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 University of Saskatchewan Pilots First Indigenous Storyteller-in-Residence By Lisa Peet The University of Saskatchewan Library (USask), Saskatoon, recently wrapped up its inaugural Indigenous Storyteller-in-Residence program. The pilot project appointed Lindsay “Eekwol” Knight, an award-winning hip-hop artist and PhD student at the USask Department of Indigenous Studies, to a six-week library residency. |
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 2021 Southern Book Prize Winners Announced | Book Pulse By Mary Bakija Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir by Natasha Trethewey, The Prettiest Star by Carter Sickels, and I Am Every Good Thing by Derrick Barnes and illustrated by Gordon C. James, are the 2021 Southern Book Prize winners. Plus, the Authors Guild sent a letter to the new administration calling for, among other things, the creation of a new Federal Writers Project. |
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 Bingeable Shows Worth the Subtitles By Robin Bradford Television shows with subtitles are not only an accessible way to immerse yourself in another culture, they also allow you to truly focus on what's in front of you and notice the finer details. |
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| "Being a storyteller, you’re automatically open to those who want to tell their stories, especially when you have a topic like identity. There’s not a human being alive that doesn’t have identity stories." | | |
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 The Four Winds and Four Hundred Souls Top Bestsellers Lists | Book Pulse By Mary Bakija Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 edited by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain tops the NYT nonfiction list and is at No. 8 on the USA Today list. The finalists for the 2021 PEN America Literary Awards are out, with winners to be announced April 8. |
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SPIRITUALITY & RELIGION
PREMIUM Pillars: How Muslim Friends Led Me Closer to JesusBy Rachel Pieh Jones Jones’s pensive reflections will call into question readers’ unexamined notions about Islam and Christianity. A thoughtful approach to interfaith dialogue. |
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 ACADEMIC BESTSELLERS: Business & Economics By LJ Reviews Capital and Ideology, Voter Suppression, Why We’re Polarized, and more in politics and law titles: February 2020 to date as identified by GOBI Library Solutions from EBSCO. 1. Capital and Ideology. Piketty, Thomas Belknap Harvard 2020. ISBN 9780674980822. $39.95 2. Uncounted: The Crisis of Voter Suppression in America. Daniels, Gilda R. New York University Press 2020. ISBN 9781479862351. $30.00 3. Why We're Polarized. Klein, Ezra Simon & Schuster 2020. ISBN 9781476700328. $28.00 |
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