Book Birthdays celebrate one year of a book’s life in tweets, reviews, and more. This month we’re saying Happy First Book Birthday to Baseball’s Endangered Species (Nebraska, April 2023) by Lee Lowenfish. About the Book: In Baseball’s Endangered Species Lee Lowenfish explores in-depth … Continue reading Happy Book Birthday to Baseball’s Endangered Species
Awards Continental Reckoning by Elliott West has won Columbia University’s Bancroft Prize! Reviews Cast Out of Eden Review in Foreword Reviews: “A revealing biography, Cast Out of Eden details the hypocrisy, cruelty, and astonishing achievements of John Muir.” Biblical Women … Continue reading News & Reviews
Book Birthdays celebrate one year of a book’s life in tweets, reviews, and more. This month we’re saying Happy First Book Birthday to Two Open Doors in a Field (Backwaters Press, March 2023) by Sophie Klahr. About the Book: The poems … Continue reading Happy Book Birthday to Two Open Doors in a Field
Upcoming Author Events Sidney Thompson will be giving a talk during the Memphis Area Authors’ Festival at 2pm on April 6th, 2024. Join Gail Shaffer Blankenau for Lunch @ the Library on Wednesday, April 4th, at 12:10pm. She will discuss … Continue reading News & Reviews
Book Birthdays celebrate one year of a book’s life in tweets, reviews and more. This month we’re saying Happy First Book Birthday to Skywalks: Robert Gordon’s Untold Story of Hallmark’s Kansas City Disaster (Bison Books, March 2023) by R. Eli Paul. … Continue reading Happy Book Birthday to Skywalks
Upcoming Author Event Michael Devine will be giving a book talk at the National Archives: Harry S. Truman Presidential Library on Thursday March 14th from 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. CST. Find out more here! Reviews Inside the Mirror Starred Review in Booklist: … Continue reading News & Reviews
Reviews A New Deal for Quilts Review in The Literate Quilter: “In her Preface, Smucker connects Pandemic quilt making to the past and in the last chapter includes examples of Pandemic quilts, demonstrating how quilters respond to current events and … Continue reading News & Reviews
Book Birthdays celebrate one year of a book’s life in tweets, reviews, and more. This month we’re saying Happy First Book Birthday to Continental Reckoning: The American West in the Age of Expansion (University of Nebraska Press, February 2023) by Elliott … Continue reading Happy Book Birthday to Continental Reckoning
Reviews The Book of Revolutions Review in Catholic Biblical Quarterly: “In sum, F.’s exemplary reader-friendly work of critical biblical scholarship respects traditional approaches in demonstrating that pluralism, not singularity, better explains the origins of the Torah, its conflicting teachings, and … Continue reading News & Reviews
ICYMI Changing Woman by Venetia Hobson Lewis was nominated as a Semi-Finalist for the 2023 Laramie Book Awards. Salish and Kootenai Indian Chiefs Speak for Their People and Land, 1865-1909 was selected by the American Library Association as one of … Continue reading News & Reviews
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