How to Buy a Love of Reading

How to Buy a Love of Reading by Tanya Egan Gibson explores the idea that reading isn’t for everyone, especially not for Carley Wells who sees words as enemies and says of books,  “I’ve Never met one I like”.  So if she’s not into reading whose crazy idea is it to try and buy her love?  Her parents’ idea, that’s who.  They’re determined to commission an author to write a book that even Carley Wells can love.  And Carley’s into it too, if only to help distract her best friend, Hunter Cay from his blurry world of booze, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Vicodin.  Despite her resistance, Carley soon finds herself swept up into the fictional world being written for her and life will never be the same again.   Check out the interactive website and award winning book trailer too.

Checkout: A life at the tills

Be careful what you say at the checkout stand next time you’re in the grocery store, who knows how Anna Sam’s memoir about her life as a cashier will inspire the masses.  Check out the story on NPR.  Get the book, Checkout: A life on the tills by Anna Sam, here.

Jim Weiss Podcast

Check out the latest at JPL Podasts. Jim Weiss, master storyteller captivated Juneau audiences at two performances in June.  JPL Podcasts was there to chronicle the event and has put together a podcast featuring two stories from Weiss’ hilarious collection of animal stories, “The Crow and the Pitcher” and “The Tiger, the Brahmin and the Jackal”.  Enjoy.

The Stinky Princess

During his visit to Juneau, master storyteller, Bruce Coville got together with the Floyd Dryden Eagles Drama Club to produce a full-cast audio version of Coville’s hilarious short story, “The Stinky Princess”. Take a listen, download it if you like at JPL Podcasts.