Reader's Advisory
Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight
By: Alexandra Fuller
A haunting memoir set in Africa, Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight, reads quickly and like a memory. Through this tale of “an African Childhood” the reader quickly feels a part of this family and begins to understand the chaos of politics of Southern Africa. Rebecca read more ...
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Genesis Alpha
By: Rune Michaels
Although this is a Young Adult book, I would highly recommend it to any reader who loves the “what if this happened to me?” questions. read more ...
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The Legend of Colton H. Bryant
By: Alexandra Fuller
My interest in this novel-biography was twofold: I am fascinated by the books of our award winning local author, “Bo” Fuller, and I was curious to see how she would tell the true story of this young Wyoming oil field worker. Her bulls-eye view of the land and skillful way to pull the reader into the soul of Colton, his family and friends, was superb. read more ...
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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
By: Barbara Kingsolver
Bananas on my cereal, red bell peppers in my stir fry, ginger for my tea. These food items grow nowhere near a mid-January winter in Jackson, WY, yet I have consumed each of these things during the past two days. While I am thankful daily for access to the nutritious foods that grace my table, I did not think about the resources necessary to journey a banana to my snow-covered home before reading this book. Barbara Kingsolver and her family moved to a farm in rural Appalachia from Arizona. They appointed themselves a seemingly simple challenge: to consume nothing ... read more ...
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Where I’m Calling From
By: Raymond Carver
Carver’s stories aren’t plot driven. Many times they are just snippets of life, mostly the sad ones. read more ...
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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier
By: John Le Carre
LeCarré at his best with an intellectual spy thriller with intrigue, oblique turns and twists, full of tempting hints and subtle blind leads. The main character is surprising as it borders on action adventure, George Smiley. An elderly, stodgy, semi-retired Englishman with a dull front to hide his brilliant mind. He works for the British Secret Service and their leader has just taken deathly ill and he was on the trail of a mole within their service. read more ...
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The Tibetan book of living and dying
By: Sogyal Rinpoche
For the curious and the seeker, the book is written to be accessible to the Western mind and those not well versed in Eastern religious traditions. Insightful and thought provoking, a good choice for a wintry day or two. Suzanne read more ...
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