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<p>Belle da Costa, the woman who concealed her origins in 1905 and ended up running New York’s most legendary library</p><p>The Morgan Library in New York pays tribute to its first director, who navigated a racist society and went on to lead the cultural institution for over two decades</p><p>by Use Lahoz</p><p><a href="https://english.elpais.com/culture/2025-12-09/belle-da-costa-the-woman-who-concealed-her-origins-in-1905-and-ended-up-running-new-yorks-most-legendary-library.html" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="english.elpais.com/culture/2025-12-09/belle-da-costa-the-woman-who-concealed-her-origins-in-1905-and-ended-up-running-new-yorks-most-legendary-library.html"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">english.elpais.com/culture/202</span><span class="invisible">5-12-09/belle-da-costa-the-woman-who-concealed-her-origins-in-1905-and-ended-up-running-new-yorks-most-legendary-library.html</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/librarians/" rel="tag">#librarians</a> <a href="/tags/publiclibrary/" rel="tag">#publiclibrary</a></p>

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<p>📚 All the Ugly and Wonderful Things by: Bryn Greenwood</p><p>As the daughter of a drug dealer, Wavy knows not to trust people, not even her own parents. It's safer to keep her mouth shut and stay out of sight. Struggling to raise her little brother, Donal, eight-year-old Wavy is the only responsible adult around. Obsessed with the constellations,...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/all-the-ugly-and-wonderful-things" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/all-the-ugly-and-wonderful-things"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/all-the-ug</span><span class="invisible">ly-and-wonderful-things</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></p>

As the daughter of a drug dealer, Wavy knows not to trust people, not even her own parents. It's safer to keep her mouth shut and stay out of sight. Struggling to raise her little brother, Donal, eight-year-old Wavy is the only responsible adult around. Obsessed with the constellations, she finds peace in the starry night sky above the fields behind her house, until one night her star gazing causes an accident. After witnessing his motorcycle wreck, she forms an unusual friendship with one of her father's thugs, Kellen, a tattooed ex-con with a heart of gold.

By the time Wavy is a teenager, her relationship with Kellen is the only tender thing in a brutal world of addicts and debauchery. When tragedy rips Wavy's family apart, a well-meaning aunt steps in, and what is beautiful to Wavy looks ugly under the scrutiny of the outside world. A powerful novel you won’t soon forget, Bryn Greenwood's All the Ugly and Wonderful Things challenges all we know and believe about love.

- A New York Times and USA Today bestseller
- Book of the Month Club 2016 Book of the Year
- Second Place Goodreads Best Fiction of 2016

A beautiful and provocative love story between two unlikely people and the hard-won relationship that elevates them above the Midwestern meth lab backdrop of their lives.

31 Books Bringing the Heat this Summer —Bustle

Top Ten Hottest Reads of 2016 —New York Daily News

Best Books of 2016 —St. Louis Post Dispatch

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<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://wandering.shop/@neve" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>neve</span></a></span> thank you for hosting the <a href="/tags/writephant/" rel="tag">#writephant</a> bi-monthly check-in, very useful timing for me at the transition from one project to the next 😊 </p><p><a href="/tags/selfpromo/" rel="tag">#SelfPromo</a> </p><p>I write fantasy with romance, mostly queer. My next book is out November 16 and features the ghosts of Hampton Court Palace, a Maremma named Max, and a friends-to-lovers gay romance.</p><p>Might be on preorder at your favourite retailer, definitely will be available on <a href="/tags/koboplus/" rel="tag">#KoboPlus</a>, <a href="/tags/everand/" rel="tag">#Everand</a> and <a href="/tags/hoopla/" rel="tag">#Hoopla</a>, and you can always ask for it at your library.</p><p>Or you can get it right now directly from me: <a href="https://payhip.com/b/A3P2i" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>payhip.com/b/A3P2i</a></p><p>And receive a free 2026 calendar featuring public-domain nineteenth-century artworks illustrating relevant book quotes.</p><p>Read about all my books here: <a href="https://wendypalmer.au/" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>wendypalmer.au/</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/fantasy/" rel="tag">#fantasy</a> <a href="/tags/gayromance/" rel="tag">#gayRomance</a> <a href="/tags/indieauthor/" rel="tag">#indieAuthor</a> <a href="/tags/historicals/" rel="tag">#historicals</a> <a href="/tags/readingcommunity/" rel="tag">#ReadingCommunity</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>

