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The House of Impossible Beauties
Joseph Cassara · Ecco
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
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"Exceptional...The writing is erotically luscious, lyrically intense, forthrightly in your face, and pitch-perfect in the dialog." -- Library Journal, STARRED REVIEW
A gritty and gorgeous debut that follows a cast of gay and transgender club kids navigating the Harlem...
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Sarah (Reference)
Inspired by the House of Xtravaganza documented in the Paris is Burning documentary, Cassara brings the reader to 1980s New York and the Harlem ball scene in The House of Impossible Beauties. The novel follows Angel, a trans Latina queen, and her lover Hector as they form the House of Xtravaganza, a safe haven for Latino queens and outcasts. This novel shows the beautiful yet tragic tale of people struggling to survive against police, social stigma, and the unrelenting wave of AIDs. You will smile, sing, dance, cry, and growl as our characters fight to claim a space in a world that seems determined to erase them. I recommend the audiobook as the narrator creates a voice for each character that’s recognizable and real.
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The Curse of the Boyfriend Sweater: Essays on Crafting
ALANNA OKUN · Flatiron Books
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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The Curse of the Boyfriend Sweater is a memoir about life truths learned through crafting.
People who craft know things. They know how to transform piles of yarn into sweaters and scarves. They know that some items, like woolen bikini tops, are better left unknit. They know...
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Sarah (Reference)
I’m someone who uses crocheting and knitting to reduce anxiety and challenge myself to learn new things. I’ve also learned more about myself when creating things for others, myself, and just for fun. This is what led me to listen to Alanna Okun’s The Curse of the Boyfriend Sweater: Essays on Crafting. Okun talks about her journey with knitting throughout her life, from learning with her grandmother, tackling complicated projects and life events, and building a massive blanket. It’s a book that can be read a chapter at a time or in one binge-reading session. Okun weaves life and humor into a wonderful memoir that leaves you wanting to pick up your hooks and needles and makes something. This book is available as an audiobook and perfect for listening to while working on a cozy and comforting project.
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The Miner
SoÌseki Natsume · Aardvark Bureau
Pages: 271
Format: Print book
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"It makes me very happy that I can read this novel written over a hundred years ago as if it were contemporary and be deeply affected by it. It cannot and should not be overlooked. It is one of my favorites." - Haruki MurakamiThe Miner is the most daringly experimental and least... |
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The Miner is a brief novel of the absurd penned by Natsume Soseki at the start of the 20th century. Informed by the then-contemporary Ashio Copper Mine riots, it details the perceptions, thoughts, and encounters of its unnamed narrator as his quest to leave educated society behind descends into an ugly, hellish world of mindless labor. Unabashedly stark, pensive, and experimental, this novel will appeal to readers of absurdist classics like Kafka's The Castle and Gogol's Dead Souls.
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The Cilappatikaram ("Tale of the Anklet") is an ancient Tamil epic poem centered around the tragic couple Kovalan and Kannaki. The tale is divided into three parts: the Book of Pukar, which begins with the pair's courtship and initial struggles; the Book of Maturai, which describes the unjust death of Kovalan, the righteous fury of Kannaki, and her apotheosis into the goddess Pattini; and the Book of Vanci, which follows King Cenkuttuvan of Chera as he conquers his way to the Himalayas and back to build a temple for Kannaki. I recommend this book to any fan of the Asian epics who's interested in seeing the emotional and domestic struggles of ordinary people represented in that style just as much as the military and existential struggles of kings and gods.
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Thrawn
Timothy Zahn · Del Rey
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover
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In this definitive novel, readers will follow Thrawn's rise to power - uncovering the events that created one of the most iconic villains in Star Wars history.
One of the most cunning and ruthless warriors in the history of the Galactic Empire, Grand Admiral Thrawn is also... |
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Jason B. (Circulation)
Sci fi novel in the Star Wars universe reintroducing Thrawn, a ruthless and cunning military leader, and his rise in the Empire.
