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<p>📚 Finding My Way by: Malala Yousafzai</p><p>This is not the story you think you know. It’s the one I’ve been waiting to tell.</p><p>Thrust onto the public stage at fifteen years old after the Taliban’s brutal attack on her life, Malala Yousafzai quickly became an international icon known for bravery and resilience. But away from the cameras and crow...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/finding-my-way" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/finding-my-way"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/finding-my</span><span class="invisible">-way</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/biographyautobiography/" rel="tag">#biographyautobiography</a> <a href="/tags/socialactivists/" rel="tag">#socialactivists</a></p>

This is not the story you think you know. It’s the one I’ve been waiting to tell.

Thrust onto the public stage at fifteen years old after the Taliban’s brutal attack on her life, Malala Yousafzai quickly became an international icon known for bravery and resilience. But away from the cameras and crowds, she spent years struggling to find her place in an unfamiliar world. Now, for the first time ever, Malala takes us beyond the headlines in Finding My Way—a vulnerable, surprising memoir that buzzes with authenticity, sharp humor, and tenderness.

Finding My Way is a story of friendship and first love, of anxiety and self-discovery, of trying to stay true to yourself when everyone wants to tell you who you are. In it, Malala traces her path from high school loner to reckless college student to a young woman at peace with her past. Through candid, often messy moments like nearly failing exams, getting ghosted, and meeting the love of her life, Malala reminds us that real role models aren’t perfect—they’re human.

In this astonishing memoir, Malala reintroduces herself to the world, sharing how she navigated life as someone whose darkest moments threatened to define her narrative—while seeking the freedom to find out who she truly is. Finding My Way is an intimate look at the life of a young woman taking charge of her destiny—and a deeply personal testament to the strength it takes to be unapologetically yourself.

A USA TODAY MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK
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<p>The Cyberiad by Stanislaw Lem has to be the most far-out book I've ever read. It feels like super-human writing. And for all its inventiveness it makes no effort to justify itself. Reading this was an experience I'll never forget, but I am looking forward to returning to the human plane of reading.</p><p><a href="https://khleedril.org/dale-mellor/bookblog/?review=the-cyberiad" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="khleedril.org/dale-mellor/bookblog/?review=the-cyberiad"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">khleedril.org/dale-mellor/book</span><span class="invisible">blog/?review=the-cyberiad</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/scifi/" rel="tag">#scifi</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</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> <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></p>

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<p>Ebook and paperback: <a href="https://books2read.com/FeyFighters" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>books2read.com/FeyFighters</a></p><p>Two soldiers on opposite sides, pixie Commander Stargazer Candleflash and human Sergeant Edwin Harris, find their fates forever entwined, first by revenge, but as they crash together in a dangerous rainforest, they're forced to work together, just to survive. Will they make it or will their bickering get them killed?</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 Fey Fighters, by Owen Tyme.

The background is the stars of space, with nebula-like clouds, in blue. This has been divided into jigsaw puzzle pieces by dark lines marking the lines between pieces.

The foreground features an enormous, stylized phoenix, which is composed of fire. The phoenix looms over an Earth-like world heavily obscured by cloud cover.

(Right) The same world from the cover orbits a purple gas giant, with a stream of flame above it, which may be the phoenix, with the following text over the top:

“We’re in a human-made, goblin-enchanted spacecraft, powered by a dryad that’s under the mistaken impression she’s a nuclear reactor, half-piloted by a pixie and half-piloted by a human.”

“Is there anywhere we can go we won’t be shot on sight?”

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

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<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1921.</p><p>The Cervantes Theatre (Buenos Aires) opens with a production of Lope de Vega's La dama boba (The Foolish Lady, 1613). It is one of the earliest examples of the "comedia palatina" subgenre. De Vega completed it on 28 April 1613, as shown by a surviving manuscript copy in his own hand.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_dama_boba" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_dama_boba"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_dama_</span><span class="invisible">boba</span></a></p><p>Books by Lope Vega at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/25752" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/25752"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/25752</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/theatre/" rel="tag">#theatre</a></p>

Reproducción digital facsímil del impreso original conservado en la Biblioteca Nacional de España. Sig. T/15003-020

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<p>Why Tolkien thought “sub-creation” was the secret to great fantasy and science fiction</p><p>According to Tolkien, fantasy requires a deep imagination known as “sub-creation.” And the genre reflects a fundamental truth of being human.</p><p>By Jonny Thomson</p><p><a href="https://bigthink.com/mini-philosophy/tolkien-fantasy-science-fiction/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bigthink.com/mini-philosophy/tolkien-fantasy-science-fiction/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bigthink.com/mini-philosophy/t</span><span class="invisible">olkien-fantasy-science-fiction/</span></a></p><p>Fantasy books at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/138" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/138"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subje</span><span class="invisible">ct/138</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

From The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald, illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith, 1920.

