Reader's Roundtable Episode 21: It's a Lifestyle
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Cheryl and Jessica check-in with how they're incorporating reading into their routine, and discuss new and favorite lifestyle titles. Afterwards, Mari is joined by two outstanding youth librarians—Tom Shilts from the Okemos Branch and Lindsay Anderson from the Mason Branch—to discuss what makes their favorite children and teen titles from 2019 stand out.
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Cheryl’s Picks
Secondhand : travels in the new global garage sale by Adam Minter
The Power of Showing Up: How Parental Presence Shapes Who Our Kids Become and How Their Brains get Wired by Daniel J. Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson
Organizing from the Inside Out by Julie Morgenstern
Better Than Before: Mastering the Habits of Our Everyday Lives by Gretchen Rubin
Clara: The (Mostly) True Story of the Rhinoceros Who Dazzled Kings, Inspired Artists and Won the Hearts of Everyone...While She Ate Her Way Up and Down a Continent! by Emily Arnold McCully
One Long River of Song: Notes on Wonder by Brian Doyle
The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down: Finding Calm and Inner Wisdom Amid the Demands of Daily Life by Haemin Sunim
Jessica’s Picks
Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad by Austin Kleon
Becoming by Michelle Obama
Lakewood by Megan Giddings (due out 3/2020)
In the Company of Women: Inspiration and Advice from over 100 Makers, Artists, and Entrepreneurs by Grace Bonney
Children and Teen Picks—Mari, Tom and Lindsay
Rocket Says Look Up by Nathan Bryon
How Do You Dance by Thyra Heder
Music for Mister Moon by Philip C. Stead
There Are No Bears In This Bakery by Julia Sarcone-Roach
Breaking News: Bear Alert by David Biedrzycki
Mother Bruce by Ryan T. Higgins
The Bear Ate Your Sandwich by Julia Sarcone-Roach
The Field Guide to the North American Teenager by Ben Philippe
Michigan Vs. The Boys by Carrie S. Allen
Cape by Kate Hannigan
Instructions Not Included: How a Team of Women Coded the Future by Tamie Lewis Brown
How I Became A Spy: A Mystery of WWII London by Deborah Hopkinson
A Wolf Called Wander by Rosanne Parry
Pax by Sara Pennypacker
Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
Bringing Down A President by Andrea Balis
Pumpkinheads by Rainbow Rowell
Williams Shakespeare’s Hamlet adapted for teens by Malini Roy
Funny, You Don’t Look Autistic: A Comedian’s Guide to Life on the Spectrum by Michael McCreary
You Are My Friend by Aimee Reid
There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly by Lucy Colandro
Bear Came Along by Richard Morris
Around the Table that Grandad Built by Melanie Hill
