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Lisa Gresham

CDN Contributor

Whatcom County librarians’ most-loved books of 2024

Four reads to add to your 2025 TBR list

Dec. 15, 2024 9:00 p.m.

Review: ‘Crow Talk’

Uplifting novel shows how connection with others — human and avian — can be healing

Nov. 26, 2024 10:00 p.m.

Book review: ‘Wolfish: Wolf, Self, and the Stories We Tell About Fear’ by Erica Berry

Author explores how fear fits into the American cultural unconsciousness

Oct. 8, 2024 10:00 p.m.

Review: ‘Group Living and Other Recipes’ by Lola Milholland

Food memoir/recipe book provides an alternative perspective on home and family

Sept. 16, 2024 10:00 p.m.

Best book club reads for summer 2024

Four highly discussable novels, as curated by the Whatcom County Library System

Aug. 13, 2024 10:00 p.m.

Review: ‘Arctic Traverse: A Thousand-mile Summer of Trekking the Brooks Range’ by Michael Engelhard

Memoir acts as love letter to wild, remote Alaskan mountains

July 21, 2024 10:00 p.m.

Review: ‘I Cheerfully Refuse’ by Leif Enger

Master storyteller will present new dystopian novel at Village Books on June 14

June 7, 2024 10:00 p.m.

Review: ‘Here With You: A Memoir of Love, Family, and Addiction’ by Kathy Wagner

Author recounts her son's struggle with opioids in searingly intimte memoir

May 5, 2024 10:00 p.m.

Review: ‘Find Yourself at Home: A Conscious Approach to Shaping Your Space and Your Life’ by Emily Grosvenor

Book explores how intentional living spaces influence wellbeing

March 24, 2024 10:00 p.m.

Review: ‘Cold Victory’ by Karl Marlantes

Political intrigue, friendship and a cross-country ski race in Northern Finland

Feb. 13, 2024 10:00 p.m.

Review: ‘The Ways of Water’ by Teresa H. Janssen

A coming-of-age story inspired by the author's grandmother

Jan. 8, 2024 5:00 a.m.

Review: ‘A Fever in the Heartland’ by Timothy Egan

Racism, history and the Ku Klux Klan

May 22, 2023 5:05 a.m.