Podcast appearances and mentions of diane les becquets

This week, Brooke, Natalia, Stacy, and Shannon are recommending some of their favorite books set in winter. Titles mentioned include: Alice Henderson, A Blizzard of Polar Bears (Alex Carter #2) Heather Gudenkauf, The Overnight Guest Adriana Anders, Whiteout (Survival Instincts #1) Iris Yamashita, City Under One Roof Sara Raasch, Snow Like Ashes (Snow Like Ashes #1) Kristin Hannah, Winter Garden Raeah Wilding, Orion (Constellations #1) Diane Les Becquets, The Last Woman in the Forest Sandra Brown, Chill Factor Lisa Jackson, Left To Die (Alvarez & Pescoli #1) Kyla Stone, Edge of Collapse (Edge of #1) Melanie Benjamin, The Children's Blizzard You can always contact the Book Bistro team by searching @BookBistroPodcast on facebook, or visiting: https://www.facebook.com/BookBistroPodcast/ You can also send an email to: TheBookBistroPodcast@gmail.com For more information on the podcast and the team behind it, please visit: http://anchor.fm/book-bistro

This week: we hunt for King Arthur with a female Indiana Jones; experience a deeply personal thriller and come of age during the heyday of the 1960s.

Diane Les Becquets is the author of THE LAST WOMAN IN THE FOREST (March, 2019) and BREAKING WILD, both published by Berkley, Penguin Random House. BREAKING WILD, an Indie Next Pick and a national bestseller, received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, and Booklist. It was also the recipient of the Colorado Book Award in Fiction, the New Hampshire Outstanding Work of Fiction, and was shortlisted for the Reading the West Book Award in Fiction. Les Becquets is also the author of three young adult novels: THE STONES OF MOURNING CREEK (Kirkus starred review); LOVE, CAJUN STYLE (Booklist starred review) and SEASON OF ICE, the latter being the recipient of a Pen American Fellowship. Other awards she has received include a BCCB Blue Ribbon Award, the Maine Lupine Award, ALA Best Book of the Year, Foreward Reviews Gold Winner Book of the Year, Volunteer State Book Award Selection, and Garden State Book Award Finalist. A former professor of English, Les Becquets has served as a judge for the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts and the Maine Arts Commission, and has taught writing workshops at venues across the country, including the University of Mississippi, Auburn University, the New Hampshire Writers' Project, the Department of Forestry, Writers Conference at Ocean Park, Writers in Paradise, the Arkansas Literary Festival, the Telluride Arts District, and at shelters for Katrina victims. She is a volunteer at Back in the Saddle Equine Therapy Center and an avid outdoors woman, enjoying archery, bicycling, snowshoeing, swimming, and backpacking with her dog, Izzy. Before moving to New Hampshire, where she now resides with her husband, she lived in a small ranching town in Northwestern Colorado for almost fourteen years, raising her three sons. Diane Les Becquets is a member of the New Hampshire Writers' Project, the Association of Writers and Writing Programs, and the Pen American Center.

Welcome to Our Life In Books where we talk about our lives, books and everything in between! This week the sickness is still trying to keep a hold of us (especially Elizabeth) but we keep enduring! We do an update on the #CopyPasteCris scandal, discuss which memoirs we will be reading for this months Our Life In Books (OLIB) Reading Challenge and get seriously chatty because we missed not only each other, but all of you! You can turn this into a little drinking game (tea of course) if you drink every time Elizabeth coughs :)   Please subscribe & give us a rating/review!   Our Life In Books Tea- https://www.adagio.com/signature_blend/list.html?userId=696813O Our Life In Books Society- https://www.facebook.com/groups/ourlifeinbookssociety Our Life In Books Book Club- https://www.facebook.com/groups/ourlifeinbookssociety   Follow Our Life In Books- https://linktr.ee/ourlifeinbooks_ Follow Elizabeth- https://linktr.ee/bookishconnoisseur Follow Samantha- https://linktr.ee/bookishstateofmind   Items we mention: Adagio Tea- Irish Stout (no longer available) https://www.adagio.com Chasing Eva by Camilia Hart*- https://amzn.to/2JxnzQX The Torn Duet by Mia Kayla*- https://amzn.to/2WfFtsF The Girls at 17 Swann Street by Yara Zgheib*- https://amzn.to/2ummKQs The Last Woman in the Forest by Diane Les Becquets*- https://amzn.to/2Tq7tIi Last 8 by Laura Pohl*- https://amzn.to/2TklSWF Sherwood by Meagan Spooner*- https://amzn.to/2U3Uj8q Internment by Samira Ahmed*- https://amzn.to/2FjgX3g The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon*- https://amzn.to/2CHAIB9 The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller*- https://amzn.to/2WdwIPV The Girl from Everywhere by Heidi Heilig*- https://amzn.to/2FjhceG Owlcrate- https://www.owlcrate.com/refer/Eliza-YARZTPOH Riddles Tea Shoppe Boxes- https://www.etsy.com/shop/RTSQuarterly Unfiltered by Lily Collins*- https://amzn.to/2JuSsVX Yes, Please by Amy Poehler*- https://amzn.to/2UKZTJH Scrappy Little Nobody by Anna Kendrick*- https://amzn.to/2umWi9a Buffering by Hannah Hart*- https://amzn.to/2Oh2Q2x The Wrong End of the Table by Ayser Salman*- https://amzn.to/2FkBN21 Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me by Mindy Kaling*- https://amzn.to/2ujN0ea One More Thing: Stories & Other Stories by B.J. Novak*- https://amzn.to/2Yf0FRy Bossypants by Tina Fey*- https://amzn.to/2U9rJTf   Other mentions: Iowa City Epic Reads- https://www.epicreads.com/blog/spring-19-epic-reads-meetup/ OLIB Book Club- https://www.facebook.com/groups/ourlifeinbookssociety/   Items with * are affiliate links.

