<p>📚 Shadow Ticket by: Thomas Pynchon</p><p>Milwaukee 1932, the Great Depression going full blast, repeal of Prohibition just around the corner, Al Capone in the federal pen, the private investigation business shifting from labor-management relations to the more domestic kind. Hicks McTaggart, a onetime strikebreaker turned private eye, thinks h...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/shadow-ticket" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/shadow-ticket"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/shadow-tic</span><span class="invisible">ket</span></a></p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/libraries/" rel="tag">#libraries</a> <a href="/tags/fiction/" rel="tag">#fiction</a> <a href="/tags/literaryfiction/" rel="tag">#literaryfiction</a> <a href="/tags/mysterydetective/" rel="tag">#mysterydetective</a> <a href="/tags/noir/" rel="tag">#noir</a></p>
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<p>"Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity."<br>Phase the Fifth: The Woman Pays, ch. XLIII</p><p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1891.</p><p>Thomas Hardy's novel Tess of the d'Urbervilles is serialized in expurgated form in the weekly illustrated newspaper The Graphic (London); in November the first (unexpurgated) book edition is published in London.</p><p>Tess of the d'Urbervilles at PG:<br><a href="https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/110" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>gutenberg.org/ebooks/110</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>
<p>Meet Julia Ward Howe, the Remarkable Poet Who Wrote the ‘Battle Hymn of the Republic’ and Fought for Women’s Suffrage</p><p>Poet, philosopher, and suffragist Julia Ward Howe wrote a rallying cry in 1861 that would resonate for more than a century—echoing through the Civil Rights Movement and beyond.</p><p>by Meredith Herndon</p><p><a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/smithsonian-american-womens-history-museum/2026/07/06/meet-julia-ward-howe-the-remarkable-poet-who-wrote-the-battle-hymn-of-the-republic-and-fought-for-womens-suffrage/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=93133550&user_id=19f2988141aeef1ce3da2871b25613801e24297faaf654001575521d8c39910f" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/smithsonian-american-womens-history-museum/2026/07/06/meet-julia-ward-howe-the-remarkable-poet-who-wrote-the-battle-hymn-of-the-republic-and-fought-for-womens-suffrage/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=93133550&user_id=19f2988141aeef1ce3da2871b25613801e24297faaf654001575521d8c39910f"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/s</span><span class="invisible">mithsonian-american-womens-history-museum/2026/07/06/meet-julia-ward-howe-the-remarkable-poet-who-wrote-the-battle-hymn-of-the-republic-and-fought-for-womens-suffrage/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=93133550&user_id=19f2988141aeef1ce3da2871b25613801e24297faaf654001575521d8c39910f</span></a></p><p>Books by Julia Ward Howe (including Reminiscences) at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/35885" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/35885"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/35885</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>
<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1947. The Diary of a Young Girl is published.</p><p>The book was written while Anne Frank was in hiding for two years with her family during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. The family was apprehended in 1944, & Anne died of typhus in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945. Anne's diaries were retrieved by Miep Gies & Bep Voskuijl. Miep gave them to Anne's father, Otto, the family's only survivor, just after the World War II was over.</p><p><a href="https://www.annefrank.ch/en/diary" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.annefrank.ch/en/diary</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>
![Frank in May 1942, two months before she and her family went into hiding.
Unknown photographer - Anne Frank, 1942
The last known photograph of Anne taken in May 1942, taken at a passport photo shoot. (Photo collection Anne Frank House, Amsterdam. Public Domain Work)]](/proxy/post_attachment/274533/f2e562a5d0.jpg "Frank in May 1942, two months before she and her family went into hiding.
