miauwend

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The Apothecary Diaries (Light Novel): Volume 1

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Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution

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A Short History of the World According to Sheep

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Manny and the Baby

Varaidzo Varaidzo

Stylist Best New Fiction of 2024 A Bookseller ‘One to Watch’ ‘Manny and the Baby stood out for me from the first few lines. The beautifully balanced prose, the wonderful story, and sumptuous detail are constructed with poetic precision and held my attention right until the very end.’ Jacqueline Crooks, author of Fire Rush ‘An incredibly special writer, thoughtful and energetic, occasionally savage, wise beyond her years, with an eye and an ear for syntax that is masterful ... Varaidzo is the future, and Manny and the Baby is a book for the ages.’ Nikesh Shukla Included in NetGalley’s 2024 Hot List London, 1936. Two sisters are ready to take the city and the world by storm. Bath, 2012. Two young Black men are figuring out who they are, and who they want to become. Manny is forthright, intellectual, and determined to make her mark on the London literary scene. Her younger sister Rita, the Baby, just wants to dance. In the smoky clubs that pulsate underneath Soho’s vibrant streets, Rita finds herself drawn into a new world of Black ambition, along with the masterful mimic and trumpeter, Ezekiel Brown, from Jamaica. As tensions rise and the shadow of fascism and war snaps at their heels, the two sisters are faced with choices that will alter their lives forever. Itai has fled London to his late father’s flat in Bath. Listening to cassette tapes his father made, he feels both drawn in and shut out of his former life — who is Rita? Why did his father record her life story? And where can he find her now, to return the tapes? Meanwhile, his developing friendship with Josh, a young athlete who moonlights as a dealer to fund his training for the next Olympics, is on unsteady ground, as Josh has been sent by his bosses to find out what the hell Itai is doing in Bath. Manny and the Baby is a character-driven debut novel, full of heart, about what it means to be Black and British, now and in the past.

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Namesake: WINNER OF THE JHALAK PRIZE 2025

N.S. Nuseibeh

'A wonderful book about the deep backstories and the tangled histories of N. S. Nuseibeh's own multiple identit[ies]' MARK HADDON'Explores vulnerability, fragility, anxiety, and ambivalence as ways of beautifully coming to terms with the wounds and worries of the world' HOMI K. BHABHAI may not be brave enough, but somewhere deep inside of me there is, perhaps, the kernel of someone who is.That brave someone was the legendary Nusayba bint Ka’ab al Khazrajia, who fought alongside the Prophet Muhammad at the dawn of Islam, the author N.S Nuseibeh’s ancestor. In drawing on Nusayba's stories, Nuseibeh delves into the experience of being an Arab woman today and in the distant past – taking her from superheroes and the glorification of violence to the rise of Arab feminism, to what courage looks like in the context of interminable conflict. By seeking to understand her namesake in the context of her own twenty-first century concerns, Nuseibeh links our current ideas of Muslims and Arabs with their origins, exploring myth-making and identity, religion and nationhood, feminism and race.As intimate as they are thoughtful, these linked essays offer a dazzling exploration of heritage, gender and the idea of home, while also showing how connecting with our history can help us understand ourselves and others today.

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juelibrary

POV: Your favourite library is burning down

Hello my fellow Boundlings!

I was just sitting in the library studying for my upcoming exam, when suddenly the fire sirens started 💀🚨

This has inspired me for a little POV game:

Imagine you're sitting in your favourite library and suddenly the fire sirens start. You smell smoke, but before you can bring yourself to safety, you manage to grab one book to save. Which Book are you saving from the fire ? 👀🔥

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chaoticbookdragon

Seeking Italian recs (mostly fantasy)

Hi, I’m currently learning Italian and plan to read books in Italian in the future. Would some of you have book recs from Italian speaking authors? I’m a huge fantasy fan but I also enjoy sci-fi, sapphic romance and other genres. I usually read diversely and mostly from female/NB authors. (also I think it would be cool to have lists for books written by native speakers of different languages!)

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medusa1015

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Happy Lesbian Visibility week!!

Hello friends! I love being a lesbian and it's my favorite week of the year. What is your favorite lesbian novel? What's your favorite thing about being a lesbian?

