If your only reference to Farm Security Administration photographs during the depression is Dorothea Lange, take a look at the outstanding work of Wolcott who traveled the country with her Rolliflex and Speed Graphic cameras, highlighting the conditions of the poor and oppressed.

“You know, I read somewhere that sixty percent of us can’t go more than ten minutes without lying. Little slippages: to make ourselves sound better, more attractive, to others. White lies to avoid causing offence. So it is not like I’ve done anything out of the ordinary. It’s only human.”

“Lonely people tend to scoop out larger spaces of isolation to burrow into by cutting themselves off from others - triggering the self-fulfilling prophecy of preventing rejection by avoiding opportunities for connection. Bonds are weakened, contact is reduced, loneliness fissures outward.”

As a teenager I was obsessed with UFOs. For a year or two I read only books about cop circles, close encounters, or alien abductions. I became very well versed in UFO lore. So when I heard the title of Brian Castleberry's debut novel I knew that it was a reference to the 1947 sighting of "nine shiny objects" by pilot Kenneth Arnold, the first widely reported UFO sighting and the incident from which the term "flying saucers" was coined.

Fire up a book discussion group with Jessamine Chan's dystopian debut, The School for Good Mothers.

It’s 1990 London and Isla Green is being called home to Australia. Her father is under suspicion in the disappearance thirty years earlier of their next door neighbor.

“Read as many books as you can. Choose courage over caution. Take time to visit libraries. Look for light in the darkness. Have faith in yourself. Know that love is what matters most.”