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The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls

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Doctor Sleep (The Shining, #2)

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Assata: An Autobiography

Assata Shakur

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Assata: An Autobiography

Assata Shakur

On May 2, 1973, Black Panther Assata Shakur (aka JoAnne Chesimard) lay in a hospital, close to death, handcuffed to her bed, while local, state, and federal police attempted to question her about the shootout on the New Jersey Turnpike that had claimed the life of a white state trooper. Long a target of J. Edgar Hoover's campaign to defame, infiltrate, and criminalize Black nationalist organizations and their leaders, Shakur was incarcerated for four years prior to her conviction on flimsy evidence in 1977 as an accomplice to murder. This intensely personal and political autobiography belies the fearsome image of JoAnne Chesimard long projected by the media and the state. With wit and candor, Assata Shakur recounts the experiences that led her to a life of activism and portrays the strengths, weaknesses, and eventual demise of Black and White revolutionary groups at the hand of government officials. The result is a signal contribution to the literature about growing up Black in America that has already taken its place alongside The Autobiography of Malcolm X and the works of Maya Angelou. Two years after her conviction, Assata Shakur escaped from prison. She was given political asylum by Cuba, where she now resides.

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Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire

Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex

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The Color Purple

Alice Walker

Read the original inspiration for the new, boldly reimagined film from producers Oprah Winfrey and Steven Spielberg, starring Taraji P. Henson, Danielle Brooks, and Fantasia Barrino. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award A powerful cultural touchstone of modern American literature, The Color Purple depicts the lives of African American women in early twentieth-century rural Georgia. Separated as girls, sisters Celie and Nettie sustain their loyalty to and hope in each other across time, distance and silence. Through a series of letters spanning twenty years, first from Celie to God, then the sisters to each other despite the unknown, the novel draws readers into its rich and memorable portrayals of Celie, Nettie, Shug Avery and Sofia and their experience. The Color Purple broke the silence around domestic and sexual abuse, narrating the lives of women through their pain and struggle, companionship and growth, resilience and bravery. Deeply compassionate and beautifully imagined, Alice Walker's epic carries readers on a spirit-affirming journey towards redemption and love. “Reading The Color Purple was the first time I had seen Southern, Black women’s literature as world literature. In writing us into the world—bravely, unapologetically, and honestly—Alice Walker has given us a gift we will never be able to repay.” —Tayari Jones “The Color Purple was what church should have been, what honest familial reckoning could have been, and it is still the only art object in the world by which all three generations of Black artists in my family judge American art.” —Kiese Laymon

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The Devourers

Indra Das

On a cool evening in Kolkata, India, beneath a full moon, as the whirling rhythms of traveling musicians fill the night, college professor Alok encounters a mysterious stranger with a bizarre confession and an extraordinary story. Tantalized by the man’s unfinished tale, Alok will do anything to hear its completion. So Alok agrees, at the stranger’s behest, to transcribe a collection of battered notebooks, weathered parchments, and once-living skins. From these documents spills the chronicle of a race of people at once more than human yet kin to beasts, ruled by instincts and desires blood-deep and ages-old. The tale features a rough wanderer in seventeenth-century Mughal India who finds himself irrevocably drawn to a defiant woman—and destined to be torn asunder by two clashing worlds. With every passing chapter of beauty and brutality, Alok’s interest in the stranger grows and evolves into something darker and more urgent.

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Sweetbitter Song

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The First Thousand Trees (The Annual Migration of Clouds, #3)

Premee Mohamed

Henryk Mandrusiak, finding nothing left for him in his community following his best friend Reid's departure, travels through the devastated land in search of a new place to call home. "One of the most unique and engaging voices in genre fiction." -- Booklist "In this rich and nuanced universe, Mohamed offers an emotionally fierce and human story that takes the time and space to personalize apocalypse." -- Quill & Quire, starred review After making a grievous mistake that ended in death, Henryk Mandrusiak feels increasingly ostracized within his own community, and after the passing on of his parents and the departure of his best friend, Reid, there is little left to tie him to the place he calls home. Henryk does something he never expected: he sets out into the harsh wilds alone, in search of far-flung family. He finds his uncle's village, but making a life for himself in this unfriendly new place -- rougher and more impoverished than the campus where he grew up -- isn't easy. Henryk strives to carve out a place of his own but learns that some corners of his broken world are darker than he could have imagined. This stunning novella concludes the story Mohamed started in The Annual Migration of Clouds and continued in We Speak Through the Mountain, bleaker than ever but still in search of a spark of hope in the climate apocalypse.

