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A Natural History of Dragons: A Memoir by Lady Trent by Marie Brennan
BUY Amazon | IndieBound Featured on The Thread: A very different dragon tale You, dear reader, continue at your own risk. It is not for the faint of heart―no more so than the...
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Mitz: The Marmoset of Bloomsbury by Sigrid Nunez
BUY Amazon | IndieBound Featured on The Thread: 'Mitz' the marmoset was definitely not afraid of Virginia Woolf In 1934, a "sickly pathetic marmoset” named Mitz came into the care of Leonard Woolf....
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The Memory Police: A Novel by Yoko Ogawa
BUY Amazon | IndieBound Featured on The Thread: Quiet, surreal drama — and disappearing objects — in 'The Memory Police' On an unnamed island off an unnamed coast, objects are disappearing: first hats,...
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The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator by Timothy C. Winegard
BUY Amazon | IndieBound Featured on The Thread: In 'The Mosquito,' Humans Face A Predator More Deadly Than The Rest Why was gin and tonic the cocktail of choice for British colonists in...
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Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America by Christopher Leonard
BUY Amazon | IndieBound Featured on The Thread: 'Kochland' explores how the famous brother duo made their money The annual revenue of Koch Industries is bigger than that of Goldman Sachs, Facebook, and...
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The Yellow House: A Memoir by Sarah M. Broom
BUY Amazon | IndieBound Featured on The Thread: 'The Yellow House' connects place, memory and self-knowledge n 1961, Sarah M. Broom’s mother Ivory Mae bought a shotgun house in the then-promising neighborhood of...
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An American Sunrise: Poems by Joy Harjo
BUY Amazon | IndieBound Featured on The Thread: In 'An American Sunrise,' Joy Harjo speaks with a timeless compassion In the early 1800s, the Mvskoke people were forcibly removed from their original lands...
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Lithium: A Doctor, a Drug, and a Breakthrough by Walter A. Brown
BUY Amazon | IndieBound Featured on The Thread: 'Lithium' is a homage to a drug — and to the renegade side of science The DNA double helix, penicillin, the X-ray, insulin―these are routinely...
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How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
BUY Amazon | IndieBound Featured on The Thread: Ibram X. Kendi says no one is 'not racist.' So what should we do? Antiracism is a transformative concept that reorients and reenergizes the...
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