Unknown photographer - Anne Frank, 1942
The last known photograph of Anne taken in May 1942, taken at a passport photo shoot. (Photo collection Anne Frank House, Amsterdam. Public Domain Work)]")
<p>New <a href="/tags/bookreview/" rel="tag">#BookReview</a> on my <a href="/tags/blog/" rel="tag">#blog</a>: "The Secret History of Bigfoot." <br><a href="https://itinerantlibrarian.blogspot.com/2025/10/book-review-secret-history-of-bigfoot.html" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="itinerantlibrarian.blogspot.com/2025/10/book-review-secret-history-of-bigfoot.html"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">itinerantlibrarian.blogspot.co</span><span class="invisible">m/2025/10/book-review-secret-history-of-bigfoot.html</span></a></p><p>Author seeks to answer why Bigfoot and the lore and legends about it remain so appealing.</p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/itinerantlibrarian/" rel="tag">#ItinerantLibrarian</a> <a href="/tags/review/" rel="tag">#review</a> <a href="/tags/bigfoot/" rel="tag">#Bigfoot</a> <br>💙📚</p><p>@bookstodon@a.gup.pe <br><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p>
<p>In July 1816.</p><p>Lord Byron, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, Percy Bysshe Shelley & John Polidori, who have gathered at the Villa Diodati by Lake Geneva in a rainy Switzerland in this 'Year Without a Summer', tell each other tales. This spawns two classic Gothic narratives, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Polidori's The Vampyre. Byron also writes the poem Darkness. </p><p>Frankenstein<br><a href="https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/41445" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>gutenberg.org/ebooks/41445</a></p><p>The Vampyre<br><a href="https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/6087" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>gutenberg.org/ebooks/6087</a></p><p>Darkness<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/20158" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/20158</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/poetry/" rel="tag">#poetry</a></p>
<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1923.</p><p>A riot breaks out at the re-staging of Tristan Tzara's Dadaist play The Gas Heart at the Théâtre Michel, Paris, between those aligned with André Breton and those aligned with Tzara. The conflict leads to a permanent split in the Dada movement and the founding of Surrealism as an alternative.</p><p>Francis Picabia at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/49071" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/49071"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/49071</span></a></p><p>Tristan Tzara at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/48499" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/48499"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/48499</span></a></p><p>André Breton at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=andr%C3%A9+breton&submit_search=Go%21" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=andr%C3%A9+breton&submit_search=Go%21"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/searc</span><span class="invisible">h/?query=andr%C3%A9+breton&submit_search=Go%21</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>
<p>📚 Convenience Store Woman by: Sayaka Murata</p><p>Keiko Furukura is a 36-year-old woman who has been working part-time at a convenience store, or konbini, for the last 18 years. She has known since childhood that she is "different" and that expressing her own views and actions is inexplicable and distressing to others, and causes problems.</p><p>The h...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/convenience-store-woman" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/convenience-store-woman"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/convenienc</span><span class="invisible">e-store-woman</span></a></p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/libraries/" rel="tag">#libraries</a> <a href="/tags/fiction/" rel="tag">#fiction</a> <a href="/tags/literaryfiction/" rel="tag">#literaryfiction</a> <a href="/tags/citylife/" rel="tag">#citylife</a></p>
<p>"Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will."</p><p>In July 1862.</p><p>George Eliot's historical novel Romola begins serialization in Cornhill Magazine, the first time she has published a full-length book in this format. George Murray Smith of the publishers Smith, Elder & Co. has agreed a £7,000 advance for it. It was first published as a book, in three volumes, by Smith, Elder & Co. in 1863.</p><p>Romola at PG:<br><a href="https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/24020" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>gutenberg.org/ebooks/24020</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>
