We’re thrilled to announce the winner of the inaugural Pattis Family Foundation Chicago Book Award: Dawn Turner, author of Three Girls from Bronzeville, a bracing memoir that illustrates how race, class, and geography intersect to shape both communities and individual lives in Chicago. Turner will accept the award at a public event at the Newberry on July 30.

Make room on your bookshelves and mark your calendars for the return of the Newberry Book Fair. Browse thousands of used books in dozens of categories, including fiction, philosophy, history, art, cooking, children’s literature, and much, much more.

In Crossings, maps, guidebooks, travelogues, postcards, and more from the Newberry collection recreate travelers’ experiences along four historic routes: the northern and southern borders of the US, across the continent’s interior, and up and down the Mississippi River.

Ora Snyder presided over the candy empire you’ve probably never heard of. Snyder started Mrs. Snyder’s Home Made Candies in 1909, and it steadily grew and expanded across Chicago. The Ora Snyder papers, now at the Newberry, document her pioneering work making, marketing, and selling candy.