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Unseen: How I Lost My Vision but Found My Voice

Molly Burke

From social media star and disability activist Molly Burke, a vulnerable and witty memoir on navigating the challenges of being a legally blind woman in an ableist worldWhen Molly Burke was four years old, she was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa, a rare degenerative eye disease that causes gradual and complete blindness, forcing Burke to conceptualize the world differently. Growing up disabled didn’t stop her from playing sports, speaking publicly, or becoming a rock-climbing instructor, but it was other people’s narrow perceptions of her that held her back. Today, Burke is a speaker, content creator, model, author, and advocate whose mission is to help foster community for anyone feeling isolated, misrepresented, or misunderstood. Unseen is Burke’s story in her own words and an inspiration to those who have been stigmatized or are feeling alone in their struggles to speak out. Burke chronicles her journey as a disabled woman, business owner, and entertainer, illuminating not only what her experiences have taught her, but also what she wishes the world understood about her world and the world of others in the blind community. Part memoir, part rallying cry for better representation, Unseen recounts Burke’s life and experiences fighting against the expectations society set for her as a blind woman, and in doing so, helps readers find their voice, strength, and inner purpose.

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The Girl With A Thousand Faces

Sunyi Dean

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bexfiles

Aries Recs ♈️

Hi everyone! I’m in need of some brainstorming assistance for my upcoming book club pick. The theme is ‘pisces crisis’ and everyone is picking a book that is influenced by our astrological sign.

I’m a bit lost when it comes to astrology, but I know I’m an Aries (fire sign) and could use some help with matching the ~~characteristics~~ of an Aries with a book. If anyone has any ideas that come to mind when thinking of Aries it would be much appreciated! All genres accepted!

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Aries Recs ♈️

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Filth Eaters

Ito Romo

A high-strung and inventive literary horror that will delight fans of Stephen Graham Jones and Mariana Enriquez, Ito Romo’s debut novel traces the thousand-year lineage of a new kind of vampire—the mestizo Filth Eater. Granada, 1849. After centuries of scrounging in the shadows, the vampire Radamés discovers an ancient Aztec codex that reveals the vampires of the “New World” live a more “human” life—they marry, they give birth. Spurred on by tantalizing promise of a fuller existence, Radamés glamours and schemes his way onto a ship headed for Mexico. There, in the underbelly of the forgotten Aztec city of Teotihuacán, the Andalusian vampire falls in love with a member of this ancient sect of Aztec vampires who call themselves Filth Eaters. From their union, the mestizo vampire Doro is born. Hopping back and forth in time from the Indus River Delta in 1099 to the Muslim Spanish empire of the 1400s to a flooded cyberpunk New York City of the future, Filth Eaters pulls at the threads of empire, greed, and climate collapse, but the beating, bloody heart of the story is our very human desire for the love that gives life meaning.The debut novel from a celebrated writer of “Chicano Gothic” stories, this surprising, gory saga turns a new page for a centuries-old genre.

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Wool (Wool, #1)

Hugh Howey

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Hugh Howey

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Hugh Howey

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Hugh Howey

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Ninth House (Alex Stern, #1)

Leigh Bardugo

Galaxy “Alex” Stern is the most unlikely member of Yale’s freshman class. Raised in the Los Angeles hinterlands by a hippie mom, Alex dropped out of school early and into a world of shady drug dealer boyfriends, dead-end jobs, and much, much worse. By age twenty, in fact, she is the sole survivor of a horrific, unsolved multiple homicide. Some might say she’s thrown her life away. But at her hospital bed, Alex is offered a second chance: to attend one of the world’s most elite universities on a full ride. What’s the catch, and why her? Still searching for answers to this herself, Alex arrives in New Haven tasked by her mysterious benefactors with monitoring the activities of Yale’s secret societies. These eight windowless “tombs” are well-known to be haunts of the future rich and powerful, from high-ranking politicos to Wall Street and Hollywood’s biggest players. But their occult activities are revealed to be more sinister and more extraordinary than any paranoid imagination might conceive.

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Wool (Wool, #1)

Hugh Howey

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Make Me a Monster

Kalynn Bayron

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Wool (Wool, #1)

Hugh Howey

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Dark Age (Red Rising Saga, #5)

Pierce Brown

For a decade Darrow led a revolution against the corrupt color-coded Society. Now, outlawed by the very Republic he founded, he wages a rogue war on Mercury in hopes that he can still salvage the dream of Eo. But as he leaves death and destruction in his wake, is he still the hero who broke the chains? Or will another legend rise to take his place? Lysander au Lune, the heir in exile, has returned to the Core. Determined to bring peace back to mankind at the edge of his sword, he must overcome or unite the treacherous Gold families of the Core and face down Darrow over the skies of war-torn Mercury. But theirs are not the only fates hanging in the balance. On Luna, Mustang, Sovereign of the Republic, campaigns to unite the Republic behind her husband. Beset by political and criminal enemies, can she outwit her opponents in time to save him? Once a Red refugee, young Lyria now stands accused of treason, and her only hope is a desperate escape with unlikely new allies. Abducted by a new threat to the Republic, Pax and Electra, the children of Darrow and Sevro, must trust in Ephraim, a thief, for their salvation—and Ephraim must look to them for his chance at redemption. As alliances shift, break, and re-form—and power is seized, lost, and reclaimed—every player is at risk in a game of conquest that could turn the Rising into a new Dark Age. The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Morning Star returns to the Red Rising universe with the thrilling sequel to Iron Gold.

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Dark Age (Red Rising Saga, #5)

Pierce Brown

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Make Me a Monster

Kalynn Bayron

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Make Me a Monster

Kalynn Bayron

Featuring colored endpapers and a designed case!New York Times bestselling author Kalynn Bayron puts a modern twist on Frankenstein in her haunting new novel about the lengths we'd go for the people we love.Meka has always lived her life surrounded by death. As a newly certified mortician's assistant at her parents' funeral home, her days are not for the faint of heart. Luckily her boyfriend Noah isn't squeamish, and their closeness has Meka finally feeling ready to say the three little words that have been on her mind.But then tragedy strikes, and Meka's world is torn apart. Nothing makes sense, especially when strange things start happening. Strangers following her. Mysterious items left at her door. Ravens circling her home. And the dead don't seem to be staying dead.When a shocking family secret is revealed, Meka must unravel the truth to save herself and her family--and what she finds defies everything she's always believed about life and death.

gertiebooks commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum

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books with a similar vibe to LOST

Yea, I am talking about the hit early 2000's show LOST in 2026. I love this series and became a fan after watching a season 1 recap video from a youtuber (mikesmic if anyone's interested) a few years ago and immediately binged the entire show. Every time a new recap video comes out, I yearn to just abandon everything in my life and rewatch the entire series... But maybe I should try satiating that feeling with some books 📚

I would love to hear your recs for books with a large cast of diverse characters (bonus points if they're involved in a plane crash/stranded somewhere/on an island), themes of reality/mysticism/very slight theology or religion, probably best if this is a series... I'm also okay with getting into a series that has a controversial ending! Even if you haven't watched or know anything about LOST, I would love to hear your rec that fits in any of these!

And yes I'm already all over these lists that have books referenced/shown in LOST : Sawyer's Books in LOST made by vanja Books Referenced on LOST by trickynoodle

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Wool (Wool, #1)

Hugh Howey

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gertiebooks commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum

mysteriousgap

Edited

books with a similar vibe to LOST

And yes I'm already all over these lists that have books referenced/shown in LOST : Sawyer's Books in LOST made by vanja Books Referenced on LOST by trickynoodle

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