The image depicts a key moment from the story, such as Princess Irene interacting with Curdie, the miner boy.

Princess Irene is portrayed as a young girl with soft, flowing hair, wearing a nightgown.

Curdie is shown as a humble but earnest boy, likely in miner’s clothing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantasy_literature#/media/File:Curdie_went_on_after_her,_flashing_his_torch_about..jpg

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<p>“They’re about more than mystery”</p><p>Harriet Vane, tried for murder in Strong Poison, meets Lord Peter Wimsey, who loves her though she resists. Across later novels they grow into equal partners, enriching Sayers’ mystery series.<br> <br>By John Mark Ockerbloom</p><p><a href="https://everybodyslibraries.com/2025/11/18/theyre-about-more-than-mystery/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="everybodyslibraries.com/2025/11/18/theyre-about-more-than-mystery/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">everybodyslibraries.com/2025/1</span><span class="invisible">1/18/theyre-about-more-than-mystery/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/publicdomaindaycountdown/" rel="tag">#PublicDomainDayCountdown</a></p>

Strong Poison book cover.

The image shows the vintage book cover of Strong Poison by Dorothy L. Sayers.

It has a mustard-yellow background with large black serif text.
The title “Strong Poison” dominates the center, with the oversized letter S stretching above the rest of the word.

Above the title, in smaller text, is the author’s name and the price “7/6 net.”
Below the title, it reads: “A New ‘Lord Peter’ Detective Novel.”
At the bottom, the author’s name appears again in bold, capitalized letters.

Two publisher emblems—a stylized “VG” monogram—appear in the top-right and bottom-left corners, alongside the name Gollancz, the publisher.

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<p>📚 The Antidote by: Karen Russell</p><p>The Antidote opens on Black Sunday, as a historic dust storm ravages the fictional town of Uz, Nebraska. But Uz is already collapsing—not just under the weight of the Great Depression and the dust bowl drought but beneath its own violent histories. The Antidote follows a "Prai...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/the-antidote" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/the-antidote"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/the-antido</span><span class="invisible">te</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/historical/" rel="tag">#historical</a> <a href="/tags/generalfiction/" rel="tag">#generalfiction</a> <a href="/tags/visionarymetaphysical/" rel="tag">#visionarymetaphysical</a></p>

The Antidote opens on Black Sunday, as a historic dust storm ravages the fictional town of Uz, Nebraska. But Uz is already collapsing—not just under the weight of the Great Depression and the dust bowl drought but beneath its own violent histories. The Antidote follows a "Prairie Witch,” whose body serves as a bank vault for peoples’ memories and secrets; a Polish wheat farmer who learns how quickly a hoarded blessing can become a curse; his orphan niece, a basketball star and witch’s apprentice in furious flight from her grief; a voluble scarecrow; and a New Deal photographer whose time-traveling camera threatens to reveal both the town’s secrets and its fate.

Russell's novel is above all a reckoning with a nation’s forgetting—enacting the settler amnesia and willful omissions passed down from generation to generation, and unearthing not only horrors but shimmering possibilities. The Antidote echoes with urgent warnings for our own climate emergency, challenging readers with a vision of what might have been—and what still could be.

FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD. NATIONAL BESTSELLER. THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE. From Pulitzer finalist, MacArthur Fellowship recipient, and bestselling author of Swamplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove Karen Russell: a gripping dust bowl epic about five characters whose fates become entangled after a storm ravages their small Nebraskan town

A Most Anticipated Book of 2025 from Lit Hub, Marie

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<p>"Maps are to geography what notation is to music."</p><p>British writer, geographer, historian, journalist, cartographer, and inventor John Francon Williams died <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1911.</p><p>In 1881, Williams's seminal book The Geography of the Oceans was published. This book focuses on topics such as: General Geography of the Oceans, Physical Geography of the Oceans, the Geography of Particular Oceans. It was the first book to cover with such intensity the geography of the oceans.</p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/geography/" rel="tag">#geography</a> <a href="/tags/oceanography/" rel="tag">#oceanography</a></p>

Cover of The Geography of the Oceans by John Francon Williams, 1881

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<p>Book promotion: Move slow, fix things. Heroes beaten down by the system team up to fight for a philanthropist targeted by shadowy enemies in this science fiction adventure about a future more optimistic than dystopian.<br>DRM-free ebook direct price $0.99 <a href="https://kmherkes.com/sale-bookshop/p/controlled-descent-ebook1" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="kmherkes.com/sale-bookshop/p/controlled-descent-ebook1"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">kmherkes.com/sale-bookshop/p/c</span><span class="invisible">ontrolled-descent-ebook1</span></a></p><p>Other vendors & formats here:<br><a href="https://books2read.com/ControlledDescent" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="books2read.com/ControlledDescent"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">books2read.com/ControlledDesce</span><span class="invisible">nt</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/fedibookshop/" rel="tag">#Fedibookshop</a><br><a href="/tags/fedifiction/" rel="tag">#Fedifiction</a><br><a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a><br><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a><br><a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a><br><a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a><br><a href="/tags/sciencefiction/" rel="tag">#ScienceFiction</a><br><a href="/tags/technothriller/" rel="tag">#Technothriller</a><br><a href="/tags/restorationseries/" rel="tag">#RestorationSeries</a></p>

Graphic of an e-reader against a yellow-gradient background with falling leaves. The tablet shows the cover of the book Controlled Descent by K. M. Herkes, next to a falling scatter of descriptive phrases: justice heists, gritty, chosen families, disability rep, hopepunk-y, science fiction. The cover image of the book shows Contrtwo figures on a snowfield hiking through deep snow toward a futuristic city.

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<p>An End to Kings, 1776</p><p>by Jack Kelly</p><p>"Author Jack Kelly of Tom Paine’s War shares with The History Reader the crucial role Thomas Paine (author of Common Sense) played in encouraging Americans to overthrow King George in 1776."</p><p><a href="https://www.thehistoryreader.com/historical-figures/an-end-to-kings-1776/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=an-end-to-kings-1776" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.thehistoryreader.com/historical-figures/an-end-to-kings-1776/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=an-end-to-kings-1776"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.thehistoryreader.com/histo</span><span class="invisible">rical-figures/an-end-to-kings-1776/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=an-end-to-kings-1776</span></a></p><p>"Common Sense" at PG:</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/147" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/147</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a> <a href="/tags/ushistory/" rel="tag">#ushistory</a></p>

Colonists pulling down the statue of King George in New York City, 1776.

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<p>Book Jenga<br><a href="/tags/caturday/" rel="tag">#caturday</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/photography/" rel="tag">#photography</a></p>

Blume gently touching a book in a stack of books, looks like she is playing Jenga.

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Novela "La inevitabilidad del arte"

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<p>American educator Prudence Crandall was born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1803.</p><p>She ran the Canterbury Female Boarding School, which became the 1st school for black girls in the United States. The decision to admit Black students led to intense opposition. Local residents passed a law specifically targeting her school, known as the Black Law, which made it illegal to operate a school for Black students from out of state without local permission.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prudence_Crandall" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prudence_Crandall"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prudence</span><span class="invisible">_Crandall</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/49765" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/49765</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/education/" rel="tag">#education</a></p>

Prudence Crandall, American teacher. Top caption: "The just man shall be in eternal remembrance." Bottom caption: "Went to prison for teaching colored children."

