text: An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by a woman of soul and substance who has steadily defied expectations—and whose story inspires us to do the same. New [11/9/18] review here.
  Mrs. Obama was on 20/20, interviewed by Robin Roberts, the link to the interview here. [you may need to sign in with your cable provider...]
  NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks with Barbara Kingsolver about her novel "Unsheltered," where a dilapidated Victorian house, family fortunes in decline and the pressures of middle age all converge.
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  In her stunning memoir, the freelance writer tracks the story of her own adoption, from when she was born premature and spent months on life support to the decision, while pregnant with her first child, to search for her birth family. Growing up the only person of color in an all-white family and neighborhood in a small Oregon town, Chung felt out of place. Her writing is vibrant and provocative as she explores her complicated feelings about her transracial adoption and the importance of knowing where one comes from. A lovely new [9/27/18] review in The Seattle Times.
  “American Wolf” tells the tale of O-Six, a Yellowstone alpha female who was known as the “most famous wolf in the world“. As author and environmental activist Rick Bass writes in The New York Times Book Review, it also tells the story of the people who love and hate the wolves (which were reintroduced to the Rockies in recent decades), and the complex politics of the West surrounding them.
  All the information is here: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/arts/the-october-pick-for-the-pbs-newshour-new-york-times-book-club-is-american-wolf
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  An initial review in The SeattleTimes from September 5, 2018, is here. "Bob Woodward’s ‘Fear’ is damning, depressing — and heartening ..."
  An editorial by Leonard Pitts Jr., journalist at the Miami Herlad, syndicated columnist, published in The Seattle Times on Sundays. His September 13, 2018 column here: "Will Bob Woodward help upend another presidency?"
  A new [8/31/18] review in The Seattle Times: Patrick deWitt's “French Exit” begins with an irresistible bang: We meet two insanely rich people, who are about to become insanely broke. The pair, who live in eccentric seclusion in a lavish apartment on New York’s Upper East Side, clearly aren’t going to handle an impoverished life very well.
  Jill Lepore on Writing the Story of America (in 1,000 Pages or Less). New review in the New York Times here.
  What Doris Kearns Goodwin thinks Trump could learn from Lincoln’s ‘hot letters.' A review in The Washington Post here.
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  Staff recommended: Part noir thriller and part bromance, follow Obama and Biden fighting sinister forces. A cathartic read for these times. Fun! ~ Susan
  Staff recommended: Mary Kay strongly recommends THERE THERE by Tommy Orange, an outstanding and much reviewed first novel about the Native American experience in contemporary Oakland, CA.
  Stirring and enraging, “The Hate U Give” squeezes the air from your lungs. Bleak and heavy, it’s also hopeful and joyous. A palpable manifestation of suppressed anger and frustration too powerful to ignore, it offers a complex look at a complicated problem, one screaming to be addressed.
  Audrey Wells’ script necessarily streamlines events — there’s more space on the page than on film. And as we always say: The book is better than the movie!
  This cultural atlas, full of compelling infographic visuals, includes this one, entitled "Novel Niches" in which novels are arranged by genre and linked to subject matter.
  Alphonso Davies’ newly fattened wallet is probably a little thinner today, while his Vancouver Whitecaps teammates’ will also be a little plumper.	
  Johnny Football became Jean Football when the Hamilton Tiger-Cats traded him to the Montreal Alouettes this week.	
  Sitting in a Philadelphia hotel room, not far above a crowded, electrified lobby awash in a sea of red jerseys and German accents, Nick Huoseh and Alphonso Davies pressed the pause button on life.	
  The peanut gallery sat behind the glass on exercise bikes, popping their heads through the door of the UBC training centre gym every once in a while to shout out a few sing-song jokes toward the swarm of media surrounding Alphonso Davies.	
  Owen Hargreaves, whose name is nearly verboten in Canadian soccer circles, may have been part of what could be its biggest player success.	
  There aren’t many players who can stand in front of Alphonso Davies. The same can be said for the Vancouver Whitecaps.	
  Rumours continue to swirl about a deal that would send the teenage star of the Vancouver Whitecaps to an elite European soccer club, but teammates say Alphonso Davies isn’t letting success go to his head.	
  Canada will learn its qualifying road for the 2019 Women’s World Cup at the Sept. 4 draw in Miami for the 2018 CONCACAF Women’s Championship.	
  Rarely, even in those heated derby rivalries, will one team publicly deride another. It’s disrespectful, and runs the risk of becoming that most dreaded of sound bites — an aggrieved team’s bulletin board material — and the purest of motivations for the next meeting.	
  As a former national team youth coach, Sean Fleming understands the importance of coaching development in getting Canada back to the FIFA World Cup.	
  With the conclusion of the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia, Canadian men’s national team head coach John Herdman can get to work on trying to qualify for the next tournament.	
  The World Cup’s final match is set, as Cinderella side Croatia faces France on Sunday. Croatia is the smallest nation to reach the final since Uruguay did it in 1950.	
  TORONTO — Canadians of Croatian descent are eagerly anticipating the World Cup final that will see Croatia go up against France, saying the game will mark a moment of immense pride for fans of the team.	
  Jason Burt: And so the team looks ahead with their reputations enhanced and a realization that England might just be better than people thought	
  In a tournament dominated by goals from set pieces, France scored when Samuel Umtiti scored off Antoine Griezmann's corner kick	
  England, the 1966 World Cup champion, last reached the semifinals in 1990. In 2014, the team didn't even make it out of the group stage