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"Birding to Change the World" is a memoir by Trish O'Kane, a professor at the University of Vermont.

Journalist, educator and birder Trish O’Kane shares passion for making a difference

Sweden Petry, Contributing Writer September 29, 2024

Trish O’Kane, a senior lecturer in the environmental program at the University of Vermont, is coming to The University of Alabama to share her memoir, “Birding to Change the World,” Oct. 8. After...

Hidden Gems of Tuscaloosa: Find literary treasure at the Friends of the Library Bookstore

Hidden Gems of Tuscaloosa: Find literary treasure at the Friends of the Library Bookstore

Sam West March 29, 2016

Book lovers beware. Hidden on the left hand side of the Tuscaloosa Public Library is a treasure trove filled with fiction, biographies, westerns and more, all costing between $1 and $3. Once you discover...

Book Bonanza in the Black Belt

Book Bonanza in the Black Belt

Patrick Smith March 28, 2016

School libraries in the state of Alabama have long suffered a lack of state and federal funding for new books, but for nine schools throughout the Black Belt and the state, that’s going to change.During...

Hidden Gems of Tuscaloosa: The Book Rack is a reader's paradise

Hidden Gems of Tuscaloosa: The Book Rack is a reader's paradise

Caroline Giddis February 9, 2016

Imagine a small family bookstore. Is it peaceful and quiet? Can you smell the old pages of the books and hear them sliding off the shelves? At the Book Rack, that may be true on some days, but you're more...

Book Blog: “The Red Queen” is a thrilling dystopian love story

Katie Goodwin December 3, 2015

It is rare you find a book in which everytime you turn the page you have no idea what is going to happen next. "The Red Queen" by Victoria Aveyard, is absolutely captivating, as each page draws readers...

The uncensored "Picture of Dorian Gray" brings new outlooks to light

The uncensored “Picture of Dorian Gray” brings new outlooks to light

Bailey Shoenberger August 25, 2015

When Oscar Wilde first sent his only novel to be published in Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine in 1890, he never could have guessed that the public outcry against his work would eventually land him in an...

UA alum Kim Cross writes book on tornado

UA alum Kim Cross writes book on tornado

Collin Burwinkel April 8, 2015

April 27, 2011. A dark, gloomy day most current students didn’t see, but many remember. A powerful EF4 tornado ripped across Alabama, killing 64 people, including six University of Alabama students....

Best places to buy books in Tuscaloosa

Best places to buy books in Tuscaloosa

Tori Linville March 24, 2015

Though a book can easily be borrowed from University libraries, buying a book brings a reader more freedom. After a book purchase, there’s no guilt about folding page corners or writing in margins. Borrowing...

Lang Leav's second installment spellbinds reader

Lang Leav's second installment spellbinds reader

Tori Linville March 9, 2015

The second installment of Lang Leav’s writing, “Lullabies,” is desired to “sing to your present,” “echo of your past” and “whisper of your future.”Leav prefaces the poems with an introduction...

Krakauer return to non-fiction scene with 'Missoula'

Krakauer return to non-fiction scene with 'Missoula'

Reed OMara February 18, 2015

It’s been 12 years since Jon Krakauer graced his readers with a new book, and with an Instagram handle called 
@KrakauerNotWriting, readers expected the mountain-climbing nonfiction writer to be done...

Book satirically explores lives of recent college graduates

Book satirically explores lives of recent college graduates

Reed OMara February 11, 2015

While satire was a genre commonplace in pre-revolutionary France, it’s less so nowadays – or so one would think. The recently released “A Very Recent History: An Entirely Factual Account of a Year...

Rereading books worthy venture

Rereading books worthy venture

Tori Linville February 4, 2015

Odds are, if someone has a favorite movie, they have watched and rewatched it so many times that they can recite the film line for line. The obsessive scrutiny doesn’t translate to a favorite book for...