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+18 (Violencia gráfica), "Identidades parasitarias"

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<p>📚 Pick a Colour by: Souvankham Thammavongsa</p><p>Ning is a retired boxer, but to the customers who visit her nail salon, she is just another worker named Susan. On this summer's day, much like any other, the Susans buff and clip and polish and tweeze. They listen and smile and nod. But beneath this superficial veneer, Ning is a woman of rigorous intellect a...</p><p>Winner of the 2025 Giller Prize!</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/pick-a-colour" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/pick-a-colour"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/pick-a-col</span><span class="invisible">our</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/sports/" rel="tag">#sports</a></p>

Ning is a retired boxer, but to the customers who visit her nail salon, she is just another worker named Susan. On this summer's day, much like any other, the Susans buff and clip and polish and tweeze. They listen and smile and nod. But beneath this superficial veneer, Ning is a woman of rigorous intellect and profound depth. A woman enthralled by the intricacy and rhythms of her work, but also haunted by memories of paths not taken and opportunities lost. A woman navigating the complicated power dynamics among her fellow Susans, whose greatest fears and desires lie just behind the gossip they exchange.

As the day's work grinds on, the friction between Ning's two identities—as anonymous manicurist and brilliant observer of her own circumstances—will gather electric and crackling force, and at last demand a reckoning with the way the world of privilege looks at a woman like Ning.

Told over a single day, with razor-sharp precision and wit, Pick a Colour confirms Souvankham Thammavongsa's place as literature's premier chronicler of the immigrant experience, in its myriad, complex, and slyly subversive forms.

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER. FINALIST FOR THE 2025 GILLER PRIZE

From Giller Prize and O. Henry Award winner Souvankham Thammavongsa comes a revelatory novel about loneliness, love, labour, and class. An intimate and sharply written book following a nail salon owner as she toils away for the privileged clients who don't even know her true name.

One of the great

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Tupac Shakur Was Forged in a Revolutionary Political Culture <small class="notice" x-post-type-data="None"> Takahe has limited support for this type: <a href="https://lemmy.world/post/38999122">See Original Page</a> </small>

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<p>📚 Lucky Seed by: Justinian Huang</p><p>Succession meets Crazy Rich Asians in this chaotic, darkly funny romp about the lengths a wealthy family will take to ensure the birth of a male heir from the gay black sheep of their clan.</p><p>The billionaire Sun Clan of Greater Los Angeles is your typical American family, with power-struggling aunties,...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/lucky-seed" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>bookblabla.com/book/lucky-seed</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/familylife/" rel="tag">#familylife</a> <a href="/tags/generalfiction/" rel="tag">#generalfiction</a> <a href="/tags/humorous/" rel="tag">#humorous</a> <a href="/tags/romance/" rel="tag">#romance</a></p>

Succession meets Crazy Rich Asians in this chaotic, darkly funny romp about the lengths a wealthy family will take to ensure the birth of a male heir from the gay black sheep of their clan.

The billionaire Sun Clan of Greater Los Angeles is your typical American family, with power-struggling aunties, emasculated uncles, scheming cousins, scandalous secrets and a fortune teller on retainer. But at the end of each combative day, the Suns are chained together with golden handcuffs, whether they like it or not.

Yet strange storms are a-brewing. Their matriarch, Roses Sun, is grappling with an existential crisis: she must produce a male heir that bears the clan's surname. She fears that if her generation is the one in which their esteemed lineage ends, they will be punished as "hungry ghosts" in the afterlife—an ancient but very real Asian superstition.

Faced with this terrifying fate, Roses summons her favorite nephew, Wayward. Believing him to possess the "lucky seed," Roses presents Wayward with a mandatory suggestion: to father a baby boy who will inherit everything. When the other members of the Sun Clan catch wind of Roses's plot, all hells break loose. Wayward's family will now clash like never before in an epic war over the future of the Suns…if there is a future at all.

Yet through the chaos, Wayward sees opportunity. What if he can leverage all the conflict into a solution for his problematic family? What if he can reunite the Sun Clan by healing them? An

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<p>The patchwork canon of Oz</p><p>Essays highlight Oz’s rich public-domain roots and the new Wicked: For Good. Ruth Plumly Thompson’s The Yellow Knight of Oz enters the public domain soon, a quirky yet delightful outlier in the canon.<br> <br>By John Mark Ockerbloom</p><p><a href="https://everybodyslibraries.com/2025/11/20/the-patchwork-canon-of-oz/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="everybodyslibraries.com/2025/11/20/the-patchwork-canon-of-oz/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">everybodyslibraries.com/2025/1</span><span class="invisible">1/20/the-patchwork-canon-of-oz/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/publicdomaindaycountdown/" rel="tag">#publicDomainDayCountdown</a></p>

Cover of The Yellow Knight of Oz
by Ruth Plumly Thompson
Illustratated by John R. Neill

At the top, the title appears in large blue lettering. The central figure is a brightly dressed knight in vivid yellow and red armor, with a dramatic plumed helmet and cape. He stands with one arm raised.

