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50% off @ <a href="/tags/smashwords/" rel="tag">#Smashwords</a>: <a href="https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1899894" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.smashwords.com/books/view/1899894">https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1899894</a>Amelia and The Book of Newts are in conflict. She wants to explore her feelings. It wants to explore space, taking back the gift for mathematics it gave her. She’s unable to plot a course home, but desperate to see the man she loves, lest she lose him forever…<a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bookstodon</a> <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> <a href="/tags/eoysale25/" rel="tag">#EOYSale25</a> <a href="/tags/ebook/" rel="tag">#ebook</a> <a href="/tags/sale/" rel="tag">#sale</a> <a href="/tags/books2read/" rel="tag">#books2read</a> <a href="/tags/indiebooks/" rel="tag">#indiebooks</a>

(Left) The cover of The Next Horizon, by Owen Tyme.

The black silhouette of a man and woman hugging and kissing. The woman has lifted one leg, while the man leans toward her. They stand atop the dark side of a planet or moon in space, which has a slim crescent along the right side. The background in the stars of space, but some have been highlighted with a heat shape that surrounds the kissing couple. Everything is in shades of blue.

(Right) Deep space, displaying the edge of an orange and blue gaseous cloud from a nebula, while most of the stars appear golden in color. Floating in space is a square, red leather book with the image of a newt stamped on the cover. Over the top of everything is the following text:

“You can back down and cooperate, right now, or Marta will hit you so hard, you should reach a tenth the speed of light…”

“No one will ever find you again, but even if someone does, there’s no way they’ll have the capacity to safely slow you down, before you’re gone to them!”

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

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Settling accountsBefore he was famous, Jean-Jacques Rousseau was Louise Dupin’s scribe. It’s her ideas on inequality that fill his writingsby Rebecca Wilkin<a href="https://aeon.co/essays/inequality-was-a-feminist-idea-before-it-was-rousseaus?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=860692e0f7-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_10_30&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-4ef8a26106-72664972" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="aeon.co/essays/inequality-was-a-feminist-idea-before-it-was-rousseaus?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=860692e0f7-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_10_30&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-4ef8a26106-72664972">https://aeon.co/essays/inequality-was-a-feminist-idea-before-it-was-rousseaus?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=860692e0f7-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_10_30&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-4ef8a26106-72664972</a>Rousseau at PG: <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1286" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1286">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1286</a><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a>

The Declaration of Love (c1724) by Jean François de Troy.

The painting depicts an intimate and elegant moment of courtship in an 18th-century refined interior or garden setting. At its centre, a young gentleman kneels before a seated young lady: he extends a small bouquet of flowers with one hand while placing his other hand to his heart.

The lady, dressed in sumptuous silk‐embroidered attire, receives the gesture with composed modesty: she looks somewhat downward and sideways.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Declarationoflove.jpg

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Pepper Basham on How The Secret Garden Inspired Her Love for British Literature"I can still find my way there through these pages. Some gardens, it turns out, are always in season."<a href="https://lithub.com/pepper-basham-on-how-the-secret-garden-inspired-her-love-for-british-literature/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="lithub.com/pepper-basham-on-how-the-secret-garden-inspired-her-love-for-british-literature/">https://lithub.com/pepper-basham-on-how-the-secret-garden-inspired-her-love-for-british-literature/</a>The secret garden at PG: <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17396" rel="nofollow">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17396</a><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/literarycriticism/" rel="tag">#literarycriticism</a>

"IT SEEMED SCARCELY BEARABLE TO LEAVE SUCH DELIGHTFULNESS"

A girl in a grey-blue dress and hat, and a red-haired boy in a white shirt — sitting cross-legged on the grass beneath a spreading tree, facing each other with absorbed attention. Between them, a small fox lies curled on the ground, apparently tame or injured, the focus of their gentle care. A red squirrel perches on the boy's shoulder. High in the branches above, a magpie watches the scene.

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"The dusk crept out across the fields wiping out the day's light." Black April (1927)American author Julia Peterkin died <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1961.In 1929 she won the Pulitzer Prize for Novel/Literature for her novel Scarlet Sister Mary. She wrote several novels about the plantation South, especially the Gullah people of the Lowcountry. She was one of the few white authors who wrote about the African-American experience.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Peterkin" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Peterkin">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Peterkin</a><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/72611" rel="nofollow">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/72611</a><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a>

Doris Ulmann and Julia Peterkin.

Julia Peterkin, an author who focused on similar themes in her writing, might be seen standing or sitting beside Ulmann, engaged in conversation or simply sharing a moment of quiet reflection. Peterkin might also be dressed in a similar style, with her hair possibly pinned up. The background of the photograph is likely simple, perhaps a natural outdoor setting or a rustic interior, consistent with the subjects of their work.