Cover of Grace & Favour. Blue and brass-yellow colours predominant. The title is in fancy font at the top, and there's what looks like a photo portrait in an ornate frame, of two men, one in a top hat, one holding a pocket watch, and a large white dog. In the background of the photo (actually a daguerreotype, but anachronistically in colour), there is the faint impression of a woman, transparent...you could say, almost ghostly...

Mood board for Grace & Favour. Has a painting by Turner (a watercolour of Hampton Court Palace from across the river), a daguerreotype in a case, a ghost postcard, a Scots phrasebook, and a big picture of Max, a Maremma livestock guard dog, big, white and fluffy.

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<p>I keep getting heart-warming updates from my brother that my little nephew is really enjoying the birthday present I sent: the young readers edition of An Immense World by Ed Yong. If you know a kid fascinated by animals or the natural world, consider pointing them to it. (Or if you know any adults like that!)</p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <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> <br><a href="/tags/nature/" rel="tag">#nature</a></p>

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<p>"We know an object only by acting on it and transforming it."</p><p>Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget was born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1896.</p><p>He is known for his work in developmental psychology and epistemology through what he called genetic epistemology. His work sheds light on "intelligence", understood as a specific form of the adaptation of living organisms to their environment, on the evolutionary stages of intelligence in children, and on his theory of learning. </p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Piaget" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Piaget"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Pia</span><span class="invisible">get</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/psychology/" rel="tag">#psychology</a></p>

Photograph Jean Piaget at the University of Michigan campus in Ann Arbor.
Unidentified (Ensian published by University of Michigan) - 1968 Michiganensian, p. 91

The photograph of Jean Piaget taken at the University of Michigan campus in Ann Arbor shows the renowned Swiss psychologist during his visit in 1968.

In this black-and-white image, Piaget appears as an elderly man with a thoughtful expression, wearing glasses and a suit. His hair is white and neatly combed, reflecting his advanced age. The photograph is featured on page 91 of the 1968 edition of the Michiganensian, the yearbook published by the University of Michigan.

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<p>Finished: The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey. </p><p>Wow, that was a ride. I've posted before about having a hard time finding horror or thrillers that don't feel like their twists are predictable. </p><p>This is a sci fi thriller that didn't suffer from that problem at all. The twists are very good. I really enjoyed it. It was my book club suggestion so I'm curious what folks will think when we meet next week! </p><p><a href="/tags/scifi/" rel="tag">#SciFi</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> <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/theechowife/" rel="tag">#TheEchoWife</a></p>

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<p>British astronomer and astrophysicist Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin was born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1900.</p><p>In 1925 she proposed that stars were composed primarily of hydrogen and helium. Her groundbreaking conclusion was initially rejected, because it contradicted the science of the time, which held that no significant elemental differences distinguished the Sun and Earth. Independent observations eventually proved that she was correct.</p><p>Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/73996" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/73996</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/astrophysics/" rel="tag">#astrophysics</a></p>

Photograph of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (1900-1979) at Harvard College Observatory Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2009-1326]

Smithsonian Institution/Science Service, restored by Adam Cuerden - Air and Space Museum online gallery

Stellar atmospheres: a contribution to the observational study of high temperature in the reversing layers of stars, by Cecilia H. Payne.

