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<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>For the first time in a couple of decades, I'm re-reading THE CRUCIBLE by <a href="/tags/arthurmiller/" rel="tag">#ArthurMiller</a>.</p><p>I found it very anxiety-inducing all those years ago. Now that I'm older, I have stronger psychological defenses. Nevertheless, I'm presently finding it even more anxiety-inducing than before?!</p><p>Although my defenses are stronger now, my knowledge of such situations is stronger too. Thus, I feel more tormented than ever due to my better cognizance of its harrowing, spot-on verisimilitude.</p><p>What a stellar play.</p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a><br><a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a></p><p><a href="https://pics.cdn.librarything.com/picsizes/53/16/5316887-c-h1200-w600-pv25_597863685551425941724145_v5.jpg" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="pics.cdn.librarything.com/picsizes/53/16/5316887-c-h1200-w600-pv25_597863685551425941724145_v5.jpg"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">pics.cdn.librarything.com/pics</span><span class="invisible">izes/53/16/5316887-c-h1200-w600-pv25_597863685551425941724145_v5.jpg</span></a></p>

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<p>Andrea Wulf Considers the Rare Humanity of an Eighteenth-Century Naturalist</p><p>The Remarkable Life and Times of George Forster</p><p><a href="https://lithub.com/andrea-wulf-considers-the-rare-humanity-of-an-eighteenth-century-naturalist/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="lithub.com/andrea-wulf-considers-the-rare-humanity-of-an-eighteenth-century-naturalist/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lithub.com/andrea-wulf-conside</span><span class="invisible">rs-the-rare-humanity-of-an-eighteenth-century-naturalist/</span></a></p><p>Books by Georg Forster at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/37318" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/37318"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/37318</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#Literature</a> <a href="/tags/nature/" rel="tag">#Nature</a></p>

Christmas Sound, Terra del Fuego.

The Three Voyages of Captain Cook Round the World. Vol. IV. Being the Second of the Second Voyage.

by James Cook and Georg Forster

A sepia-toned landscape illustration showing a calm fjord dotted with rocky islets, snow-capped mountains in the distance, and a small sailing ship on the water. In the foreground, two seabirds perch on rugged cliffs to the right, under a pale, hazy sky.

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/61492/pg61492-images.html

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<p>Anne Frank (June 12, 1929 – February 1945) for her thirteenth birthday received a diary. She began to write about her life, the people around her, short stories — even a novel.</p><p>She dreamed of becoming a writer.</p><p>War left us only her diary.</p><p>It stole the girl, the books she never wrote, and the life she should have had.</p><p><a href="/tags/annefrank/" rel="tag">#AnneFrank</a> <a href="/tags/diary/" rel="tag">#diary</a> <a href="/tags/writers/" rel="tag">#writers</a> <a href="/tags/war/" rel="tag">#war</a> <a href="/tags/author/" rel="tag">#author</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</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> <a href="/tags/booksky/" rel="tag">#booksky</a> <a href="/tags/bookstagram/" rel="tag">#bookstagram</a> <a href="/tags/book/" rel="tag">#book</a> <a href="/tags/readingcommunity/" rel="tag">#readingcommunity</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a> <a href="/tags/ww2/" rel="tag">#ww2</a></p>

Anne Frank

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<p>Anatomy of a Galileo Forgery</p><p>It was hailed as a historic discovery—until a trail of clues revealed one of the rare-book world’s most audacious scams.</p><p>By: Matthew Wills </p><p><a href="https://daily.jstor.org/anatomy-of-a-galileo-forgery/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="daily.jstor.org/anatomy-of-a-galileo-forgery/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">daily.jstor.org/anatomy-of-a-g</span><span class="invisible">alileo-forgery/</span></a></p><p>Books by Galileo Galilei at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/39014" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/39014"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/39014</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#Science</a> <a href="/tags/astronomy/" rel="tag">#Astronomy</a></p>

Title page of Sidereus nuncius, 1610, by Galileo Galilei (1564-1642).

