Episode 5: A World of Adventure
May 06, 2024, 08:46 PM
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This episode explores environmentalism, international history, and adventure.
Cheryl’s Books
Cheryl’s Books
- Smoke and Ashes: Opium’s Hidden Histories by Amitav Ghosh
- Windrush Child: The Tale of a Caribbean Child Who Faced a New Horizon by John Agard and illustrated by Sophie Bass
- Granny Came Here on the Empire Windrush by Patrice Lawrence and illustrated by Camilla Sucre
Mentioned
- The Ibis Trilogy by Amitav Ghosh
- Small Island by Andrea Levy
Jessica’s Books
- Birdgirl: Looking to the Skies in Search of a Better Future by Mya-Rose Craig
- When Among Crows by Veronica Roth
Mentioned
- The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man’s Love Affair with Nature by J. Drew Lanham
- Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World by Christian Cooper
- The Perseverance by Raymond Antrobus
Mari’s Books
- The Circuit: The Graphic Novel by Andrew Rostan
- The Mystery of Locked Rooms by Lindsay Currie
Mentioned
- I Was Their American Dream by Malaka Gharib
Segment on Re-Reading Books – Titles and Series Mentioned
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
- The Earthsea Series by Ursula K. Le Guin
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
- The Lord of the Rings Series J.R.R. Tolkien
- Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
- Beartown Series by Fredrick Backman
- Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
- The Secret History by Donna Tartt
- Somebody’s Horse by Dorothy Nafus Morrison
- Homesick: My Own Story by Jean Fritz
- The Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins