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January 2017 episode of Audio-Reader's Book Podcast program, with Book Squad librarians from Lawrence Public Library, Polli Kenn and Kate Gramlich.
Two Book Minimum:
In The Woods by Tana French
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Vern Yip’s Design Wise: Your Smart Guide to a Beautiful Home by Vern Yip
She Said / She Said:
In The Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
NEA Big Read / Read Across Lawrence
In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez transports us to the Dominican Republic in the mid-twentieth century when the country struggled under the brutal dictatorship of Rafael Leonidas Trujillo. A work of historical fiction, the novel honors the lives of Patria, Minerva, and María Teresa Mirabal, who became icons of freedom and women’s rights when they were assassinated in the autumn of 1960 for their role in the underground movement against Trujillo’s regime.