The original Latin title page of Galileo Galilei's landmark astronomical work, announcing observations of the Moon, fixed stars, the Milky Way, and four Jupiter moons named "Medicea Sidera." Published by Thomas Baglioni in Venice (MDCX), with an ornate engraved publisher's vignette of an enthroned figure below the text.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidereus_Nuncius#/media/File:Houghton_IC6.G1333.610sa_-_Sidereus_nuncius.jpg

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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…”

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

“I *am* an army.”

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

A sample page from Jigsaw City.

A sample page from Jigsaw City.

A sample page from Jigsaw City.

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<p>📚 The Correspondent by: Virginia Evans</p><p>Sybil Van Antwerp has throughout her life used letters to make sense of the world and her place in it. Most mornings, around half past ten, Sybil sits down to write letters—to her brother, to her best friend, to the president of the university who will not allow her to audit a class she desperately...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/the-correspondent" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/the-correspondent"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/the-corres</span><span class="invisible">pondent</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/womenfiction/" rel="tag">#womenfiction</a> <a href="/tags/familylife/" rel="tag">#familylife</a> <a href="/tags/general/" rel="tag">#general</a></p>

Sybil Van Antwerp has throughout her life used letters to make sense of the world and her place in it. Most mornings, around half past ten, Sybil sits down to write letters—to her brother, to her best friend, to the president of the university who will not allow her to audit a class she desperately wants to take, to Joan Didion and Larry McMurtry to tell them what she thinks of their latest books, and to one person to whom she writes often yet never sends the letter.

Sybil expects her world to go on as it always has—a mother, grandmother, wife, divorcee, distinguished lawyer, she has lived a very full life. But when letters from someone in her past force her to examine one of the most painful periods of her life, she realizes that the letter she has been writing over the years needs to be read and that she cannot move forward until she finds it in her heart to offer forgiveness.

“Imagine, the letters one has sent out into the world, the letters received back in turn, are like the pieces of a magnificent puzzle. . . . Isn’t there something wonderful in that, to think that a story of one’s life is preserved in some way, that this very letter may one day mean something, even if it is a very small thing, to someone?”

Filled with knowledge that only comes from a life fully lived, The Correspondent is a gem of a novel about the power of finding solace in literature and connection with people we might never meet in person. It is about the hubris of youth and the

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<p>First quote from Part Two of my story The Last Philosopher, I'm perticularly happy with this one 😊 </p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@reading" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>reading</span></a></span> <a href="https://lemmy.world/u/books" rel="nofollow">@books</a> @fantasy <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> @worldbuilding <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@humor" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>humor</span></a></span> @humor@lemmy.world @aiop</p><p><a href="/tags/wipwednesday/" rel="tag">#WIPWednesday</a> <a href="/tags/workinprogress/" rel="tag">#WorkInProgress</a><br><a href="/tags/quote/" rel="tag">#Quote</a> <a href="/tags/quotes/" rel="tag">#Quotes</a> <a href="/tags/bookquote/" rel="tag">#BookQuote</a><br><a href="/tags/amwriting/" rel="tag">#AmWriting</a> <a href="/tags/indieauthor/" rel="tag">#IndieAuthor</a> <a href="/tags/ebook/" rel="tag">#eBook</a> <a href="/tags/ebooks/" rel="tag">#eBooks</a><br><a href="/tags/specualtivefiction/" rel="tag">#SpecualtiveFiction</a> <a href="/tags/fantasybooks/" rel="tag">#FantasyBooks</a> <a href="/tags/fantasy/" rel="tag">#Fantasy</a> <a href="/tags/worldbuilding/" rel="tag">#WorldBuilding</a> <a href="/tags/scifi/" rel="tag">#SciFi</a> <a href="/tags/satire/" rel="tag">#Satire</a> <a href="/tags/humor/" rel="tag">#Humor</a> <a href="/tags/humour/" rel="tag">#Humour</a> <a href="/tags/comedy/" rel="tag">#Comedy</a><br><a href="/tags/novel/" rel="tag">#Novel</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> <br><a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#Reading</a> <a href="/tags/readers/" rel="tag">#Readers</a> <a href="/tags/readingcommunity/" rel="tag">#ReadingCommunity</a></p><p>Ebook of Part One available here: <a href="https://books2read.com/b/m0pJYA" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>books2read.com/b/m0pJYA</a></p>