This week, Liberty and Tirzah discuss The Manic Pixie Dream Boy Improvement Project, Survival Math, The Lady from the Black Lagoon, and more great books. This episode was sponsored by Libro.fm, Blinkist, and FabFitFun. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. Books discussed on the show: Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid  Dealing in Dreams by Lilliam Rivera A Woman Is No Man by Etaf Rum   Real Queer America: LGBT Stories from Red States by Samantha Allen   The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick by Mallory O'Meara   The Manic Pixie Dream Boy Improvement Project by Lenore Appelhans   Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family by Mitchell Jackson  Lovely War by Julie Berry  What we're reading: King of Scars (King of Scars Duology) by Leigh Bardugo The Reign of the Kingfisher by T.J. Martinson  More books out this week: Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls by T. Kira Madden   Flashback Hotel by Ivan Vladislavic Goya: The Terrible Sublime: A Graphic Novel by El Torres and Fran Galán A Stranger Here Below: A Gideon Stoltz Mystery by Charles Fergus The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See Between the Lies by Michelle Adams Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story by Jacob Tobia   Ivy Aberdeen's Letter to the World by Ashley Herring Blake Topgun: An American Story by Dan Pedersen Villanelle: No Tomorrow: The basis for Killing Eve by Luke Jennings The Wall by John Lanchester The Shadowglass (The Bone Witch) by Rin Chupeco When All Is Said by Anne Griffin When I Hit You: Or a Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife by Meena Kandasamy The Wolf and the Watchman: A Novel by Niklas Natt och Dag   She/He/They/Me: For the Sisters, Misters, and Binary Resisters by Robyn Ryle The Pioneer by Bridget Tyler Today I Am Carey by Martin L. Shoemaker The Wrong End of the Table: A Mostly Comic Memoir of a Muslim Arab American Woman Just Trying to Fit in by Ayser Salman Star Wars Queen's Shadow by E. K. Johnston Sal and Gabi Break the Universe by Carlos Hernandez Famous Men Who Never Lived by K. Chess   So Here's the Thing . . .: Notes on Growing Up, Getting Older, and Trusting Your Gut by Alyssa Mastromonaco, Lauren Oyler (Contributor) Queen Bey: A Celebration of the Power and Creativity of Beyoncé Knowles-Carter by Veronica Chambers Mr. President, How Long Must We Wait?: Alice Paul, Woodrow Wilson, and the Fight for the Right to Vote by Tina Cassidy If You’re Out There by Katy Loutzenhiser The New Me by Halle Butler The Mastermind: Drugs. Empire. Murder. Betrayal. by Evan Ratliff The Last 8 by Laura Pohl Gingerbread by Helen Oyeyemi   The Parting Glass by Gina Marie Guadagnino The Salt Path: A Memoir by Raynor Winn  Alice Payne Rides by Kate Heartfield Black Souls by Gioacchino Criaco, Hillary Gulley (Translator) The Age of Disenchantments: The Epic Story of Spain's Most Notorious Literary Family and the Long Shadow of the Spanish Civil War by Aaron Shulman That Good Night: Life and Medicine in the Eleventh Hour by Sunita Puri A Friend is a Gift You Give Yourself by William Boyle   Call Me Evie by JP Pomare The River by Peter Heller   Baby of the Family by Maura Roosevelt The Silk Road by Kathryn Davis The Volunteer by Salvatore Scibona The Stranger Diaries by Elly Griffiths   An American Summer: Love and Death in Chicago by Alex Kotlowitz Instructions for a Funeral: Stories by David Means The Gardener of Eden by David Downie Little Faith by Nickolas Butler   The Devil Aspect by Craig Russell The Story Prize: 15 Years of Great Short Fiction by Larry Dark and Anthony Doerr   Deaf Republic: Poems by Ilya Kaminsky Labrador by Kathryn Davis We Were Rich and We Didn’t