Library

Ocean Heights Presbyterian Church
Social Justice Library
Located in Conference Room
September 2023


Check Out Instructions
*Books may be picked up on Sundays, immediately after worship, as well as during office hours.
*Books can be checked out for two weeks.
*Please return your book to the “Book Return” bin located in the conference room.
NOTE: **Read with a responsible adult.
Book Listings

Environmental Justice
Children
Not for me, please! I choose to act green; author Maria Godsey; illustrated by Christoph J
    Kellner.  2019.  Children
Picturing God; author and illustrator Ruth Goring; 2019.  Children
For the Beauty of the Earth;  Folliott Sandford Pierpoint.  Illustrator Lucy Fleming.  2017. 
The Fabulous World That God Made;  Joyce K. Ellis with illustrations by Andrés F. Landazábal.  2019.  Children
We Are Water Protectors.  Written by Carole Lindstrom; Illustrations by Michaela Goade.  2020.
Young Adults
No One Is Too Small To Make A Difference; Greta Thunberg.  2019.  Young Adult
A Long Walk To Water.  Linda Sue Park.  2010.  Ages 10 – 12.
Adults
Climate Justice:  Hope, Resilience, and the Fight for a Sustainable Future; Mary Robinson. 2019.
The End of Nature;  Bill McKibben.  2006.
Love In A Time Of Climate Change:  Honoring Creation, Establishing Justice.  Sharon Delgado.  2017.
A Watered Garden.  Christian Worship and Earth’s Ecology.  Benjamin M. Stewart.  2011. 
Drawdown; The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed To Reverse Global Warming.   Edited by:  Paul Hawken.  2017.
Christ in a grain of sand – An Ecological Journey With The Spiritual Exercises;  by Neil Vaney, SM.  1993.
Longing for Running Water:  Ecofeminism and Liberation; by Ivone Gebara.  1999.
On The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal.  Naomi Klein.  2020. 
How To Avoid A Climate Disaster  - The Solutions We Have And The Breakthroughs We Need. 
  Bill Gates.  2021.

Racial Justice  
Children
Freedom Soup.  Tami Charles, Illustrator: Jacqueline Alcántara; 2019.  Recipe included.
God’s Dream.  Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Douglas Carlton Abrams; Illustrator:  LeUyen Pham. 2008. 
AntiRacist Baby.  Ibram X. Kendi;  Illustrator Ashley Lukashevsky.  2020.  Board. 
When God Made You.  Matthew Paul Turner; Illustrator David Catrow.  2017.
Children and AntiRacism Tool Kit – Presbyterian Mission.
Young Adults
This Book Is Anti-Racist – 20 Lessons On How To Wake Up, Take Action, And Do The Work.  Tiffany Jewell; Illustrator Aurélia Durand.  2020.  Ages 11 and Up.
Not My Idea – A Book About Whiteness.  Written and Illustrated by Anastasia Higginbotham.  2018.  Ages 8 – 12 years. 
An Indigenous Peoples’ History Of The United States.  Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz.  2014.
Adapted for Young People. (Located In Adult Section of Library)
Stamped – Racism, Antiracism, and You.  Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi.  2020. Ages 13 and up and Grades 7 and up.
Look Both Ways – a tale told in ten blocks.  Jason Reynolds.  2019.  Ages 10 – 14; Grades 5 – 9. 
**The Talk.  Darrin Bell. 2023.
Adults
Stony The Road – Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and The Rise Of Jim Crow.  Henry Louis Gates, Jr.  2019.
How To Be An Antiracist.  Ibram X. Kendi.  2019.
Braiding SweetGrass – Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants.  Robin Wall Kimmerer.  2013.
Good White Racist?  Confronting Your Role in Racial Injustice.  Kerry Connelly.  2020.
White Fragility – Why It’s So Hard For White People To Talk About Racism. Robin Diangelo. 2018.
Caste – The Origins of Our Discontents.  Isabel Wilkerson.  2020.
An Indigenous Peoples’ History Of The United States.  Roxanne Dumbar-Ortiz.  2014.
The Sum Of Us – What Racism Costs Everyone And How We Can Prosper Together.  Heather McGhee.  2021.
On Juneteenth.  Annette Gordon-Reed.  2021.
Between The World And Me.  Ta-Nehisi Coates.  2015.
The Talk.  Darrin Bell. 2023.
LBGTQIA Justice
Children
The Fabulous World That God Made;  Joyce K. Ellis with illustrations by Andrés F. Landazábal.  2019.
Young Adults
A Quick & Easy Guide to They/Them Pronouns; by Archie Bongiovanni & Tristan Jimerson.  2018.
**All Boys Aren’t Blue:  A Memoir-Manifesto; by George M Johnson; 2020. Ages 14 – 18 Years.
**Fun Home:  A Family Tragicomic; by Alison Bechdel; 2006; Ages 15 and Up.
**This Book Is Gay; by Juno Dawson; 2015; Ages 14 – 17 Years.
Adults
A Quick & Easy Guide to They/Them Pronouns; Archie Bongiovanni & Tristan Jimerson.  2018.
Shame-Less:  A Sexual Reformation;  Nadia Bolz-Weber.  2019.
Modern Kinship:  A Queer Guide to Christian Marriage;  David & Constantino Khalaf.  2019.
Queer Theologies – the basics; Chris Greenough.  2020
Other Wise Christian – a guidebook for transgender liberation; Mx. Chris Paige.  2019.
Bodies on the Verge – Queering Pauline Epistles;  Edited by Joseph A. Marchal.  2019.
Holy Love – A Biblical Theology For Human Sexuality;  Steve Harper.  2011.
“Mom, I’m Gay” – Loving Your LGBTQ Child and Strengthening Your Faith;  Susan Cottreall.  2016.
Dear Church – A Love Letter From A Black Preacher To The Whitest Denomination in the U.S.; Lenny Duncan.  2019.
One Coin Found- How God’s Love Stretches To The Margins; Emmy Kegler.  2019.
The Savvy Ally – A Guide for Becoming a Skilled LGBTQ+ Advocate.  Jeannie Gainsburg.  2020.
Becoming Nicole:  The Transformation of an American Family.  Amy Ellis Nutt.  2015.  Winner of the Pultizer Prize
She’s Not There – A Life In Two Genders; Jennifer Finney Boylan, 2003.
Gender Queer – A Memoir; by Maia Kobabe; 2022; Ages 18 and Up.


War and Peace

Youth
**Maus:  A Survivor’s Tale; by Art Spiegelman, 1991; Ages 15 – 18 Years.
Adult
Trigger:  The Ripple Effect of Gun Violence.  2013; Presbyterian Church, USA.




Food Justice

Adults
Black Food Geographies:  Race, Self-Reliance, and Food Access in Washington, D.C,.  Ashantè M. Reese.  2019.
Farming While Black – Soul Fire Farm’s Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land.  Leah Penniman.  2018.
Black Food Matters:  Racial Justice in The Wake of Food Justice.  Hanna Garth and Ashantè M. Reese.  2020.
Franchise The Golden Arches in Black America.  Marcia Chatelain.  2020.

Activist Justice
Adults
Activist Theology.  Robin Henderson-Espinoza.  2019.

Immigration Justice
Adults
Separated – Inside an American Tragedy.  Jacob Soboroff.  2020.
This Land Is Our Land – An Immigrant’s Manifesto.  Suketu Mehta.  2019.

Grant Writing
Adults
Projects That Matter:   Successful Planning Evaluation for Religious Organizations by Kathleen A. Cahalan.  2003.

Below is a list of available books that can be borrowed from the Social Justice Library, organized by category.