LIBBY by Overdrive. Read or listen to more than 19,000 downloadable books and audiobooks. Schlow is one library that uses this.

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The Memoirs of Stockholm Sven by Nathaniel Ian Miller

Related book: A Woman in the Polar Night by Christiane Ritter

Interview with the author hosted by Northshire Books:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maU4cM_NuYg

Interview with the author hosted by The Mark Twain Library:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqOCTczlW6Y

Interview on PRX (listen) https://exchange.prx.org/pieces/401674?m=false

Dinner & a Book (PBS show) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzJGrk8u-4o

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A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway 

Links shared by Dr. Spanier:

1. A short CNN news clip of how Parisians, in the aftermath of the 2015 terrorist attack, placed copies of A Moveable Feast as memorials and reminders of their city's spirit. (1:28)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPxq_42EQKQ

2. Patrick Hemingway and Sean Hemingway talk about the 2009 Restored Edition of A Moveable Feast. (3:34) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2YUYIeBDyI

3. A BBC clip featuring Parisians reading excerpts from A Moveable Feast  after the 2015 terrorist attack. (1:53) https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-europe-34884809

If you are a Passport member of WPSU you can access the three-part series "Hemingway", which was produced by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick. 

Episode 1: A Writer (1899 - 1929); Episode 2: The Avatar (1929 - 1944); Episode 3: The Blank Page (1944-1961)

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The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt

The Swerve: How the Renaissance Began (Published under this title in the UK)  - Review: 

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/sep/23/the-swerve-stephen-greenblatt-review

What Motivated Epicurus to Say that Atoms Swerve? https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/327228372.pdf

The Swerve: Summary of key ideas https://www.blinkist.com/en/books/the-swerve-en

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The Code Breaker by Walter Isaacson

"Best in Breed: The rise of canine clones." by Alexandra Horowitz, The New Yorker, July 1, 2024; pp 22-27.

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The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon

A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, 1990

A Midwife's Tale (Film, 1997) American Experience (PBS) The film, based on Ulrich's book, is available to stream -free- through Kanopy, which is accessible on the Schlow Library website. You will be directed to set up a Kanopy account using your Schlow library card. A free app is available to download for Kanopy. 

American Experience PBS https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/midwife/#film_description

(Several articles, photo gallery, video short about making the film, and a chronology of Martha's life) 

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A Stranger Here Below by Charles Fergus 

Learn more about Charles Fergus and his writing at his website: https://charlesfergus.com/about

Fergus's essay about his mother's murder: "Stones" Yale Review, October 1999

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5c534c9b34c4e239c1b73f2b/t/5c5b31a8a4222fda0e35022b/1549480360998/Stones.pdf

For background historical information about four immigrant groups from the British Isles that settled in different regions:

Albion’s Seed: 4 British Folkways in America by David Hackett Fischer

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North Woods by Daniel Mason 

Important books for Daniel Mason about the region's nature: 

Changes in the Land by William Cronon

Reading the Forested Landscape by Tom Wessel

Walden by Henry David Thoreau (also Thoreau's diaries published in different forms) 

American Notebooks by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Favorite Nature Writing of Daniel Mason:

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard

After Nature by Jedidiah Purdy

Books with specific histories of trees:

Republic of Shade: New England and the American Elm by Thomas Campanella

American Chestnut: The Life, Death, and Rebirth of a Perfect Tree by Susan Freinkel

Other books by Daniel Mason:

The Piano Tuner (2002)

A Far Country (2008)

The Winter Soldier (2018)

A Registry of My Passage Upon Earth (2020 Pulitzer Prize Winner Finalist)

Here is one link to a discussion with Daniel Mason: (several others also available) 

Daniel Mason discusses North Woods : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsu1G_P0oRE

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Willa Cather Resources

The Willa Cather Archive (University of Nebraska, Lincoln)

 https://cather.unl.edu

CSPAN - Books That Shaped America

https://www.c-span.org/video/?529915-1/books-shaped-america-my-ntonia

Willa Cather Documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1AJDk9QCkk

American Masters - Willa Cather: The Road is All

https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/willa-cather-about-willa-cather/549/

The Selected Letters of Willa Cather, Andrew Jewell and Janis Stout (Editors) 

Chasing Bright Medusas: A Life of Willa Cather by Benjamin Taylor