Enoch Pratt Free Library

Come Join Our Hip Hop Dance Class! 

October 6th and 27th at 4 p.m. at the Washington Village Branch Library. Learn the latest hip hop dance moves from professional dancers.

Want to be cost-effective these days?  Don’t buy a book?  Come to the Washington Village Branch to browse and checkout some of the books by either your favorite author or be introduced to a new author.

Smash Cut                                Sandra Brown

Resurrecting Midnight               Eric Jerome Dickey

Michael Jackson                       J. Randy Taraborrelli

“The Magic, The Madness, The Whole Story”

Washington Village Branch library shelves are chock-full of faith-based African-American novels.  So, why not visit us and checkout one or maybe two of our inspirational novels? You will not be disappointed! 

You can reserve books from us or request books from other Branches.

Come to the Washington Village Branch to browse and checkout some of the books by either your favorite author or be introduced to a new author. This month we are recommending African American Authors who write in the Mystery Genre.

One of the most prolific writers of the 20^th and 21^st century is Walter Mosley.  He is renowned for his Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlings, black private investigator series, the Protagonist, which was published from 1990 to 2007 to his current character Leonid McGill, New York City, Black Private Detective in the 2009 publication of  “The Long Fall.”

Here are a few of his books that we recommend  that are excellent reading!!

Devil in the Blue Dress                                      Easy Rawlings series

A Red Death                                                    Easy Rawlings series

White Butterfly                                                  Easy Rawlings series

Bad Boy Brawly Brow                                      Easy Rawlings series

Blonde Faith                                                     Easy Rawlings series

Fearless Jones                                                  Fearless Jones  series

The Long Fall                                                   Leonid McGill  series

Other African-American  MysteryAuthors we recommend are:                                                                           

Lemon City                                                      Elaine Merly Brown

Death, Deceit and some  smooth  jazz              Claudia Mair Burney

Pretenses                                                         Keith Lee Johnson       

So stop by and “Check Them Out!”  You can reserve a book (s) from us or request the

book(s) from other Branches.