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<p>c. 1813, London. Reading List</p><p>John Stuart Mill turns the page. via @laphamsquart </p><p>"I have no remembrance of the time when I began to learn Greek. I have been told that it was when I was three years old...."</p><p><a href="https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/ways-learning/reading-list/?campaign=FE7LQA2" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.laphamsquarterly.org/ways-learning/reading-list/?campaign=FE7LQA2"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.laphamsquarterly.org/ways-</span><span class="invisible">learning/reading-list/?campaign=FE7LQA2</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

Replica of a portrait of John Stuart Mill commissioned to G.F. Watts by Sir Charles Dikes.

John Stuart Mill is depicted as a mature man, likely in his late middle age. He has prominent features, including a high forehead, deep-set eyes, and pronounced cheekbones. His hair is sparse, and he sports mutton-chop sideburns, which were characteristic of his time.

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<p>Portland Book Festival is this Saturday, Nov. 8, at "ten stages at six partner venues in downtown Portland’s south Park Blocks" (quoting their website)</p><p>Main page:</p><p><a href="https://pdxbookfest.org/" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>pdxbookfest.org/</a></p><p>Authors & Presenters:</p><p><a href="https://pdxbookfest.org/lineup/" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>pdxbookfest.org/lineup/</a></p><p>Map (PDF):</p><p><a href="https://pdxbookfest.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/PBF25_ScheduleSignage_8.5x11_MAP.pdf" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="pdxbookfest.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/PBF25_ScheduleSignage_8.5x11_MAP.pdf"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">pdxbookfest.org/wp-content/upl</span><span class="invisible">oads/2025/10/PBF25_ScheduleSignage_8.5x11_MAP.pdf</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> <br><a href="/tags/portland/" rel="tag">#Portland</a> <a href="/tags/pdx/" rel="tag">#PDX</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/pdxbookfest/" rel="tag">#PDXBookFest</a></p>

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<p>Ebook and paperback: <a href="https://books2read.com/TymeDarkMoon" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>books2read.com/TymeDarkMoon</a></p><p>On a world long thought to have no moon, its sudden appearance inspires wonder and terror. Hasty research links the full moon and catastrophe, revealing the existence of the so-called 'Harbingers of Doom', creatures from the moon that harvest souls. Can everyone survive or will they become part of the dark harvest?</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><br><a href="/tags/author/" rel="tag">#author</a> <a href="/tags/indieauthor/" rel="tag">#indieauthor</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a> <a href="/tags/fantasy/" rel="tag">#fantasy</a> <a href="/tags/scifi/" rel="tag">#scifi</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefiction/" rel="tag">#sciencefiction</a> <a href="/tags/sff/" rel="tag">#sff</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefantasy/" rel="tag">#sciencefantasy</a> <a href="/tags/scifi/" rel="tag">#scifi</a> <a href="/tags/actionadventure/" rel="tag">#actionadventure</a> <a href="/tags/fiction/" rel="tag">#fiction</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a></p>

(Left) The cover of dark moon, by Owen Tyme, illustrated by Ryan Johnson.

In the foreground, a redheaded witch and a dark haired wizard fight back to back, holding some rather large pistols. The witch is in a black dress and the wizard is in a black robe with golden decorations. Both looked a bit purple, due to the lighting. The witch's hair blows on the wind and she wears a necklace of bone beads.

Behind them, there's dust, mist and fog lit by twilight as a moon rises, framing their heads. Objects that look like shooting stars fall from the moon and there's a few visible impacts.

(Right) A poem, in two parts, on a background of the stars of space, with a moon between the two parts:

Witch and wizard fight,
The wizard thinks he’s right.
The grudge match ends,
But not quite as friends.
Survive the night they must,
Lest all the world be dust.

Prophesy foretold in stone,
Of the moon no one had known.
‘Harbingers of Doom’ harvest souls,
For the sake of their own goals.
A kingdom dead and long past
Collecting that it might rise at last.

Between the two halves of the poem is Owen Tyme's publishing mark, the yin and yang symbol that has the dots of white and black replaced with hourglasses.