<p>This week I've been mainly reading, no. 264. </p><p>Claire Baglin's novella, On the Clock (2022/25) is a mediation on being working-class in France, told through the narrators childhood experiences of her father's working life, and her subsequent work at a fast-food restaurant. Its a melancholy but telling read of the relentlessness of working class labour & the explorative manner of work for the low paid. While short it packs quite a (subtle) punch.</p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> @bookstodon <a href="/tags/workers/" rel="tag">#workers</a> <a href="/tags/france/" rel="tag">#France</a></p>
<p>Some <a href="/tags/peertube/" rel="tag">#PeerTube</a> video accounts you might want to follow about <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#Writing</a> & <a href="/tags/authors/" rel="tag">#Authors</a> :</p><p>➡️ <span class="h-card"><a href="[{'type': 'Link', 'href': 'https://spectra.video/a/kerry_ferrand/video-channels', 'mediaType': 'text/html'}, {'type': 'Link', 'href': 'https://spectra.video/a/kerry_ferrand', 'mediaType': 'text/html'}, {'type': 'Link', 'href': 'https://spectra.video/accounts/kerry_ferrand', 'mediaType': 'text/html'}]" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>kerry_ferrand</span></a></span> - In-depth book reviews and book hauls</p><p>➡️ <span class="h-card"><a href="[{'type': 'Link', 'href': 'https://makertube.net/a/faereviews/video-channels', 'mediaType': 'text/html'}, {'type': 'Link', 'href': 'https://makertube.net/a/faereviews', 'mediaType': 'text/html'}, {'type': 'Link', 'href': 'https://makertube.net/accounts/faereviews', 'mediaType': 'text/html'}]" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>faereviews</span></a></span> - Brief reviews & shorts about romantic fantasy books</p><p>➡️ <span class="h-card"><a href="https://spectra.video/accounts/weirdwriter" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>weirdwriter</span></a></span> - Blind author posting videos on writing, accessibility, gaming etc</p><p>➡️ <span class="h-card"><a href="[{'type': 'Link', 'href': 'https://spectra.video/a/mcoorlim/video-channels', 'mediaType': 'text/html'}, {'type': 'Link', 'href': 'https://spectra.video/a/mcoorlim', 'mediaType': 'text/html'}, {'type': 'Link', 'href': 'https://spectra.video/accounts/mcoorlim', 'mediaType': 'text/html'}]" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>mcoorlim</span></a></span> - Steampunk novelist, retro game fan</p><p>➡️ <span class="h-card"><a href="[{'type': 'Link', 'href': 'https://tilvids.com/a/athenaproductions/video-channels', 'mediaType': 'text/html'}, {'type': 'Link', 'href': 'https://tilvids.com/a/athenaproductions', 'mediaType': 'text/html'}, {'type': 'Link', 'href': 'https://tilvids.com/accounts/athenaproductions', 'mediaType': 'text/html'}]" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>athenaproductions</span></a></span> - Irreverent sweary videos about history, philosophy, literature</p><p>➡️ <span class="h-card"><a href="[{'type': 'Link', 'href': 'https://fedi.video/c/audiobooks/videos', 'mediaType': 'text/html'}, {'type': 'Link', 'href': 'https://fedi.video/c/audiobooks', 'mediaType': 'text/html'}, {'type': 'Link', 'href': 'https://fedi.video/video-channels/audiobooks', 'mediaType': 'text/html'}]" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>audiobooks</span></a></span> - Well-performed public domain audiobooks</p>
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<p>Plato and the Poets</p><p>The centuries-old debate should be settled: an intellectual world bereft of poetry is a damaged one.</p><p>by Elaine Scarry</p><p><a href="https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/plato-and-the-poets/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.bostonreview.net/articles/plato-and-the-poets/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.bostonreview.net/articles/</span><span class="invisible">plato-and-the-poets/</span></a></p><p>Plato at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/93" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/93"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/93</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/philosophy/" rel="tag">#philosophy</a></p>
