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KSUT continues it’s Four Corners: One Book community-wide book club with Abandon by local author Blake Crouch. Buy or borrow the book locally and let us know what you think by leaving a comment on this blog post.
KSUT’s Four Corners: One Book selection for the month of October is The Secret Knowledge of Water by Craig Childs, a book chosen by the Cortez Public Library.
Buy or borrow the book locally, listen for the upcoming on-air interview with the author and send us your comments or questions by leaving a comment on this blog post.
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KSUT’s Four Corners: One Book program continues in July with a book chosen by a fantastic book club that meets every first Tuesday of the month at Moonlight Books in Pagosa Springs. The dedicated group of bibliophiles has chosen author Hampton Sides’ Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West.
Jerry Rohwer, who runs Moonlight Books with his wife Joan, says the club chose Hampton Sides’ work because of both the author and the book’s connection to the region. “Hampton Sides has been to Pagosa Springs in the past,” says Rohwer, “and the Fred Harmon Art Museum has an aspen tree log with [Kit] Carson’s name carved on it.”
Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West is a book that brings the history of the American conquest of the West to life. It uses Kit Carson as the central character and includes many other heroes and villains who embody the experience of the wild American West.
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Paula Huntley
Paula Huntley had the guts to volunteer in Kosovo, so why can’t you? That’s how we felt after talking to the author about The Hemingway Book Club of Kosovo, the Four Corners: One Book selection for the month of June.
Here’s a little sneak preview of what you’ll here tonight at the Lavenia McCoy Public Library, 395 Bayfield Center Drive, starting at 7 p.m.
If, for some reason, you can’t make tonight’s book discussion, you can listen to our entire interview with Paula by clicking here.
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KSUT has partnered with the Lavenia McCoy Public Library in Bayfield for the month of June. The library has chosen Paula Huntely’s The Hemingway Book Club of Kosovo as the Four Corners: One Book selection for the next four weeks.
Buy or borrow the book locally and please leave a comment here so we can post it on the Four Corners: One Book site and maybe even read it on the air!
Rick Collignon, this month’s Four Corners: One Book author as chosen by our partners at Maria’s Bookshop in Durango, will be signing and discussing his book, Madewell Brown, at the bookstore tonight at 6:30 p.m.
Listen to our on-air interviews with Rick today at 11 a.m. and again at 2:30 p.m. or listen online now by clicking here.
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For May, KSUT Public Radio has partnered with Maria’s Bookshop in selecting the book for the community-wide online book club. Maria’s has chosen Rick Collignon’s Madewell Brown, a quick and interesting read that presents parallel tales of people trying to find their place in the world.
Buy or borrow the book locally and please tell us what you think by leaving your comment below!
We got this first post before we even had a chance to announce the selection:
Posted by Mike Andrews on May 1
“Rick Collignon is a marvelous writer, in my opinion. To say that the stories in his Northern New Mexico trilogy are engaging would be an understatement. I was wondering what he was going to do next. Alas, I must wait until Tuesday to obtain a copy of his new book.”
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Hunt for your copy of The Hummingbird's Daughter at your local bookstore or library (The Durango Public Library pictured above).
Luis Alberto Urrea’s The Hummingbird’s Daughter is a historical look at the author’s own bloodline. Both a lesson on Mexico in the early 1900s – complete with a jarring take on life on haciendas and the great divide between the rich and the poor — and a somewhat mystical story of a gifted little girl, Teresita; the book is partly an educational tale, but mostly a magical journey of a girl whose hard-knock life is turned around.
Hitting the ground awoke her.
Tia had carried her outside and tossed her over the top of the pigpen fence.
“If you are going to act like a pig, then live with the pigs. I’m through with you!”
The People did nothing. They stepped back into their huts and dropped their blankets over the doorways. Tia ushered her children inside. Teresita rolled over and got up on her knees. Pig sh*% burned in her welts.
Tia reappeared.
“And don’t you die on me!” she said. “Do you hear? That’s all I need, more trouble like that!”
The rough door slapped shut.
Teresita felt golden ants swarm her. A rush of tickling up her arms and legs, relentless feet strumming her tissues like guitar strings. Her eyes closed.
Teresita doesn’t stay down for long. Pick up a copy of The Hummingbird’s Daughter at your local bookstore or library to see what happens next.
