May 06 2024 37 mins
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