Fresh from the Stacks

2022 Reading List at The Community Library

Poetry 

• Rita Dove: Playlist for the Apocalypse available in print and Libby eAudiobook  
• Ocean Vuong: Time Is a Mother available in print, Axis 360 ebook, and eAudiobook 

Fiction 

• Anthony Doerr: Cloud Cuckoo Land available in print, large print, Noon eReader, Axis360 ebook, and Libby eAudiobook  
• Anthony Doerr: Ciudad de Las Nubes available in print/Spanish Collection
• Kali Fajardo-Anstine: Woman of Light available in eBook and eAudiobook; Print version is on order
• Judith Freeman: MacArthur Park available in print, Libby eAudiobook, Nook eBook, and NookGlowlight #6; Also on Vimeo with Judith in conversation with Jenny Emery Davidson
• Lauren Groff: Matrix available in print, Axis360 eBook & eAudio, and Libby eAudiobook 
• Sanaë Lemoine: The Margot Affair available in print, Axis 360 eBook, and eAudiobook
• Alexander Maksik: The Long Corner available in print and Axis 360 eBook
• Imbolo Mbue: How Beautiful We Were available in print, large print, Axis360 eAudiobook, and Libby ebook 
• Kalani Pickhart: I Will Die in a Foreign Land available in print, Axis360 Ebook, and eAudiobook

Memoir 

• Barbara Ascher: Ghosting available in print 
• Alan Pesky & Claudia Aulum: More to Life Than More available in print; Also on Vimeo: A Conversation with Alan Pesky and Claudia Aulum at The Community Library
• Kathryn Schulz: Lost & Found available in print, large print, and Libby eAudiobook   
• Natasha Trethewey: Memorial Drive available in print and Libby eAudiobook 

Nonfiction 

• A. Scott Berg: Wilson available in print, Nook ebook, and CD
• Arthur C. Brooks: From Strength to Strength available in Axis 360 ebook; Print and digital versions are on order
• Rebecca Donner: All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days available in print and Libby eAudiobook  
• Geoff Dyer: The Last Days of Roger Federer available in print and Libby eAudiobook  
• Elizabeth Kolbert: Under a White Sky: Nature of the Future available in print
• Sebastian Malla: The Power Law: Venture Capital & Making of a New Future available in print and Libby eAudiobook  
• Heather McGee: The Sum of US: What Racism Costs Everyone available in print, Axis 360 ebook, and Libby eAudiobook  
• Yascha Mounk: The Great Experiment: Why Diverse Democracies Fall Apart available in print, Libby ebook, and Libby eAudiobook  
• Evan Osnos: Wildland: The Making of America’s Fury available in print and Libby eAudiobook  
• Ben Rhodes: After The Fall: Being American in the World We’ve Made available in print and Libby eAudiobook  
• Erich Schwartzel: Red Carpet: Hollywood, China & the Global Battle available in print and Libby eAudiobook  
• James Stavridis: To Risk It All available in print
• Terry Tempest Williams: Erosion: Essays of Undoing available in print, Axis360 eAudiobook, and Libby eAudiobook 

Download a PDF of this list here.

And we have a winner! Three actually: Andrea Pierceall, Betsy Sise, and Sarah Leidecker. Winter Read intern Cline Dolson, a junior at the Sage School, organized this contest for her internship project and each winner received a $50 gift card to the Gold Mine. Thank you to all who entered!

Drumroll please! The Winning Winter Read Poems:

From Sarah Leidecker

Crust-Cruising in a River of Sunshine

A river of sunshine drips from our sun, flows
down the galactic stream, runs
into the face of our earth, illuminating
here,
the world we know.

A river of sunshine drips into my world, bleeds
through my curtains, awakening
my internal rhythms—
Awake long before me but just now demanding my presence.

A river of sunshine drips into this complex earth,
and it bakes, hard; melts, softly
into the springtime snow, long frozen from the night’s turn.
I’m up now, ready to swim (or should I say ski) into that river of sunshine—
nature, described only by itself—
and I dress in layers of lycra, pulled over polyester; my clothes made of the earth I am in.
(For that matter—me, made of the earth I am in.)

I am fifteen now, and I feel no different. Time
moves linearly, consistently; humans
arbitrarily celebrating (and condemning) the passing of days.
But today feels timeless,
as I probe the sunbaked snow.
A perfect crust, a mantle on which to set my ski
In motion
Like the rest of this planet
In motion
Like my atoms on this perfect day.

Earth:
Commonly called complex
Incomputable
Too many synchronous cycles in several spatial scales.
Together, they create one glorious system.
Somehow, they fit.
Perhaps that is nature.
Certainly, it is the nature of things.

But it is not the nature of joy.

Joy is not complex. Joy is simple. Joy is a moment of sunshine,
pure and unadulterated.
Joy is this:
my ski through the soft snow: a crust-cruise, a pathway, an all-encompassing bridge
on which to explore.
Joy is my laugh, my whoop of pleasure as I let gravity pull me over the ridges.
Joy is this breath, inhaling this exhale of trees.
—ba-bum, ba-bum, ba-bum—
Joy is this heartbeat of the world

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From Andrea Pierceall

For Anita

My dear friend
stops by to ask me
to take fly fishing lessons

and I say I will – both of us
knowing that we may never
really fish or it may be years

we don’t have before we
are good enough to brave
the river. But we make a plan

in honor of our friendship
and the warm evenings
of sunlight on green grass

and our mutual thoughts
of the water shining while our lines
make a perfect S in synchronicity.

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From Betsy Sise

What the Fog Knows

Where the way ahead is foggy.
Where objects suddenly appear and disappear in the mist.
Where my steps are hesitant,
trying to find the edges-
the beginning and end of things.

Where the landscape is gentle,
not caring how it is seen.
Where my unsteady halting steps
are forgiven by the owls that call in the night.

Where my world is slowly shrinking
as I disappear into the arms of the fog.

Where I begin to see along that path
The Gate where the Great Leap is born.
Where the world races ahead as I pause
to feel the beauty of what is left behind.

Where I stop moving ever forward and wait
Where the hawks take me soaring
Where the eagles know my name
Where I finally discover
what the fog knows.

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Make a point to travel the Wood River Trail for the Story Walk©, featuring the cherished children’s book, Owl Moon by Jane Yolen.

What: The whimsical illustrations and charming story of Owl Moon will be posted page by page, in both English and Spanish, to be read while skiing, walking, or biking along the Wood River Trail.  

Why: This is a unique, family-friendly activity combining outdoor fun and reading.

When: February 18 – March 4, 2022

Where: The StoryWalk© will be available along the Wood River Trail between Fox Acres Road and Woodside Boulevard in Hailey and between 6^th Street and Wood River Drive in Ketchum.   

The StoryWalk© Project was created by Anne Ferguson of Montpelier, Vermont, and developed in collaboration with the Kellogg-Hubbard Library. 

Blaine County Recreation District (BCRD) is collaborating with Hailey Public Library and The Community Library to bring StoryWalk© to the Wood River Trail.