(Bottom) https://books2read.com/TymeDarkMoon

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The Paradox Paradox Review - An Unfocused Sci-Fi Time Travel Adventure <small class="notice" x-post-type-data="None"> Takahe has limited support for this type: <a href="https://lemmy.world/post/38379863">See Original Page</a> </small>

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<p>Jason Koebler for 404 Media: "AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge" </p><p>“Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another” - Maggie Tokuda-Hall</p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a> <a href="/tags/writersofmastodon/" rel="tag">#writersofmastodon</a> <a href="/tags/writingcommunity/" rel="tag">#WritingCommunity</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</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><p><a href="https://www.404media.co/ai-is-supercharging-the-war-on-libraries-education-and-human-knowledge/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.404media.co/ai-is-supercharging-the-war-on-libraries-education-and-human-knowledge/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.404media.co/ai-is-supercha</span><span class="invisible">rging-the-war-on-libraries-education-and-human-knowledge/</span></a></p>

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<p>English civil servant and author E.R. Eddison died <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1945.</p><p>He is best known for The Worm Ouroboros (1922) and for the Zimiamvian Trilogy set in the imaginary world Zimiamvia. The Worm of Ouroboros shaped the landscape of contemporary science fiction and fantasy. When The Lord of the Rings first appeared, the critics inevitably compared it to this landmark work. Tolkien himself frankly acknowledged its influence, with warm praise for its imaginative appeal.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._R._Eddison" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._R._Eddison"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._R._Ed</span><span class="invisible">dison</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a></p>

Eric Rucker Eddison c.1922 by George Beresford.

The photograph of Eric Rucker Eddison, taken around 1922 by George Beresford, depicts the English author and civil servant known for his fantasy novels. In the portrait, Eddison is seen with a poised and dignified demeanor. He is dressed formally, wearing a suit and tie, with a high-collared shirt that was typical of the period. Eddison's hair is neatly combed back, and his facial expression is thoughtful, with a slightly serious, introspective gaze. The photograph is in black and white, adding a timeless quality to the image, and it captures the intellectual and refined presence of Eddison, who would later be recognized for his influential work in fantasy literature, particularly The Worm Ouroboros.

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<p>📚 The Match by: Harlan Coben</p><p>After months away, Wilde has returned to the Ramapo Mountains in the wake of a failed bid at domesticity that confirms what he's known all along: He belongs on his own, free from the comforts and constraints of modern life.</p><p>Suddenly, a DNA match on an online ancestry database brings Wilde clo...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/the-match" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>bookblabla.com/book/the-match</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/mysterydetective/" rel="tag">#mysterydetective</a> <a href="/tags/thrillers/" rel="tag">#thrillers</a> <a href="/tags/suspensefiction/" rel="tag">#suspensefiction</a> <a href="/tags/crimefiction/" rel="tag">#crimefiction</a></p>

After months away, Wilde has returned to the Ramapo Mountains in the wake of a failed bid at domesticity that confirms what he's known all along: He belongs on his own, free from the comforts and constraints of modern life.

Suddenly, a DNA match on an online ancestry database brings Wilde closer to his past than he's ever dreamed, and finally gives Wilde the opening he needs to track down his father. But meeting the man brings up more questions than answers. So Wilde reaches out to his last, most desperate lead, a second cousin who disappears as quickly as he resurfaces, having experienced an epic fall from grace that can only be described as a waking nightmare.

Was his cousin's downfall a long time coming? Or was he the victim of a conspiracy as cunning as it is complex? And how does it all connect to the man once known as The Stranger, a treacherous fugitive with a growing following whose mission and methods have only turned more dangerous with time?

Named a Best Book by USA Today - Wall Street Journal - Publishers Weekly

A shocking genetic match exposes a family's darkest secret in this gripping thriller from the creator of the #1 hit Netflix series Stay Close.