Know It: A Memoir of My Irish Boyhood by Tom Phelan The Revenge of Magic by James Riley The Last Woman in the Forest by Diane Les Becquets   The Altruists: A Novel by Andrew Ridker Ancestral Night (White Space) by Elizabeth Bear You Asked for Perfect by Laura Silverman A Question of Holmes by Brittany Cavallaro Minutes of Glory: And Other Stories by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o Bending Toward Justice: The Birmingham Church Bombing that Changed the Course of Civil Rights by Doug Jones Death in Ten Minutes: The Forgotten Life of Radical Suffragette Kitty Marion by Fern Riddell The Necessary Hunger by Nina Revoyr A Student of History by Nina Revoyr King of Joy by Richard Chiem   The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart by Holly Ringland Woman 99 by Greer Macallister   Blood Feud by Anna Smith Allmen and the Pink Diamond by Martin Suter When Brooklyn Was Queer: A History by Hugh Ryan   The Women's War by Jenna Glass Mahimata by Rati Mehrotra the mermaid's voice returns in this one by Amanda Lovelace Spies of No Country: Secret Lives at the Birth of Israel by Matti Friedman Skeleton Keys: The Secret Life of Bone by Brian Switek   Smoke and Ashes: A Novel by Abir Mukherjee Out of Salem by Hal Schrieve Mitochondrial Night by Ed Bok Lee Brilliant, Brilliant, Brilliant Brilliant Brilliant by Joel Golby The Secret Wisdom of Nature: Trees, Animals, and the Extraordinary Balance of All Living Things -― Stories from Science and Observation (The Mysteries of Nature Trilogy) by Peter Wohlleben and Jane Billinghurst The Everlasting Rose (The Belles) by Dhonielle Clayton L.E.L.: The Lost Life and Scandalous Death of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, the Celebrated "Female Byron" by Lucasta Miller The Twice-Born: Life and Death on the Ganges by Aatish Taseer Infinite Detail: A Novel by Tim Maughan Ronan Boyle and the Bridge of Riddles (Ronan Boyle 1) by Thomas Lennon, John Hendrix (Illustrator) She the People: A Graphic History of Uprisings, Breakdowns, Setbacks, Revolts, and Enduring Hope on the Unfinished Road to Women's Equality by Jen Deaderick and Rita Sapunor Homeland by Fernando Aramburu, Alfred Macadam (translator) Barely Missing Everything by Matt Mendez Staff Picks: Stories (Yellow Shoe Fiction) by George Singleton and Michael Griffith City of Jasmine by Olga Grjasnowa, Katy Derbyshire (translator)  

In times of trauma and sorrow, Diane Les Becquets turned to the wilderness for solace. Now, as an award-winning author, she sets her books back in those most hidden places as a challenge to return on her own terms. In Breaking Wild , she tracks two women through the remote terrain of Northern Colorado, women who are lost in two very different ways.

In times of trauma and sorrow, Diane Les Becquets turned to the wilderness for solace. Now, as an award-winning author, she sets her books back in those most hidden places as a challenge to return on her own terms.

Each May, a Denver man celebrates what he calls his second birthday. It was this month -- more than half a century ago -- that US troops liberated Jack Adler during a Nazi death march. Adler survived the Holocaust, but the rest of his immediate family didn't. Still, he's able to find humor in his life. Then, author Diane Les Becquets on her novel "Breaking Wild," which is set in the Colorado backcountry. The book follows a lost woman who discovers the scariest thing she faces are her own demons. And, a tiny, rural school in eastern Colorado has four seniors in the graduating class of 2017. They talk about their close-knit experience and what's next.

Discussions with three authors: Alex Kava, RECKLESS GREED; Brandon McMillan, LUCKY DOG; Diane Les Becquets, BREAKING WILD