Episode 31: Dinosaurs and Compelling Fiction

We’re joined by Mark N., from our Tech Services department, to talk fun finds and fascinating reads.

Cheryl’s Books:  
Keeper of My Kin: Memoir of an Immigrant Daughter by Ada Ferrer
Mare: A Novel by Emily Haworth-Booth

Mentioned: 
Cuba: An American History by Ada Ferrer
Books by Stephen “Steve” Brussatte
These Precious Days: Essays by Ann Patchett
The Yellow House: A Memoir by Sarah M. Broome
Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore by Elizabeth Rush

Jessica’s Books:   
The Story of Birds: A New History from Their Dinosaur Origins to the Present by Steve Brusatte
Whistler by Ann Patchett

Mentioned: 
Mother Tongue by Sara Nović
Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
Trash!: A Garbageman's Story by Simon Pare-Poupart

Mari’s Books:   
Landslide by Betty Culley
Chickens and Other Dinosaurs: How Dinosaurs Became the Birds We Know Today by Ben Lerwill

Mentioned: 
I Used to Be a Dinosaur by Casey Lyall and Laurie Keller 
Lena the Chicken: (But Really a Dinosaur!) by Linda Bailey
Chickens Aren’t the Only Ones: A Book about Animals that Lay Eggs by Ruth Heller

Mark N.’s Books:
Winning the Earthquake: How Jeannette Rankin Defied All Odds to Become the First Woman in Congress by Lorissa Rinehart
A Good Animal by Sara Maurer
The Monuments of Paris by Violaine Huisman
The Palm House by Gwendoline Riley

Mentioned:
The Book of Mother by Violaine Huisman
My Phantoms by Gwendoline Riley