Downloadable Guide for Group Discussion and Classroom Use “[A] moving and substantial contribution to the literature of the changing contemporary Midwest, and a welcome reminder of the peace that open spaces and extended silences can confer.” —Washington Post Book World Kathleen Norris’s first nonfiction book, published in 1993, was praised by critics, writers, and [...]
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Atomic Farmgirl by Teri Hein
About the Author Teri Hein grew up on a wheat farm originally homesteaded by her great-grandparents in eastern Washington. In the years since she left home for college, she has led an adventurous life—teaching abroad, rafting the Grand Canyon, traveling to northwestern Pakistan, doing research in the Amazon jungle, and hiking above the Arctic [...]
Big Coal by Jeff Goodell
“[A] compelling indictment of one of the country’s biggest, most powerful, and most antiquated industries . . . well-written, timely, and powerful.” — New York Times “Big Coal should be read by anybody who owns a microwave, or an iPod, or a table lamp, which is to say everyone.” — Elizabeth Kolbert, author of [...]
The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan
A Conversation with Timothy Egan Why a book on the Dust Bowl now? The story of the people who lived through the nation’s hardest economic depression and its worst weather event is one of the great untold stories of the Greatest Generation. To me, there was an urgency to get this story now because [...]
Now is the Hour by Tom Spanbauer
About the Book “I love this book. The tale of Rigby John is rich with knowing—the prose is deft, funny, heartbreaking, and the story stays with you long after the last page is turned.” —A. M. Homes, author of This Book Will Save Your Life and The Mistress’s Daughter The year is 1967, and [...]
The Real Minerva by Mary Sharratt
About the Book A riveting, old-fashioned story with a modern spirit, Mary Sharratt’s The Real Minerva is the tale of three women forging their own paths in the midwestern farming community of Minerva, Minnesota. In 1923, as book-loving Penny enters adolescence, her mother pulls her out of school to go to work. Penny, the [...]
Crackpots by Sara Pritchard
About Crackpots “The writing is dazzling, yes, but Pritchard allows the pathos — and there’s a lot of it — to rise out of her sentences like a scent . . . In the middle of tragedy she makes you laugh out loud.” — New York Times Book Review “A passionate and absorbing novel [...]
Wild Decembers by Edna O'Brien
• A National Bestseller & a Book Sense ’76 Title “A page-turning narrative . . . as wildly beautiful and windswept as the country of her fiction.” —Elle “O’Brien is a storyteller, an Irish storyteller, one of an ancient tradition of storytellers, people who tell the truth.” —Thomas Cahill, Los Angeles Times Book Review [...]
Kit's Law by Donna Morrissey
Downloadable Guide for Group Discussion and Classroom use • Winner of the Canadian Booksellers Association First-Time Author of the Year Award “A stunning debut novel from a very talented writer.” —Telegraph (London) “Beautifully structured…Speaks directly to the heart.” —Globe and Mail (Toronto) “A cast of characters that fall into the category of unforgettable.” —Sunday [...]
