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The Silver Pigs (Marcus Didius Falco, #1)

Daughter of the Forest (Sevenwaters, #1)

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The Black Witch (The Black Witch Chronicles, #1)

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Chocolate City: A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation's Capital

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The God and the Gwisin (Fate's Thread, #2)

Sophie Kim

Seokga the No-Longer-Fallen is looking for his love. Since he lost Hani and was reinstated as a god, nothing has felt right - and he's been desperately searching for her reincarnated form ever since.But when the red thread of fate leads Seokga to a cruise down the river of the dead, the woman he finds isn't Hani . . . she's Yoo Kisa, and she has no memory of him whatsoever - with seemingly no interest in regaining it either.But when the Heavenly Emperor of Okhwang is murdered, Seokga and Kisa must solve the crime before the cruise ends. And as the mystery draws them closer, they will have to decide what they truly mean to each other.There's something bigger at play aboard the ship, something that holds the key to their fated connection - and the very fate of the world.

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The Black Witch (The Black Witch Chronicles, #1)

Laurie Forest

A new Black Witch will rise…her powers vast beyond imagining. Elloren Gardner is the granddaughter of the last prophesied Black Witch, Carnissa Gardner, who drove back the enemy forces and saved the Gardnerian people during the Realm War. But while she is the absolute spitting image of her famous grandmother, Elloren is utterly devoid of power in a society that prizes magical ability above all else. When she is granted the opportunity to pursue her lifelong dream of becoming an apothecary, Elloren joins her brothers at the prestigious Verpax University to embrace a destiny of her own, free from the shadow of her grandmother’s legacy. But she soon realizes that the university, which admits all manner of people—including the fire-wielding, winged Icarals, the sworn enemies of all Gardnerians—is a treacherous place for the granddaughter of the Black Witch. As evil looms on the horizon and the pressure to live up to her heritage builds, everything Elloren thought she knew will be challenged and torn away. Her best hope of survival may be among the most unlikely band of rebels…if only she can find the courage to trust those she’s been taught to fear.

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Vanessa Lillie

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Anatomy: A Love Story (The Anatomy Duology, #1)

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Anatomy: A Love Story (The Anatomy Duology, #1)

Dana Schwartz

Edinburgh, 1817. Hazel Sinnett is a lady who wants to be a surgeon more than she wants to marry. Jack Currer is a resurrection man who’s just trying to survive in a city where it’s too easy to die. When the two of them have a chance encounter outside the Edinburgh Anatomist’s Society, Hazel thinks nothing of it at first. But after she gets kicked out of renowned surgeon Dr. Beecham’s lectures for being the wrong gender, she realizes that her new acquaintance might be more helpful than she first thought. Because Hazel has made a deal with Dr. Beecham: if she can pass the medical examination on her own, the university will allow her to enroll. Without official lessons, though, Hazel will need more than just her books – she’ll need bodies to study, corpses to dissect. Lucky that she’s made the acquaintance of someone who digs them up for a living, then. But Jack has his own problems: strange men have been seen skulking around cemeteries, his friends are disappearing off the streets. Hazel and Jack work together to uncover the secrets buried not just in unmarked graves, but in the very heart of Edinburgh society. A gothic tale full of mystery and romance about a willful female surgeon, a resurrection man who sells bodies for a living, and the buried secrets they must uncover together.

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whatemmareads

(qotd!) childhood book

what is your favorite childhood book (or series)? and why?

mine is Linnea in Monet’s Garden

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Romance in audio? 🎧💖

Hello, me again!

So, weeks ago I asked for audiobook recommendations for a newbie (me, I'm the newbie) and many people came through for me! Now I'd like to specifically ask for help regarding romance books in audio.

What are some titles you loved? I read primarily queer romance 🏳️‍🌈, but anything goes!

Thank you in advance. 🌷

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Trying new genres!

Hi fellow book lovers! I've been thinking about how I try to read new genres even if I might not like it. It's fun to try something new, but sometimes I find it quite hard to find a book I would like in certain genres. And because of that here are some questions I would love to ask: • So do you read books of your normal/favorite reading genres or do you like to try reading new genres? • How do you find a book out of your normal genres that you think you might like??