Part two: The p-wyrd

“Being right is more important than doing right.”
-Gods and arseholes

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<p>How 'algorithm' got its name from a 9th-century Persian mathematician</p><p>by Scott Neuman</p><p><a href="https://www.npr.org/2026/06/11/nx-s1-5848013/algorithm-word-week-etymology" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.npr.org/2026/06/11/nx-s1-5848013/algorithm-word-week-etymology"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.npr.org/2026/06/11/nx-s1-5</span><span class="invisible">848013/algorithm-word-week-etymology</span></a></p><p>The Concise Book of Calculation by Restoration and Balancing at <span class="h-card"><a href="https://wikis.world/@wikipedia" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>wikipedia</span></a></span> <br><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Jabr" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Jabr</a></p><p>The algebra of Mohammed ben Musa at <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.archive.org/@internetarchive" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>internetarchive</span></a></span> <br><a href="https://archive.org/details/algebraofmohamme00khuwrich" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="archive.org/details/algebraofmohamme00khuwrich"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">archive.org/details/algebraofm</span><span class="invisible">ohamme00khuwrich</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/mathematics/" rel="tag">#mathematics</a></p>

Pages from a 14th-century Arabic copy of the book, showing geometric solutions to two quadratic equations.

A medieval Arabic mathematical manuscript from the Bodleian Library (MS Huntington 214) — a two-page spread featuring:
Dense Arabic script text in black ink
Red ink highlighting key terms and geometric diagrams
Grid/table diagrams at the bottom of each page, likely illustrating algebraic or geometric problems

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Jabr#/media/File:Bodleian_MS._Huntington_214_roll332_frame36.jpg

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<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1752 Frances Burney was born. She "was a novelist, diarist and playwright. In all, she wrote four novels, eight plays, one biography and twenty-five volumes of journals and letters. She has gained critical respect in her own right, but she foreshadowed such novelists of manners with a satirical bent as Jane Austen and William Makepeace Thackeray."</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Burney" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Burney"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_</span><span class="invisible">Burney</span></a></p><p>Burney at PG:</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/2010" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/2010"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/2010</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

Painting of Frances Burney by her cousin Edward Francis Burney. She is shown from the waist up. She has light brown hair which is covered by a huge puffy tan hat. It has a big bow and ruffled lace on top. Her dress is white with a pink bow at her chest. A dark black shawl covers her shoulders and arms, and she wear dark gloves.

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<p>After the Concept of Peaceful Disobedience Was Established in America, It Traveled Around the World Before Taking Hold</p><p>“Force may subdue, but love gains”: The Quaker practice of conscientious objection evolved through Thoreau, Tolstoy and Gandhi before becoming the hallmark of the Civil Rights movement</p><p>by Jeff MacGregor</p><p><a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/concept-peaceful-disobedience-established-america-traveled-world-taking-hold-180988847/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=93133550&user_id=19f2988141aeef1ce3da2871b25613801e24297faaf654001575521d8c39910f" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.smithsonianmag.com/history/concept-peaceful-disobedience-established-america-traveled-world-taking-hold-180988847/?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/history</span><span class="invisible">/concept-peaceful-disobedience-established-america-traveled-world-taking-hold-180988847/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=93133550&user_id=19f2988141aeef1ce3da2871b25613801e24297faaf654001575521d8c39910f</span></a></p><p>Books by William Penn and Henry David Thoreau. at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/8625" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/8625"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/8625</span></a><br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/54" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/54"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/54</span></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></p>

William Penn.

