Read Across Lawrence highlights kindness themed reads
The Lawrence Public Library repeats its annual community read with Wonder by RJ Palacio as the shared title. It also spotlights Dare to Be Kind by Lizzie Velasquez Born to Be Good by Dacher Keltner and Kindness Boomerang by Orly Wahba, plus keynote by Velasquez at Lied Center.
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Lawrence Public Library
RJ Palacio
Lizzie Velasquez
Dare To
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Lied Center
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Dacher Keltner
Keltner
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley
Orly Wahba
Wahba
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Best-Seller Week Highlights Major Picks Across Genres
Pub lishers Weekly lists top titles for the week ending March 4. In hardcover fiction Kristin Hannah’s The Great Alone leads, with Patterson Fox and Finn also dominating. Hardback nonfiction includes Mary Hyman Food and Maria Shriver Ive Been Thinking, among others.
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L. “the Great
Kristin Hannah
St. Martin’s Press
James Patterson
Candice Fox
Little, Brown
A.J. Finn
William Morrow
Tayari Jones
Algonquin Books
Celestig
Penguin
Lisa Wingate
Ballantine
Jojo Moyes
Wviking
Dorman
Joanne Fluke
Kensington
Lisa Gardner
Dutton
John Hart
Dan Brown
Doubleday
Hendricks/Pekkanen
Mary Hyman
Maria Shriver
Pamela Dorman
Jordan B. Peterson
Random House Canada
Michael Wolff Cholt
Michelle McNamara
Harper
Tara Westover
Random House
Haylie Pomroy
Harper Wave
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Obama
Pete Souza
Steven Pinker
Viking
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Norton
David Grann
Gary Vaynerchuk
Harper Business
William H. McRaven
Grand Central Publishing
Alex Abramovich
Shelf Life 2 Vivid Historical Fiction Picks for Anglophiles
Kimberly Lopez reviews two England set novels for Anglophiles. The Fair Fight by Anna Freeman follows Ruth and Charlotte as they navigate class, wealth, and gender in late 18th century England. As Meat Loves Salt by Maria McCann portrays Jacob during the English Revolution with vivid brutal realism and complex sympathy.
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Charlotte
Maria McCann
Jacob
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