Thus far, the book club has enjoyed these selections. Click the title to purchase on Amazon:
A Country Called Amreeka: U.S. History Retold through Arab-American Lives
Alia Malek (April 2024)
The Art of Access: A Practical Guide for Museum Accessibility
Heather Pressman (February 2024)
The Storytelling Craze
Decoder Ring Podcast (August 2023)
The Feedback Fix
Joe Hirsch (June 2023)
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
Heather McGhee (April 2023)
I Never Thought of It That Way: How to Have Fearlessly Curious Conversations in Dangerously Divided Times
Mónica Guzmán (February 2023)
The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters
Priya Parker (December 2022)
Why Learn History (When It's Already On Your Phone)
Sam Wineburg (September 2022)
The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative
Florence Williams (July 2022)
Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle
Emily Nagoski & Amelia Nagoski (April 2022)
An African American and Latinx History of the United States
Paul Ortiz (November 2021)
When I Was Puerto Rican
A Memoir by Esmeralda Santiago (September 2021)
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz (June 2021)
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teaching of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer (February 2021)
Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors
Dr. Carolyn Finney (December 2020)
The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature
J. Drew Lanham (July 2020)
Interpreting Cultural and Natural Heritage for a Better World
Larry Beck, Ted Cable, and Doug Knudson (June 2020)*
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Interpretive Theme Writer's Field Guide
Jon Kohl (March 2020)*
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The Art of People: 11 Simple People Skills That will Get you Everything You Want
Dave Kerpen (October 2019)
So You Want to Talk About Race
Ijeoma Oluo (August 2019)
The Non-Designers Design Book
Robin Williams (June 2019)
Coaching Interpreters
Margaret Repath Styles (March 2019)*
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Interpreting Difficult History
Julia Rose (January 2019)
American Canopy: Trees, Forests, and the Making of a Nation
Eric Rutkow (September 2018)
Electric Lemons: Interpretation and the Art of Writing. Judy Fort Brenneman
By Judy Fort Brenneman (June 2018)*
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Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us
By Seth Godin (March 2018)
Don't Be Such a Scientist
By Randy Olson (November 2017)
A Natural History of the Senses
By Diane Ackerman (September 2017)
Letting Go? Sharing Historical Authority in a User-Generated World
Edited by Bill Adair, Benjamin Filene, and Laura Koloski (June 2017)
Verbal Judo: the Gentle Art of Persuasion
by George J. Thompson, Jerry B. Jenkins (April 2017)
Authenticity: What Consumers Really Want
by Pine and Gilmore (January 2017)
The Art of Relevance
by Nina Simon (October 2016)
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can’t Stop Talking
by Susan Cain (July 2016)
The Interpreter’s Guidebook, 4th edition
by Jim Buchholz, Brenda Lackey, Michael Gross and Ron Zimmerman (April 2016)*
Feedback Revolution
by Peter McLaughlin (February 2016)
Adventures of a Nature Guide
by Enos Mills (September 2015)
The Story Factor
by Annette Simmons (June 2015)
The Thank You Economy
by Gary Vaynerchuk (April 2015)
Don’t Even Think About It: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Ignore Climate Change
by George Marshall (February 2015)
Crucial Conversations
by Kerry Patterson and Joseph Grenny (September 2014)
Interpretation: Making a Difference on Purpose
by Sam Ham (May, 2014)*
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Jab, Jab, Jab Right Hook: How to Tell Your Story in a Noisy Social World
by Gary Vaynerchuk (February 2014)
Made to Stick
by Dan and Chip Heath (December 2013)
Thriving in the New Knowledge Age
by John Falk, Ph. D (August 2013)*
Brain Rules
by John Medina (June 2013)
Meaningful Interpretation
by David Larsen (April 2013)
Telling Ain’t Training
by Harold D. Stolovitch and Erica J. Keeps (January 2013)
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