Julia Strimer gave out copies of The Zookeeper’s Wife by Diane Ackerman at the Manchester Market. Here she poses with Matt Franz, a Manchester Market employee who happily accepted a copy.

Patty Swaney and Lorri Coburn handed out books at the Coffee Mill. Here, Patty hands a book to Bob Krall.

The Zookeeper’s Wife tells the story of Polish zookeepers Jan and Antonina Zabinski, who after their zoo was bombed, managed to save over three hundred people from the Nazis by hiding refugees in the empty animal cages.

James Miller happily volunteered to hand out copies of Young Men and Fire by Norman Maclean at the Tap. The book is a non-fiction reconstruction of Mann Gulch tragedy, when, on August 5, 1949, a crew of fifteen elite airborne firefighters, the Smokejumpers, stepped into the sky above a remote forest fire in the Montana wilderness. Two hours after their jump, all but three of these men were dead or mortally burned.