- The community reading program recommends titles to complement this year's book of choice, "Twelve Years a Slave" by Solomon Northup.
- Saratoga Reads has announced its choice of a junior discussion book and a list of eight other titles for young readers, selected to complement the program's designated book for this year--Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup--a harrowing account from the pre-Civil War era of the author's abduction into slavery and long struggle to regain freedom.