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Lost & Found By Kathryn Schulz

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$27.00
ISBN: 9780525512462
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Published: Random House - January 11th, 2022

Kathryn Schulz  takes readers  on a remarkable journey, through love and loss, grief and joy, and back again. Beautifully spare, Lost & Found asks us to reframe these ideas,  how loss can be at once utterly mundane yet cosmic in scope. It destroyed me in the best possible way.


Enter the Aardvark by Jessica Anthony

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$15.99
ISBN: 9780316496131
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Published: Back Bay Books - January 5th, 2021

It's challenging to try to describe Enter the Aardvark. There are a lot of things that just don't belong together. A dudebro congressman fixated on the Reagan Era. A recusive Victorian taxidermist. A missing-but-not-really-boyfriend. And a stuffed aardvark that's seen it all. Nothing about this novel should work, and yet, in fewer than 200 pages, Jessica Anthony pulls it off. Pure alchemy. Simultaneously funny, heartbreaking, and beautiful. -Beth, Essex


Becoming Duchess Goldblatt

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Becoming Duchess Goldblatt By Anonymous, Duchess Goldblatt Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780358216773
Published: Mariner Books - July 7th, 2020

Becoming Duchess Goldblatt is the kind of book you read in one breathless sitting, not knowing whether to laugh or to cry or to give in to your emotions and do both simultaneously. It is a memoir and also a how-to: how to build community out of the ashes of your previous life, how to live and to love when you're not quite sure how. A remarkable book by an even more remarkable author. Long live Her Grace! 


Enter the Aardvark by Jessica Anthony

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ISBN: 9780316536158
Published: Little, Brown and Company - March 24th, 2020

When you try to describe Enter the Aardvark, you have a whole lot of things that really don't belong together. A dudebro congressman fixated on the Reagan era. A reclusive Victorian taxidermist. A missing sorta-but-not-really boyfriend. And a stuffed aardvark who's seen it all. Nothing about this novel should work, and yet, in fewer than 200 pages, Jessica Anthony pulls it off. Much like its titular animal, Enter the Aardvark is simultaneously odd, funny, heartbreaking, and beautiful.


Rough Magic by Lara Prior-Palmer

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Rough Magic: Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race By Lara Prior-Palmer Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781948226196
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Published: Catapult - May 7th, 2019

I’m not a horse person, and I’ve never been to Mongolia, but after reading Rough Magic, the debut memoir by Lara Prior-Palmer, I find myself reconsidering my life choices. Prior-Palmer, at the advanced age of 19, vividly brings to life her spur-of-the-moment decision to enter the Mongol Derby, the annual 10-day horse race across the Mongolian steppe. Spoiler alert: she wins, the first woman and the youngest person to do so. How she does it is the real story—Prior-Palmer writes like a dream, capturing the freedom, beauty, and sometimes terror of this 1000-kilometer feat of endurance. Rough Magic is a wild ride from beginning to end, and one you won’t want to miss.


Protest Kitchen

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Protest Kitchen: Fight Injustice, Save the Planet, and Fuel Your Resistance One Meal at a Time By Carol  J. Adams, Virginia Messina Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781573247436
Published: Red Wheel - October 1st, 2018

In this accessible guide to plant-based cooking, Carol J. Adams and Virginia Messina connect our food choices to social and political movements, outlining practical ways we can make incremental—and delicious!—changes to our diets to affect positive change. Part cookbook, part manifesto, Protest Kitchen is our essential blueprint for the vegan revolution. Resistance has never tasted so good!


When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon

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ISBN: 9781481478687
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Published: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers - May 30th, 2017

Smart, sweet, but never sappy, romance between Indian American teens. Dimple, who rejects the traditional path her parents wish for her, and Rishi, who embraces his heritage, seem like polar opposites. Dimple is furious when she discovers that their parents have arranged their introduction at an exclusive summer camp, and Rishi wonders what he's gotten himself into. Forced to work together on a coding project, they discover they have much more in common than not. But how can they compromise on the things that matter most to them?


Last Things by Marissa Moss

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Last Things: A Graphic Memoir of Loss and Love By Marissa Moss Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781573246989
Published: Red Wheel - May 1st, 2017

In this achingly raw graphic memoir, Marissa Moss untangles the seven whirlwind months between her husband’s ALS diagnosis and his death. Forced to balance Harvey’s increasingly complex medical needs and the needs of their three young sons, Moss struggles to maintain a sense of normalcy for their family in the midst of this crisis. Absent are movie-perfect declarations of love and reconciliation; Moss lays bare the emotional devastation left in the wake of Harvey’s illness with her understated drawings and text. But there are moments of joy, too--a morning swim, a tender glance—reminding us to find beauty in the darkest of times. Powerful, heartbreaking, and ultimately hopeful, Last Things challenges readers with its unflinching look at marriage and family, love, and loss.


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