Summer Reading Books for Colleagues by Annie Gallivan https://padlet.com/angallivan/98nglkfp1ltifnu1 Add a book that you recommend and share a little about it. Feel free to add the title and a link if that's easier for you! en-us 2021-06-14 00:22:04 UTC 2021-06-15 10:01:29 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f4da.png Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli angallivan https://padlet.com/angallivan/98nglkfp1ltifnu1/wish/1603849947 An imaginative, fictional story about a family driving across the U.S. who confront the realities of unaccompanied youth entering the U.S. at the southern border. ]]> 2021-06-14 00:28:13 UTC https://padlet.com/angallivan/98nglkfp1ltifnu1/wish/1603849947 No Friend but the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison by Behrouz Boochani angallivan https://padlet.com/angallivan/98nglkfp1ltifnu1/wish/1603868286 A raw, powerful first hand account of a Behrouz Boochani, a Kurdish journalist who sought asylum in Australia but instead was illegally detained on Manus Island. The book was written over the course of five years as Behrouz secretly sent text messages detailing his story which  were compiled and translated from Farsi. ]]> 2021-06-14 00:38:52 UTC https://padlet.com/angallivan/98nglkfp1ltifnu1/wish/1603868286 Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens angallivan https://padlet.com/angallivan/98nglkfp1ltifnu1/wish/1603894653 A fictional, coming of age story of a young girl who gets caught up in a mysterious murder. Full of beautiful imagery of the marsh in NC where the story takes place.]]> 2021-06-14 00:54:11 UTC https://padlet.com/angallivan/98nglkfp1ltifnu1/wish/1603894653 When Stars are Scattered by Omar Mohamed and Victoria Jamieson angallivan https://padlet.com/angallivan/98nglkfp1ltifnu1/wish/1603899081 A graphic novel about young brothers' experience growing up in Dadaab refugee camp. The author Omar Mohamed is telling his own personal experience fleeing Somalia, growing up in a refugee camp in Kenya, and being resettled to the U.S.]]> 2021-06-14 00:56:32 UTC https://padlet.com/angallivan/98nglkfp1ltifnu1/wish/1603899081 Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World by Cal Newport angallivan https://padlet.com/angallivan/98nglkfp1ltifnu1/wish/1603912385 A self-help type book about detaching from non-stop notifications, social media, emails, texts …]]> 2021-06-14 01:04:15 UTC https://padlet.com/angallivan/98nglkfp1ltifnu1/wish/1603912385 Kathy Anderson https://padlet.com/angallivan/98nglkfp1ltifnu1/wish/1607198970 One in a Million Boy
Great novel about quirky folks who need compassion and a bit of redemption.  ]]> 2021-06-15 09:59:23 UTC https://padlet.com/angallivan/98nglkfp1ltifnu1/wish/1607198970