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Animal Dreams (Paperback)
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Description
"Animals dream about the things they do in the day time just like people do. If you want sweet dreams, you've got to live a sweet life." So says Loyd Peregrina, a handsome Apache trainman and latter-day philosopher. But when Codi Noline returns to her hometown, Loyd's advice is painfully out of her reach. Dreamless and at the end of her rope, Codi comes back to Grace, Arizona to confront her past and face her ailing, distant father. What the finds is a town threatened by a silent environmental catastrophe, some startling clues to her own identity, and a man whose view of the world could change the course of her life. Blending flashbacks, dreams, and Native American legends, Animal Dreams is a suspenseful love story and a moving exploration of life's largest commitments. With this work, the acclaimed author of The Bean Trees and Homeland and Other Stories sustains her familiar voice while giving readers her most remarkable book yet.
About the Author
Barbara Kingsolver's work has been translated into more than twenty languages and has earned a devoted readership at home and abroad. In 2000 she was awarded the National Humanities Medal, our country's highest honor for service through the arts. She received the 2011 Dayton Literary Peace Prize for the body of her work, and in 2010 won Britain's Orange Prize for The Lacuna. Before she made her living as a writer, Kingsolver earned degrees in biology and worked as a scientist. She now lives with her family on a farm in southern Appalachia.
Author Signing During Art Walk!
During ART WALK on May 17th, from 5-8 pm, Poor Richard's Books will host Margaret Jeffiers with her cookbook, Whatever the Season, Roll Out the Crackers. She has written a cookbook on crackers out of her love for bread-making. "I thought I was a pretty good bread maker but since crackers are basically similar to bread, I thought I would alter the ingredients some and see if I could come up with good crackers." After experimenting and having friends and family try them over the years, she decided to 'take the plunge' and write and publish a cookbook. And, yes, there will be fabulous, unique crackers to prove her point. (Mark from our staff can tell you his favorite cracker and dip recipes.)
Margaret is supposed to be retired but in addition to being a cracker artisan, she is also a part-time water aerobics instructor at Falling Springs Recreation Center in Versailles.
Run for the Posies
Christian Huggins, AKA Spiderman, placed THIRD in his ride for Poor Richard's Books in the Second Annual Run for the Posies! The Run for the Posies is a bicycle race that takes part on Derby Day, sponsored by Folkbike Recyclery and Downtown Frankfort, Inc. This 2 minute ride is unique in that the bicycles are all 20 inch wheeled, making it somewhat difficult for the jockeys who must be at least 21 years old to ride. Our bike this year was a Spiderman bike!
Frankfort Book Club Selections
Absent-Minded Book Club....................Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain
Ashwood Place Book Club....................Secrets of Eden by Chris Bohjalian
Bluegrass
Bookends............................Code Name Verify by Elizabeth Wein
Breakfast with a Book..........................Nickel & Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
BYOB................................................Cathy's Voice by Arthur Fleischmann
Capitol Ladies Book Club ....................Little Bee by Chris Cleve
Dinner and a Book Club.......................no book this month:May
Frankfort Bookworms...........................Bringing Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
Friends Book Club................................no book this month: May
Happy Endings Book Club.....................Saturday by Ian McEwan
Hildegard’s Proteges............................Mud Bound by Hillary Jordon
Hungry Minds......................................The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas
Kentucky Authors................................O The Clear Moment by Ed McClanahan
Mayas Book Club.................................Six Years by Harlan Coben
Mystery Readers Book Club...................Copycat Killing by Sophie Kelly
Novel Friends Book Club.......................The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
Outer Limits Book Club.........................Nexus by Ramez Naam
Sisterhood Book Club...........................Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrandd
Thornhill Book Club..............................Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
UBC Unlikely Book Club........................Blue Asylum by Kathy Hepinstall
Clubs open to new members:
Ashwood Place Book Club, Rachel Warren, 223-5551.
Capital Ladies Book Club, Debbie Kimbrough, 695-7039
Thornhill Learning Center, Patti Crittenden, 223-1317
Outer Limits Book Club, Mark Roberts, junktoart@gmail.com
