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Happy book birthday to @voidcricket's THE LEGEND LIMINAL, a surreal found-family road trip novella, is now available. Order from your favorite bookseller or find purchasing links at: https://www.starsandsabers.com/books/the-legend-liminal/
#books #NewBooks #NewRelease #ScienceFiction #Scifi #Surreal #Family

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I am rereading "The Inn at the Amethyst Lantern" now in preparation for its sequel. I wanted something fun to read before bed. If you are looking for a imaginative Lunarpunk YA adventure, I highly recommend it!!

#books #bookstodon @bookstodon #scifi #fantasy #lunarpunk #reading

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Starleaf on Epsilon-9 (2025) – Guy d'Andigné

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#ÉlénaChoquette discusses her book #LandAndTheLiberalProject: #Canada's Violent Expansion

Choquette 'investigates the liberal concept that underpinned land appropriation and legitimized violence: #Indigenous territory and people were to be “improved,” the former by agrarian capitalism, the latter by so-called protection and enforced schooling.'

https://newbooksnetwork.com/land-and-the-liberal-project

#CdnHist #CanadianHistory #FirstNations #Métis #settlerColonialism #colonialViolence #books @bookstodon

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📚 The Let Them Theory by: Mel Robbins, Sawyer Robbins

A Life-Changing Tool Millions of People Can’t Stop Talking About

What if the key to happiness, success, and love was as simple as two words?

If you've ever felt stuck, overwhelmed, or frustrated with where you are, the problem isn't you. The problem is the power you give to other peo...

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A Life-Changing Tool Millions of People Can’t Stop Talking About

What if the key to happiness, success, and love was as simple as two words?

If you've ever felt stuck, overwhelmed, or frustrated with where you are, the problem isn't you. The problem is the power you give to other people. Two simple words—Let Them—will set you free. Free from the opinions, drama, and judgments of others. Free from the exhausting cycle of trying to manage everything and everyone around you. The Let Them Theory puts the power to create a life you love back in your hands—and this book will show you exactly how to do it.

In her latest groundbreaking book, The Let Them Theory, Mel Robbins—New York Times bestselling author and one of the world's most respected experts on motivation, confidence, and mindset—teaches you how to stop wasting energy on what you can't control and start focusing on what truly matters: YOU. Your happiness. Your goals. Your life.

Using the same no-nonsense, science-backed approach that's made The Mel Robbins Podcast a global sensation, Robbins explains why The Let Them Theory is already loved by millions and how you can apply it in eight key areas of your life to make the biggest impact. Within a few pages, you'll realize how much energy and time you've been wasting trying to control the wrong things—at work, in relationships, and in pursuing your goals—and how this is keeping you from the happiness and success you deserve.

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American author of fantasy fiction and belles-lettres James Branch Cabell died #OTD in 1958.

His career took a significant turn with the publication of "Jurgen, A Comedy of Justice" (1919), which is part of a larger series called "The Biography of the Life of Manuel". Although largely overlooked today, James Branch Cabell was highly regarded in his time, with admirers such as H.L. Mencken and Sinclair Lewis.

Books by James Branch Cabell at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/166

#books #literature

James Branch Cabell photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1935.

A black-and-white photo of a middle-aged man (James Branch Cabell) with round glasses, holding a pipe close to his mouth. He wears a dark suit and tie, and is seated in front of a wallpapered background with a floral pattern.

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Vintage book cover titled "Chivalry" by James Branch Cabell, featuring ornate red and gold embossing with a central emblem.

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📚 Tout le bleu du ciel by: Mélissa Da Costa

Petitesannonces.fr : Jeune homme de 26 ans, condamné à une espérance de vie de deux ans par un Alzheimer précoce, souhaite prendre le large pour un ultime voyage. Recherche compagnon(ne) pour partager avec moi ce dernier périple.

Émile a décidé de fuir l’hôpital, la compassion de sa famil...

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Petitesannonces.fr : Jeune homme de 26 ans, condamné à une espérance de vie de deux ans par un Alzheimer précoce, souhaite prendre le large pour un ultime voyage. Recherche compagnon(ne) pour partager avec moi ce dernier périple.

Émile a décidé de fuir l’hôpital, la compassion de sa famille et de ses amis. À son propre étonnement, il reçoit une réponse à cette annonce. Trois jours plus tard, devant le camping-car acheté secrètement, il retrouve Joanne, une jeune femme coiffée d’un grand chapeau noir qui a pour seul bagage un sac à dos, et qui ne donne aucune explication sur sa présence.

