peregrine

any/all (whatever's funniest) --- hi im perry and im a library science major and as such i eat books. thank u

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Sapphire Sapphire

Precious Jones, an illiterate sixteen-year-old, has up until now been invisible: invisible to the father who rapes her and the mother who batters her and to the authorities who dismiss her as just one more of Harlem's casualties. But when Precious, pregnant with a second child by her father, meets a determined and highly radical teacher, we follow her on a journey of education and enlightenment as Precious learns not only how to write about her life, but how to make it her own for the first time.

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elderly sleuths solving cozy mysteries

by raindrop

52 books

wise, funny main characters in their golden years who solve crimes and murders! think the thursday murder club, a man on the inside, etc.!

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The Bullet That Missed (Thursday Murder Club, #3)

The Last Devil to Die (Thursday Murder Club, #4)

The Thursday Murder Club (Thursday Murder Club, #1)

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Orbital

Samantha Harvey

A slender novel of epic power, Orbital deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men hurtling through space—not towards the moon or the vast unknown, but around our planet. Selected for one of the last space station missions of its kind before the program is dismantled, these astronauts and cosmonauts—from America, Russia, Italy, Britain, and Japan—have left their lives behind to travel at a speed of over seventeen thousand miles an hour as the earth reels below. We glimpse moments of their earthly lives through brief communications with family, their photos and talismans; we watch them whip up dehydrated meals, float in gravity-free sleep, and exercise in regimented routines to prevent atrophying muscles; we witness them form bonds that will stand between them and utter solitude. Most of all, we are with them as they behold and record their silent blue planet. Their experiences of sixteen sunrises and sunsets and the bright, blinking constellations of the galaxy are at once breathtakingly awesome and surprisingly intimate. So are the marks of civilization far below, encrusted on the planet on which we live. Profound, contemplative and gorgeous, Orbital is an eloquent meditation on space and a moving elegy to our humanity, environment, and planet.

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Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II

Elyse Graham

The riveting, untold story of the scholars, librarians, and university professors who were recruited as spies during WWII and helped turn the tide of the war At the start of WWII, the US found itself in desperate need of an intelligence agency. The Office of Strategic Services (OSS), a precursor to today’s CIA, was quickly formed—and, in an effort to fill its ranks with experts, the OSS turned to academia for recruits. Suddenly, literature professors, librarians, and historians were training to perform undercover operations and investigative work—and these surprising spies would go on to profoundly shape both the course of the war and our cultural institutions with their efforts. In Book and Dagger, Elyse Graham draws on personal histories, diaries, and declassified OSS files to tell the story of a small but connected group of humanities scholars turned unlikely spies. Among them are Joseph Curtiss, a literature professor who hunted down German spies and turned them into double agents; Sherman Kent, a smart-mouthed history professor who rose to become the head of analysis for all of Europe and Africa; and Adele Kibre, an archivist who was sent to Stockholm to secretly acquire documents for the OSS. These unforgettable characters would ultimately help lay the foundations of modern intelligence and transform American higher education when they returned after the war. Thrillingly paced and rigorously researched, Book and Dagger is an inspiring and gripping true story about a group of academics who helped beat the Nazis—a tale that reveals the indelible power of humanities to change the world.

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Ring Shout

P. Djèlí Clark

In America, demons wear white hoods. In 1915, The Birth of a Nation cast a spell across America, swelling the Klan's ranks and drinking deep from the darkest thoughts of white folk. All across the nation they ride, spreading fear and violence among the vulnerable. They plan to bring Hell to Earth. But even Ku Kluxes can die. Standing in their way is Maryse Boudreaux and her fellow resistance fighters, a foul-mouthed sharpshooter and a Harlem Hellfighter. Armed with blade, bullet, and bomb, they hunt their hunters and send the Klan's demons straight to Hell. But something awful's brewing in Macon, and the war on Hell is about to heat up. Can Maryse stop the Klan before it ends the world?

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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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siennaxx

Non-fiction about space for beginners 🚀🪐

I went to the National History Museum in New York and to a few exhibitions in there regarding space, the universe etc. My dad is already a big space fan and has been reading a lot of difficult books surrounding the topics (and other non-fictions about quantum physics and such), so I can’t really take his recommendations as I am a beginner regarding space.

I wanted to find some lists on non-fiction space books (preferably beginner but I can do some more research outside of lists to find the best ones for me), but a lot of them have fiction in there and sometimes the best lists have such creative titles that it’s difficult to find them.