A formal engraved oval portrait of William Penn — Quaker leader and founder of Pennsylvania, depicted in his characteristic broad-brimmed Quaker hat, curled wig, and plain dark coat.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Penn#/media/File:William_Penn.png

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<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>

Promotional image for the Irish historical fiction novel A Scarlet Woman by Lorna Peel, book one in The Fitzgeralds of Dublin series, a 19th-century Irish family saga. The image shows a Kindle device displaying the book cover, which shows a late 19th-century woman with dark hair and a pink flower on her white dress, looking down pensively. Text on the ad reads: “Love that defies society. Secrets that shape a family.” and “Step into 19th-century Ireland and meet the Fitzgeralds of Dublin. Start the series today! Free to read with Kindle Unlimited.” The background is a faded image of Georgian townhouses on Merrion Square in Dublin, Ireland.

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<p>The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint Exupéry’s timeless masterpiece, has reached a historic milestone by becoming the world’s most translated book of fiction, with 600 translations to date!</p><p><a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/thelittleprince/" rel="tag">#TheLittlePrince</a> <a href="/tags/exupery/" rel="tag">#Exupery</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/translation/" rel="tag">#translation</a> <a href="/tags/novel/" rel="tag">#novel</a> <a href="/tags/book/" rel="tag">#book</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</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> <a href="/tags/bookstagram/" rel="tag">#bookstagram</a> <a href="/tags/booktok/" rel="tag">#BookTok</a> <a href="/tags/bookish/" rel="tag">#bookish</a> <a href="/tags/prince/" rel="tag">#prince</a> <a href="/tags/littleprince/" rel="tag">#littleprince</a> <a href="/tags/antoinedesaintexupery/" rel="tag">#antoinedesaintexupery</a></p>

The Little Prince

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<p>WTAF?? I had no idea this was going on. And in <a href="/tags/canada/" rel="tag">#Canada</a> too?? Wow - <a href="/tags/censorship/" rel="tag">#censorship</a> is never good - <a href="/tags/education/" rel="tag">#education</a> and <a href="/tags/freedomofchoice/" rel="tag">#freedomofchoice</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/pride/" rel="tag">#pride</a> <a href="/tags/plfag/" rel="tag">#PLFAG</a> <a href="/tags/lgbtq/" rel="tag">#LGBTQ</a>Librarian fired after refusing to censor 2SLGBTQ+ books wins $700K US settlement<a href="https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/wyoming-librarian-settlement-9.6935492" rel="nofollow">www.cbc.ca/radio/asitha...</a><br><br><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/wyoming-librarian-settlement-9.6935492" rel="nofollow">Librarian fired after refusing...</a></p>

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<p><a href="/tags/euraknot/" rel="tag">#Euraknot</a>'s really interesting talk w/ <a href="/tags/pietroshakarian/" rel="tag">#PietroShakarian</a> about his book <a href="/tags/anastasmikoyan/" rel="tag">#AnastasMikoyan</a>: An Armenian Reformer in <a href="/tags/khrushchev/" rel="tag">#Khrushchev</a>'s Kremlin. </p><p>"How did he push for <a href="/tags/destalinization/" rel="tag">#destalinization</a> after the leader’s death in 1953, particularly on <a href="/tags/sovietnationalitypolicy/" rel="tag">#SovietNationalityPolicy</a>? Shakarian tells us that in the end, <a href="/tags/mikoyan/" rel="tag">#Mikoyan</a> was more than a survivor. He was a critical player in shaping the post-Stalinist <a href="/tags/sovietunion/" rel="tag">#SovietUnion</a>." </p><p><a href="https://www.euraknot.org/anastas-mikoyan/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.euraknot.org/anastas-mikoyan/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.euraknot.org/anastas-mikoy</span><span class="invisible">an/</span></a><br><a href="/tags/soviethistory/" rel="tag">#SovietHistory</a> <a href="/tags/sovietarmenia/" rel="tag">#SovietArmenia</a> <a href="/tags/armenia/" rel="tag">#Armenia</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/biographies/" rel="tag">#biographies</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>Ebook and paperback: <a href="https://books2read.com/LegacyOfNewts" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>books2read.com/LegacyOfNewts</a></p><p>The undead witch that rules the space pirates, known as the Dead Queen, has finally been defeated. That only makes it worse for the witches that pulled it off. She’s livid and coming for them, at least once she gets her star ship back under control…</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> <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 Legacy of Newts, by Owen Tyme.