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Through the Eyes of Animals

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Themed Badge Packs

This post is 100% inspired by @ayzrules who lit this fire by creating post 1 and post 2. Here are my contributions! (For most, I provide multiple options.)

1) Purple Immersion // Purple Reign

On PB, we wear purple.

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Featured Badges: Cozy Fantasy, One and Done Fantasy, Universe Quest: The Cosmere + Cytoverse, Flights of Fire, Gothic Literature

2) She’s a Lady (and ladies shouldn’t be messed with)

Heels, nails, blade, mascara. Fit check for my napalm era.

Pagebound Knife Lipstick Cigarette Icon Pagebound Feminine Rage Icon Pagebound Sapphic Vampires Icon Pagebound Feminism Icon Pagebound Monstrous Feminine Icon

Honorable Mention (for the nails): Pagebound Monster Romance Icon

Featured Badges: Supporting Women’s Wrongs, Feminine Rage, Sapphic Vampires, Feminism Without Exception, The Monstrous Feminine

3) t.i.t.s.o.a.k. collection

for those who celebrate hoa hoa hoa szn

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Featured Badges: Sapphic Vampires, The Werewolf Within, Plants, Fungi, and Trees – Oh My!, The MacLeaniverse, Quiet Novels

4) Dark Mode

The skeleton’s torso and skull have now been reunited.

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Featured Badges: Dark Academia, True Crime Starter Pack Vol I, Poetic Stories, Forgive Us Our Trespasses: Religious Horror; Gothic Literature

5) Monster F*cker Collection

Monster smash.

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(The alien? I’m picturing Ice Planet Barbarians. Yes, Chef.)

Some may choose to end their session with a blade, a smoke, or a lippy touch-up. Pagebound Knife Lipstick Cigarette Icon

Featured Badges: Sapphic Vampires, The Werewolf Within, Those Who Lurk Among Us: Monster Manga, Botanical Horror, The Monstrous Feminine Monster Romance Series Starters, Skeletons in the Closet, Strange Plagues, Sci-Fi Charcuterie, Mermaids After Dark, Flights of Fire

Supporting Women’s Wrongs

6) Happily Ever After…? I just couldn’t leave this at three icons, but you can if you want that HEA. 😉

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Featured Badges: Beyond the Bodice Ripper: Historical Romance, Universe Quest: Lord of the Rings & Tolkein’s Legendarium, Fairy Tale Retellings, Universe Quest: The Cosmere + Cytoverse

7) Outdoorsy (aka the forest/mountains will kill and absorb you)

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Featured Badges: The Werewolf Within, Universe Quest: Maasverse, Southern Gothic Fiction, Queer Horror, Plants, Fungi, and Trees – Oh My!

8) Cosmic Queer Love

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Featured Badges: Men Loving Men in Literary Fiction, The MacLeaniverse, Fever Dreams & Strange Realities, Achillean Across Genres, Fated Mates Book Club: Romance Books for Novel People Lady Knights Who Like Other Ladies, Found Family in Fantasy, Black Fantasy, Sci-Fi, and Speculative Fiction, Sapphic Across Genres, LGBTQ+ Middle Grade

9) Horror Story, Vol I.

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Featured Badges: From Bookshelf to TV, Those Who Lurk Among Us: Monster Manga, Thriller Starter Pack Vol I, Horror Starter Pack Vol II, Queer Horror

And that concludes baby’s first PB Club post!

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