by Fran Hoag | Nov 4, 2021 | ICD Book Club
The Book of Form and Emptiness By Ruth Ozeki One year after the death of his beloved musician father, thirteen-year-old Benny Oh begins to hear voices. The voices belong to the things in his house—a sneaker, a broken Christmas ornament, a piece of wilted...
by Fran Hoag | Sep 16, 2021 | ICD Book Club
Braiding Sweetgrass By Robin Wall Kimmerer Drawing on her life as an indigenous scientist, and as a woman, Kimmerer shows how other living beings–asters and goldenrod, strawberries and squash, salamanders, algae, and sweetgrass–offer us gifts and lessons,...
by Fran Hoag | Jul 21, 2021 | ICD Book Club
Finding the Mother Tree : Discovering How the Forest Is Wired for Intelligence and Healing by Suzanne Simard Now, in her first book, Simard brings us into her world, the intimate world of the trees, in which she brilliantly illuminates the fascinating and vital...
by Fran Hoag | Jun 22, 2021 | ICD Book Club
Nobel Peace Prize Laureates His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu have survived more than fifty years of exile and the soul-crushing violence of oppression. Despite their hardships—or, as they would say, because of them—they are two of the most...
by Fran Hoag | May 27, 2021 | ICD Book Club
Nobel Peace Prize Laureates His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu have survived more than fifty years of exile and the soul-crushing violence of oppression. Despite their hardships—or, as they would say, because of them—they are two of the most...
by Fran Hoag | Apr 20, 2021 | ICD Book Club
In The Book of Delights, one of today’s most original literary voices offers up a genre-defying volume of lyric essays written over one tumultuous year. The first nonfiction book from award-winning poet Ross Gay is a record of the small joys we often overlook in our...