In the background dawn, as seen from space, above a blue world.

In the foreground is a line drawing of a red spotted newt, in white. The lines of the newt are outlined in black, to help it stand out. The interior of the line drawing has been filled with the image of a spiral galaxy in red, orange and yellow, with a blue color that shades to white at the center, which lines up with the newt's head. The galaxy almost looks like fire.

(Right) The background is a blue and orange nebula, with the following text over it:

“You gotta be real strong, real bright, real quick, or real lucky to survive drawing *attention*. Which are you?”

“I’m quick, Amelia is bright, Marta is strong and all three of us have been lucky, after a fashion: if we didn’t have bad luck, then I suppose we wouldn’t have any luck at all.”

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

Sample page from Legacy of Newts.

Sample page from Legacy of Newts.

Sample page from Legacy of Newts.

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<p>I can't say I belive in an other side, but I kind of hope hell exists so rich american lunatics will get what they deserve 😒 </p><p>@fantasy <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="https://lemmy.world/u/books" rel="nofollow">@books</a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@reading" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>reading</span></a></span></p><p><a href="/tags/tolkien/" rel="tag">#Tolkien</a><br><a href="/tags/speculativefiction/" rel="tag">#SpeculativeFiction</a> <a href="/tags/fantasybooks/" rel="tag">#FantasyBooks</a><br><a href="/tags/fantasymemes/" rel="tag">#FantasyMemes</a> <a href="/tags/fantasy/" rel="tag">#Fantasy</a> <a href="/tags/meme/" rel="tag">#Meme</a> <a href="/tags/memes/" rel="tag">#Memes</a> <a href="/tags/novel/" rel="tag">#Novel</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a></p>

Meme with photo of Matthew McConaughey crying surrounded by corporate logos.

Caption:
J.R.R.Tolkien watching from the other side how the work of his whole life is desecrated and turned into a bunch of IPs at the whim of some rich American lunatic who believes Greta Thunberg is the new Antichrist.

The logos: Valar, Anduril, Mithril, Palantir, Lembas

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<p>Harriet Beecher Stowe (June 14, 1811 — July 1, 1896) was a preacher’s daughter, a teacher, a wife, and a mother of seven.</p><p>In 1852, her novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin became a sensation: about 10,000 copies were sold in the first week, and 300,000 before the end of the year.</p><p>Thirteen years later, <a href="/tags/slavery/" rel="tag">#slavery</a> was abolished in the US. One book did not end slavery by itself but <a href="/tags/stowe/" rel="tag">#Stowe</a> showed millions of readers the human pain behind it.</p><p><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> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/writers/" rel="tag">#writers</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/author/" rel="tag">#author</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a></p>

