Welcome members and friends of the Pasadena Village. We are pleased that you have found our mention of our readings of interest and are happy to introduce you to our beloved and highly regarded local bookseller, Vroman's Bookstore, where you will be able to find all the books that we have referred to on our website. In the section below, you can find a list of the books we have mentioned with a link back to our website to see in what context the book was discussed.
Breaking the Age Code: How Your Beliefs About Aging Determine How Long and Well You Live (Paperback)
Based on solid research, it is a heartening book about how, by changing our age beliefs, we can enhance the quality of our physical, mental, and emotional health.
Pasadena Village Event Blog Post: CHANGING OUR AGE BELIEFS
The anthology features compelling writings by black child sexual abuse survivors, advocates, and Simmons’s mother who underscores the detrimental impact of parents/caregivers not believing their children when they disclose their sexual abuse.
Pasadena Village Event Blog Post: BLACK MAN OF HAPPINESS PROJECT
Roberta Martinez is a local activist and author who has written a comprehensive history of the Latino experience in Pasadena.
Pasadena Village Event Blog Post: LATINOS IN PASADENA
Part memoir, science, history, and philosophy, the author explores the life of the most mysterious of creatures, the eel.
Pasadena Village Event Blog Post: THE PASADENA VILLAGE BOOK CLUB
Historical fiction based on the life of JP Morgan’s personal librarian. Belle da Costa Greene began her career in the Princeton library with a specialty in medieval manuscripts before being hired by Morgan. Her life is complicated because she is Black passing as White.
Pasadena Village Event Blog Post: THE PASADENA VILLAGE BOOK CLUB
The book is a collection of short stories about the female ancestors of the author and her husband. The book was written for the couple's three daughters and details the hardships of a white, poor, immigrant family and the experiences of the descendants of enslaved ancestors.
Pasadena Village Event Blog Post: EOLDN, SCOTUS & "ONE CITY, ONE BOOK"
Beginning in his hometown of New Orleans, Clint Smith leads the reader on an unforgettable tour of monuments and landmarks—those that are honest about the past and those that are not—that offer an intergenerational story of how slavery has been central in shaping our nation’s collective history, and ourselves.
Pasadena Village Event Blog Post: MY FATHER'S DREAM COME TRUE?
The author guides us through her improbable journey forged in the harsh realities of the Jim Crow South as she determines to be triumphant in her rise into academic medicine.
Pasadena Village Event Blog Post: VITAL SIGNS ARE STABLE, DR. MELBA SWAFFORD
A novel based on historic events and many years of research of a Japanese American family and their struggles after release from Manzanar to America during World War II.
Pasadena Village Event Blog Post: THE PASADENA VILLAGE BOOK CLUB
An illuminating history of North America's eleven rival cultural regions that explodes the red state-blue state myth.
Pasadena Village Event Blog Post: FINAL MEETING OF 2021
This book is described as “A ghostly feminist fable”. A cleaning woman who works at an art museum and desires not only to keep the art clean but the time to learn, research and study the art. She eventually finds a way.
Pasadena Village Event Blog Post: RECENTLY READ BOOKS
An African American family and a White family find through DNA testing that they are actually related.
Pasadena Village Event Blog Post: UNDERSTANDING HISTORY
For curious readers who want a glimpse into the life of migrants trying to escape their hellish lives. It is an inspiration to explore other stories like this one of other cultures who have experienced this type of journey.
Pasadena Village Event Blog Post: REVIEW: AMERICAN DIRT
Dr. Foster will be a guest speaker at a future 1619 Project Discussion Session talking about his book and his thoughts about a future for America.
Pasadena Village Event Blog Post: CRITICAL RACE THEORY?
A deep look into modern China and a protagonist who overcame many obstacles to foster understanding and cooperation between two completely different worlds, China and the United States.
Pasadena Village Event Blog Post: NANCY PINE - BEYOND THE VILLAGE
An African American author’s struggles and triumphs from Willard Straight Hall at Cornell University to a Wall Street business leader revealing an amazing American History of the past fifty years.
Pasadena Village Event Blog Post: 1619 PROJECT - NOVEMBER 20
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A runaway horse’s adventures and insights into “the human life”.
Pasadena Village Event Blog Post: PERESTROIKA IN PARIS: BOOK REVIEW