Your Song Changed My Life
by Bob Boilen
William Morrow
Music transports us. Sometimes a song takes us back to a pivotal time in our lives. Sometimes it captures the essence of our feelings and propels us into the person we want to be. It’s as if the artist is speaking directly to us in that one moment of time. Bob Boilen, creator and host of NPR’s All Songs Considered and Tiny Desk Concerts, compiles a list of artists who came at vital times in his life to make him the man he is today. He writes of these moments and goes deeper into the background of the artists and their own inspiration of the songs that made an impact on modern-day culture. (April 2016)
Escape to Virginia
by Robert H. Gillette
The History Press
“There is no way to protect oneself from the slicing blade of anguish, and when tragedy hits young people, the blow is devastating,” writes Robert Gillette in this book that follows two young German Jews, Werner T. Angress and Eva Jacobson, as they find a home at Gross Bressen, an agricultural vocational school that sets them up for a chance at freedom in the United States at Thalhimer’s Farm in Virginia. (February 2016)