Beside him is a young person in simple clothing, looking up at him. Surrounding them are whimsical Oz characters, including animal-like figures and fantastical creatures. A large circular emblem with a red “Z” on a yellow background appears to the right. At the bottom, the cover credits Ruth Plumly Thompson as author (continuing the famous Oz stories) and notes L. Frank Baum, with illustration credit to John R. Neill.

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<p>Writing across the Pacific</p><p>Pearl S. Buck, raised in China, wrote early novels about Chinese life during a period of U.S. exclusion and discrimination. A 2008 essay notes how East Wind: West Wind echoed the writer’s own cross-cultural experiences.<br> <br>By John Mark Ockerbloom </p><p><a href="https://everybodyslibraries.com/2025/11/21/writing-across-the-pacific/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="everybodyslibraries.com/2025/11/21/writing-across-the-pacific/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">everybodyslibraries.com/2025/1</span><span class="invisible">1/21/writing-across-the-pacific/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/publicdomaindaycountdown/" rel="tag">#publicDomainDayCountdown</a></p>

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<p><a href="/tags/fadedpage/" rel="tag">#FadedPage</a> is an archive of eBooks that are provided completely free to everyone. The books are produced by volunteers all over the world, and we believe they are amongst the highest quality eBooks anywhere. Every one has been scanned, run through OCR software, proofed, formatted and assembled extremely carefully, using hundreds of volunteer hours. These books are public domain in <a href="/tags/canada/" rel="tag">#Canada</a> (because we follow the <a href="/tags/canadiancopyright/" rel="tag">#CanadianCopyright</a> laws), but if you are in another country, you should satisfy yourself that you are not breaking the copyright laws of your own country by downloading them. You are free to do whatever you like with these books, but we hope that mainly...you will enjoy reading them.<br><a href="/tags/book/" rel="tag">#Book</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> </p><p><a href="https://www.fadedpage.com/" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.fadedpage.com/</a></p>

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<p>This week's <a href="/tags/newbooks/" rel="tag">#NewBooks</a> at the library: I bought second-hand copies of Fevered Planet: How <a href="/tags/diseases/" rel="tag">#Diseases</a> Emerge When We Harm Nature by the late John Vidal and <a href="/tags/dust/" rel="tag">#Dust</a>: The Modern World in a Trillion Particles by Jay Owens, and picked up a review copy of Uncommon Ground: Rethinking Our Relationship With the <a href="/tags/countryside/" rel="tag">#Countryside</a> by Patrick Galbraith.<br> <br><a href="/tags/atmosphericsciences/" rel="tag">#AtmosphericSciences</a> <a href="/tags/pandemics/" rel="tag">#Pandemics</a> <a href="/tags/epidemics/" rel="tag">#Epidemics</a> <a href="/tags/publichealth/" rel="tag">#PublicHealth</a> <a href="/tags/zoonoses/" rel="tag">#Zoonoses</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/scicomm/" rel="tag">#Scicomm</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>

A photo of three books standing upright on a small, brown, wooden table. The out-of-focus background shows black shelves full of books.

On the left, Fevered Planet, showing a black-and-white photo of the rocky landscape of a hand-dug open-pit mine. In the foreground is a small, lone human figure resting one leg on a pile of shattered rocks. The title is written across the photo in neon-orange, with the last letters of each word rendered as if they are powdering into fine dust at their edges.

In the middle, Uncommon Ground, showing part of the oil painting "Wivenhoe Park, Essex" by John Constable, showing a bucolic landscape with a grazing cow behind a wooden fence. The fence runs across the picture in the foreground, while there is a large pond in the background. Behind the pond can be seen a small planted grove of large trees, and on the right, part of what looks like a mansion. The centre of the image has been rendered as if part of the drawing has been ripped out, showing the rough edge of torn paper and at the bottom, a curled-up piece of torn paper.

