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Read This Book! – Books to Give
University of Minnesota Librarians discuss the books they plan to give and the ones they’d love to get as gifts this holiday season in a very special episode of Read This Book! Genres covered include children’s literature, mysteries, cookbooks, and cool science.
Lisa Von Drasek, curator of the University’s Children’s Literature Research Collections, leads the discussion. She’s joined by Tim Johnson, curator of the U’s Rare Books and Special Collections and the Sherlock Holmes Collection, Science Librarian Carolyn Bishoff, and Megan Kocher, curator of the Doris Kirschner Cookbook Collection.
Recommended books include:
- May Day: A Murder-By-Month Mystery
By Jess Lourey - Sherlock Holmes and the Ice Palace Murders
By Larry Millet - Dear Committee Members
By Julie Schumacher - The Science of Interstellar
By Kip Thorne - The Girls of Atomic City
By Denise Kiernan - A subscription to the magazine “Make”
- Vegetable Literacy
By Deborah Madison - Smitten With Squash
By Amanda Paa - Gluten-Free Girl Every Day
By Shauna James Ahern with Daniel Ahern - Tales from the Brothers Grimm
Selected and Illustrated by Lizbeth Zwerger - An Illustrated Treasury of Hans Christian Andersen’s Fairy Tales
Illustrated by Anastasiya Archipova - The Right Word
By Jen Bryant and Melissa Sweet - Animalium
Curated by Katie Scott and Jenny Broom
More about our collections
Want to know more about our collections? Click the links below or contact one of the he librarians featured in this episode of Read This Book!
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