Below is a list of all of our recommendations from our first episode of our podcast Papercut! If you haven't listened yet click here!
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Read:
Doctor Sleep
In the Shadow of BlackBirds 
Toil & Trouble
​The Diviners
The Need
Night Film
​The House With A Clock in its Walls
The Appearance of Annie Van Sinderen
Life With the Afterlife: 13 Truths I Learned About Ghosts
The Witches of Worm
The Exorcist

​Watch:
Charmed
​Ghost Hunters
​The Outsider
​The Day After
​Salem's Lot
​Hocus Pocus
​The Orphanage
​The Others
​Hellier
Scream
The Witch
​Pan's Labyrinth
Hereditary

The Woman's Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote
She Votes: How U.S. Women Won Suffrage, and What Happened Next
​The Woman's Suffrage Movement
African American Women in the Struggle for the Vote, 1850-1920
Women, Race & Class
Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells
Mr. President, How Long Must we Wait? Alice Paul, Woodrow Wilson, and the Fight for the Right to Vote

Watch:
Perfect 36: When Women Won the Vote
Ida B. Wells: A passion for Justice 
No More Coresets: The New Woman

There is a new season of the Great British Baking Show! Rejoice! 
Want to bake like them? Below you will find a list of books that you can put on hold to check out by the stars/winners of the show!

Paul Hollywood's Pies and Puds
​A Baker's Life: From Childhood Bakes to Five Star Excellence 
​Baking With Kim-Joy: Cute and Creative Bakes to Make You Smile
​The Cardamom Trail: Chetna Bakes with Flavours of the East 
Fast Cakes: Easy Bakes in Minutes
​ Cooking With Mary Berry 
The Great British Bake off: How to Turn Everyday Bakes into Showstoppers
The Great British Bake Off Big Book of Baking 

If you enjoyed our program with Dr. Martin - check out her upcoming books! 
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Introduction to Africana Demography 
The Religion of White Rage: Religious Fervor, White Workers and the Myth of Black Racial Progress

Read:
The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States
The Hidden History of the War on Voting: Who stole Your Vote, and How to Get it Back
Unrigged: How Americans are Battling Back to Save Democracy
​What You Need to Know About Voting and Why
This is What Democracy Looked Like: A Visual History of the Printed Ballot
​Let the People Pick the PResident: The Case for Abolishing the Electoral College

Watch:
Voting Paradoxes

Read:
The Ella Fitzgerald Companion: seven decades of commentary
Ella Fitzgerald: a biography of the first lady of jazz
A Biographical Guide to the Great Jaxx and Pop Singers

Watch:
​Ella Fitzgerald: The Tale of a Vocal Virtuosa

Listen:
​The Complete Piano Duets
Cheek to Cheek
Someone to Watch Over Me
Ella Fitzgerald

 Books:
Edward Hopper: a fresh look at landscape
Edward Hopper: A-Z
Edward Hopper: Paintings & Ledger Book Drawings
Edward Hopper in Vermont
​Edward Hopper: An Intimate Biography
​My Dear Mr. Hopper
Hopper Drawing 

Audiobooks:
In Sunlight or in Shadow: Stories Inspired by the Paintings of Edward Hopper

Visual Media:
​Edward Hopper (DVD)
​Hopper's Silence (DVD)
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Our prison system is a racist system. African Americans are incarcerated at a rate that is more than 5 times the rate that whites are imprisoned. Please join us for a community conversation about the racial disparities in our prison system, and how our prison system fails to address underlying issues such as trauma, drug addiction, poverty.

This list compliments our September 10, 2020 program: Race & Mass Incarceration

The New Jim Crow - Michelle Alexander
​Just Mercy - Bryan Stevenson
​The Color of Law - Richard Rothstein
​The Fire this Time - Jesmyn West, ed.
The Fire Next Time - James Baldwin
If Beale Street Could Talk - James Baldwin
Blood in the Water - Heather Ann Thompson
Are Prisons Obsolete? - Angela Y. Davis
Locking Up Our Own - James Forman
Waiting for an Echo - Christine Montross
Becoming Ms. Burton - Susan Burton
Assata - Assata Shakur
Solitary - Albert Woodfox
The Sun Does Shine - Anthony Hinton

Films to stream and borrow:
Broken on All Sides
The Prison in Twelve Landscapes
​Central Park Five
​Central Park Five (DVD)
​Just Mercy 
​If Beale Street Could Talk

August 22nd is Earth Overshoot Day this year – the calculated date when humanity’s demand for resources exceeds what Earth can regenerate in that year. That overshoot turned out to be later (better) than expected because of COVID-19 - we will have used fewer resources this year than we would have otherwise.

This list is in conjunction with our program : The Positives of COVID-19 Through the Lens of Earth Overshoot Day. 

The Limits To Growth - Donella Meadows
​The Age of Sustainable Development - Jeffrey Sachs
​The Green New Deal: Why the Fossil Fuel Civilization Will Collapse by 2028 - Jeremy Rifkin

Documentaries to Stream:
Riverblue
​No Impact Man 
Deep Green

This list is in conjunction with our Nyack Eats series. This video showcases the Market on Main Brisket Sandwich from our very own Hudson Market on Main Street!

The Brisket Chronicles 
My Mother's Brisket and Other Love Songs
Project Smoke