Emily M. Danforth’s The Miseducation of Cameron Post has been named the winner of the 2012 Montana Book Award, sponsored by Friends of the Missoula Public Library. The book was reviewed last year on the Literary Duck Blog, from the University of Oregon Duck Store. Here’s an excerpt from Mandi Harris: “Do you remember what …
Wondering what to get Mom this Sunday? The booksellers at the Literary Duck offer this curated set of Mother’s Day recommendations here at the store’s blog. They include Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman; The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks; The Dressmaker of Khair Khana; Lady Almina and the Real Downtown Abbey; Mrs. Kennedy and …
“This is a true page-turner with two alternating stories of misfit Americans in Africa. The first is a gifted young scientist sent by a pharmaceutical corporation to find a specific plant that will be made into a wonder drug. The second is a young man sent to build the railroad that will make the colonization …
“I fell hard in love with Cheryl Strayed’s Wild, which describes her solitary hike of the Pacific Crest trail when she was 26. What a BRAVE book! I was drawn to it on several levels: first, my own memories of monumentally Stupid Things I Had Done in my 20′s—things that I was lucky to have survived. …
“Laugh-out-loud funny and poignantly close to the bone, this memoir reads like a stand-up’s monologue. Written by up-and-coming comedian Chris Gethard, A Bad Idea I’m About To Do is a coming-of-age story for nerdy boys who grew up in the `90s, covering everything from first love to colonics, from police chases to serious mental illness, …
“If you’re looking for a quirky character, meet Blue van Meer. She’s the adoring daughter of a brilliant college professor. She and her father traipse all over the United States, exploring, learning, reading and keeping to themselves. During Blue’s senior year of high school, they move to North Carolina, where Blue, for the first time …
“I enjoyed this personalized biography of Georgia O’Keeffe, which is more an examination of the artist as outsider than of her outsider art. Told in an entertaining style, the book takes us back to the making of this icon and gives us a glimpse of just how difficult it was for O’Keeffe to forge her …
Day 18 brings us another of our favorite hometown authors and yet another engaging list that we couldn’t get through on a first read because we had to stop and scribble her gift ideas on our personal lists. Cecelia Hagen’s most recent collection of poetry is Entering, which was published this fall by Airlie Press, a …
Mandi Harris is the self-proclaimed “fiction fashionista” at the University of Oregon Duck Store. She started there in the book department while she was an English major at the university—and has been slinging books for four years. “Being surrounded by books and working alongside people who love them has made me extremely spoiled,” she says. “Plus, …