<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@queerromanceclub" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>queerromanceclub</span></a></span> <a href="/tags/queerromanceclub/" rel="tag">#QueerRomanceClub</a> </p><p>I apologise, I’ve let the ball drop for the Queer Romance Club November read (got ever so slightly frantically busy the last few weeks…).</p><p>The theme is classics/old favourites, and I thought maybe instead of running a vote and picking a single book, queer romance fans can drop their recommendations in the comments:</p><p>- maybe the first romance you ever read that wasn’t just straight m/f (even if it was m/f with a bisexual character etc)<br>- nostalgic reads which might not hold up today but which you still have a soft spot for<br>- a classic of the genre which you think is the gold standard (I don’t know, like LoTR is for fantasy)<br>- even just books that are a few years old now that you think did not get the attention they deserved when they were released.</p><p>No need to be a regular participant in the QRC, this is just about blowing up those TBR lists :)</p><p>(But more about it here, FYI:<br><a href="https://mastodon.au/@wendypalmer/113144943004145104" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="mastodon.au/@wendypalmer/113144943004145104"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mastodon.au/@wendypalmer/11314</span><span class="invisible">4943004145104</span></a>)</p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/lgbtqbooks/" rel="tag">#LGBTQBooks</a> <a href="/tags/lgbtqromance/" rel="tag">#LGBTQRomance</a> <a href="/tags/romancelandia/" rel="tag">#romancelandia</a> <a href="/tags/romancereads/" rel="tag">#RomanceReads</a></p>
<p>The weather (in the Northern Hemisphere) is getting chilly, so it's a great time to warm up with a Mountain Man! </p><p>My best-selling romance audiobook of 2024 was Taken by the Mountain Man by Kelsie Calloway, which I narrated as Eden Cavell.</p><p>Lily is a divorced single mom starting over in a small mountain town… hoping for a second chance at romance with her brother's hot best friend Beckett! She can't forget their kiss under the mistletoe last Christmas. Maybe this is the year she can make her dreams come true.</p><p>Kelsie Calloway writes big-hearted, high heat romances with determined female leads, sweetheart male love interests, and sizzling sex scenes. Lily is a protagonist you can cheer for and Beckett is the kind of guy you'd hook up with your sister (if you weren't single yourself). </p><p>If you like second chance romance, brother's best friend romance, mountain man romance, or just plain spicy romance, this is a bestseller for a reason. </p><p>At 42 minutes, you can listen to this in one go and it makes a good bedtime story. </p><p>Available in audiobook on Apple Books, Amazon and Audible, plus in ebook on Amazon.</p><p><a href="https://geni.us/TBTMM" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>geni.us/TBTMM</a></p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@audiofiction" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>audiofiction</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="/tags/audiobook/" rel="tag">#Audiobook</a> <a href="/tags/audiobooks/" rel="tag">#Audiobooks</a> <a href="/tags/audiofiction/" rel="tag">#Audiofiction</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/romance/" rel="tag">#Romance</a> <a href="/tags/romancebooks/" rel="tag">#RomanceBooks</a> <a href="/tags/romancelandia/" rel="tag">#Romancelandia</a></p>
<p>"Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible."<br>The Dolly Dialogues</p><p>British novelist and playwright Anthony Hope died <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1933.</p><p>Hope wrote numerous other novels and plays, though none achieved the same level of acclaim as "The Prisoner of Zenda." Notable works include "The Dolly Dialogues", a collection of witty sketches, and "The Chronicles of Count Antonio", an adventure novel set in Renaissance Italy.</p><p>Anthony Hope at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/63" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/63"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/63</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>
<p>Just hit pg 179 of the “remastered, full-color edition” of Mark Z. Danielewski’s “House of Leaves” and I need to gush about it somewhere. Obviously some (mild) spoilers on my end, but I’d appreciate no spoilers in the discussion below. </p>
<p>I went into this mostly blind. I knew it was a horror novel, experimental; that it had inspired several cool “non-Euclidean” video games, and I knew it was about a house that’s “bigger on the inside”. I was also prepped for weirdness, as it’s often included in weird/horror fiction lists alongside the likes of Lovecraft & “The King in Yellow”. </p>
<p>Honestly, I was ready to ditch this, but now I’m fully invested. </p>
<p><details><summary>SPOILERS<br/></summary><p>I did <em>not</em> know about the footnotes. Or the formatting. Or the fonts. Or the meandering. Folks, last night I was ready to put this book down. Expedition #3 was underway, and I found myself having to hunt for each footnote. Back and forth, back and forth. Sometimes they’d go on for pages, and often they’d wander far away from the ongoing story. I’m pretty sure some didn’t exist. Then came Footnote #142. Completely blank. “What the hell? Just a dead en–” and that’s when it hit me - it’s a labyrinth. The book mimics the house. The <em>book</em> is a labyrinth. I’m bouncing between footnotes & story, between fonts/voices & tone. Sometimes it’s a dead end and I have to backtrack. Sometimes I feel a little progress. It’s a maze, and I’m suddenly excited & apprehensive to explore more of it. </p>
