Brown's Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Title: Sylvia & Aki
Title: Talkin' About Bessie : The Story of Aviator Elizabeth Coleman
Title: The Tequila Worm
Title: Separate is Never Equal : Sylvia Mendez & Her Family's Fight for Desegregation
Title: Woke : A Young Poet's Call to Justice
Title: Stamped (for Kids) : Racism, Antiracism, and You
Title: This is Your Time
Title: We are Still Here! : Native American Truths Everyone Should Know
Title: Yes! We are Latinos
Title: Bravo! : Poems About Amazing Hispanics
Title: The Benefits of Being an Octopus
Title: Finding Junie Kim
Title: I Am Not a Label : 34 Disabled Artists, Thinkers, Athletes and Activists From Past and Present
Title: Look Both Ways : A Tale Told in Ten Blocks
Title: Not So Different : What You Really Want to Ask About Having a Disability
Title: Red, White, and Whole
Title: Santiago's Road Home
Title: She Persisted in Sports : American Olympians Who Changed the Game
Title: The Talk : Conversations About Race, Love & Truth
Title: Tight
Title: Too Bright to See
Title: Turning Pages : My Life Story
Title: Unsettled
Title: We Belong
Title: While I Was Away
Title: Fish in a Tree : A Novel
Title: Shelter
Title: Starfish
Title: Song for a Whale
Title: Rain Reign
Title: The Year I Flew Away
Title: Macy McMillan and the Rainbow Goddess
Title: Get a Grip, Vivy Cohen!

Voices Collection - Teen Books

Title: Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom : My Story of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March
Title: All-American Muslim Girl
Title: They Called Us Enemy
Title: Sorted : Growing Up, Coming Out, and Finding My Place : A Transgender Memoir
Title: Don't Ask Me Where I'm From
Title: Out of Darkness
Title: Openly Straight
Title: Patron Saints of Nothing
Title: How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
Title: If You Come Softly
Title: Monster
Title: Technically, You Started It
Title: The Voting Booth
Title: Tyler Johnson was Here
Title: Warriors Don't Cry : A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High
Title: Stamped : Racism, Antiracism, and You
Title: The Hate U Give
Title: 1919 : The Year that Changed America
Title: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian : A Novel
Title: I am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
Title: Dear Martin
Title: Dear Justyce
Title: The Poet X
Title: Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
Title: On the Come Up
Title: Sabrina & Corina : Stories
Title: If I Was Your Girl
Title: Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me
Title: Rebound
Title: Dig
Title: Amina's Voice
Title: An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States for Young People
Title: Just Mercy : Adapted for Young Adults : A True Story of the Fight for Justice
Title: If I Ever Get Out of Here
Title: Superman Smashes the Klan
Title: A Young People's History of the United States : Columbus to the War on Terror
Title: Counting Down With You
Title: I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
Title: It's Not Like It's a Secret
Title: We Are Not From Here
Title: Speak Up! : Speeches by Young People to Empower & Inspire