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Hannah Coulter by Wendell Berry Reviewed by Connie Nordhielm Wooldridge…

Hannah Coulter by Wendell Berry; Counterpoint, 2004. 186 pages; $16.95 (paperback); reading level: adult. The year is 2001. Hannah Coulter is looking back on the seventy-nine years of her life, spent mostly in the fictional Kentucky town of Port William. In words that...

This Is the Chance!; The Great Alaska Earthquake, Genie Chance, and the Shattered City She Held Together by Jon Mooallem Reviewed by Connie Nordhielm Wooldridge…

This Is Chance!; The Great Alaska Earthquake, Genie Chance, and the Shattered City She Held Together by Jon Mooallem; Random House, 2021. 315 pages; $18.00 (paperback); reading level: adult/young adult. Beginning with the epigram (a quote from Thornton Wilder’s play...

Everybody’s Book; The Story of the Sarajevo Haggadah by Linda Leopold Strauss Reviewed by Connie Nordhielm Wooldridge…

Everybody’s Book; The Story of the Sarajevo Haggadah by Linda Leopold Strauss; illustrated by Tim Smart; Kar-Ben Publishing/Lerner, 2024. 32 pages; $18.99 (hardcover); reading level: Grades 2-5. This true story begins in 1350, when a stunningly beautiful haggadah (a...