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<p>Free Ebooks: Abolish ICE, Abolish the Border: <a href="https://www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/525-free-ebooks-abolish-ice-abolish-the-border" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/525-free-ebooks-abolish-ice-abolish-the-border"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/5</span><span class="invisible">25-free-ebooks-abolish-ice-abolish-the-border</span></a></p><p>'In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and ICE occupation, we're offering free ebooks of three crucial books about migrant justice and border abolition.'</p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/haymarketbooks/" rel="tag">#HaymarketBooks</a> <a href="/tags/ice/" rel="tag">#ice</a> <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#politics</a> <a href="/tags/usa/" rel="tag">#USA</a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://newsmast.community/@books" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>books</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>

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<p>History’s Footnotes</p><p>The addition of footnotes to texts by historians began long before their supposed inventor, Leopold von Ranke, started using them (poorly, as it turns out).</p><p>By: Matthew Wills via @JSTOR_Daily</p><p><a href="https://daily.jstor.org/historys-footnotes/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="daily.jstor.org/historys-footnotes/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">daily.jstor.org/historys-footn</span><span class="invisible">otes/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/footnotes/" rel="tag">#footnotes</a></p>

A hand grasping a white cross against a purple backdrop.

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<p>📚 Alchemised by: SenLinYu</p><p>"What is it you think you’re protecting in that brain of yours? The war is over. Holdfast is dead. The Eternal Flame extinguished. There’s no one left for you to save.”</p><p>Once a promising alchemist, Helena Marino is now a prisoner—of war and of her own mind. Her Resistance friends and allies have been brutally murdered, her abilit...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/alchemised" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>bookblabla.com/book/alchemised</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/fantasy/" rel="tag">#fantasy</a> <a href="/tags/gothic/" rel="tag">#gothic</a></p>

"What is it you think you’re protecting in that brain of yours? The war is over. Holdfast is dead. The Eternal Flame extinguished. There’s no one left for you to save.”

Once a promising alchemist, Helena Marino is now a prisoner—of war and of her own mind. Her Resistance friends and allies have been brutally murdered, her abilities suppressed, and the world she knew destroyed.

In the aftermath of a long war, Paladia’s new ruling class of corrupt guild families and depraved necromancers, whose vile undead creatures helped bring about their victory, holds Helena captive.

According to Resistance records, she was a healer of little importance within their ranks. But Helena has inexplicable memory loss of the months leading up to her capture, making her enemies wonder: Is she truly as insignificant as she appears, or are her lost memories hiding some vital piece of the Resistance’s final gambit?

To uncover the memories buried deep within her mind, Helena is sent to the High Reeve, one of the most powerful and ruthless necromancers in this new world. Trapped on his crumbling estate, Helena’s fight—to protect her lost history and to preserve the last remaining shreds of her former self—is just beginning. For her prison and captor have secrets of their own . . . secrets Helena must unearth, whatever the cost.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. In this riveting dark fantasy debut, a woman with missing memories fights to survive a war-torn world of necromanc

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<p>Serbian inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and futurist Nikola Tesla was born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1856.</p><p>Some of Tesla´s inventions and innovations: alternating Current (AC) system; induction motor; Tesla coil; wireless transmission of electricity; radio technology; remote control; neon and fluorescent lighting; X-Ray technology; Tesla turbine; oscillators and frequency generators.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_T</span><span class="invisible">esla</span></a></p><p>Books by Nikola Tesla at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/5067" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/5067"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/5067</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a></p>

Nikola Tesla, with Rudjer Boscovich's book "Theoria Philosophiae Naturalis", in front of the spiral coil of his high-voltage Tesla coil transformer at his East Houston St., New York, laboratory.

Tesla is typically shown standing confidently, either holding the book or with it placed on a nearby table, symbolizing the connection between theoretical knowledge and practical application. He is dressed formally, reflecting his professional demeanor and the serious nature of his work.

