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Black History Month Book List 2026
Every February we return to this work — the work of reading carefully, listening well, and making room on our shelves for the stories that history ... -
Non-Fiction November 2025
Every November we take a breath, set down our fiction, and spend a month with the world as it actually is — which is, if we're honest, often strang... -
Black History Month Book List 2025
Black History Month is not a footnote. It is an invitation to read more carefully, more honestly, and more widely — to sit with stories and histori... -
Non-Fiction November 2024
There is a moment, usually somewhere in the middle of a great work of non-fiction, when you look up from the page and the world seems slightly diff... -
Black History – On This Day in 1959
This post — Black History – On This Day in 1959 — is part of the Hidden Shelf Publishing House blog. This piece was written by or about an author p... -
We are not makers of history. We are made by history.
Rachel Jan 16, 2022 9 min read “We are not made by history. We are makers of history.” – Dr. King Author Brian C. Johnson reflects on MLK an... -
The Warden's Son Book Release Party
Hidden Shelf Apr 26, 2021 6 min read FRIDAY, MAY 21, 2021 AT 5 PM PDT – 7 PM PDT The Warden’s Son Book Release Party Old Idaho Penitentiary ... -
Send Judah First Giveaway
Hidden Shelf Feb 25, 2021 8 min read Black History Historical Figures Martin Luther King, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Oluadah Equian... -
Dr. Anthony Todd Carlisle on Family Legacy
Hidden Shelf Feb 18, 2021 11 min read Dr. Anthony Todd Carlisle on Family Legacy Family When I think of family, I think of fragmentation. ... -
Non-Fiction November
Hidden Shelf Nov 23, 2020 24 min read As the spring blossomed into summer and assumptions of a temporary quarantine faded into a more dismal... -
Black History Month: Adult Book List
Hidden Shelf Feb 25, 2020 12 min read Black History Month: Adult Book List Earlier this month I talked about some of the things I look for w...
