BookMark / Weekly Book Reviews

Weather Whys: Facts, Myths and Oddities explains weird weather phenomena with wit and efficiency. The author, Paul Yeager, will be in State College as a part of 2011’s BookFestPA.

Today’s reviewer, Linda Short, has reported on racial issues for the monthly newspaper Voices. She takes that interest to the book world by reviewing The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness.

Kieryn Nicolas, a State College Area High School student, has written her second novel. It’s out today and her high school English teacher, Kate Hoffman, has reviewed it for BookMark. Hoffman also reviewed Nicolas’ first novel, Rain.

Six months ago Book Mark producer Sarah Blake was anticipating a baby. She just gave birth to a baby boy last Wednesday. We’re rebroadcasting her review of Spoon to celebrate.

A Penn State Harrisburg professor recently published her first book of literary nonfiction. This collection of essays shares family stories, and tales of amazing, old greenhouses that made up the family business.

A new mystery series will have you barking for more! Narrated by a fun-loving canine, these books follow a dog and his owner as they run the Little Detective Agency.

When a NYC journalist visits State College and falls in love with a farmer, what happens next? Our review will tell you about the exciting new book that tells this true story.

Fiction can help us through difficult truths and can move us to act. One novel recently captivated a local college student, and she came to WPSU to share her review.