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<p>New on my <a href="/tags/blog/" rel="tag">#blog</a>: "Books reviewed: October 2025." <br><a href="https://itinerantlibrarian.wordpress.com/2025/11/05/books-reviewed-october-2025/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="itinerantlibrarian.wordpress.com/2025/11/05/books-reviewed-october-2025/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">itinerantlibrarian.wordpress.c</span><span class="invisible">om/2025/11/05/books-reviewed-october-2025/</span></a></p><p>My monthly wrap up of <a href="/tags/reviews/" rel="tag">#reviews</a>. </p><p><a href="/tags/bookreview/" rel="tag">#BookReview</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/alchemicalthoughts/" rel="tag">#AlchemicalThoughts</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> <br>💙📚</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>

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<p>📚 Against the Machine by: Paul Kingsnorth</p><p>How a force that’s hard to name, but which we all feel, is reshaping what it means to be human</p><p>In Against the Machine, "furiously gifted" (The Washington Post) novelist, poet, and essayist Paul Kingsnorth presents a wholly original and terrifying account of the technological-cultural ...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/against-the-machine" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/against-the-machine"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/against-th</span><span class="invisible">e-machine</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/socialscience/" rel="tag">#socialscience</a> <a href="/tags/essaysphilosophy/" rel="tag">#essaysphilosophy</a> <a href="/tags/technologystudies/" rel="tag">#technologystudies</a></p>

How a force that’s hard to name, but which we all feel, is reshaping what it means to be human

In Against the Machine, "furiously gifted" (The Washington Post) novelist, poet, and essayist Paul Kingsnorth presents a wholly original and terrifying account of the technological-cultural matrix enveloping all of us. With masterful insight into the spiritual and economic roots of techno-capitalism, Kingsnorth reveals how the Machine, in the name of progress, has choked Western civilization, is destroying the Earth itself, and is reshaping us in its image. From the First Industrial Revolution to the rise of artificial intelligence, he shows how the hollowing out of humanity has been a long game—and how your very soul is at stake.

It takes effort to remain truly human in the age of the Machine. Writing in the tradition of Wendell Berry, Jacques Ellul and Simone Weil, Kingsnorth reminds us what humanity requires: a healthy suspicion of entrenched power; connection to land, nature and heritage; and a deep attention to matters of the spirit. Prophetic, poetic, and erudite, Against the Machine is the spiritual manual for dissidents in the technological age.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

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<p>“It's not the barbarian who threatens us, it's civilization that frightens us.”</p><p>Brazilian sociologist and journalist Euclides da Cunha died <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1909.</p><p>His most important work is Os Sertões (Rebellion in the Backlands), a non-fictional account of the military expeditions promoted by the Brazilian government against the rebellious village of Canudos, known as the War of Canudos.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclides_da_Cunha" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclides_da_Cunha"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclides</span><span class="invisible">_da_Cunha</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

Brazilian journalist and writer Euclides da Cunha.

Cover of the book “Os Sertões” by Brazilian writer Euclides da Cunha, published in 1902 and therefore in the public domain due to its age.

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<p>📚 Hole in the Sky by: Daniel H. Wilson</p><p>On the Great Plains of Oklahoma, in the heart of the Cherokee Nation, a strange atmospheric disturbance is noticed by Jim Hardgray, a down-on-his-luck single father trying to reconnect with his teenage daughter, Tawny. At NASA’s headquarters in Houston, Texas, astrophysicist Dr. ...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/hole-in-the-sky" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/hole-in-the-sky"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/hole-in-th</span><span class="invisible">e-sky</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/sciencefiction/" rel="tag">#sciencefiction</a> <a href="/tags/thrillers/" rel="tag">#thrillers</a> <a href="/tags/suspensefiction/" rel="tag">#suspensefiction</a> <a href="/tags/indigenous/" rel="tag">#indigenous</a></p>

On the Great Plains of Oklahoma, in the heart of the Cherokee Nation, a strange atmospheric disturbance is noticed by Jim Hardgray, a down-on-his-luck single father trying to reconnect with his teenage daughter, Tawny. At NASA’s headquarters in Houston, Texas, astrophysicist Dr. Mikayla Johnson observes an interaction with the Voyager 1 spacecraft on the far side of the solar system, and she concludes that something enormous and unidentified is heading directly for Earth. And in an undisclosed bunker somewhere in the United States, an American threat forecaster known only as the Man Downstairs intercepts a cryptic communication and sends a message directly to the president and highest-ranking military brass: 'First contact imminen't.