So please, share some non-fic about space or recommend a list that fits the bill!

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The Ministry of Time

Kaliane Bradley

A time travel romance, a spy thriller, a workplace comedy, and an ingenious exploration of the nature of power and the potential for love to change it all: Welcome to The Ministry of Time, the exhilarating debut novel by Kaliane Bradley. In the near future, a civil servant is offered the salary of her dreams and is, shortly afterward, told what project she’ll be working on. A recently established government ministry is gathering “expats” from across history to establish whether time travel is feasible—for the body, but also for the fabric of space-time. She is tasked with working as a “bridge”: living with, assisting, and monitoring the expat known as “1847” or Commander Graham Gore. As far as history is concerned, Commander Gore died on Sir John Franklin’s doomed 1845 expedition to the Arctic, so he’s a little disoriented to be living with an unmarried woman who regularly shows her calves, surrounded by outlandish concepts such as “washing machines,” “Spotify,” and “the collapse of the British Empire.” But with an appetite for discovery, a seven-a-day cigarette habit, and the support of a charming and chaotic cast of fellow expats, he soon adjusts. Over the next year, what the bridge initially thought would be, at best, a horrifically uncomfortable roommate dynamic, evolves into something much deeper. By the time the true shape of the Ministry’s project comes to light, the bridge has fallen haphazardly, fervently in love, with consequences she never could have imagined. Forced to confront the choices that brought them together, the bridge must finally reckon with how—and whether she believes—what she does next can change the future. An exquisitely original and feverishly fun fusion of genres and ideas, The Ministry of Time asks: What does it mean to defy history, when history is living in your house? Kaliane Bradley’s answer is a blazing, unforgettable testament to what we owe each other in a changing world.

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Rebecca

Daphne du Maurier

"Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again..." Ancient, beautiful Manderley, between the rose garden and the sea, is the county's showpiece. Rebecca made it so - even a year after her death, Rebecca's influence still rules there. How can Maxim de Winter's shy new bride ever fill her place or escape her vital shadow? A shadow that grows longer and darker as the brief summer fades, until, in a moment of climatic revelations, it threatens to eclipse Manderley and its inhabitants completely...

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Daphne du Maurier

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Magp13

Favourite book found through Pagebound

Feeling very sentimental about pagebound with the recent post about when people joined but I’m also thinking about the books I would’ve never known about if not for joining here.

Notably, The Six Deaths of the Saint by Alix E Harrow (and eventually the Everlasting); I probably wouldn’t have ever known about this book if not for the PB yoink train and general chat while reading it awhile ago and I absolutely love it. It’s so amazing to have a community where things like this can and do happen on the regular 🥰

So, curious what books others have found (and hopefully loved) through PB?

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Peony

Happy Eastern Orthodox Easter.

Happy Easter for all those who celebrate today forgive the title because like me if you celebrate today it’s just Easter but I don’t want people confused by the title. Since I am part of the Greek diaspora

Χριστός Ανέστη!!

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earthtoalise

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I’m in nostalgia mode!

I was just going through Pinterest and saving one MILLION billion pins that were y2k childhood toys/shows/games. It made me think about all the books I used to love when I was little! Do you remember the first book you ever read by yourself? What were your favorite books as a little kid?

The first book I remember reading by myself was Old Hat New Hat! A Berenstain Bear book! I also really loved Junie B. Jones, A to Z Mysteries, and ANY nonfiction science picture book. (Bonus points if it was about ghosts/haunted buildings.) EDIT: I HAVE TO ADD THE KISSING HAND AND THE COBBLESTREET COUSINS 🫶✨

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twinklebunny55

🐰How do you tell if a text or story is written by a human or AI?

Honestly, I can't distinguish between them until someone told me. But if you can, please let me knoww 🫶🏻✨

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The Decagon House Murders (House Murders, #1)

Yukito Ayatsuji

The lonely, rockbound island of Tsunojima is notorious as the site of a series of bloody unsolved murders. Some even say it’s haunted. One thing’s for sure: it’s the perfect destination for the K-University Mystery Club’s annual trip. But when the first club member turns up dead, the remaining amateur sleuths realise they will need all of their murder-mystery expertise to get off the island alive. As the party are picked off one by one, the survivors grow desperate and paranoid, turning on each other. Will anyone be able to untangle the murderer’s fiendish plan before it’s too late?

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