I have to go with Emily Austin as my favorite lesbian novels! And my favorite thing about being a lesbian is de centering men and mixing masculine and feminine qualities

Hoping this brings some joy and love to your feed :)

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What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

Stephanie Foo

A searing memoir of reckoning and healing by acclaimed journalist Stephanie Foo, investigating the little-understood science behind complex PTSD and how it has shaped her life"Every cell in my body is filled with the code of generations of trauma, of death, of birth, of migration, of history that I cannot understand. . . . I want to have words for what my bones know." By age thirty, Stephanie Foo was successful on paper: She had her dream job as an award-winning radio producer at This American Life and a loving boyfriend. But behind her office door, she was having panic attacks and sobbing at her desk every morning. After years of questioning what was wrong with herself, she was diagnosed with complex PTSD--a condition that occurs when trauma happens continuously, over the course of years. Both of Foo's parents abandoned her when she was a teenager, after years of physical and verbal abuse and neglect. She thought she'd moved on, but her new diagnosis illuminated the way her past continued to threaten her health, relationships, and career. She found limited resources to help her, so Foo set out to heal herself, and to map her experiences onto the scarce literature about C-PTSD. In this deeply personal and thoroughly researched account, Foo interviews scientists and psychologists and tries a variety of innovative therapies. She returns to her hometown of San Jose, California, to investigate the effects of immigrant trauma on the community, and she uncovers family secrets in the country of her birth, Malaysia, to learn how trauma can be inherited through generations. Ultimately, she discovers that you don't move on from trauma--but you can learn to move with it. Powerful, enlightening, and hopeful, What My Bones Know is a brave narrative that reckons with the hold of the past over the present, the mind over the body--and examines one woman's ability to reclaim agency from her trauma.

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A Thousand Steps into Night

Traci Chee

From New York Times bestselling author and National Book Award finalist, Traci Chee, comes a Japanese-influenced fantasy brimming with demons, adventure, and plans gone awry. In the realm of Awara, where gods, monsters, and humans exist side by side, Miuko is an ordinary girl resigned to a safe, if uneventful, existence as an innkeeper’s daughter. But when Miuko is cursed and begins to transform into a demon with a deadly touch, she embarks on a quest to reverse the curse and return to her normal life. Aided by a thieving magpie spirit and continuously thwarted by a demon prince, Miuko must outfox tricksters, escape demon hunters, and negotiate with feral gods if she wants to make it home again. But with her transformation comes power and freedom she never even dreamed of, and she’ll have to decide if saving her soul is worth trying to cram herself back into an ordinary life that no longer fits her… and perhaps never did.

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introvertedvampire

Characters or Real People's Experiences with Mental Illness, need recs!

I am looking for any and all books related to at least the main character or real people's experiences with mental illness. So can be fiction or non-fiction. Can be any genre or reading level.

I deal with multiple mental illnesses, so a book having good rep is important to me.

I have already read the Heartstopper series and a couple of other books by Alice Oseman that I think have rep and The Collected Schizophrenias recently. I have also read I'm Glad My Mom Died. Brain On Fire and Girl, Interrupted is on my TBR. I cannot think of others I have read but I have read a bunch, mainly YA.

What I am not looking for:

Books intentionally "demonizing" people with mental illnesses
Books where the character is magically (with actual magic or otherwise) "cured" of their illness
Psychology/Medical Texts

Please let me know/link to a synopsis/PB page for some of the books you recommend.

Thank you in advance for your recommendations!

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The Jinn's Bargain (The Eternal Flames Legacy Book 1)

Fetin Sardaneh

Her home is lost, her brother cursed, and hope is dwindling. Desperate, Esin Sultan calls upon the perilous powers that once sealed her family's the jinn.But as Dark Magic bleeds across the land and allegiances rupture, the past stirs-unearthing secrets long buried within the shadows.The Jinn's Bargain is a sweeping tale of forbidden magic and political tension, inspired by Turkish, Kurdish, Arab, and Persian folklore.

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Reading the Remnants

Wen Guan

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nkitty

PSPSPSPSPS 🐈🐈‍⬛

Is the venn diagram for cat lovers and readers… a circle??

I feel like I’ve seen so many of you on here with cat-related usernames (me included!) and/or cat profile pic and it feels like we’re all library cats walking along the bookshelves and knocking books down (into other users feeds)

cat reading meow book

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Anansi's Gold: The Man Who Looted the West, Outfoxed Washington, and Swindled the World

