Book Recommendations & Farmers Markets

GOOD BOOK READS – Recommendations courtesy of Riverwalk Books –

1Fast Girls A Novel of the 1936 Women’s Olympic Team by Elise Hooper In the 1928 Olympics, Chicago’s Betty Robinson competes as a member of the first-ever women’s delegation in track and field. Destined for further glory, she returns home feted as America’s Golden Girl until a nearly-fatal airplane crash threatens to end everything. Outside of Boston, Louise Stokes, one of the few black girls in her town, sees competing as an opportunity to overcome the limitations placed on her. Eager to prove that she has what it takes to be a champion, she risks everything to join the Olympic team. From Missouri, Helen Stephens, awkward, tomboyish, and poor, is considered an outcast by her schoolmates, but she dreams of escaping the hardships of her farm life through athletic success. Her aspirations appear impossible until a chance encounter changes her life. These three athletes will join with others to defy society’s expectations of what women can achieve. As tensions bring the United States and Europe closer and closer to the brink of war, Betty, Louise, and Helen must fight for the chance to compete as the fastest women in the world amidst the pomp and pageantry of the Nazi-sponsored 1936 Olympics in Berlin.

2No One Ever Asked by Katie Ganshert When an impoverished school district loses its accreditation and the affluent community of Crystal Ridge has no choice but to open their school doors, the lives of three very different women converge: Camille Gray – the wife of an executive, mother of three, long-standing PTA chairwoman and champion fundraiser – faced with a shocking discovery that threatens to tear her picture-perfect world apart at the seams. Jen Covington, the career nurse whose long, painful journey to motherhood finally resulted in adoption but she is struggling with a happily-ever-after so much harder than she anticipated. Twenty-two-year-old Anaya Jones – the first woman in her family to graduate college and a brand new teacher at Crystal Ridge’s top elementary school, unprepared for the powder-keg situation she’s stepped into. Tensions rise within and without, culminating in an unforeseen event that impacts them all. This story explores the implicit biases impacting American society, and asks the ultimate question: What does it mean to be human? Why are we so quick to put labels on each other and categorize people as “this” or “that,” when such complexity exists in each person?

3The Girl in the Letter by Emily Gunnis In the winter of 1956 pregnant young Ivy is sent in disgrace to St Margaret’s, a home for unmarried mothers in the south of England, run by nuns, to have her child. Her baby daughter is adopted. Ivy will never leave. Sixty years later, journalist Samantha stumbles upon a series of letters from Ivy to her lover, pleading with him to rescue her from St Margaret’s before it is too late. As Sam pieces together Ivy’s tragic story, terrible secrets about St Margaret’s dark past begin to emerge. What happened to Ivy, to her baby, and to the hundreds of children born in the home? What links a number of mysterious, sudden deaths in the area? And why are those who once worked at St Margaret’s so keen that the truth should never be told? As Sam unpicks the sinister web of lies surrounding St Margaret’s, she also looks deep within – to confront some unwelcome truths of her own. Riverwalk Books Lake Chelan Valley’s Community Bookstore Since 1994 116 East Woodin Ave, Chelan 509.682.8901 i v a t e C o m m u n i t y • S h o p I riverwalkbooks.com years 26 Celebrating OPEN Tues-Sat, 10AM-4PM C u l t n d i e

LOCALLOCAL FARMERSFARMERS MARKETSMARKETS

The Lake Chelan Valley offers several options for farm fresh produce

1CHELAN FARMER’S MARKET

Saturdays 8AM-Noon

112 East Johnson Ave, Parking Lot, Chelan A place to purchase locally grown organic food and support local artists!

2MANSON FARMER’S MARKET

Saturdays 8:30AM-Noon

157 E Wapato Way (Manson Grange Community Center Parking Lot), Manson Vendors selling all kinds of items including vegetables, fruit, pies, soaps, etc.

3WEDNESDAY MANSON FARMER’S MARKET

Wednesdays 8:30AM-Noon

157 E Wapato Way (Manson Grange Community Center Parking Lot), Manson Vendors selling all kinds of items including vegetables, fruit, pies, soaps, etc.

4CHELAN EVENING FARMER’S MARKET

Thursdays 4:00-7:00PM

Riverwalk Park, Chelan Stroll through the park while enjoying the many vendors local goods.