Megan Mayhew Bergman’s twelve stories capture the surprising moments when the pull of our biology becomes evident, when love or fear collide with good sense, or when our attachment to an animal or wild place can’t be denied.
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Just got in these gorgeous new notecards. They proclaim, “Cambridge, New York,” and feature the rainbow, brown, and brook trout on one and the black-capped chickadee on the other.
Inquiring minds want to know! Here are the books I mentioned on air this morning: Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail Cheryl Strayed I don’t regularly read memoir, but something about Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed really captured my interest. At the outset [...]
Hailed as one of the year’s top five novels by Time, and selected as one of the best books of the year by nearly all major newspapers, national bestseller Peace Like a River captured the hearts of a nation in need of comfort.
The last remaining orange tree on a Southern California street brings together neighbors of all ages as they face their problems and anxieties, including the possibility that a mysterious stranger is a threat to their tree.
Using examples that resonate as powerfully on the Right as on the Left, “Republic, Lost” not only makes clear how the economy of influence defeats the will of the people, but also offers cogent strategies to correct our course–from a constitutional convention to a Regent Presidency.
Karen Russell is young and talented, and has been given just about every age-appropriate honor there is–Best Young American Novelists, 20 Under 40, 5 Under 35. The bewitching “Swamplandia!” is a tremendous achievement for anyone, period. . . . Effortless prose and [a] small, beautifully drawn cast of characters . . . as densely organic as the swamp in which it is set.”
–Keith Staskiewicz, ” Entertainment Weekly,
