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Parallel Lives by Olivier Schrauwen
BUY Amazon | IndieBound Featured on The Thread: Surrealism meets sci-fi in 'Parallel Lives' This collects six wildly inventive short comics stories that might collectively be dubbed “speculative memoir.” Schrauwen’s deadpan depictions...
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Creatures of Will and Temper by Molly Tanzer
BUY Amazon | IndieBound Victorian London is a place of fluid social roles, vibrant arts culture, fin-de-siècle wonders . . . and dangerous underground diabolic cults. Fencer Evadne Gray cares for none...
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Extinctions by Josephine Wilson
BUY Amazon | IndieBound Featured on The Thread: 'Extinctions' digs up buried memories and unacknowledged history Professor Frederick Lothian, retired engineer, has quarantined himself in a place he hates: a retirement village....
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Becoming Mrs. Lewis: The Improbable Love Story of Joy Davidman and C. S. Lewis by Patti Callahan
BUY Amazon | IndieBound Featured on The Thread: The love story of C.S. Lewis and Joy Davidman From New York Times bestselling author Patti Callahan comes an exquisite novel of Joy Davidman, the woman...
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My Sister, the Serial Killer: A Novel by Oyinkan Braithwaite
BUY Amazon | IndieBound Featured on The Thread: When your sister is a 'Serial Killer' "Femi makes three, you know. Three and they label you a serial killer." Korede is bitter. How...
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Dance in America: A Reader's Anthology by Mindy Aloff
BUY Amazon | IndieBound Featured on The Thread: 'Dance in America' aims to chronicle the art in the U.S. From the beginning, American dance has been an exciting fusion of many disparate influences,...
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Where We Go from Here: Two Years in the Resistance by Bernie Sanders
BUY Amazon | IndieBound Featured on The Thread: Bernie Sanders criticizes Democrats and Republicans in 'Where We Go from Here' Senator Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign was a beginning, not an end. In...
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Evening in Paradise: More Stories by Lucia Berlin
BUY Amazon | IndieBound Featured on The Thread: 'Evening in Paradise' remembers those who might otherwise be forgotten In 2015, Farrar, Straus and Giroux published A Manual for Cleaning Women, a posthumous story...
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In Search of the Canary Tree: The Story of a Scientist, a Cypress, and a Changing World by Lauren E. Oakes
BUY Amazon | IndieBound Featured on The Thread: 'In Search of the Canary Tree' highlights the links between nature, climate and us Several years ago, ecologist Lauren E. Oakes set out from...
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