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Sep

6

2018

Where the Crawdads Sing

Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

Truly, one of the best books I’ve read all year! The writing is beautiful and tender in this coming of age, love story, and mystery novel. This is the first novel by New York Times best-selling non-fiction writer and wildlife scientist Delia Owens (John Burroughs Medal for Nature Writing), and the way she describes the natural world …

Jul

25

2018

Ordinary Extraordinary Jane Austen

Ordinary Extraordinary Jane Austen: The Story of Six Novels, Three Notebooks, a Writing Box, and One Clever Girl by Deborah Hopkinson

This quaint and beautifully illustrated children’s book is sure to capture the heart of any Jane Austen fan. It is the story of young Jane, growing up in a house bustling with activity, her nose buried in books from her father’s impressive library. It tells of her passion for writing, her independent spirit, and the …

Jul

19

2018

On Tyranny

On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder

The lessons that can be learned from our past struggles for democracy are unending, but consider this pocket-sized book a concentrated primer.  Holocaust scholar Snyder’s 20 prescriptions bring into focus a better understanding of inequality, offer warnings against fascist ideologies and patterns, and create priorities for resistance: Investigate. Listen for dangerous words. Be calm when the …

Jul

2

2018

Life Lessons Harry Potter Taught Me

Life Lessons Harry Potter Taught Me by Jill Kolongowski

For those of us who love Harry Potter (and there are a LOT of us), the magic never truly ends. We re-read the books. We watch the movies for maybe the hundredth time (and I might not be exaggerating). We find camaraderie and instant connections with fellow Potterheads who also believe in love, magic, and forever friendship. …

May

30

2018

A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo (Better Bundo book)

A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo written by Jill Twiss, illustrated by EG Keller

“Stink bugs are temporary. Love is forever.” When a lonely boy bunny living in the White House falls in love with another boy bunny, they decide to get married! John Oliver’s surprise reveal of this adorable children’s book on the Last Week Tonight show is not just a political satire, but a beautifully illustrated story of tolerance, democracy, …

May

28

2018

The Overstory

The Overstory by Richard Powers

National Book Award-winner Richard Powers (Orfeo) has crafted an epic environmental novel about the Pacific Northwest timber wars in the in the 1990s and the impending destruction of the last of the old-growth forests, whose trees might otherwise help save the earth. In the first half of the book, Powers devotes individual chapters to the lives …

May

9

2018

Outlander

Outlander by Diana Gabaldon

Outlander is a timeless tale about Claire Randall — a 1946 WWII nurse who travels back in time through a circle of stones in the Highlands of Scotland. The year is now 1743: English soldiers hunt Highlanders and Claire lands in the hands of Clan Mackenzie, and is forced to marry the young Jamie Fraser for …

Apr

11

2018

Red Clocks

Red Clocks by Leni Zumas

In Zumas’s all-too-familiar dystopia set in a small Oregon coastal town, Roe v. Wade has been overturned. The narrative explores the complexity of childbearing — both the desire for and not for — and the reduction of a woman’s identity to such choices, braiding together the perspectives of a pregnant teen, a single teacher who …

Jan

31

2018

Hope in the Dark

Hope in the Dark by Rebecca Solnit

Every morning lately, it seems we wake to a bleaker world than the one we inhabited yesterday. Fortunately, Rebecca Solnit has been keeping an eye out for little pinpricks of light, untold or forgotten kindnesses that quietly continue to make our world a good, compassionate place. From grassroots movements to spontaneous personal sacrifices, Solnit’s subjects …

Jan

19

2018

2

remarks

Corinna Luyken

Coming Home: An Essay by 2018 PNBA Award Winner
Corinna Luyken

I never planned on moving so much. For almost twenty years, my husband (and eventually our daughter) and I have been moving every few years. To a new house, a new county, a new town.  All the while trying to figure out which, of all these places, to call home. We weren’t locals anywhere, not …

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