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The last selection in our series on humankind and the nature world is Bringing Nature Home by Douglas H. Tallamy. This is a fantastic...


- Mar 15, 2020
- 2 min
Food for Thought: The Hidden Half of Nature
We picked this book out half a year ago for our series on humankind in the natural world; who knew it would be so relevant? The Hidden...


- Mar 1, 2020
- 1 min
Third Thursday Writers Circle
Would you like some gentle feedback on new work you’ve written? Bring 12 copies (one poem or excerpt of prose, 2000 words max.). to the...


- Feb 23, 2020
- 1 min
Food for Thought: Unsheltered
You can find copies of the book at the Mahoning and Trumbull County libraries, YSU Maag Library via OhioLink and the YSU Barnes & Noble....


- Feb 11, 2020
- 1 min
Food for Thought: The Uninhabitable Earth: A Story of the Future
You can find copies at the Mahoning and Trumbull County libraries, YSU Maag Library via OhioLink and the YSU Barnes & Noble. Food for...


- Jan 9, 2020
- 1 min
Food for Thought: For a Little While
New York Times reviewer Dwight Garner writes of Bass’s collection, “He is a keen and relentless observer of woods and prairies and beasts...


- Dec 7, 2019
- 1 min
Food for Thought: Oceanic
Author Tamiko Beyer writes in the Georgia Review of Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s Oceanic, “The poet reminds her readers that as human beings...


- Oct 27, 2019
- 1 min
Food for Thought: The Overstory
This round of titles, we’ll be immersed in a theme of humankind and the natural world. The Overstory Food for Thought book discussion...
- Jun 4, 2019
- 1 min
Food for Thought: Humankind in the Natural World
After a summer hiatus, Food for Thought book discussion will start up in September with a series on being in the natural world. Each...


- Mar 26, 2019
- 1 min
Food for Thought: Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation
Cokie Roberts spoke to a packed house at Stambaugh Auditorium last year, and we have You can find copies of the book at the Mahoning and...


- Jan 31, 2019
- 1 min
Food for Thought: Unforgettable
Scott Simon was a recent speaker at St. John’s Episcopal Church, and we have selected his You can find copies of the book at the Mahoning...


- Jan 31, 2019
- 1 min
Food for Thought: Get in Trouble
Kelly Link was a recent visiting writer at YSU, and we have selected her book as part of You can find copies of the book at the Mahoning...


- Jan 31, 2019
- 1 min
Food for Thought: I’m Still Here
Austin Channing Brown recently spoke at St. John’s Episcopal Church, so we have selected her book as part I’m Still Here: Black Dignity...


- Dec 30, 2018
- 1 min
Claudia Rankine at Parma-Snow Library January 23
Many of you joined our Food for Thought discussion of Citizen: An American Lyric last year, part of our series on the American...


- Dec 30, 2018
- 1 min
Food for Thought: Savage Country
Many of you enjoyed the reading and craft talk by Robert Olmstead Savage Country. “For weeks countless swarms of locusts, brown-black and...


- Nov 11, 2018
- 1 min
Food for Thought: Crossings
Join us for a conversation about Crossings: A Doctor-Soldier’s Story by Fall Literary Festival visiting writer Jon Kerstetter. Read more...


- May 5, 2018
- 1 min
Food for Thought: Camp Olvido
We will meet at Cultivate Cafe, 901 Elm St., on Wednesday, May 9, from 6:00-7:00 pm. If you would like to order a bite to eat, please...


- Apr 11, 2018
- 1 min
Food for Thought: My Own Country
Join us for a discussion of the highly awarded memoir My Own Country. The author, Abraham Verghese, a physician who grew up in Ethiopia,...


- Mar 6, 2018
- 1 min
Food for Thought: Phenomenal Women
We will meet at Cultivate Cafe, 901 Elm St., on Wednesday, March 14, from 6:00-7:00 pm. If you would like to order a bite to eat, please...


- Feb 12, 2018
- 1 min
Food for Thought: Citizen
We will meet at Cultivate Cafe, 901 Elm St., on Wednesday, February 14, from 6:00-7:00 pm. If you would like to order a bite to eat,...
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