On the right, Dust, showing a NASA satellite photograph of planet Earth at night. Next to artificial lighting, several colourful swirls are visible in blue, red, and purple. This is a composite image that was taken on the 23rd of August 2018 that shows the various aerosols in our atmosphere. You can read more about this particular image here: https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/92654/just-another-day-on-aerosol-earth

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<p>Ebook and paperback: <a href="https://books2read.com/JigsawCity" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>books2read.com/JigsawCity</a></p><p>Nicole's brain is slowly being taken over by an ancient, magical artifact, a small fragment of a magic city. She seeks a cure, before the city can destroy her sanity and then eventually, take her life by replacing her mind. Racing against time, she gathers pieces of the city, hoping to find an answer among them.</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 Jigsaw City, by Owen Tyme.

The background is a futuristic city of sky scrapers covered in greenery, with water ways in place of some streets. The background has been divided by dark lines that cut it up, into a jigsaw puzzle.

The foreground is a hexagonal coin with an indentation in the center that follows the same shape, with raised lines forming a hexagram in the center, which has a smaller one turned at a ninety-degree angle inside the hexagon at the center of it. The smaller hexagram has another inside it, a pattern that repeats until the lines become so fine and indistinct, they blend together.

(Right) There's a pool of lava at the base of a rocky slope, with some sharp rocks sticking upward out of it and the following text over the top:

“I’m immune to heat and fire. I can easily carry and protect one of you…”

“That’s suicide! Ye’d need to deliver an army to make a difference, not one person!”

“I *am* an army.”

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<p>I just finished reading Cahokia Jazz by Francis Spufford. It's set in an alternate 1920s USA in the state of Cahokia. It's centered on a detective relatively new to the city of Cahokia, so you are learning the city through his coming to terms with it. The start is somewhat grisly, but worth getting past that for experiencing the setting. For my part, I enjoyed the atmospherics more than the story itself, but you may feel different.</p><p><a href="/tags/murdermystery/" rel="tag">#MurderMystery</a> <a href="/tags/althistory/" rel="tag">#AltHistory</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></p>

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<p>finished reading <a href="https://eggplant.place/search?r=1&q=https://reviewdb.app/book/70XlcW3yOC6eqiuF3NniX1" rel="nofollow">The World We Make</a> 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑 <br>by NK Jemisin.</p><p>New York finishes the job against the Multiverse, despite the conservative reticence of the Old Cities. Clunkier and without the freshness of the original. But fun to see more city avatars. I think Mamdani could easily be a character in these books!</p><p><a href="/tags/bookreview/" rel="tag">#BookReview</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/sff/" rel="tag">#SFF</a></p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://aus.social/@wildwoila" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>WildWoila</span></a></span> @wildwoila@wyrms.de<br></p>

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<p>📚 The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus by: Emma Knight</p><p>Arriving at the University of Edinburgh for her first term, Pen knows her divorced parents back in Canada are hiding something from her. She believes she’ll find the answer here in Scotland, where an old friend of her father’s—now a famous writer ...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/the-life-cycle-of-the-common-octopus" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/the-life-cycle-of-the-common-octopus"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/the-life-c</span><span class="invisible">ycle-of-the-common-octopus</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/friendshipfiction/" rel="tag">#friendshipfiction</a> <a href="/tags/familylife/" rel="tag">#familylife</a> <a href="/tags/marriagedivorce/" rel="tag">#marriagedivorce</a></p>

Arriving at the University of Edinburgh for her first term, Pen knows her divorced parents back in Canada are hiding something from her. She believes she’ll find the answer here in Scotland, where an old friend of her father’s—now a famous writer known as Lord Lennox—lives. When she is invited to spend the weekend at Lord Lennox’s centuries-old estate with his enveloping, intriguing family, Pen begins to unravel her parents’ secret and to fall in love for the first time...

Her best friend, Alice, an aspiring actor, is starring in a university production and making the most of the feminine power she wields—until a tryst with her tutor threatens to spin out of control.

As Pen experiences the sharp shock of adulthood, she uncovers the truth about her own family and comes to rely on herself for the first time in her life. A rich and rewarding novel of campus life, of sexual awakening, and ultimately, of the many ways women can become mothers in this world, The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus asks to what extent we need to look back in order to move forward.

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 GILLER PRIZE

A witty, warm and brilliantly told debut that is at once a love story, a story of female friendship and motherhood, and an irresistible mystery surrounding an extraordinary British family.

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