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My Powerful Hair, a new book by author Carole Lindstrom and illustrator Steph Littlebird, conveys the importance of hair in Native American culture despite the enduring traumas of the federal boarding school era.
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Fantasy author Lucas Zellers has partnered with the Center for Biological Diversity to make a manual for Dungeons & Dragons players that features real-life extinct species as fantasized monsters.
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The Campbell County Library Board amends mission statement, cuts ties with state library associationThe board has attracted both praise and criticism from members of the community over the past 15 months due to the library including books on sex education and LGBTQ topics in their collection aimed at children and teens. They also voted to cut ties with the Wyoming Library Association, amend the library's mission statement to include language on reflecting community values, and continue with plans on forming a commission to vet books for children and teens for content.
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Bob Budd has held a lot of jobs in Wyoming. He’s a former director of the Wyoming Stockgrowers Association, he was the manager of the Red Canyon Ranch, and the Director of Land Management for the Nature Conservancy. He’s currently the Director of the Wyoming Wildlife and Natural Resource Trust where he works to improve wildlife habitat. He’s also very funny and a great writer. He’s written a book about Wyoming, its people, and its habitat called “Otters Dance: A Rancher's Journey to Enlightenment and Stewardship”. It’s available on October 4th through Amazon and all the usual places. He joins Bob Beck.
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Mark Miller is a former Wyoming state archaeologist and author of a new book, "Big Nose George and His Troublesome Trail." Grady Kirkpatrick recently spoke with Mr. Miller about his book and the notorious Wyoming outlaw.
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Jennifer Hill is a professor of American Studies at Montana State University in Bozeman and writes about the history of birth in the Mountain West from a persona and empirical place.
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University of Wyoming MFA alumna, Adrian Shirk, has written a new book. Adrian is a creative nonfiction writer and hybrid memoirist whose first work was a 2017 NPR Best Book of the year. Her second and most recent book is titled Heaven is a Place on Earth: Searching for an American Utopia. Wyoming Public Radio’s Charles Fournier sat down with Adrian to talk about her writing and research on Utopias.
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A popular Indigenous author comes to the University of Wyoming next month. In preparation, the Albany Country Library highlights the importance of Indigenous storytelling in new book club.
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Carl Hart is a nationally renowned psychologist and neuroscientist who earned his Ph.D. at the University of Wyoming. Last year, he published the book Drug Use for Grown-Ups: Chasing Liberty in the Land of Fear. In it, he advocates for drug legalization and an end to the War on Drugs. He also comes out of the closet as an avid drug user himself, writing that drug use can be a rational, positive and safe part of one's pursuit of happiness. Wyoming Public Radio's Jeff Victor asked him why most Americans tend not to see it that way.
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Johnson's Christmas story tour of libraries in northeast Wyoming concluded in Buffalo on Dec. 20. He's also set off in a different direction for his latest book, which includes addressing murdered and missing indigenous women.