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Blue Are the Hills – a character-driven scifi novel about transhumanism and hope

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<a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1951.J. D. Salinger publishes his popular yet controversial novel, The Catcher in the Rye.Between 1961 and 1982, The Catcher in the Rye was the most censored book in high schools and libraries in the United States. According to the American Library Association, The Catcher in the Rye was the 10th most frequently challenged book from 1990 to 1999.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Catcher_in_the_Rye" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Catcher_in_the_Rye">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Catcher_in_the_Rye</a><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a>

Cover features a drawing of a carousel horse (pole visible entering the neck and exiting below on the chest) with a city skyline visible in the distance under the hindquarters. The cover is two-toned: everything below the horse is whitish while the horse and everything above it is a reddish-orange. The title appears at the top in yellow letters against the reddish-orange background. It is split into two lines after "Catcher". At the bottom in the whitish background are the words "a novel by J. D. Salinger".

Michael Mitchell; the credit "Jacket design by Michael Mitchell" is found on the right jacket flap (the left panel).

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Belle da Costa, the woman who concealed her origins in 1905 and ended up running New York’s most legendary libraryThe 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 decadesby Use Lahoz<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">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</a><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/librarians/" rel="tag">#librarians</a> <a href="/tags/publiclibrary/" rel="tag">#publiclibrary</a>

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📚 The Chrysalids by: John WyndhamDavid lives in a tight-knit community of religious and genetic fundamentalists, who exist in a state of constant alert for any deviation from what they perceive as the norm of God’s creation—deviations broadly classified as 'offenses' and 'blasphemies'. Offenses consist of plants and animals tha...<a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/the-chrysalids" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/the-chrysalids">https://bookblabla.com/book/the-chrysalids</a><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bookstodon</a><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/dystopianfiction/" rel="tag">#dystopianfiction</a> <a href="/tags/literary/" rel="tag">#literary</a>

David lives in a tight-knit community of religious and genetic fundamentalists, who exist in a state of constant alert for any deviation from what they perceive as the norm of God’s creation—deviations broadly classified as 'offenses' and 'blasphemies'. Offenses consist of plants and animals that are in any way unusual, and these are publicly burned to the accompaniment of the singing of hymns. Blasphemies are human beings—ones who show any sign of abnormality, however trivial. They are banished from human society, cast out to live in the wild country where, as the authorities say, nothing is reliable, and the devil does his work. David grows up surrounded by admonitions: KEEP PURE THE STOCK OF THE LORD; WATCH THOU FOR THE MUTANT.

At first, he hardly questions them, though he is shocked when his sternly pious father and rigidly compliant mother force his aunt to forsake her baby. It is a while before he realizes that he too is out of the ordinary, in possession of a power that could doom him to death or introduce him to a new, hitherto-unimagined world of freedom.

The Chrysalids is a perfectly conceived and constructed work from the classic era of science fiction. It is a Voltairean philosophical tale that has as much resonance in our own day, when genetic and religious fundamentalism are both on the march, as when it was written during the Cold War.

THE COLD WAR SCI-FI CLASSIC: Following a global nuclear war, a telepathic young boy searches for freedom in a fu

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📚 Vanishing World by: Sayaka MurataAmane is ten years old when she discovers she's not like everyone else. Her school friends were all conceived the normal way, by artificial insemination, and raised in the normal way, by parents in 'clean', sexless marriages. But Amane's parents committed the ultimate taboo: they fell...<a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/vanishing-world" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/vanishing-world">https://bookblabla.com/book/vanishing-world</a><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bookstodon</a><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/dystopianfiction/" rel="tag">#dystopianfiction</a> <a href="/tags/familylife/" rel="tag">#familylife</a> <a href="/tags/general/" rel="tag">#general</a>

Amane is ten years old when she discovers she's not like everyone else. Her school friends were all conceived the normal way, by artificial insemination, and raised in the normal way, by parents in 'clean', sexless marriages. But Amane's parents committed the ultimate taboo: they fell in love, had sex and procreated. As Amane grows up and enters adulthood, she does her best to fit in and live her life like the rest of society: cultivating intense relationships with anime characters, and limiting herself to extra-marital sex, as is the norm. Still, she can't help questioning what sex and marriage are for.

But when Amane and her husband hear about Eden, an experimental town where residents are selected at random to be artificially inseminated en masse (including men who are fitted with artificial wombs), the family unit does not exist and children are raised collectively and anonymously, they decide to try living there. But can this bold experiment build the brave new world Amane desires, or will it push her to breaking point?

