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Nancy Pearl Recommends: Whatcom Literacy Council Breakfast 2024

Just in time for fall reading season, librarian and author Nancy Pearl shared her list of can't-miss reads at Whatcom Literacy Council's annual breakfast. Check out this selection of what Nancy's been reading lately and place your holds!

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  • The Black Angels

    the Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis.

    Smilios, Maria,
    Book, 2023New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons, [2023]. — 610.7309 SMILIOS 2023
  • Book and Dagger

    How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II

    Graham, Elyse, 1985-
    Book, 2024New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2024]. — 940.5486 GRAHAM 2024
  • Book, 2024New York : Riverhead Books, 2024. — Senna, Danzy
  • The Daughters of Yalta

    the Churchills, Roosevelts, and Harrimans: a Story of Love and War

    Katz, Catherine Grace,
    Book, 2020Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2020]. — 940.5314 KATZ 2020
  • Book, 2023New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2023]. — BACHELDE 2023
  • Book, 2016New York : Random House, [2016] — Sittenfel Curtis
  • Book, 2019New York : Flatiron Books, 2019. — O'Leary, Beth
  • Book, 2021New York, NY : The New York Review of Books, [2021] — BOYT 2021
  • Book, 2021New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2021]. — MASON 2021
  • The Swans of Harlem

    Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History

    Valby, Karen,
    Book, 2024New York : Pantheon Books, [2024] — 792.8097 VALBY 2024
  • Book, 2023New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2023]. — Mathis, Ayana
  • The Wager

    a Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder

    Grann, David,
    Book, 2023New York : Doubleday, 2023. — 910.9164 GRANN 2023