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ISBN: 9781600940484
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Published: Da Capo Lifelong Books - November 10th, 2009
This little book is the perfect addition to any cooking collection. It has recipes for classic cookies but also super fun things like mocha mamas (a favorite among my friends) and Mexican chocolate snickerdoodles (a house favorite). The recipes are fast and easy, which is perfect for someone like me. And since they're all vegan, you take no risks eating the dough.
$16.95
ISBN: 9781681374031
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Published: NYRB Classics - January 21st, 2020
Abigail is about a Hungarian girl trying to fit in in a fortress-like boarding school during WWII. She's not used to a severe or devout life and quickly makes enemies among her classmates. She struggles to answer questions like, "How can I get the other girls to like me?" But she has other questions too: Why did her father send her there? Why is she forbidden communication with the outside world? What is her father's role in the war? My first question was, since the girl's name is Gina, who is Abigail?
$18.00
ISBN: 9781400030651
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Published: Vintage - November 30th, 2001
This is one of those novels that gnaws at you long after you've put it down. Taking place in India during the 1975 State of Emergency, it follows four characters struggling for independence and security. They manage to form a rag-tag family to support each other in extremely tenuous circumstances. But the bottom keeps falling out, and every time you think things can't get worse they do. Yet somehow the characters carry on--"You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair." It's also a page-turner!
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ISBN: 9780465062881
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Published: Basic Books - April 28th, 2015
If you want a good time, look no further. This truly is an incredible adventure! Twenty-eight explorers bound for Antarctica in 1915 get trapped on an ice floe without a ship or any hope of rescue. Based on interviews and crew members' diaries, Lansing presents this story of survival with fully fleshed characters (like the stowaway with his cat) and details (like the raw skin they all had at the ends of their noses from icicles forming and breaking off) that feels like fiction but is amazingly real. After reading this book I wanted to immediately start over at the beginning--it's that good.
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ISBN: 9780141439846
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Published: Penguin Classics - April 29th, 2003
I was not prepared for how much fun I'd have reading this. The form was way more interesting than I expected, and I was completely sucked into the story. Now I need to watch all the movies to sustain this creepy headspace.
$30.00
ISBN: 9780399158186
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Published: Riverhead Books - March 26th, 2019
Strange and haunting, Shapton is back at her game combining images and text in evocative ways. One chapter is filled with pictures of empty beds while another tells the story of a tennis prodigy's unrealized dream. As loose as some of the threads become, every chapter harkens back to the title with an underlying yet palpable suggestion that we all live with ghosts of some kind.
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ISBN: 9781939810045
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Published: Archipelago - December 18th, 2018
Growing up under the threat of Hutu violence in Rwanda, Mukasonga, the only survivor from her family, wrote this memoir as a tribute to her mother. Mukasonga shows us daily life as a displaced Tutsi, especially in women's spaces and roles. As readers, we get to be vessels for other people's stories and can keep them alive, even if only through memory. I treasure the opportunity to read Mukasonga's beautiful prose and, if in the tiniest of ways, honor a way of life that's all but gone.
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ISBN: 9780316290234
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Published: Back Bay Books - August 4th, 1997
Delusion is one of the driving forces in The Collector and what is possible when common stories people tell themselves are acted upon in extreme ways--a creepy and consuming novel about the evil next door. (Fans of You will love it!)
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ISBN: 9780441007318
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Published: Ace - July 1st, 2000
Don't skip this classic! It's part anthropological view of a new planet, part political intrigue, part story of survival, and all written with stunning depth--beautiful!
$16.00
ISBN: 9781939810069
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Published: Archipelago - October 23rd, 2018
I love this creepy, wispy novel. Hermans was reviled in his home country the Netherlands for his less-than-heroic depictions of his people during WWII--a disturbing reminder that being on the right side of history isn't enough to make anyone a good human.
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ISBN: 9781603589093
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Published: Chelsea Green Publishing Company - March 12th, 2019
I now know a lot more about gulls than I ever expected! This is a surprisingly literary (like quotes poetry) dive into the world of gulls but also expounds on classification, "landfills," and accepting the messiness of unanswerable questions. "The world is, and then the world is as we say it is." -Tim Dee
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ISBN: 9780811228343
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Published: New Directions - March 31st, 2020
I was initially intrigued when I saw blurbs from Franz Kafka and Susan Sontag on the back. After reading the first paragraph, I knew I was in for an outrageous ride. In sum, it begins like this: Michael Kohlhaas is a horse merchant living in 16th-century Germany. He’s a hard-working, god-fearing man, respected by his neighbors and loved by his family. He would have been remembered as an honorable citizen if his love for justice hadn’t led him to robbery and murder. Thus begins a winding tale of trickery, misunderstanding, and things generally blowing way out of proportion. It is a blast.
$15.95
ISBN: 9780394711034
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Published: Pantheon - August 12th, 1987
Big surprise that this is an utterly devastating book. If you haven’t read de Beauvoir or have only read The Second Sex you’ll be blown away by the power of her fiction.
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ISBN: 9781609450786
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Published: Europa Editions - September 25th, 2012
Though set in Naples, I find this book (and series) reminiscent of Doris Lessing, struggling with growing up in the ragged environment, the musing of girlhood friendships, struggling to be individual, constantly threatened by men, a retelling of political upheavals of the 20th century, and the saving redemption of art.
