Earlier this month, the University of Minnesota’s Raptor Center hosted renowned biologist and speaker Dr. Thor Hanson for a talk on Feathers.
Thor Hanson, author of Feathers, Wows in Minnesota
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Ruta Sepetys, author of Between Shades of Gray, Honored by Lithuanian Government
Ruta Sepetys, author of Between Shades of Grey, and Out of the Easy, was awarded Lithuania’s Cross of the Knight of the Order by the president of Lithuania in a ceremony last month at the Presidential Palace in Vilnius.
The honor was bestowed on Sepetys in recognition for her novel Between Shades of Gray, which takes as its subject the tragic story of fifteen-year-old Lina Vilkas who is deported from Lithuania to Siberia in 1941 with her mother and younger brother. Sepetys has toured internationally for three years, presenting the novel and associated history in dozens of countries. The President commended “her continued global work sharing the little-known history of Stalin’s ethnic cleansing in the Baltic states of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia.” Between Shades of Gray has been published in 43 countries and 26 languages.
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Koethi Zan’s The Never List Adapted for Television
Koethi Zan’s international best-seller The Never List – a fast-paced novel about four kidnapped girls – will be adapted for television by CBS. Author-screenwriter AM Holmes (The End of Alice, The L Word) will pen the script, with Koethi Zan herself on board as a supervising producer. Koethi Zan, a former senior VP and deputy general counsel at MTV, found the inspiration for the book in the stories of captivity survivors: “These women have suffered through the absolute worst thing I can imagine and every one of them has demonstrated incredible strength in the wake of such trauma.”
Forrest Pritchard, author of Gaining Ground featured in Parade
Do family farms still matter? That’s the question taken up by ParadeI this week in their feature of Forest Pritchard, author of Gaining Ground: A Story of Farmers’ Markets, Local Food and Saving the Family Farm. Forrest Pritchard recounts his experiences on his own family farm, Smith Meadows, and how after seventeen years of both triumph and heartbreak, his business is stronger than ever. Even so, Forrest Pritchard reminds us that high-yield industrial agriculture still dominates the field. Only 1% of the country still lives on a farm, as opposed to 50% just two generation ago. Forrest Pritchard urges Americans to ask what they value about their food, and where it comes from, with hope that a new wave of farmers dedicated to sustainable agriculture can give us all better choices at the grocery store.
Lopez Island Library Welcomes Karen Joy Fowler, author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
The Lopez Island Library caught a rare opportunity to host New York Times bestselling author Karen Joy Fowler earlier this month.
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Richardson Reads Draws Almost 1,500 Participants, Best Program in 10 Year History!
Richardson Texas packed the house last month for a visit from Markus Zukas, international bestselling author of The Book Thief. With almost 1,500 participants over three events, the Richardson Reads event as universally acknowledged by the event organizers as the best program in its 10 year history!
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Welcome to Margot Mifflin, author of The Blue Tattoo
Author, journalist, and professor: Margot Mifflin’s stories and interests take her into the realm of taboo and outsiders as she explores the stories of women and the tattoos they wear.
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Welcome Jo Robinson, Author of Eating on the Wild Side
Jo Robinson is a bestselling, investigative journalist who has spent the past 15 years scouring research journals for information on how we can restore vital nutrients to our fruits, vegetables, meat, eggs, and dairy products. Her new book, Eating on the Wild Side: The Missing Link to Optimum Health, extends her expertise to reclaiming the lost nutrients of fruits and vegetables. The book has received stellar reviews and has been featured in Bon Appetit, Prevention, Health, Fitness, Epicurious, Oprah’s “O”, Mother Earth News, and Redbook. Jo has also appeared on several national television programs.
Songs of Willow Frost by Jamie Ford Released to Advance Praise
Jamie Ford’s much-anticipated second novel, Songs of Willow Frost, was released this month to advance praise. Set against the backdrop of Depression-era Seattle, this historical novel is a powerful tale of a Chinese-American boy with dreams for his future, and a young woman trying to escape her haunted past and the cultural confines of her race. With many “teachable moments” embedded throughout this story of hope, forgiveness, and reaching for your dreams, Songs of Willow Frost is a wonderful book for students, and will appeal to a wide community audience.
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Biographies vs. Beach Books: Trends in All Campus Reads Selections
In the last decade, common reading programs have become a mainstay for library programming, literary organizations, and college campuses. The rise in First Year Experience, Freshman Reads, and All Campus Reads programs seems to correspond to the decline of core curricula in higher education — as colleges distance themselves from core curricula they find that students still need to have something in common academically. Books in common type programs on campuses have been a convenient answer to that need.
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