Thursday, May 4, 2017

"Mental Health in Color" Speaker Presentations

THIS is going to be a great presentation. If you are in the DC area on the May 24th, stop by to hear these speakers. Kings Floyd is a phenomenal student I had the great pleasure of working with at High Point University.

Thursday Feel Goods!

Read Three Articles: 5-4-17

Education 
American Schools Are Training Kids for a World That Doesn’t Exist

Economics
Expert: Downtown Raleigh's growth is 'just the beginning'

Native Americans 
How the Legacy of Native Americans' Forced Assimilation Lingers Today

Summer Reading List From Finch Library

Pacers,
Read a book this summer!

Silence: a novel by Shusaku Endo  (soon to be a motion picture)
Zookeeper’s wife by Diane Ackerman
My friend Dahmer: a graphic novel by Derf Backderf
The guest room by Chris Bohjalian
A dog’s purpose by W. Bruce Cameron
The spy: a novel by Paulo Coelho
Bob Dylan: American troubadour by Donald Brown
The stranger in the woods: the extraordinary story of the last true hermit by Michael Finkel
All summer long by Dorothea Benton Frank
Dig if you will the picture: funk, sex, god and genius in the music of Prince by Ben Greenman
Same kind of different as me by Ron Hall and Denver Moore
Imagine me gone: a novel by Adam Haslett
Here’s to us: a novel by Elin Hilderbrand
Trumped: the 2016 election that broke all the rules by Larry J. Sabato
The nature fix: why nature makes us happier, healthier, and more creative by Florence Williams
The orphan’s tale by Pam Jenoff
Jim Henson: the biography by Brian Jay Jones
Lilac girls: a novel by Martha Hall Kelly
Deadly dose: the untold story of a homicide investigator’s crusade for truth and justice by Amanda Lamb
The dinner: a novel by Herman Koch
Stolen, smuggled, sold: on the hunt for cultural treasures by Nancy Moses
The horse dancer by JoJo Moyes
Present over perfect: leaving behind frantic for a simpler, more soulful way of living by Shauna Niequist
New York 2140 by Kim Stanley Robinson
Swamplandia! By Karen Russell
Prince Charles: the passions and paradoxes of an improbable life by Sally Bedell Smith
Are we smart enough to know how smart animals are? By Frans de Waal
Star Wars: Thrawn by Timothy Zahn
Letterman: the last giant of late night by Jason Zinoman