Yepoka Yeebo

The astounding, never-before-told story of how an audacious Ghanaian con artist pulled off one of the 20th century’s longest-running and most spectacular frauds. When Ghana won its independence from Britain in 1957, it instantly became a target for home-grown opportunists and rapacious Western interests determined to snatch any assets that colonialism hadn’t already stripped. A CIA-funded military junta ousted the new nation’s inspiring president, Kwame Nkrumah, then falsely accused him of hiding the country’s gold overseas. Into this big lie stepped one of history’s most charismatic scammers, a con man to rival the trickster god Anansi. Born into poverty in Ghana and trained in the United States, John Ackah Blay-Miezah declared himself custodian of an alleged Nkrumah trust fund worth billions. You, too, could claim a piece--if only you would “invest” in Blay-Miezah’s fictitious efforts to release the equally fictitious fund. Over the 1970s and ‘80s, he and his accomplices―including Ghanaian state officials and Nixon’s former attorney general--scammed hundreds of millions of dollars out of thousands of believers. Blay-Miezah lived in luxury, deceiving Philadelphia lawyers, London financiers, and Seoul businessmen alike, all while eluding his FBI pursuers. American prosecutors called his scam “one of the most fascinating--and lucrative--in modern history.” In Anansi’s Gold , Yepoka Yeebo chases Blay-Miezah’s ever-wilder trail and discovers, at long last, what really happened to Ghana’s missing wealth. She unfolds a riveting account of Cold War entanglements, international finance, and postcolonial betrayal, revealing how what we call “history” writes itself into being, one lie at a time.

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Transparent City

Ondjaki Ondjaki

In a crumbling apartment block in the Angolan city of Luanda, families work, laugh, scheme, and get by. In the middle of it all is the melancholic Odonato, nostalgic for the country of his youth and searching for his lost son. As his hope drains away and as the city outside his doors changes beyond all recognition, Odonato’s flesh becomes transparent and his body increasingly weightless. A captivating blend of magical realism, scathing political satire, tender comedy, and literary experimentation, Transparent City offers a gripping and joyful portrait of urban Africa quite unlike any before yet published in English, and places Ondjaki, indisputably, among the continent’s most accomplished writers.

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Behind You Is the Sea

Susan Muaddi Darraj

An exciting debut novel that gives voice to the diverse residents of a Palestinian American community in Baltimore—from young activists in conflict with their traditional parents to the poor who clean for the rich—lives which intersect across divides of class, generation, and religion. Funny and touching, Behind You Is the Sea brings us into the homes and lives of three main families—the Baladis, the Salamehs, and the Ammars—Palestinian immigrants who’ve all found a different welcome in America. Their various fates and struggles cause their community dynamic to sizzle and sometimes explode: The wealthy Ammar family employs young Maysoon Baladi, whose family struggles financially, to clean up after their spoiled teenagers. Meanwhile, Marcus Salameh, whose aunt married into the wealthy Ammar family, confronts his father in an effort to protect his younger sister for “dishonoring” the family. Only a trip to Palestine, where Marcus experiences an unexpected and dramatic transformation, can bridge this seemingly unbridgeable divide between the two generations. Behind You Is the Sea faces stereotypes about Palestinian culture head-on and, shifting perspectives to weave a complex social fabric replete with weddings, funerals, broken hearts, and devastating secrets.

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Lucxi

Books About Disabilities and History: Looking for Recommendations!

Hi everyone! I recently put together a list of books about disability and disability history but have noticed a few shortfalls that I am not well-versed in. Much of the research and published works on the history of disabilities is traditionally centered on western, white experiences and perspectives. I don't want the large selection of these books to overshadow the experiences of others from different cultures, or to miseducate anyone reading these lists to become more informed.

Does anyone have any book suggestions? I want to discover more inclusive books to broaden my knowledge and viewpoint.

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miauwend

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i wasn't suspecting the second person perspective, but it's done well imo. the book so far feels true to an autistic childhood, evoking the feeling like you've always done something not quite right

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celinereads

Book pricing?

I have very vivid memory of hardcover books costing around 17€ here in Germany a few years ago. Today I saw a hardcover version of Bury Our Bones on the Midnight Soil (no special edition or anything) for 38€. I bought the paperback for 26€. Have we lost the plot? Reading used to be kind of affordable? Do authors get more money since the prices are higher (which I would actually be fine with then but I have a feeling that's not the case)? Is this a Germany specific thing? I really do love my library card even more now.

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dreamlibrary

Arab Poetry 101

Does anyone has some recommendations for classic (or not so classic) Arab poetry? I'm reading an anthology right now, but it's very centered around Iberian-Arab poetry, and I would like to expand my knowdledge, since Spanish was heavily influenced in origin by Arab poetry, among others. I've searched for quests and lists on Pagebound but I didn't find anything... Thanks!

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thebogwitch

Horror Books without(!) Animal Cruelty/Death

I searched around on PB and haven't found what I'm looking for, so I apologize if this has been addressed before.

I am trying to get back into horror, but am extremely sensitive to animal cruelty and animal death. So many horror books feature this and, while it is horrific, I don't find it entertaining. In fact, if I read it once, it will be seared into my mind for the rest of my life (goody!).

I research books before I read them (ie. checking Storygraph content warnings and the DtDD website, Google searches, etc), but personal recommendations are often the best bet at avoiding unwanted content.

Has anyone put together a good list of horror books that don't include animal cruelty/death?

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