<p>I mean… <em>damn</em>, Danielewski. I’m hooked. You got me.<br/></p></details> </p>
<p>None of my friends have read it, so I had to release some excitement somewhere. Thanks for reading. </p>
<p>Without spoiling anything, have you read / enjoyed House of Leaves? What’s your favorite “experimental” book?</p>
<p>📚 Yours Truly by: Abby Jimenez</p><p>Dr. Briana Ortiz's life is seriously flatlining. Her divorce is just about finalized, her brother's running out of time to find a kidney donor, and that promotion she wants? Oh, that's probably going to the new man-doctor who's already registering eighty-friggin'-seven on Briana's "pain in my ...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/yours-truly" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/yours-truly"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/yours-trul</span><span class="invisible">y</span></a></p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/libraries/" rel="tag">#libraries</a> <a href="/tags/fiction/" rel="tag">#fiction</a> <a href="/tags/humorous/" rel="tag">#humorous</a> <a href="/tags/generalfiction/" rel="tag">#generalfiction</a> <a href="/tags/romance/" rel="tag">#romance</a> <a href="/tags/contemporaryfiction/" rel="tag">#contemporaryfiction</a></p>
<p>Step into 19th-century Ireland!</p><p>Forbidden love, family secrets, and a sweeping saga await in A Scarlet Woman. </p><p>Start reading The Fitzgeralds of Dublin series today in Kindle Unlimited. </p><p>Amazon - <a href="https://mybook.to/ascarletwoman" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>mybook.to/ascarletwoman</a></p><p><a href="/tags/thefitzgeraldsofdublinseries/" rel="tag">#TheFitzgeraldsOfDublinSeries</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/booksbylornapeel/" rel="tag">#BooksByLornaPeel</a> <a href="/tags/ireland/" rel="tag">#Ireland</a> <a href="/tags/bookseries/" rel="tag">#BookSeries</a> <a href="/tags/historicalfiction/" rel="tag">#HistoricalFiction</a> <a href="/tags/kindleunlimited/" rel="tag">#KindleUnlimited</a> <a href="/tags/romance/" rel="tag">#Romance</a> <a href="/tags/historicalromance/" rel="tag">#HistoricalRomance</a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p>
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What book(s) are you currently reading or listening to? November 4
Nobody's Girl A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice PDF Ebook
<p>How quickly this moment would pass, how deeply it impressed itself on both their hearts.</p><p>The love of a mother for a child is profound; the trust of that child in the mother is unyielding.</p><p>Isn't this what matters, what really, really matters? Our love for one another, our determination to be there, our relationships that hold and hug us tight?</p><p>Seaside Story canvas print -- <a href="https://stevehendersonart.com/featured/seaside-story-steve-henderson.html?product=canvas-print" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="stevehendersonart.com/featured/seaside-story-steve-henderson.html?product=canvas-print"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">stevehendersonart.com/featured</span><span class="invisible">/seaside-story-steve-henderson.html?product=canvas-print</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/art/" rel="tag">#art</a> <a href="/tags/artwork/" rel="tag">#artwork</a> <a href="/tags/mastoart/" rel="tag">#mastoart</a> <a href="/tags/fediart/" rel="tag">#fediart</a> <a href="/tags/buyintoart/" rel="tag">#buyintoart</a> <a href="/tags/ayearforart/" rel="tag">#ayearforart</a> <a href="/tags/family/" rel="tag">#family</a> <a href="/tags/love/" rel="tag">#love</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a></p>
<p>How a misread Arabic tale misled generations of historians about the Black Death's rapid spread<br>by University of Exeter</p><p>by Stephanie Baum & Robert Egan</p><p><a href="https://phys.org/news/2025-11-misread-arabic-tale-misled-generations.html" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="phys.org/news/2025-11-misread-arabic-tale-misled-generations.html"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">phys.org/news/2025-11-misread-</span><span class="invisible">arabic-tale-misled-generations.html</span></a></p><p>Black death at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/698" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/698"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subje</span><span class="invisible">ct/698</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/archeology/" rel="tag">#archeology</a> <a href="/tags/humanhealth/" rel="tag">#humanhealth</a></p>
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