Mary Woodard
In keeping with the traditional holiday song, “The 12 Days of Christmas,” Library Services would like to gift you with 12 book recommendations. These are some of the best books we read in 2018 and we hope that you will find a reading treat among them to give yourself over the holidays.
Click through the slides to see our favorites.
We hope one of these books of Christmas finds its way to your home this holiday season!
Summary:
Tara Westover was born to survivalist parents in the mountains of Idaho and didn’t set foot in a classroom until she was 17 years old. At that time, she began to educate herself, learning enough on her own to get into Brigham Young University. Her learning continued at Cambridge and Harvard where she began to wonder if she’d traveled too far from her family beginnings to ever go home again.
Our take:
Winner of Best Memoir in the 2018 Goodreads Choice Awards, this unforgettable story gets to the heart of what education is and what it offers: the ability to change one’s life.
