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x + y: A Mathematician's Manifesto for Rethinking Gender (Hardcover)

By Eugenia Cheng

$28.00

ISBN: 9781541646506

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Published: Basic Books - August 25th, 2020

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Reasons I want you to buy this book:

Ingressive: if you buy my staff pick, I gain power and prestige as a bookseller.

Congressive: Separating gender out allows us to approach behavior without getting into the technicalities of "not all men". I want everyone to read this book so we can start using the vocabulary Cheng introduces (ingressive and congressive). Her mathematical approach to gender has the potential to be truly groundbreaking, and I want to see where it leads!

 

Shana

Moleskine Notebook, Expanded, Large, Ruled, Sapphire Blue, Soft Cover (5 x 8.25) (Hardcover)

By Moleskine

$29.95

ISBN: 8053853606259

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Published: Moleskine - February 19th, 2020

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Sometimes, we all need the most amazing notebook with plenty of pages to get us through a pandemic in September. If your life is a mess, this will not solve any of your problems, but it will make it so that you can transfer a lot of your mess onto paper and forget about it. If your life is perfect, then please share your secrets with us, but still get this great notebook.

Sinny

Silver in the Wood (The Greenhollow Duology #1) (Paperback)

By Emily Tesh

$11.99

ISBN: 9781250229793

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Published: Tordotcom - June 18th, 2019

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A beautifully fresh story wearing the garb of classic fantasy. I adored this queer novella--and best of all, there's a sequel to devour once you've finished this one!

Rebecca

A History of Kindness (Paperback)

By Linda Hogan

$15.95

ISBN: 9781948814256

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Published: Torrey House Press - June 2nd, 2020

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Linda Hogan, the current Chickasaw Nation Writer in Residence, is (in addition to being an incredible writer) an environmentalist, historian, and activist. These facets all shine through her newest poetry collection. A History of Kindness examines the violence that has been done to the American landscape and its peoples, and responds to it with beauty, compassion, and hope. If you enjoy Mary Oliver or Braiding Sweetgrass, or if you just need a book to feed your spirit and anchor you to the natural world right now, pick this one up.

 

Kate

Transcendent Kingdom: A novel (Hardcover)

By Yaa Gyasi

$27.95

ISBN: 9780525658184

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Published: Knopf - September 1st, 2020

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It's nothing new to say that a book is the book we need right now, but Transcendent Kingdom is the book we need right now. Narrator Gifty is both eloquently observant and clinical as she recounts the struggle of her Ghanaian immigrant family to survive in America while being Black, while being poor, while facing addiction and depression and tragedy. But she still finds hope.

Meaghan

Pink Mountain on Locust Island (Paperback)

By Jamie Marina Lau

$16.95

ISBN: 9781566895941

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Published: Coffee House Press - September 8th, 2020

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I can never remember the exact title of this book but I'm not likely to forget the riveting characters anytime soon. They're flawed and fascinating, and even their most mundane actions are compelling. A perfect crossover title (Lau was only a teenager when she wrote it, which makes me want to scream), this one is full of the kind of lines that deserve to be written in fancy script all over your wall.

 

Caleb

Hangsaman (Paperback)

By Shirley Jackson, Francine Prose (Foreword by)

$16.00

ISBN: 9780143107040

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Published: Penguin Classics - June 25th, 2013

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In this novel, seventeen-year-old Natalie Waite embarks on her first semester of college. She is an interesting character with a lot of demons that may or may not be figurative, she doesn’t quite know either. Littered with existential spiels and a constant feeling of unease, Shirley Jackson perfectly executed the hard to swallow truth that sometimes the scariest place is simply one’s mind.

 

Hannah

The Only Good Indians (Hardcover)

By Stephen Graham Jones

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ISBN: 9781982136451

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Published: Gallery / Saga Press - July 14th, 2020

 

Stephen Graham Jones draws on Blackfeet culture (and the myriad ways in which indigenous culture exists in the modern United States) to create a masterful horror novel about guilt, grief, and revenge. These characters are haunted, both figuratively and literally, by both tradition and the ways they've broken from it. And the prose is just gorgeous (and gory--this is the most beautiful book I've ever read that also made me cringe, set it aside, and sleep with the lights on. I'm wary around motorcycles now!).

Kate

A Year In Nature: A Memoir of Solace (Paperback)

By Clare Walker Leslie

$24.95

ISBN: 9781733653435

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Published: Green Writers Press - May 7th, 2020

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Cambridge resident Clare Walker Leslie’s latest book is a selection from the nature journals she has kept for many years arranged to follow our year-long journey around our Sun. With her keen eye for observation and delightful sketches and watercolors she inspires us to slow down enough to savor the world around us.

 

Dale

The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water (Hardcover)

By Zen Cho

$19.99

ISBN: 9781250269256

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Published: Tordotcom - June 23rd, 2020

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First, I was arrested by the cover; seriously, what a beautiful cover. Then I was taken in by the story, a relatively simple plot of smuggling contraband from point A to point B, but the addition of the nun Guet Imm to the smuggling party led by Lau Fung Cheung (but really by his second, Tet Sang), unravels the simple plot spectacularly. Because then the novella sneaks up on you with commentary on gender, honor, religion, and, ultimately, love. A genuinely fun and immersive read.

 

Meaghan