Ainsi commence un voyage stupéfiant de beauté. À chaque détour de ce périple naissent, à travers la rencontre avec les autres et la découverte de soi, la joie, la peur, l’amitié, l’amour qui peu à peu percent la carapace de douleurs d’Émile.

Un livre aux dialogues impeccables et aux personnages touchants d’humanité. Psychologies magazine.

Bouleversant. Version femina.

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"Jiryis is a scholar; he witnessed the start of the Nakba and its consequences, and is not writing for those who won’t listen. If the anomalists appease the colonizer as they demean the colonized, Jiryis faces the colonized as he dissects the colonizer."

#MaryTurfah's reviews the first English edition of #SabriJiryis's #TheFoundationsOfZionism

https://thebaffler.com/latest/given-this-reality-turfah

#Palestine #PalestineQuestion #Gaza #colonialViolence #books @bookstodon

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Where to Find Public Lists of Banned Books in US States?

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Scottish astronomer Williamina Paton Stevens Fleming was born #OTD in 1857.

Fleming's most significant contributions came in the field of stellar classification. She developed a system for classifying stars based on their spectra, which became known as the Harvard Classification Scheme. In 1890, she published the first catalog of stellar spectra, which contained over 10,000 stars classified according to her system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_classification#Harvard_spectral_classification

#books #astronomy #womeninscience

Williamina Paton Stevens Fleming (1857-1911), circa 1890s. (Courtesy Curator of Astronomical Photographs at Harvard College Observatory.)

Unknown author - http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/lib/online/almanac/0300c.htm

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Harvard Computers working in a room in the new brick building, built in 1892. According to the information of a calendar shown in the image, this photo taken in March 1898. Williamina Fleming is standing. Immediatly in front of her are Evelyn Leland (back row center) and Ida E. Woods to the right. The rest are unknown, but the woman closest to the camera could be Annie Jump Cannon.

This description is based on
http://heawww.harvard.edu/~fine/Observatory/eleland.html#ComputersBrickBuilding

Photo credit: UAV 630.271 (E4116), olvwork432388. Harvard University Archives.

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Ecosocialist Bookshelf, October 2025 | Climate & Capitalism Takahe has limited support for this type: See Original Page

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📚 Old Man's War by: John Scalzi

John Perry did two things on his 75th birthday. First he visited his wife's grave. Then he joined the army.

The good news is that humanity finally made it into interstellar space. The bad news is that planets fit to live on are scarce-and aliens willing to fight for them are common. The universe,...

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John Perry did two things on his 75th birthday. First he visited his wife's grave. Then he joined the army.

The good news is that humanity finally made it into interstellar space. The bad news is that planets fit to live on are scarce-and aliens willing to fight for them are common. The universe, it turns out, is a hostile place.

So: we fight. To defend Earth (a target for our new enemies, should we let them get close enough) and to stake our own claim to planetary real estate. Far from Earth, the war has gone on for decades: brutal, bloody, unyielding.

Earth itself is a backwater. The bulk of humanity's resources are in the hands of the Colonial Defense Force, which shields the home planet from too much knowledge of the situation. What's known to everybody is that when you reach retirement age, you can join the CDF. They don't want young people; they want people who carry the knowledge and skills of decades of living. You'll be taken off Earth and never allowed to return. You'll serve your time at the front. And if you survive, you'll be given a generous homestead stake of your own, on one of our hard-won colony planets.

John Perry is taking that deal. He has only the vaguest idea what to expect. Because the actual fight, light-years from home, is far, far harder than he can imagine-and what he will become is far stranger.

Old Man's War Series
#1 Old Man’s War
#2 The Ghost Brigades
#3 The Last Colony
#4 Zoe’s Tale
#5 The Human Division
#6 The End of

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A Review of October Omen: https://lydiaschoch.com/a-review-of-october-omen/

#Books #BookReview #Fantasy

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Book cover for October Omen by Holly Schindler. Image on cover is a black and white drawing of a feather whose uppermost leaves gradually transforms into about a dozen little white birds that are flying away from the feather.

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📚 Dead Woman Crossing by: Jeneva Rose

She threw open the door, running to the crib. When she looked inside, she gasped. The world around her went silent. Inside, there was nothing but a small stuffed elephant. Where was her baby?