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L.M. Montgomery

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Strange Material: Storytelling Through Textiles

Leanne Prain

Strange Material" explores the relationship between handmade textiles and storytelling.Through text, the act of weaving a tale or dropping a thread takes on new meaning for those who previously have seen textilesquilts, blankets, articles of clothing, and moreonly as functional objects. This book showcases crafters who take storytelling off the page and into the mediums of batik, stitching, dyeing, fabric painting, knitting, crochet, and weaving, creating objects that bear their messages proudly, from personal memoir and cultural fables to pictorial histories and wearable fictions.Full-color throughout, the book includes chapters on various aspects of textile storytelling, from "Textiles of Protest, Politics, and Power" to "The Fabric of Remembrance"; it also includes specific projects, such as the well-known and profoundly moving Names Project AIDS Memorial Quilt, as well as poetry mittens, button blankets, and stitched travel diaries. Offbeat, poetic, and subversive, "Strange Material" will inspire readers to re-imagine the possibilities of creating through needle and fabric.Leanne Prain is the co-author (with Mandy Moore) of "Yarn Bombing," now in its third printing, and the author of " The Art of Unexpected Embroidery." A professional graphic designer, Leanne holds degrees in creative writing, art history, and publishing.

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Threads of Life: A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle

Clare Hunter

A globe-spanning history of sewing, embroidery, and the people who have used a needle and thread to make their voices heard In 1970s Argentina, mothers marched in headscarves embroidered with the names of their “disappeared” children. In Tudor, England, when Mary, Queen of Scots, was under house arrest, her needlework carried her messages to the outside world. From the political propaganda of the Bayeux Tapestry, World War I soldiers coping with PTSD, and the maps sewn by schoolgirls in the New World, to the AIDS quilt, Hmong story clothes, and pink pussyhats, women and men have used the language of sewing to make their voices heard, even in the most desperate of circumstances. Threads of Life is a chronicle of identity, protest, memory, power, and politics told through the stories of needlework. Clare Hunter, master of the craft, threads her own narrative as she takes us over centuries and across continents—from medieval France to contemporary Mexico and the United States, and from a POW camp in Singapore to a family attic in Scotland—to celebrate the age-old, universal, and underexplored beauty and power of sewing. Threads of Life is an evocative and moving book about the need we have to tell our story.

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The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History

Kassia St. Clair

From colorful 30,000-year-old threads found on the floor of a Georgian cave to the Indian calicoes that sparked the Industrial Revolution, The Golden Thread weaves an illuminating story of human ingenuity. Design journalist Kassia St. Clair guides us through the technological advancements and cultural customs that would redefine human civilization—from the fabric that allowed mankind to achieve extraordinary things (traverse the oceans and shatter athletic records) and survive in unlikely places (outer space and the South Pole). She peoples her story with a motley cast of characters, including Xiling, the ancient Chinese empress credited with inventing silk, to Richard the Lionhearted and Bing Crosby. Offering insights into the economic and social dimensions of clothmaking—and countering the enduring, often demeaning, association of textiles as “merely women’s work”—The Golden Thread offers an alternative guide to our past, present, and future.

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Stitching the Intifada: Embroidery and Resistance in Palestine

Rachel Dedman

Tatreez — elaborate hand-embroidery — is an ancient Palestinian craft characterised by remarkable beauty and complexity. Beginning with an introduction to the regional diversity of historic Palestinian dress, Rachel Dedman traces the politicisation of embroidery after the Nakba of 1948. From its evolution into a symbol of the nation, to its powerful presence during the First Intifada, and reimagination by contemporary artists, tatreez in Palestine embodies many forms of personal and public resistance

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Subversive Stitch, The: Embroidery and the Making of the Feminine

Rozsika Parker

Rozsika Parker's re-evaluation of the reciprocal relationship between women and embroidery has brought stitchery out from the private world of female domesticity into the fine arts, created a major breakthrough in art history and criticism, and fostered the emergence of today's dynamic and expanding crafts movements. The Subversive Stitch is now available again with a new Introduction that brings the book up to date with exploration of the stitched art of Louise Bourgeois and Tracey Emin, as well as the work of new young female and male embroiderers. Rozsika Parker uses household accounts, women's magazines, letters, novels and the works of art themselves to trace through history how the separation of the craft of embroidery from the fine arts came to be a major force in the marginalisation of women's work. Beautifully illustrated, her book also discusses the contradictory nature of women's experience of how it has inculcated female subservience while providing an immensely pleasurable source of creativity, forging links between women.

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L.M. Montgomery

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vulpecula

Eternal life (Y/N)?

My friend and I were having a discussion/debate over the idea of living forever. We're always talking about how our TBRs are getting longer and longer, and how it would be impossible to read every book we want to, or even learn everything we want to in the world. Obviously a solution to this would be to live forever.

I truly have no desire to live forever, even if that means I won't be able to read every book I am interested in or go everywhere. The downsides of living forever seem not to be worth it to me (like the way the world/society is going these days, climate change, people, etc).

So if you knew that you could read or learn everything you want in exchange for living forever, would you? And if so, would you have caveats on that or would you just accept eternal life?

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