Digital magazines help maintain New Year resolutions via library access
Melody Dworak of the Iowa City Public Library suggests using Zinio to access digital magazines that support common resolutions such as losing weight saving money and getting organized. She notes free library card access and recommends specific titles for diet finance organizing and culture, inviting readers to visit icpl org zinio for guidance and to start 2014 with a plan.
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Iowa City Public Library
Icpl.org
Zinio
American Poetry Review
New York Review of Books
Publishers Weekly
Reader’s Digest
Iowa City
Patchett's essays illuminate connection and self
Rob Cline reviews Ann Patchett's This is the Story of a Happy Marriage noting her deft essay writing across outlets from Seventeen to Gourmet. He highlights two standout pieces about RV travel rekindling love and a LAPD mentor father, praising Patchett's intimate, resonant voice throughout.
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Seventeen
New York Times
the Bark
Patchett
Hell
Los Angeles Police Department Academy
LAPD
Ann Patchett’s Happy Storytelling Essay Collection Reviewed
Newsday frames Ann Patchett’s This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage as a humane, witty nonfiction collection. It covers her path from Seventeen to Iowa Writers’ Workshop, anecdotes about travel and writing life, family, and a famed Clemson Episode, celebrating a writer who blends optimism with honesty.
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Ann Patchett
Sarah Lawrence College
Iowa Writers’ Workshop
Alice Hoffman
Patchett
Disney
Los Angeles
Clemson University
Lucy Grealy
Local Best Sellers List Highlights Diverse Reads
The list showcases ten titles across memoir, history, fiction, and cookbooks led by acclaimed authors. Notable entries include The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt and One Summer by Bryson, with works spanning O'Connor Bayard Fay Dicks Borzo Mast and Yousafzai.
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O'Connor
America
Bryson
Timothy” Bayard
Ark” Johnson
Fay
Prairie Lights Books Fiction and Non Fiction List
A catalog of ten fiction titles led by Cross My Heart and Takedown Twenty followed by Sycamore Row Doctor Sleep King and Maxwell and other best sellers. The nonfiction section includes Killing Jesus Things that Matter David and Goliath and Guinness World Records 2014 among others.
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Heart” Patterson
Evanovich
Jesus
O'Reilly/ Dugard
Krauthammer
David and
Goliath
Gladwell
Kilmeade
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