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The Plutonium Files: America's Secret Medical Experiments in the Cold War

Network Effect (The Murderbot Diaries, #5)

A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk & Robot, #1)

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Interesting Insects (Smithsonian Handbooks)

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Mythological World Tour

Bronze: Finished 5 Main Quest books.

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When the Earth Was Green: Plants, Animals, and Evolution's Greatest Romance

Riley Black

Winner, A Friend of Darwin Award, 2024 A gorgeously composed narrative nonfiction book about the longstanding relationship between prehistoric plants and life on Earth. Immaculately framed by ancient stone, the leaves look as if they were pressed between the gray pages of a great geological diary. If we were to see the plant alive, we would simply pass it by, but the fossil is a whisper from a time more than 55 million years ago, when alligators dwelled within the Arctic Circle and gigantic dragonflies buzzed through the air. This little plant is an entry-point into this lost world. Past, present, and future, this ancient specimen has roots in all of them. We often retell the history of life on Earth as a series of great moments in which fascinating animal life springs forth, all the while forgetting the plants that made these moments possible. But we can’t understand our own history without them. Or, our future. Dinosaurs, saber-toothed cats, and all mammals would be nothing without the efforts of their leafy counterparts. Even humans would likely not exist had plants not taken root to sow the land for our amphibious ancestors. Using the same scientifically-informed narrative technique that readers loved in the award-winning The Last Days of the Dinosaurs, in When the Earth Was Green, Riley Black brings readers back in time to prehistoric seas, swamps, forests, and savannas where critical moments in plant evolution unfolded. Each chapter stars plants and animals alike, underscoring how the interactions between species have helped shape the world we call home. As the chapters move upwards in time, Black guides readers along the burgeoning trunk of the Tree of Life, stopping to appreciate branches of an evolutionary story that links the world we know with one we can only just perceive now through the silent stone, from ancient roots to the present.

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Libraries

Do you use the library to find/read books? I think, this year, I am going to attempt to save more $ by trying to utilize free book sources more (like the public library and multiple Little Free Libraries around my neighborhood). Of course there are some I will still buy...but this hit me after the New Year and I think it's a good savings and book goal in one!

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The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World

Riley Black

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Cha4lottie

Recs for beginning to read fantasy?

I really want to get into fantasy books, but I struggle to immerse myself in the worlds. My friend has recommended I go for more historical fantasy than anything else, but I dont know where to start in finding a good book. Any recommendations?

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Books to read instead of Harry Potter

I've been gone for a while because of work and haven't had the chance to mute a lot of the books I don't want to see since the feature came out. The Harry Potter series chief among them, so I was just on all the book pages for that series and it got me thinking.

I don't care if people read Harry Potter. I don't believe in censorship. I do care that people who read them know where to go to read better books after they finish. I think contextualizing her books for how mean spirited they are is better done by presenting people with better options for each one.

So let's do that. What are some books that people should read instead of/in addition to Harry Potter? What books would fans of Harry Potter also like and appreciate? Instead of shaming people in the reviews for reading them, let's encourage the wider reading we want to see in the world.

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Shadow Life

Hiromi Goto

2022 Asian/Pacific American Literature Award Winner for Adult Fiction 2022 L.A Times Book Prize Finalist Poet and novelist Hiromi Goto effortlessly blends wry, observational slice-of-life literary fiction with poetic magical realism in the tender and surprising graphic novel Shadow Life , with haunting art from debut artist Ann Xu. When Kumiko’s well-meaning adult daughters place her in an assisted living home, the seventy-six-year-old widow gives it a try, but it’s not where she wants to be. She goes on the lam and finds a cozy bachelor apartment, keeping the location secret even while communicating online with her eldest daughter. Kumiko revels in the small, daily decorating as she pleases, eating what she wants, and swimming in the community pool. But something has followed her from her former residence―Death’s shadow. Kumiko’s sweet life is shattered when Death’s shadow swoops in to collect her. With her quick mind and sense of humor, Kumiko, with the help of friends new and old, is prepared for the fight of her life. But how long can an old woman thwart fate?

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Shadow Life

Hiromi Goto

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Thoughts from after the Introduction - (Pg. xxi/5%)

Just finished the introduction and I'm wondering:

Does anyone have any flora, fauna, or fungi they're hoping to see represented?

Halliday mentioned them already, but I'm hopeful for more trilobites!! It hurts my heart that they existed for so long and I'm separated from them by one mass extinction event after they survived so many 😔 and obviously I'm excited to see any other invertebrates, maybe the author will even touch on the coevolution of pollinators and flowering plants 🤩

I'm also hoping we get word-pictures painted for us of tree ferns, giant lycophytes, and horsetails! Everyone can talk about crabs evolving multiple times all they want, but tree-like is the form we should all aspire to!!

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Otherlands: A World in the Making

Thomas Halliday

A dazzlingly original, lyrical and epic encounter with the Earth as it used to beThis is the past as we've never seen it before. Otherlands is an epic, exhilarating journey into deep time, showing us the Earth as it used to exist, and the worlds that were here before ours. Travelling back in time to the dawn of complex life, and across all seven continents, award-winning young palaeobiologist Thomas Halliday gives us a mesmerizing up close encounter with eras that are normally unimaginably distant. Halliday immerses us in a series of ancient landscapes, from the mammoth steppe in Ice Age Alaska to the lush rainforests of Eocene Antarctica, with its colonies of giant penguins, to Ediacaran Australia, where the moon is far brighter than ours today. We visit the birthplace of humanity; we hear the crashing of the highest waterfall the Earth has ever known; and we watch as life emerges again after the asteroid hits, and the age of the mammal dawns. These lost worlds seem fantastical and yet every description - whether the colour of a beetle's shell, the rhythm of pterosaurs in flight or the lingering smell of sulphur in the air - is grounded in the fossil record. Otherlands is a staggering imaginative feat: an emotional narrative that underscores the tenacity of life - yet also the fragility of seemingly permanent ecosystems, including our own. To read it is to see the last 500 million years not as an endless expanse of unfathomable time, but as a series of worlds, simultaneously fabulous and familiar.

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wormariwood

Libby having trouble verifying my card and now I can't get to sleep lol

Not that this is actually a big deal or anything, I just find it equally parts funny and frustrating that the day I decide that I have several books I wanna check out at once, Libby can't connect to my library's servers. I did also already check and my card needs to be renewed in 2027 so I know it's not any actual issue on my end, but it has annoyed me enough that now it's past midnight and I'm still awake, tapping that 'verify' button over and over again... Guess I never realized how much I actually depend on my library until I couldn't access it anymore 😔

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MF Romances with Bi Main Characters

by grace_b_3

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I love reading romances between men and women where one or both of the characters are bi because it shows the potential of bi people to fall in love with any gender, if that makes sense. So often bi people in “straight” relationships don’t get clocked as LGBTQ+ and I like seeing how they make a “straight” relationship queer. I’m always on the hunt for more.

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The Irresistible Urge to Fall for Your Enemy (Dearly Beloathed, #1)

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Library Reading Challenges

Does your local library do them? Do you participate?

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Shadow Life

Hiromi Goto

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Pre-Read Thoughts

I stumbled across this graphic novel while just perusing the shelves and the library and was immediately interested! I love old lady protagonists, I think partly because (if I'm lucky) I will one day be an old lady. It's fun to see elderly women having cool supernatural adventures and being The Main Character and reminding us that life keeps going.

I'm hoping for a happy ending for Kumiko - I'm not sure if avoiding Death or if coming to terms with it will be the end point, I'm excited to see!

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