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Tag Archives: Pick of the Week

Natalie’s Pick of the Week: Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of The Karluk

Are you a fan of survival stories? Do you enjoy reading about maritime disasters? Arctic expeditions? If you answered yes to any of those questions, have I got a book for you! EMPIRE OF ICE AND STONE : THE DISASTROUS AND HEROIC VOYAGE OF THE KARLUK by Buddy Levy will have you on the edge…

2 weeks ago January 17, 2023 in Read - Watch - Listen.

Natalie’s Picks of the Week: In Love: A Memoir Of Love And Loss by Amy Bloom and Unspeakable: Surviving My Childhood And Finding My Voice by Jessica Willis Fisher

Trigger warning: this post will discuss two different books. Terminal disease and assisted suicide are discussed in one and childhood sexual abuse is discussed in the other.

December 13, 2022 in Read - Watch - Listen.

Jo’s Pick of the Week: Thistlefoot by GennaRose Nethercott

Imagine learning that you inherited a house from your great-grandmother. However, this isn’t just any home. It has a mind of its own and walks on giant chicken legs. That is the premise of GennaRose Nethercott’s weird, wacky debut novel, Thistlefoot. It pays homage to Baba Yaga, a supernatural being who appears in many Russian…

November 29, 2022 in Read - Watch - Listen.

Natalie’s Pick of the Week: How To Speak Whale: A Voyage Into the Future of Animal Communication by Tom Mustill

While there’s still a long way to go before we’re conversing with animals, scientists are hard at work at making the possibility a reality.

November 8, 2022 in Read - Watch - Listen.

Jo’s Pick of the Week: The Many Daughters of Afong Moy

Jamie Ford movingly explores the fascinating premise that trauma can be passed down from generation to generation in his fourth novel, The Many Daughters of Afong Moy. Afong Moy was the first Chinese woman known to set foot on American soil in 1836. She was forced to entertain on the stage as “The Chinese Lady.”…

October 25, 2022 in Read - Watch - Listen.

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