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Re-reading can be a bit of a controversial topic among book-lovers. Some people seem to think that you haven't really read a book at all until you've read it at least twice. Others consider re-reading to be a waste of time—why read the same book…
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THE #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER *A "Next Big Idea Book Club" Must Read* A groundbreaking reappraisal of medieval femininity, revealing why women have been written out of history and why it matters The Middle Ages are seen as a bloodthirsty time of Vikings, saints and kings; a patriarchal society that oppressed and excluded women. But when we dig a little deeper into the truth, we can see that the "Dark" Ages were anything but. Oxford and BBC historian Janina Ramirez has uncovered countless influential women's names struck out of historical records, with the word FEMINA annotated beside them. As gatekeepers of the past ordered books to be burned, artworks to be destroyed, and new versions of myths, legends and historical documents to be produced, our view of history has been manipulated. Only now, through a careful examination of the artifacts, writings and possessions they left behind, are the influential and multifaceted lives of women emerging. Femina goes beyond the official records to uncover the true impact of women, such as: Jadwiga, the only female king in Europe Margery Kempe, who exploited her image and story to ensure her notoriety Loftus Princess, whose existence gives us clues about the beginnings of Christianity in England In Femina, Ramirez invites us to see the medieval world with fresh eyes and discover why these remarkable women were removed from our collective memories. Product DetailsISBN-13: 9781335498526 Media Type: Hardcover Publisher: Hanover Square Press Publication Date: 02-28-2023 Pages: 464 Product Dimensions: 9.29h x 6.35w x 1.36d
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Are you looking for a life-changing book to read in 2022? Then you've come to the right place. Here are 25 unforgettable books that will definitely change your life for the better. From inspiring memoirs to empowering self-help books, there's something for everyone on this list.
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Charlie is a criminally shy high school freshman who prefers to observe his surroundings instead of living in them. That is, until he befriends the rebellious Patrick and falls in love with his sister, Sam — prompting him to see all that life has to offer. Also, you probably watched the movie and liked it, and the book is SO MUCH BETTER.—Submitted by Scarlett Ogley, Facebook
If you want to read only the best stories in 2020 (and why wouldn't you?), look no further than the must-reads in this list. Handpicked for their originality, heart-pumping twists and smart sprinkling of romance, they're the books you should add to your reading pile for the new year.
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With just under a month left in 2018, it's possible that you're still trying to finish the best books of the year before the clock strikes midnight on Dec. 31. But if you've already reached your reading goals and are thinking ahead to next year,…
How is it already November? We feel like we blinked and October passed us by, but we aren't complaining. We are super excited about all things holiday and can't wait for some fun Christmas reads. But first, we're sharing the books we read during the month of October! And bare with us because we are exchanging the cocktails for extra caffeine today for our book chat. Why? Because our baseball team won the World Series last night. GO BRAVES!!! It's been a lot of well worth it late nights these last few weeks. Now we can go back to staying up way too late as a result of our reading habits. :) WHAT WE READ... CARRIE BETH The first book for me last month was Close Enough To Touch by Colleen Oakley. I loved the last title by Oakley that I read so though I would give this one a try. It was about a young woman who was allergic to the human touch. She literally could die if someone touched her so she had been somewhat of a hermit for years until she was forced to come face-to-face with the world outside her home. In stepping out of her comfort zone she found friends, co-workers, and love. This story follows her journey to overcome fear and open herself up the possibility of a somewhat normal life. I had high hopes for The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave. I feel like most of the Reese's Book Club picks and didn't hate this one, but just felt like it was really rushed. It follows a woman and her step-daughter as they look for clues and tips about her husband after he mysteriously disappears. They dig into his past to find answers all while strengthening the mother/step-daughter relationship. They have to make some tough decisions about their future and while I think this plot had potential I just didn't love it. As a reader I had a ton of questions that didn't ever get answered and just wanted more. It's been a long time since I read a Nicolas Sparks book so I was excited for The Wish. A well-known travel photographer, Maggie, finds herself at home over Christmas dealing with her cancer diagnosis and the fact that she has little time left in her life. She begins to tell a story to her young assistant of a Christmas long ago, her one true love, and life changing year of her life as a teenager