Adults 6/23

Hanging Out: The Radical Power of Killing Time (Staff Pick)

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Hanging Out: The Radical Power of Killing Time (Hardcover)

By Sheila Liming
$27.99
ISBN: 9781685890056
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Published: Melville House - January 24th, 2023

In the post-pandemic world, hanging out has become a luxury that fewer and fewer people can afford but is something that, as Sheila Liming eloquently argues, we all desperately need. In this half-advisory, half-anecdotal nonfiction novel, readers can explore multiple ways that we hang out in the modern world, and be reminded why it's essential that we continue to do so.

- May

The Mayor of Casterbridge (Staff Pick)

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The Mayor of Casterbridge (Oxford World's Classics) (Paperback)

By Thomas Hardy, Dale Kramer (Editor), Pamela Dalziel (Introduction by)
$8.95
ISBN: 9780199537037
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Published: Oxford University Press, USA - January 15th, 2009

This has one of the most unusual “inciting incidents” (to borrow a term from screenwriting) that you’ll find anywhere, when a rumdrunk hay-trusser auctions off his wife and baby daughter at a country fair. What follows is a classical tragedy told in a poet's prose. If you’ve never read Thomas Hardy, this is a great place to start.

- James

How To Hide an Empire (Staff Pick)

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How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States (Paperback)

By Daniel Immerwahr
$21.00
ISBN: 9781250251091
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Published: Picador - March 3rd, 2020

Many Americans would be perplexed by the term American Empire but as Daniel Immerwahr points out, prior to World War II, by population the U.S. had the fifth largest empire in the world. With his somewhat sardonic and thoroughly entertaining approach Immerwahr brings to light how the U.S. consolidated its overseas possessions and seeks to assert its global economic, military, and cultural hegemony to this day.

- Dale

The Immortal King Rao (Staff Pick)

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The Immortal King Rao: A Novel (Paperback)

By Vauhini Vara
$17.95
ISBN: 9781324050308
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - April 4th, 2023

Even if you’re tired of dystopia, read this book. It will take you to South Indian coconut groves, Silicon Valley tech bro basements, and lush Pacific Northwest islands. And it will make you question whether it’s possible to tell the difference between right and wrong.

- Pia: Writer in Residence

Dice, Dungeons, and Beyond: The Journal (Staff Pick)

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Dice, Dragons, and Beyond: The Magical Journal for Tabletop RPG Fantasy Games (Unofficial Journal) (Paperback)

By Robin K. Miller
$14.99
ISBN: 9781684810185
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Published: Yellow Pear Press - November 22nd, 2022

Buy this book for a friend who plays D&D or Pathfinder! (I promise, they will thank you). If YOU play a TTRPG, treat yourself! Remembering NPC names and plot details can be hard, and this snazzy lil journal is here to help.

- Murphy

Another Appalachia (Staff Pick)

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Another Appalachia: Coming Up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place By Neema Avashia Cover Image

Another Appalachia: Coming Up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place (Paperback)

By Neema Avashia
$19.99
ISBN: 9781952271427
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Published: West Virginia University Press - March 1st, 2022

Avashia's writing is a gentle reminder of the beautiful nuance that exists within each person's identity, even as it can be fraught with complication. She writes with raw honesty about what it means to have grown up queer, Indian, Hindu, and a woman in the mountains of West Virginia. If you identify with her story, you will delight in the camaraderie of shared experience as well as her unique style. And if you don't identify, you will delight in her insight, wit, and defiant resilience.

- Meghan: Writer in Residence

Harrow (Staff Pick)

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Harrow: A novel (Vintage Contemporaries) (Paperback)

By Joy Williams
$16.00
ISBN: 9781984898807
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Published: Vintage - July 5th, 2022

In her first novel since being a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Williams imagines the bizarre ideological landscape left after an environmental apocalypse. The narrator, seemingly neither of this world or the next, finds her way to a group of wizened outcasts who have found old age fertile for extreme activism. Her journey showcases the frustrations and fecundity of liminal spaces, as well as a trove of pithy opinions, often as hilarious as they are surprising.

- Rachael

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