Showing posts with label LA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label LA. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 5, 2025

Yoke: My Yoga of Self-Acceptance

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Yoke: My Yoga of Self-Acceptance  By Jessamyn Stanley  Workman Publishing, 2021. 198 pages. Nonfiction.  Remember Jessamyn Stanley? How coul...
Friday, January 10, 2025

Your Not Forever Home

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Your Not Forever Home   By Katherine Ormerod  Quadrille, 2024. 224 pages. Nonfiction.  In Your Not Forever Home, Katherine Ormerod has curat...
Friday, January 3, 2025

My Best Friend's Exorcism

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My Best Friend’s Exorcism  By Grady Hendrix  Quirk Books, 2017. 332 pages. Fiction.  1988. Charleston, South Carolina. High school sophomore...
Saturday, November 9, 2024

Nothing to See Here

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Nothing to See Here  By Kevin Wilson Ecco, 2019. 254 pages. Fiction.  Lillian and Madison were the unlikeliest of roommates at their elite ...
Saturday, October 26, 2024

There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

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There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension  By Hanif Abdurraqib  Random House, 2024. 334 pages. Nonfiction.  While Hanif Abdurraq...
Friday, August 30, 2024

Magical/Realism: Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders

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Magical/Realism: Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders  By Vanessa Angelica Villareal  Tiny Reparations Books, 2024. 370 pages. Nonf...
Wednesday, August 14, 2024

Silver Nitrate

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Silver Nitrate   By Silvia Moreno-Garcia  Del Rey, 2023. 318 pages. Fiction.  Montserrat has always been overlooked. She's a talented so...
Friday, August 9, 2024

Check & Mate

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Check & Mate By Ali Hazelwood  G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2023. 352 pages. YA Fiction.  When eighteen-year-old Mallory begrudgingly agrees to r...
Monday, June 10, 2024

First Person Singular: Stories

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First Person Singular: Stories  By Haruki Murakami  Alfred A. Knopf, 2021. 245 pages. Fiction.  A riveting new collection of short stories f...
Wednesday, April 24, 2024

My Hygge Home

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My Hygge Home: How to Make Home Your Happy Place  By Meik Wiking  Abrams Image, 2022. 271 pages. Nonfiction  Inspired by Danish design and t...
Wednesday, March 13, 2024

A Little Devil in America

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A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance  By Hanif Abdurraqib  Random House, 2021. 300 pages. Nonfiction  A Little De...
Wednesday, February 14, 2024

The Art Thief

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The Art Thief  By Michael Finkel  Alfred A. Knopf, 2023. 221 pages. Nonfiction  For centuries, works of art have been stolen in countless wa...
Wednesday, January 3, 2024

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

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How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures  By Sabrina Imbler  Little, Brown and Company, 2022. 263 pages. Nonfiction.   Imbler ...
Wednesday, November 29, 2023

Monstrilio

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Monstrilio  By Gerardo Sámano Córdova Zando, 2023. 326 pages. Fiction.  Grieving mother Magos cuts out a piece of her deceased eleven-year-...