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Author: Julie Nelson

Fact or Fiction: The family business

June 20, 2022

Julie recommends an engaging novel about 3 generations of a restaurant family & a touching memoir about a family deli.

Lost in the Stacks: Chosen – a Memoir of Stolen Boyhood

June 7, 2022

Julie reviews a new nonfiction book about one man’s experience with childhood trauma.

Fact or Fiction: Sylvia Plath

May 16, 2022

Julie recommends reads that will draw you in to the life of a brilliant, complicated woman.

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The Reel World: Mothers and daughters

May 14, 2022

Discover compelling documentaries that explore the complex relationship between mothers & daughters.

Lost in the Stacks: Funny Farm

May 3, 2022

Find lots of stories about quirky animals & the plucky, freckled dynamo who cares for them.

Fact or Fiction: Facing execution

April 15, 2022

Julie recommends suspenseful books about guilt, innocence and redemption.

Lost in the Stacks: Life in the margins

April 5, 2022

Julie recommends a book that explores the lives of street children & shows their suffering as well as their dreams.

Fact or Fiction: The Romanov Dynasty

March 29, 2022

Julie recommends books that will immerse you in the last, catastrophic years of the grand duchesses of Russia.

Lost in the Stacks: Ogallala aquifer farewell

March 2, 2022

Explore what the depletion of the Ogallala aquifer means for the land & the people of the Plains.

Fact or Fiction: For the love of Gatsby

February 24, 2022

Julie recommends a retelling of The Great Gatsby with a murder mystery twist & a gorgeous love letter to the classic.

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The Reel World: Best documentaries of 2021

February 21, 2022

Julie recommends three moving and powerful documentaries.

Lost in the Stacks: Alaskan adventure

February 14, 2022

Ride shotgun with a female ice road trucker on one of the deadliest highways in America.

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