A gripping sci-fi thriller—and Native American First Contact story—from the New York Times bestselling author of Robopocalypse, Daniel Wilson, who is a Cherokee Nation citizen and works as a threat forecaster for NASA.

This is where Daniel Wilson's fascinating novel begins. Heliopause is a real place—the very outer edge of our solar system where the sun's solar winds are no longer strong enough to keep debris and intrusions from bombarding our system. It is the farthest edge of our protected boundary (it was recently crossed by Voyager), and the line beyond which space experts look for extraterrestrial presences.

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<p>Ebook and paperback: <a href="https://books2read.com/TheInvertedGlass" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="books2read.com/TheInvertedGlass"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">books2read.com/TheInvertedGlas</span><span class="invisible">s</span></a></p><p>After encountering the worst life has to offer, including the death of his wife and child, destruction of his home world, an addiction forced on him by the one responsible and a third of the galaxy falling under the heel of that tyrant, Levi Jacobs, a wizard, seeks to unravel the secrets of time and fate.</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><br><a href="/tags/author/" rel="tag">#author</a> <a href="/tags/indieauthor/" rel="tag">#indieauthor</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a> <a href="/tags/fantasy/" rel="tag">#fantasy</a> <a href="/tags/scifi/" rel="tag">#scifi</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefiction/" rel="tag">#sciencefiction</a> <a href="/tags/sff/" rel="tag">#sff</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefantasy/" rel="tag">#sciencefantasy</a> <a href="/tags/scifi/" rel="tag">#scifi</a> <a href="/tags/actionadventure/" rel="tag">#actionadventure</a> <a href="/tags/fiction/" rel="tag">#fiction</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a></p>

(Left) The cover of The Inverted Glass, by Owen Tyme.

The Background is a pink and purple nebula in space.

The foreground is largely line art, in white, with a black shadow outline.

At the center is an hourglass. The bottom has black sand, with a white figure standing in it. The top has is an inverted mirror image of the bottom, with a black figure in white sand.

The hourglass serves as the balance point for a set of scales, which hold a heart and a feather. The heart is on the left and the feather on the right. The heart is lower than the feather.

(Right Background) Lying in blue sand is a heart made of the same sand, full of cracks. It glows from the inside in a warm, yellow color.

(Right Foreground) She sacrificed her life,
To save everyone from strife.
Feather against the heart,
Not knowing does really smart.

The necromancer calls,
And it really galls.
Dead, but not forgotten,
She thinks the necromancer’s rotten.

Judgment day delayed,
So she could use her blade.
In agony of soul,
Good or evil is this troll?

(Bottom) https://books2read.com/TheInvertedGlass

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<p>COVER REVEAL! 🚀📷 We are delighted to unveil SHOESHINE BOY & CIGARETTE GIRL, a <a href="/tags/scifi/" rel="tag">#scifi</a> <a href="/tags/romance/" rel="tag">#romance</a> novelette by award-winning author P.A. Cornell! Cover art by Kim Herbst! Launching February 3, 2026. Read all about this delightful book: <a href="https://www.starsandsabers.com/2025/10/30/cover-reveal-for-shoeshine-boy-cigarette-girl-by-p-a-cornell/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.starsandsabers.com/2025/10/30/cover-reveal-for-shoeshine-boy-cigarette-girl-by-p-a-cornell/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.starsandsabers.com/2025/10</span><span class="invisible">/30/cover-reveal-for-shoeshine-boy-cigarette-girl-by-p-a-cornell/</span></a><br><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/scifi/" rel="tag">#scifi</a> <a href="/tags/romance/" rel="tag">#romance</a> <a href="/tags/scifiromance/" rel="tag">#scifiromance</a> <a href="/tags/2026books/" rel="tag">#2026books</a></p>

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How do you organize your shelves?

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