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"We know an object only by acting on it and transforming it."Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget was born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1896.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. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Piaget" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Piaget">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Piaget</a><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/psychology/" rel="tag">#psychology</a>

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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British astronomer and astrophysicist Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin was born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1900.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.Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin at PG: <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/73996" rel="nofollow">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/73996</a><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/astrophysics/" rel="tag">#astrophysics</a>

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

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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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c. 1813, London. Reading ListJohn Stuart Mill turns the page. via @laphamsquart "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...."<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">https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/ways-learning/reading-list/?campaign=FE7LQA2</a><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a>

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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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)Main page:<a href="https://pdxbookfest.org/" rel="nofollow">https://pdxbookfest.org/</a>Authors & Presenters:<a href="https://pdxbookfest.org/lineup/" rel="nofollow">https://pdxbookfest.org/lineup/</a>Map (PDF):<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">https://pdxbookfest.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/PBF25_ScheduleSignage_8.5x11_MAP.pdf</a><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bookstodon</a> <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>

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Jason Koebler for 404 Media: "AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge" “Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another” - Maggie Tokuda-Hall<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> <a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bookstodon</a> <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/">https://www.404media.co/ai-is-supercharging-the-war-on-libraries-education-and-human-knowledge/</a>

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📚 The Match by: Harlan CobenAfter 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 clo...<a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/the-match" rel="nofollow">https://bookblabla.com/book/the-match</a><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bookstodon</a><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>

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

A hand grasping a white cross against a purple backdrop.

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Serbian inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and futurist Nikola Tesla was born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1856.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.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla</a>Books by Nikola Tesla at PG: <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/5067" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/5067">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/5067</a><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a>

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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Agatha Christie: what made the world’s bestselling author so successful? Here’s a clueBesides wit, style and psychological insight, Christie had the capacity to generate a mood of ‘trustful mistrust’ and deceive her readers in a respectful fashion.by Gill Plain<a href="https://theconversation.com/agatha-christie-what-made-the-worlds-bestselling-author-so-successful-heres-a-clue-283347?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20May%2028%202026%20-%203784238755&utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20May%2028%202026%20-%203784238755+CID_fc42dc4c9bab7c419e12dd4bb4483a9d&utm_source=campaign_monitor_uk&utm_term=Agatha%20Christie%20what%20made%20the%20worlds%20bestselling%20author%20so%20successful%20Heres%20a%20clue" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="theconversation.com/agatha-christie-what-made-the-worlds-bestselling-author-so-successful-heres-a-clue-283347?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20May%2028%202026%20-%203784238755&utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20May%2028%202026%20-%203784238755+CID_fc42dc4c9bab7c419e12dd4bb4483a9d&utm_source=campaign_monitor_uk&utm_term=Agatha%20Christie%20what%20made%20the%20worlds%20bestselling%20author%20so%20successful%20Heres%20a%20clue">https://theconversation.com/agatha-christie-what-made-the-worlds-bestselling-author-so-successful-heres-a-clue-283347?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20May%2028%202026%20-%203784238755&utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20May%2028%202026%20-%203784238755+CID_fc42dc4c9bab7c419e12dd4bb4483a9d&utm_source=campaign_monitor_uk&utm_term=Agatha%20Christie%20what%20made%20the%20worlds%20bestselling%20author%20so%20successful%20Heres%20a%20clue</a>Books by Agatha Christie at PG: <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/451" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/451">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/451</a><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#Literature</a>

Agatha Christie as a young woman, in the 1910s.

A sepia-toned photograph of Agatha Christie leaning out of a leaded-glass window set in a stone wall, gazing upward with a dreamy. Her hair is loosely pinned up, and she wears a striped blouse with a patterned necktie.

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📚 Against the Machine by: Paul KingsnorthHow a force that’s hard to name, but which we all feel, is reshaping what it means to be humanIn 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 ...<a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/against-the-machine" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/against-the-machine">https://bookblabla.com/book/against-the-machine</a><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bookstodon</a><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>

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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“It's not the barbarian who threatens us, it's civilization that frightens us.”Brazilian sociologist and journalist Euclides da Cunha died <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1909.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.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclides_da_Cunha" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclides_da_Cunha">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclides_da_Cunha</a><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a>

Brazilian journalist and writer Euclides da Cunha.

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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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📚 Hole in the Sky by: Daniel H. WilsonOn 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. ...<a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/hole-in-the-sky" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/hole-in-the-sky">https://bookblabla.com/book/hole-in-the-sky</a><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bookstodon</a><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>

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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Ebook and paperback: <a href="https://books2read.com/TheInvertedGlass" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="books2read.com/TheInvertedGlass">https://books2read.com/TheInvertedGlass</a>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.<a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bookstodon</a> <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>

(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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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/">https://www.starsandsabers.com/2025/10/30/cover-reveal-for-shoeshine-boy-cigarette-girl-by-p-a-cornell/</a> <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>

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How do you organize your shelves?

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<a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1856.Wilkie Collins' "Anne Rodway", a story in diary form about a needlewoman and her fiancé investigating the murder of a friend, appears in Household Words (first chapter), as the first English story to feature a woman as the main detective character.The story is set in mid-19th century London, depicting the harsh realities of life for the working poor.<a href="https://djo.org.uk/household-words/volume-xiv/page-1.html" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="djo.org.uk/household-words/volume-xiv/page-1.html">https://djo.org.uk/household-words/volume-xiv/page-1.html</a><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a>

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