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Books Before Gardens | Wyatt’s World

By Neal Wyatt on May 17, 2013 Leave a Comment

Gardens in tiny spaces, how-tos on creating miniature worlds, arid, lush, and flower filled.

May Is Short Story Month | Wyatt’s World

By Neal Wyatt on May 10, 2013 Leave a Comment

Short story collections by award-winning authors Lily Tuck and Rebecca Lee, a first by novelist Marie NDiaye, and more from talented Ethan Rutherford and Valerie Trueblood.

Filed Under: Readers' Advisory, Wyatt's World Tagged With: All My Friends, Bobcat and Other Stories, Search Party: Stories of Rescue, The House at Belle Fontaine: And Other Stories, The Peripatetic Coffin and Other Stories

The Reader’s Shelf: May 1, 2013

By Neal Wyatt on May 6, 2013 1 Comment

An examination of recent winners of the Sophie Brody Medal, which demonstrate the importance of learning and memory in Jewish culture.

Filed Under: Reader's Shelf, Readers' Advisory Tagged With: jewish culture, RUSA, sophie brody medal

After The Great Gatsby | Wyatt’s World

By Neal Wyatt on May 3, 2013 Leave a Comment

Gatsby related titles to read and listen to before and after the movie.

Filed Under: Readers' Advisory, Wyatt's World Tagged With: Ernest Hemingway, Rules of Civility, The Great Gatsby, The Jazz Age, Zelda Fitzgerald

What To Brew, Mix, & Serve | Wyatt’s World

By Neal Wyatt on April 29, 2013 Leave a Comment

Classic cocktails, true brews, twists in tequila, slushes for a change? Every glass has a plot.

Filed Under: Readers' Advisory, Wyatt's World Tagged With: and Kombucha at Home, and More, Beer, cocktails, Cooking Light Chill: Smoothies, Drinks and Ices, Floats, Juices, Kefir, lj, Make Your Own Soda: Syrup Recipes for All-Natural Pop, Mead, Sake, Shakes, Slushes, Soda, Tequila Mockingbird: Cocktails with a Literary Twist, The Drunken Botanist, True Brews: How to Craft Fermented Cider, wine

The Ocean at the End of the Lane | RA Crossroads

By Neal Wyatt on April 23, 2013 Leave a Comment

Gaiman starts this month’s reading crossroads. Fairy tales and fantasy, battles of forces, good and evil, short stories and audiobooks! Selections for the imagination.

Filed Under: Featured, RA Crossroads, Readers' Advisory Tagged With: Erin Morgenstern, fairy tales, John Connolly, Neil Gaiman, Philip Pullman, Susanna Clarke

Surviving Genocide: Memoirs of the Unthinkable | The Reader’s Shelf, April 15, 2013

By Neal Wyatt on April 19, 2013 Leave a Comment

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The men and women who survived genocide and helped others to survive deserve our everlasting admiration. Their heroic, suspenseful, and inspirational accounts are harrowing but vitally important reading.

Filed Under: Nonfiction, Reader's Shelf Tagged With: genocide, memoirs, reader's advisory

Popular Science Writing | Wyatt’s World

By Neal Wyatt on April 19, 2013 Leave a Comment

At the intersection of insect sounds, dinosaurs, quantum mechanics, and Darwin to Einstein, these new popular science titles are for readers to build ideas from.