Barnes & Noble Bookstore
This is a guide to help incoming students discover some of the services offered in the Centennial Student Union at Minnesota State University Mankato. For more information on the Barnes & Noble Bookstore, please follow the following link:
Cheryl Strayed: Wild | Talks at Google
Cheryl Strayed stopped by the Googleplex for a discussion of her latest book, Wild You can find the book on Google Play:
A powerful, blazingly honest memoir: the story of an eleven-hundred-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe—and built her back up again.
At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother's death, her family scattered and her own marriage was soon destroyed. Four years later, with nothing more to lose, she made the most impulsive decision of her life: to hike the Pacific Crest Trail from the Mojave Desert through California and Oregon to Washington State—and to do it alone. She had no experience as a long-distance hiker, and the trail was little more than an idea, vague and outlandish and full of promise. But it was a promise of piecing back together a life that had come undone.
Strayed faces down rattlesnakes and black bears, intense heat and record snowfalls, and both the beauty and loneliness of the trail. Told with great suspense and style, sparkling with warmth and humor, Wild vividly captures the terrors and pleasures of one young woman forging ahead against all odds on a journey that maddened, strengthened, and ultimately healed her.
Local Author Features Lake Harriet Elf Tree In Recent Work
Local author Thom Sandberg used the elf tree at Lake Harriet, home of “Mr. Little Guy,” for his new book “Lylian: Lost Land of the Littles,” Jason DeRusha and Kylie Bearse report (3:29). WCCO Mid-Morning – Aug. 15, 2016
Salon@615 Cheryl Strayed
Salon@615 presents bestselling authors free to the public through a unique partnership between Nashville Public Library, Humanities Tennessee, Parnassus Books and the Nashville Public Library Foundation. Together, we nurture and celebrate the literary life of Nashville by presenting author talks and book signings to our community.
Cheryl Strayed
Cheryl Strayed is an American memoirist, novelist, and essayist. The author of four books, her award-winning writing has been published widely in national magazines and anthologies.
Strayed's first book, the novel Torch, was published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in February 2006 to positive critical reviews. Torch was a finalist for the Great Lakes Book Award and selected by The Oregonian as one of the top ten books of 2006 by writers living in the Pacific Northwest. In October 2012, Torch was re-issued by Vintage Books with a new introduction by Strayed.
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Metropolitan State University Presidential Inauguration
Celebrate the inauguration of President Virginia “Ginny” Arthur.
Inspired by her commitment to justice and collaborative leadership, the faculty, staff and student body joins her in building a 21st-century, global learning community. We welcome students who come to this University on many paths, and join them in moving in a single direction—forward.
Together, as an inclusive and unified Metropolitan State community, we embrace this exciting venture and aspire to a transformative future FOR THE GREATER GOOD
1:15 p.m.: Procession starts entering the Auditorium.
1:30 p.m.: Ceremony starts.