Download, read, and nominate your favorite titles for the June 2016* LibraryReads list! *Nominations are due April 20! Click here for the full list of 2016 deadlines. THE HOUR OF LAND: A Personal Topography of America’s National Parks by Terry Tempest Williams “Williams, an ardent, often rhapsodic, always scrupulous witness to the living world and […]
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Happy #BookBday (3/1/16 Edition)
Happy #BookBday to a terrific new work from a LibraryReads author and a powerful debut novel: THE LONELY CITY: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone by Olivia Laing An expertly crafted work of reportage, memoir and biography told through the lives of iconic artists, Laing (author of the LibraryReads pick THE TRIP TO ECHO […]
ALA Midwinter 2016 – Friday Events
It’s opening day for ALA Midwinter 2016! Come by the Macmillan (adult) booth #1806 and kick off a great conference by attending these events: ALA ERT/Booklist Author Forum with Terry Tempest Williams 4:00-5:15pm Boston Convention and Exhibit Center | BCEC Ballroom West Award-winning author Terry Tempest Williams will discuss her new book, THE HOUR OF LAND: […]
Macmillan Library @ ALA Midwinter 2016 (Booth #1806)
We’re ridiculously excited to see you in the Macmillan (adult) booth #1806 and at all of our great events at ALA Midwinter in Boston next month. Check out our schedule below and RSVP ASAP! Friday, January 8 ALA ERT/Booklist Author Forum with Terry Tempest Williams 4:00-5:15pm Boston Convention and Exhibit Center | BCEC Ballroom West Award-winning […]
Starred Reviews for When Women Were Birds
Terry Tempest Williams' unconventional and curious collection of essays, WHEN WOMEN WERE BIRDS: Fifty-four Variations on Voice, has already earned two starred reviews!
"Each book by ecologist, activist, and writer Williams is an event, so lucid, caring, spirited, and incantatory is her approach to the matrix of nature, place, culture, family, and sense of self. [...] Williams is transcendent in her piercing, musical, elegiac, and loving reflections on women’s lives and wilderness, light and shadow, words expressed and words unspoken and invisible." -Booklist (starred review)
"Williams, the sensitive author of REFUGE, is shocked to discover her deceased mother’s unwritten memoirs—shelves worth of blank pages. Under such unpromising circumstances commences a kaleidoscopic celebration and palimpsest—all metaphorical clichés but apt—on finding a voice and woman’s identity beyond the silenced, selfless existence informed by children and a husband—even a family brimming with love." —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Your patrons might also catch an excerpt of this one in O Magazine this May!
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