August 26th is Women’s Equality Day marking the passage of the 19th Amendment on August 26th, 1920 which gave women the right to vote.

Tasha Tudor illustrator and author was born August 28th, 1915 in Boston, Massachusetts. Her parents divorced when she was nine, her mother went to live in Greenwich Village and Tasha went to live with family friends. Tasha loved farm living and the old ways with no running water or electricity. She married in 1938 while in her early twenties, had her first book Pumpkin Moonshine published in 1938, had four children and after several years divorced. Tasha also did several works of art which was on Christmas Cards, Advent calendars and posters. She died on June 18th, 2008 in Marlboro, Vermont. We have her (B-2) Pumpkin Moonshine; (JNF) Take Joy!: The Tasha Tudor Christmas Book; The Spring of Joy; (NF) The Private World of Tasha Tudor.

August 29th, 1952 is the birth date of Karen Hesse, American author of children and young adult books often with historical settings. Born in Baltimore, MD she knew at the early age of ten that she was good with words and was encouraged by her fifth-grade teacher who thought she could be a professional writer someday. After her graduation from college, she married and had two children. Her book Wish on a Unicorn was published in 1991. We have her (JF) A Light in the Storm: The Civil War Diary of Amelia Martin; Stowaway; (YAF) Out of the Dust.

Books added to our shelves this week include: (F) One Good Deed by David Baldacci; Labyrinth by Catherine Coulter; Becoming Us by Robin Jones Gunn; Smokescreen by Iris Johansen; Old Bones by Douglas J. Preston; Contraband by Stuart Woods; (MF) Love and Death Among the Cheetahs by Rhys Bowen; The Bitterroots by C. J. Box; A Dangerous Man by Robert Crais; (RF) Far and Away by Fern Michaels; Under Currents by Nora Roberts; (SF) The Stiehl Assassin by Terry Brooks; The 49th Mystic by Ted Dekker; Rise of the Mystics by Ted Dekker; Pariah by W. Michael Gear.