Harriet Beecher Stowe

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<p>"The bombing runs may be quieter, but the bulldozers roar on. <a href="/tags/israel/" rel="tag">#Israel</a> is tearing up homes, orchards, schools and hospitals, then flattening the rubble to erase the memory that Palestinian life was ever there. <br>"To understand this architecture of death, Richard Hames spoke to <a href="/tags/eyalweizman/" rel="tag">#EyalWeizman</a>, author of <a href="/tags/ungrounding/" rel="tag">#Ungrounding</a>: The Architecture of Genocide and founder of <a href="/tags/forensicarchitecture/" rel="tag">#ForensicArchitecture</a>"</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPGKCuiSOgg" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPGKCuiSOgg"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPGKCu</span><span class="invisible">iSOgg</span></a><br><a href="/tags/gaza/" rel="tag">#Gaza</a> <a href="/tags/gazagenocide/" rel="tag">#GazaGenocide</a> <a href="/tags/palestine/" rel="tag">#Palestine</a> <a href="/tags/colonialviolence/" rel="tag">#colonialViolence</a> <a href="/tags/statecrime/" rel="tag">#stateCrime</a> <a href="/tags/infographics/" rel="tag">#infographics</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>The Fitzgeralds of Dublin series is a sweeping 19th-century Irish family saga. Follow Will and Isobel through struggles, secrets, and choices that test their love and loyalty in a changing Ireland.</p><p>Amazon - <a href="https://mybook.to/FitzgeraldsSeries" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>mybook.to/FitzgeraldsSeries</a><br>Other Retailers - <a href="https://lornapeel.com/fitzgeralds/a-scarlet-woman" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="lornapeel.com/fitzgeralds/a-scarlet-woman"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lornapeel.com/fitzgeralds/a-sc</span><span class="invisible">arlet-woman</span></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/familysaga/" rel="tag">#FamilySaga</a> <a href="/tags/historicalfiction/" rel="tag">#HistoricalFiction</a> <a href="/tags/ireland/" rel="tag">#Ireland</a> <a href="/tags/bookseries/" rel="tag">#BookSeries</a> <a href="/tags/kindleunlimited/" rel="tag">#KindleUnlimited</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>

Promotional image for The Fitzgeralds of Dublin series - an Irish historical fiction series by Lorna Peel. The tagline reads: "Love, trust, family ties and secrets…" followed by "Discover Lorna Peel’s gritty family saga set in 19th-century Ireland." The image displays ten book covers in two rows. The titles are:
Top row (left to right):

1. A Scarlet Woman
2. A Suitable Wife
3. A Discarded Son
4. A Forlorn Hope
5. A Cruel Mischief

Bottom row (left to right):
6. A Hidden Motive
7. A Minor Detail
8. A Pleasant Distraction
9. A Stark Prediction
10. A Perfect Solution

Each cover features characters in late 19th-century clothing, and 19th-century Dublin photographs.

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<p>A Child’s World: Sloane Crosley on the Short Fiction of Katherine Mansfield</p><p>“Even in Mansfield stories where children are not centered or present, this is their world. Her adults never quite grow up, only older.”</p><p><a href="https://lithub.com/a-childs-world-sloane-crosley-on-the-short-fiction-of-katherine-mansfield/?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=campaign&utm_id=01KTKT42JDHAGHE6SSKQW895RX&_kx=3MZUehzXM-41qlWAMPUiuNZadX2p0SByuNf_t0eMLB0.U5D8ER" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="lithub.com/a-childs-world-sloane-crosley-on-the-short-fiction-of-katherine-mansfield/?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=campaign&utm_id=01KTKT42JDHAGHE6SSKQW895RX&_kx=3MZUehzXM-41qlWAMPUiuNZadX2p0SByuNf_t0eMLB0.U5D8ER"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lithub.com/a-childs-world-sloa</span><span class="invisible">ne-crosley-on-the-short-fiction-of-katherine-mansfield/?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=campaign&utm_id=01KTKT42JDHAGHE6SSKQW895RX&_kx=3MZUehzXM-41qlWAMPUiuNZadX2p0SByuNf_t0eMLB0.U5D8ER</span></a></p><p>Mansfield at PG:</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/631" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/631"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/631</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

A photograph of Katherine Mansfield from 1912 which shows her from the waist up. She is looking directly into the camera. She has dark, chin-length hair styled in a bob with short bangs across her forehead. She is wearing a dark jacket or vest over a light-colored blouse with a large, pointed collar. A small, crumpled white cloth or handkerchief peeks out of her breast pocket. A thin, simple chain necklace is around her neck.

