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2024 Great Reads for Adults

Happy Memorial Day! Hope you are having a nice weekend and enjoying a good book.

Did you see the Library of Congress's recommendation list?

The 2024 Great Reads for Adults are:

• Alabama: R. Scot Duncan, “Southern Rivers: Restoring America's Freshwater Biodiversity”
• Alaska: Melinda Moustakis, “Homestead: A Novel”
• American Samoa: Karen Wheat, “Pictures of Change in Paradise in American Samoa”
• Arizona: Melissa L Sevigny, “Brave the Wild River”
• Arkansas: Eli Cranor, “Ozark Dogs”
• California: Rosanna Xia, “California Against the Sea: Visions for Our Vanishing Coastline”
• Colorado: Vauhini Vara, “The Immortal King Rao”
• Connecticut: Ned Blackhawk, “The Rediscovery of America”
• Delaware: Marisa de los Santos, “I'd Give Anything: A Novel”
• District of Columbia: Nikki Payne, “Pride and Protest”
• Florida: Rebecca Renner, “Gator Country: Deception, Danger and Alligators in the Everglades”
• Georgia: David Bottoms, “A Scrap in the Blessings Jar: New and Selected Poems”
• Guam: Oliver Sacks, “The Island of the Colorblind”
• Hawaii: Mindy Pennybacker, “Surfing Sisterhood Hawaii: Wahine Reclaiming the Waves”
• Idaho: Jenny Tinghui Zhang, “Four Treasures of the Sky”
• Illinois: Jonathan Eig, “King: A Life”
• Indiana: Kaveh Akbar, “Martyr!”
• Iowa: Chris Jones,“The Swine Republic: Struggles With the Truth About Agriculture and Water Quality”
• Kansas: Susan Jonusas,“Hell's Half-Acre: The Untold Story of the Benders, a Serial Killer Family on the American Frontier”
• Kentucky: Crystal Wilkinson, “Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts: Stories and Recipes from Five Generations of Black Country Cooks”
• Louisiana: Maurice Carlos Ruffin, “The American Daughters”
• Maine: Marpheen Chan, “Moon In Full: A Coming of Age and Coming Out Story”
• Maryland: Susan Muaddi Darraj, “Behind You Is the Sea”
• Massachusetts: Tracy Kidder, “Rough Sleepers: Dr. Jim O'Connell's Urgent Mission to Bring Healing to Homeless People”
• Michigan: Dan Charnas,“Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, The Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm”
• Minnesota: Mona Susan Power,“Council of Dolls”
• Mississippi: Ellen Ann Fentress,“The Steps We Take: A Memoir of Southern Reckoning
• Missouri: Desideria Mesa,“Bindle Punk Bruja”
• Montana: Debra Magpie Earling, “The Lost Journals of Sacajewea”
• Nebraska: Debora Harding, “Dancing with the Octopus: A Memoir of a Crime”
• Nevada: Kim Foster, “The Meth Lunches: Food and Longing in an American City”
• New Hampshire: Nancy Clark: “The Hills at Home”
• New Jersey: Darnell L. Moore, “No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America”
• New Mexico: Darynda Jones, “Bad Day for Sunshine”
• New York: J.D. Salinger, “The Catcher in the Rye”
• North Carolina: David Joy, “Those We Thought We Knew”
• North Dakota: Jill Kandel, “The Clean Daughter: A Cross-Continental Memoir”
• Northern Marianas: Lino Olopai, “The Rope of Tradition: Reflections of a Saipan Carolinian”
• Ohio: Timothy G. Anderson and Brian Schoen (editors), “Settling Ohio: First Peoples and Beyond”
• Oklahoma: Sarah Elisabeth Sawyer, “Otis W. Leader: The Ideal American Doughboy”
• Oregon: Kim Johnson, “Invisible Son”
• Pennsylvania: Leon Ford (with Jeffery Renard Allen),“An Unspeakable Hope: Brutality, Forgiveness and Building a Better Future for My Son”
• Puerto Rico: Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa, “A Woman of Endurance” (English version) / “Indómita” (Spanish version)
• Rhode Island: Vanessa Lillie, “Blood Sisters”
• South Caroline: Robert Maynor, “The Big Game Is Every Night”
• South Dakota: Trent Preszler, “Little and Often: A Memoir”
• Tennessee: Major Jackson, “Razzle Dazzle: New and Selected Poems 2002-2022”
• Texas: Elizabeth Crook, “The Which Way Tree”
• U.S. Virgin Islands: Caldwell Trumbull, “The Lesson”
• Utah: Stacie Shannon Denetsosie,“The Missing Morningstar and Other Stories”
• Vermont: Kenneth M. Cadow, “Gather”
• Virginia: Mojgan Ghazirad, “The House on Sun Street”
• Washington: Matika Wilbur, “Project 562: Changing the Way We See Native America”
• West Virginia: Marc Harshman, “Following the Silence”
• Wisconsin: Thomas Pecore Weso, “Survival Food: North Woods Stories by a Menominee Cook”
• Wyoming: Michael Punke, “Ridgeline”

 

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Stacking The Shelves Saturday

Hi all,

Hope that you are having a good weekend! I am so excited about getting early access to these two books. Thank you publishers for the opportunity! 

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Waiting on Wednesday: What Happens in Idaho

Hi All,

Stopping by to let you know about a book that I am waiting on.

Author: Bonnie Jo Pierson
 
Summary from Goodreads:
Despite saving people's lives every day as a successful trauma surgeon, nothing can mend Dr. Liliana Chase's heart after the loss of her husband and baby girl. When her mother convinces her to come back to Clear Springs, Idaho, for the first time in seven years, she intends to make the visit as short as possible. What she didn't expect was to wreck her car while avoiding a cow with a death wish.

Blake Richardson, a mechanic and single dad, isn't used to helping fiery physicians, but he can't leave Lili planted in a potato field and facing off with a cow. He swears he'll never let another woman into his world after the way his ex-wife left him, but something about Lili keeps him from seeing her as just another big-city doctor.

While Lili is stuck waiting for her car to be repaired in the tiny rural town, she can't resist the pull Blake has on her. Blake's fun-loving and genuine personality might be enough to make her believe in love again. But there's a secret weighing heavily on Blake, and his connection to the death of Lili's family will force them both to confront their fears of loss and abandonment, or risk being alone forever.

A wholesome romance, What Happens in Idaho is perfect for fans of Nicolas Sparks and Jojo Moyes.

 

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Book Date: Funny Story

Happy Book Date Monday.

I just finished this one. Have you read it?

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Cat Thursday

Happy Cat Thursday! Hope you have a great day! 

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9 Years!

Happy 9 Years to this blog. What an amazing journey it has been! Thank you all for being here to celebrate with me! Lots of reasons to celebrate this week! 

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Happy LFL Week!

 

Is anyone else getting in on the bingo fun?!!

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Cat Thursday

For Cat Thursday, we are actually going to give a shout out to the new video game! I am so excited to give this one a try. Do you all play video games? Is this one you will be trying out?

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Book Date Monday: Rebel Rising

 

Hi Everyone,

Stopping by to share my current read. What are you all enjoying?

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Stacking the Shelves

Hi all,

Hope you are having a great weekend! Stopping by to share a few books that I have recently gotten access to. Special thanks to the publishers for allowing me to do so.
 

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