When young, single mother Hannah is found murdered by the banks of a twisting Oklahoma creek, her one-y...

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She threw open the door, running to the crib. When she looked inside, she gasped. The world around her went silent. Inside, there was nothing but a small stuffed elephant. Where was her baby?

When young, single mother Hannah is found murdered by the banks of a twisting Oklahoma creek, her one-year-old daughter sleeping in a stroller near her body, the small town of Dead Woman Crossing reels in horror.

Detective Kimberley King, recently relocated from New York to Oklahoma, with her young daughter Jessica, can't ignore the similarity of Hannah's death to the case of Katie James, the woman that the town of Dead Woman Crossing is named after. Katie was murdered in front of her small daughter in 1905, on the banks of the same creek, and it seems that someone is drawing inspiration from the crime. Could this killer be a copycat?

But as she interviews suspects, Kimberley is met with blank faces and closed lips. In a small town, people won't talk and when she pursues a promising lead, her own family turn their back on her. Kimberley isn't afraid to ask questions, but when she receives a threatening note, she realises that, as a single mother to a young daughter, she might be putting herself dangerously in the killer's sights ...

An absolutely unputdownable crime thriller inspired by true events from an Amazon bestselling author. Dead Woman Crossing is perfect for fans of Rachel Caine, Lisa Regan and Jane Harper.

Readers are loving Dead Woman Crossing:

'Simply excell

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📚 Run by: Blake Crouch

5 D A Y S A G O...A rash of bizarre murders swept the country...Senseless. Brutal. Seemingly unconnected. A cop walked into a nursing home and unloaded his weapons on elderly and staff alike. A mass of school shootings. Prison riots of unprecedented brutality. Mind-boggling acts of violence in every state.

4 D A Y S A G O...T...

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5 D A Y S A G O...A rash of bizarre murders swept the country...Senseless. Brutal. Seemingly unconnected. A cop walked into a nursing home and unloaded his weapons on elderly and staff alike. A mass of school shootings. Prison riots of unprecedented brutality. Mind-boggling acts of violence in every state.

4 D A Y S A G O...The murders increased ten-fold...

3 D A Y S A G O...The President addressed the nation and begged for calm and peace...

2 D A Y S A G O...The killers began to mobilize...

Y E S T E R D A Y...All the power went out...

T O N I G H T...They're reading the names of those to be killed on the Emergency Broadcast System. You are listening over the battery-powered radio on your kitchen table, and they've just read yours. Your name is Jack Colclough. You have a wife, a daughter, and a young son. You live in Albuquerque, New Mexico. People are coming to your house to kill you and your family. You don't know why, but you don't have time to think about that any more.

You only have time to....R U N.

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周六睡了个懒觉，十一点才爬起来，随手一搜发现旁边镇的图书馆在搞两年一届的 book sale，而图书馆星期六下午一点就关门了，赶快拉上娃们上路。去到发现又是这家“不讲理”的图书馆，售卖模式竟然是书尽管拿，然后按心情捐款！最后搞了一箱三十本书，捐了二十刀。其中比较喜欢的是下面这几本：
1）浅野一二〇的虹之原 holograph
2）Hans Rosling 的 Factfulness，因为他的 TED 演讲
3）R. Crumb 画的创世论

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New #BookReview on my #blog: "Cigars: a Biography."
https://itinerantlibrarian.blogspot.com/2025/10/book-review-cigars-biography.html

#books #reading #cigars #history #ItinerantLibrarian #review 💙📚

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This professor and author just chased a nazi out our her U of W classroom. Takahe has limited support for this type: See Original Page

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📚 Saltcrop by: Yume Kitasei

In Earth's not too distant future, seas consume coastal cities, highways disintegrate underwater, and mutant fish lurk in pirate-controlled depths. Skipper, a skilled sailor and the youngest of three sisters, earns money skimming and reselling plastic from the ocean to care for her ailing grandmother.

But then her eldest...

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In Earth's not too distant future, seas consume coastal cities, highways disintegrate underwater, and mutant fish lurk in pirate-controlled depths. Skipper, a skilled sailor and the youngest of three sisters, earns money skimming and reselling plastic from the ocean to care for her ailing grandmother.