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<p>Black Bag. By Luke Kennard.</p><p>You are a struggling actor, and you take a gig where you wear a black bag and sit silently in a Psychology class twice a week, only you find you want to wear it more frequently, which of course leads to sexual encounters and a monetization scheme that maybe goes against the potential of black bag to reframe masculinity.</p><p>4 of 5 library cats 🐈 🐈 🐈 🐈.</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> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/men/" rel="tag">#men</a> <a href="/tags/psychology/" rel="tag">#psychology</a> <a href="/tags/actors/" rel="tag">#actors</a> <a href="/tags/bags/" rel="tag">#bags</a></p>

Green and blue book cover with a small black bag with human feet sticking out of it.

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<p>How prestigious is the PenMasters Global Award for Literary Excellence? </p><p>I haven't heard of this award. Wondered if some of you were familiar with it. </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> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a></p>

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<p>This week's <a href="/tags/newbooks/" rel="tag">#NewBooks</a> at the library: Three more books from the NHBS January clearance sale<br>- 18 Miles: The Epic Drama of Our <a href="/tags/atmosphere/" rel="tag">#Atmosphere</a> and Its <a href="/tags/weather/" rel="tag">#Weather</a> by Christopher Dewdney, published by Bloomsbury Sigma.<br>- Landscapes of <a href="/tags/collectivity/" rel="tag">#Collectivity</a> in the Life Sciences, a more heady edited volume in the Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology from <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.mit.edu/@themitpress" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>themitpress</span></a></span>.<br>- Animal Languages: The Secret Conversations of the Living World by Eva Meijer, here in the English translation published by John Murray.</p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/scicomm/" rel="tag">#Scicomm</a> <a href="/tags/atmosphericsciences/" rel="tag">#AtmosphericSciences</a> <a href="/tags/climatology/" rel="tag">#Climatology</a> <a href="/tags/meteorology/" rel="tag">#Meteorology</a> <a href="/tags/biology/" rel="tag">#Biology</a> <a href="/tags/philosophy/" rel="tag">#Philosophy</a> <a href="/tags/ethology/" rel="tag">#Ethology</a> <a href="/tags/animalbehavior/" rel="tag">#AnimalBehavior</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 on a small, brown, wooden table. The out-of-focus background shows black shelves full of books.

On the left, 18 Miles, showing a a blue hardback with a blue sky and white clouds.

In the middle, Landscapes of Collectivity in the Life Sciences, showing a white hardback with an abstract piece of artwork. Two separate blue-grey rectangles are connected by a tangle of tan-coloured ropes. This is a 1966 sculpture by Eva Hesse, titled Metronomic Irregularity I.

On the right, Animal Languages, a cream-coloured hardback where each letter of the word animal has a colour illustration of one or more animals poking from behind each letter.

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<p>It's my first novel's birthday month, so I'm having a wee sale. DRM-free ebooks are $0.99 on my website because it's mine and I do what I want:<br><a href="https://kmherkes.com/the-bookshop1/p/controlled-descent-ebook-1" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="kmherkes.com/the-bookshop1/p/controlled-descent-ebook-1"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">kmherkes.com/the-bookshop1/p/c</span><span class="invisible">ontrolled-descent-ebook-1</span></a></p><p>It's a scifi adventure in a future more optimistic than dystopian, where people risk everything for the sake of friendship, trust, & love. Humor, whimsy, sarcasm, & more. Sometimes gritty, never grim.</p><p>Prefer kindle? Cool. I gotta link for that & other vendors too:<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/books/" rel="tag">#books</a><br><a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a><br>(boosts welcomed)</p>

raphic 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 two figures on a snowfield hiking through deep snow toward a futuristic city.

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<p>finished reading <a href="https://eggplant.place/search?r=1&q=https://eggplant.place/book/19S46CxyGO1rs9jDU3VmXA" rel="nofollow">Alien Clay</a> <br>👍</p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a><br></p>

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