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We either fix the world we live in or I need a portal to a fantasy one 🌈 waiting for my dragon 🔥 author, poet, dreamer, cat mom, enraged potato (she/her) 🌻

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My Taste

The Jasmine Throne (The Burning Kingdoms, #1)

How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants

Can't Spell Treason Without Tea (Tomes & Tea, #1)

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers, #1)

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A Fate Inked in Blood (Saga of the Unfated, #1)

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Sharks Don't Sink: Adventures of a Rogue Shark Scientist

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After Hours at Dooryard Books

Cat Sebastian

1968 New York City News about the war might be keeping Patrick up at night--news in general might be keeping Patrick up at night--but he's doing fine. He's sure of it. He gets to spend his days selling books in the gayest neighborhood on the East Coast and his nights merrily sleeping his way through the rare book community. But when he takes in a drifter who seems to be hiding something, and his best friend and her newborn move into the apartment upstairs, his life gets turned on its head. A sleepy little bookstore should be the perfect place for Nathaniel to lie low, waiting for his past to catch up with him, but it turns out Dooryard Books is full of political radicals and anti-war agitators. If the FBI isn't actively surveilling this place, it will be. Nathaniel should go anywhere else. The last thing he expects is to like these subversives. There's a grieving folk musician and her baby--a demon of a child who will only sleep if Nathaniel, of all people, holds her. There's a pair of rabble-rousing teenagers who, upsettingly, seem to be right about everything. And then there's Patrick, who can't walk past anyone who needs his help--and who is perplexingly determined to help Nathaniel. As the world balances on the precipice of something new and scary and maybe even hopeful, Patrick needs to decide what he's willing to risk for this chaotic new community he's accidentally created. And Nathaniel needs to figure out whether he has a place in this messy, flawed world--and whether he can believe he deserves it.

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Sharks Don't Sink: Adventures of a Rogue Shark Scientist

Jasmin Graham

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Danielle L. Jensen

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To the moon and back! 🌑🌒🌓🌕🌗🌘🌑

What are your favorite books (fiction or non-fiction) set in space? 🪐

With the Artemis II mission my love for astronomy has reached whole new levels. I already made 2 lists ("Welcome to Outerspace" with non-fiction and "First Contact SciFi" ) a while ago but I am always looking for more recommendations. What are your favorite scifi and astronomy books? 👽🌍

My favorite astronomy nonfiction is "Black Matter and the Dinosaurs" by Lisa Randall. A more beginner-friendly recommendation would be "Starry Messenger" by Neil deGrasse Tyson. And fictional? "Our long way to a small angry planet" by Becky Chambers of course. I did like the ideas and science in "Three Body Problem" but didn't love the writing (or maybe translation), and have taken issue with the sexism and some other controversial stuff surrounding the author. My next spacey reads are probably going to be "Fire and Ice: The Volcanoes of the Solar System" by Natalie Starkey and "Meru" by S.B. Divya 🚀

Now, please, drown me in your recs! 🫶👾

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Die Katze und der General

Nino Haratischwili

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A Fate Inked in Blood (Saga of the Unfated, #1)

Danielle L. Jensen

A shield maiden blessed by the gods battles to unite a nation under a power-hungry king—while also fighting her growing desire for his fiery son—in this Norse-inspired fantasy romance from the bestselling author of The Bridge Kingdom series. Bound in an unwanted marriage, Freya spends her days gutting fish, but dreams of becoming a warrior. And of putting an axe in her boorish husband’s back. Freya’s dreams abruptly become reality when her husband betrays her to the region’s jarl, landing her in a fight to the death against his son, Bjorn. To survive, Freya is forced to reveal her deepest secret: She possesses a drop of a goddess’s blood, which makes her a shield maiden with magic capable of repelling any attack. It was foretold such a magic would unite the fractured nation of Skaland beneath the one who controls the shield maiden’s fate. Believing he’s destined to rule Skaland as king, the fanatical jarl binds Freya with a blood oath and orders Bjorn to protect her from their enemies. Desperate to prove her strength, Freya must train to fight and learn to control her magic, all while facing perilous tests set by the gods. The greatest test of all, however, may be resisting her forbidden attraction to Bjorn. If Freya succumbs to her lust for the charming and fierce warrior, she risks not only her own destiny but the fate of all the people she swore to protect.

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If I ever come across a medium who can converse with the dead, I know EXACTLY who I am going to wake from their eternal slumber to question (Jacqueline I am looking at you 👀). This book will haunt me.

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I Who Have Never Known Men

Jacqueline Harpman

‘For a very long time, the days went by, each just like the day before, then I began to think, and everything changed’ Deep underground, thirty-nine women live imprisoned in a cage. Watched over by guards, the women have no memory of how they got there, no notion of time, and only vague recollection of their lives before. As the burn of electric light merges day into night and numberless years pass, a young girl - the fortieth prisoner - sits alone and outcast in the corner. Soon she will show herself to be the key to the others' escape and survival in the strange world that awaits them above ground.

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People who don't use google, or use something else alongside google, what do you use? What do you like and dislike about it? I've been getting more and more frustrated with google because I just can't get the answers I'm looking for anymore! It's pages after pages after pages of store links and I'm sick of it. I don't want 6 freaking pages of links to amazon damnit!

... so, yeah. I'm at my limit but I also don't know where else to go so any help and/or suggestion appreciated. Thank you, kind PBers. PBees 🐝?

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