But then her eldest sister, Nora, goes missing. Nora left home a decade ago in pursuit of a cure for failing crops all over the world. When Skipper and her other sister, Carmen, receive a cryptic plea for help, they must put aside their differences and set out across the sea to find—and save—her. As they voyage through a dying world both beautiful and strange, encountering other travelers along the way, they learn more about their sister's work and the corporations that want what she discovered.

But the farther they go, the more uncertain their mission becomes: What dangerous attention did Nora attract, and how well do they really know their sister—or each other? Thus begins an epic journey spanning oceans and continents and a wistful rumination on sisterhood, friendship, and ecological disaster.

From the acclaimed author of The Stardust Grail comes the epic tale of two sisters who sail across oceans to find their missing third sister—and Earth’s environmental salvation.

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German Poet, Playwright, Historian Friedrich Schiller died #OTD in 1805.

Initially intended for the priesthood, in 1773 he entered a military academy in Stuttgart and ended up studying medicine. His first play, The Robbers, was written at this time and proved very successful. His major plays include "Don Carlos", and the Wallenstein trilogy, which delves into the tumultuous period of the Thirty Years' War.

Books by Friedrich Schiller at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/289

#books #literature #theatre

Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805), German poet, philosopher, historian, and playwright in 1793 or 1794. Portrait by Ludovike Simanowiz (1794).

Sepia portrait of Friedrich Schiller, with curly hair down to his neck, wearing a formal dress shirt with a high collar, a scarf as a tie and a military-style jacket with wide collars. The writer stands with his head tilted slightly to the right, looking as if he's lost in infinity.

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Cover of The Thirty Years War — Complete by Friedrich Schiller

Translator: A. J. W. Morrison

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American author L. Frank Baum died #OTD in 1919.

His breakthrough came with the publication of Mother Goose in Prose (1897), which was followed by Father Goose, His Book (1899), a collection that became a bestseller. In 1900, Baum published The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, illustrated by W.W. Denslow. Baum's Oz series eventually spanned fourteen books with Baum introducing new characters and lands in each subsequent volume.

Books by L. Frank Baum at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/42

#books #literature

Copy of a portrait of L. Frank Baum, author of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. c. 1911

George Steckel - Los Angeles Times photographic archive, UCLA Library

Black and white portrait of L. Frank Baum with a mustache, wearing a suit and tie, and glasses. He is resting his chin on his hand, looking thoughtful.

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Austrian Psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud was born #OTD in 1856.

He is considered the father of psychoanalysis. Freud's main contributions lie in his theories of the unconscious mind, the mechanisms of repression, and the role of sexuality in human psychology, which he discussed in major works like The Interpretation of Dreams, The Psychopathology of Everyday Life, and Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality.

Books by Sigmund Freud at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/391

#books #psychology

Photographic portrait of Sigmund Freud, signed by the sitter ("Prof. Sigmund Freud")

Black and white portrait of Sigmund Freud with a beard, wearing a suit with a pocket watch chain, holding a cigarette.

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Cover of the book "The Interpretation of Dreams" by Prof Sigmund Freud, I.L.D, displayed in gold lettering on a textured dark grey background.

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Scottish Playwright & Novelist J.M. Barrie was born #OTD in 1860.

His early works were modestly successful, including novels such as "Auld Licht Idylls" & "A Window in Thrums". His famous Peter Pan character first appeared in a section of "The Little White Bird", a novel for adults. This was expanded into the stage play "Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up," which premiered in London in 1904 & was an immediate hit.

Books by J.M. Barrie at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/10

#books #literature

Sepia carbon print of James Matthew Barrie (1860-1937), author of "Peter Pan". More details
Portrait by Herbert Rose Barraud, 1892

Writer J. M. Barrie, sitting sideways in a chair with his arms crossed on the backrest, wearing a formal suit with short, receding hair on his forehead and a long moustache covering his upper lip and extending almost to his chin.

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Frintispiece of Peter and Wendy by J. M. Barrie. Illustrated by F.D. Bedford an published by Charles Scribner's & Sons

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#OTD in 1923.

The première of Bertolt Brecht's play In the Jungle of Cities (Im Dickicht der Städte) at the Residenz Theatre in Munich is disrupted by Nazi demonstrators, hooting, whistling and throwing stink bombs at the actors on the stage.

This production was directed by Erich Engel, with set design by Caspar Neher. The cast included Otto Wernicke as Shlink the lumber dealer, Erwin Faber as George Garga, and Maria Koppenhöfer as his sister Mary.

#books #literature #theatre

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