Nancy Pearl is a librarian with an action figure modeled in her likeness; author of the Book Lust series; a regular commentator about books on NPR’s “Morning Edition” and a former bookseller. She recently joined forces with Amazon to create the Book Lust Rediscoveries series, which will bring out-of-print books back into circulation. The partnership …
NPR featured a story recently about the rise of books on the topic of “nostalgia and reclaiming older, more refined ways of life in the modern world.” They featured three “elegantly old school” books: Home Economics: Vintage Advice and Practical Science for the 21st-Century Household by Jennifer McKnight Trontz; Let’s Bring Back: An Encyclopedia of Forgotten-Yet-Delightful, …
Novelist Kaleb Nation talks about his crush on Gayle Forman’s ya crossover novel If I Stay (Dutton, 2009) as part of NPR’s You Must Read This series. If I Stay, set in Oregon, is narrated by a 17-year-old cellist who hovers between life and death after a car accident kills her family. “I hadn’t planned on …