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Spymaster
Margaret Weis · Tor Books
Pages: 475
Format: Hardcover
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The start of a swashbuckling adventure from New York Times bestselling author Margaret Weis and Robert Krammes
Captain Kate Fitzmaurice was born to sail. She has made a life of her own as a privateer and smuggler. Hired by the notorious Henry Wallace, spymaster for the queen...
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Jason B. (Circulation)
Fantasy/ swashbucking novel with hints of steampunk featuring dragons, airships, assassinations, and political intrigue. Captain Kate struggles to keep her privateer crew afloat and gets caught up in a conspiracy for a throne that threatens to shake up the entire world.
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Cinder: Book One of the Lunar Chronicles
Marissa Meyer · Feiwel & Friends
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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The #1 New York Times Bestselling Series!
Humans and androids crowd the raucous streets of New Beijing. A deadly plague ravages the population. From space, a ruthless lunar people watch, waiting to make their move. No one knows that Earth's fate hinges on one girl. . . .
Cinder,...
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Fairy tales take on a futuristic/sci fi twist as a deadly plague ravages the Earth. Cinder, an android, must unravel her mysterious past for she holds the key to saving the Earth from a Lunar attack.
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A Beautiful Friendship
David Weber · Baen; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal and international bestselling phenomenon David Weber delivers the first entry in an original young adult science fiction adventure series, the Star Kingdom saga! Young teen Stephanie Harrington forms a telepathic bond with an intelligent alien... |
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A prequel to David Weber's bestselling Honorverse series. Stephanie Harrington wanted to be a forest ranger on her homeworld Meyerdahl, but then her family moved to the frontier planet of Sphinx. There she makes first contact with an intelligent alien creature she calls a treecat and they form a telepathic bond. She then has to fight for her new friend against highly placed enemies who are determined to make Sphinx a humans only planet.
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A Hero for WondLa (The Search for WondLa, Book 2)
Tony DiTerlizzi · Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
Pages: 464
Format: Book
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Lexile Level: 690
Genre: Fantasy
Page Count: 445
The highly anticipated new illustrated novel in the New York Times bestselling The Search for WondLa series. Before the end of The Search for WondLa, Eva Nine had never seen another human, but after...
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When a marauder destroys the underground sanctuary that Eva Nine was raised in by the robot Muthr, the twelve-year-year-old girl is forced to flee aboveground. Eva Nine is searching for anyone else like her, for she knows that other humans exist, because of an item she treasures - a scrap of cardboard on which is depicted a young girl, an adult, and a robot, with the strange word, "WondLa." Tony DiTerlizzi honors traditional children's literature in this totally original space age adventure: one that is as complex as an alien planet, but as simple as a child's wish for a place to belong.
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Sorcery of Thorns
Margaret Rogerson · Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover
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"If you are looking for magic you will find it inside this book. Sorcery of Thorns is a bewitching gem, full of slow burning romance, loyal friendships, and extraordinary world building. I absolutely loved every moment of this story." - Stephanie Garber, #1 New York... |
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All sorcerers are evil. Elisabeth has known that as long as she has known anything. Raised as a foundling in one of Austermeer's Great Libraries, Elisabeth has grown up among the tools of sorcery - magical grimoires that whisper on shelves and rattle beneath iron chains. If provoked, they transform into grotesque monsters of ink and leather. She hopes to become a warden, charged with protecting the kingdom from their power.
Then an act of sabotage releases the library's most dangerous grimoire. Elisabeth's desperate intervention implicates her in the crime, and she is torn from her home to face justice in the capital. With no one to turn to but her sworn enemy, the sorcerer Nathaniel Thorn, and his mysterious demonic servant, she finds herself entangled in a centuries-old conspiracy. Not only could the Great Libraries go up in flames, but the world along with them.
As her alliance with Nathaniel grows stronger, Elisabeth starts to question everything she's been taught - about sorcerers, about the libraries she loves, even about herself. For Elisabeth has a power she has never guessed, and a future she could never have imagined.
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