as she felt with teenage pregnancy and adoption. I was eager to hear Maggie tell the rest of her story, but also felt the middle of this story dragged on quite a bit. However, the ending threw me for quite a loop and I loved the realization that occurred towards the end of the story! JEN I kept things spooky for October, and did a lot of pulling from our Best Books of Fall reading list. I was in the mood for mystery, suspense, and keep you up at night thrillers. Doesn't this cover just scream Halloween? The Ex Hex is like a really fun Halloween story - for adults! When a book starts with the sentence, "Never mix vodka with witch craft.", you know you are in for good time. It was a laugh out loud rom-com of magical proportions, and constantly made me smile. The story is set in a small town in Georgia (yay for the home state shout out!), and features witchy college professor Vivienne Jones. When her ex strolls back into town after almost a decade both her heart and her magic begin to go haywire. A far-fetched tale of magic filled disaster fills the chapters, but it was from start to finish a super cute story. In the end it was a quick and easy romance read that totally put me in the mood - the Halloween mood. Next up was a book I'd been looking forward to all year - As Good As Dead, the third book in the A Good Girl's Guide to Murder series. This was SO GOOD! It was like two different stories in one, and wrapped up a lot of loose ends from the series while also bringing the story and characters full circle. I was completely blown away as certain details came to light, and the last three seconds of the book - gah! This book was the outlier in terms of how the plot unfolds from the previous two books in the series. I love the true crime/podcast feel to the first two, and while there are hints of it here, As Good As Dead concentrates more on the characters and their "where are they now" from the first two books. Read it. Enjoy it. And pray Holly Jackson delivers us another amazing series soon! What happens when you fall hard for someone you meet on a dating app, and then just as things get serious, you’re ghosted? Last Girl Ghosted is a dark and twisty take on ghosting. Girl and guy meet, fall in love, profess their love, and the next day one of them is gone. All traces have been deleted, numbers disconnected and without a single trace, moved homes overnight. Both parties have secret pasts, and somewhere along the wild goose chase you realize maybe some things (or people) that are lost shouldn’t be found. This story was both edge of your seat suspense and unique. The end threw me just a bit because it took a drastically different turn when it came to the overall message and plot of the story. If you like suspense thrillers without all the gore - snag this one. As a mom I can't even imagine what it would feel like to have your child kidnapped. It's a fear all parents have, and in Little Secrets, one that the comes to life. Marin and her husband seemingly have the perfect life and family - celebrity status, money, and a gorgeous home. In one small moment it all comes crashing down around them. Even more than a year later, Marin refuses to give up the search for her lost son. As little secrets begin to unravel about the people around her, she's willing to do anything to keep her little family together. I jumped back and forth with who I thought the kidnapper was, and in the end was shocked at how the story came full circle. There's a huge twist in the novel at about 80% of the way through, and it's a good one. This was a fast paced read with a lot of suspense and build-up to the big reveal. Even though the subject was on the darker side, Hillier does a great job of keeping the subject matter on the tamer side while getting the point and fears across. This is one of my favorite suspense novels I've read this year. WHAT'S UP NEXT... CARRIE BETH Although I liked the books I read this past month I didn't love them. I've been longing for a book that makes me feel all the feels. Big emotions, crying, laughing, and everything in between. Not sure if I'll find it in Float Plan by Trish Doller, but willing to give it a try! JEN I'm going to do a deep dive into all things holidays - including my reading. I already have a large "to read" pile ready to go, but going to kick it off with the always fun and fantastic - Mary Kay Andrews. Her holiday novel The Santa Suit is already out, and it sounds like a great way to get in the holiday spirit. WHAT BOOK ARE YOU MOST LOOKING FORWARD TO THIS MONTH? HAVE ANY ADDITIONAL SUGGESTIONS THAT WE NEED TO ADD TO OUR LIST? SHARE WITH US! BOOK CLUB 2021 | January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | BEST BOOKS OF SUMMER 2021 MUST LISTEN AUDIO BOOKS BEST BOOKS OF FALL 2021 Follow along with us on Goodreads! HAPPY READING! Come spend the day with us on: | Instagram | Pinterest | Facebook | Twitter |
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Updated with a new introduction from Robin Wall Kimmerer, the hardcover special edition of Braiding Sweetgrass, reissued in honor of the fortieth anniversary of Milkweed Editions, celebrates the book as an object of meaning that will last the ages. Beautifully bound in stamped cloth with a bookmark ribbon and a deckled edge, this edition features five brilliantly colored illustrations by artist Nate Christopherson. In increasingly dark times, we honor the experience that more than 350,000 readers in North America have cherished about the book—gentle, simple, tactile, beautiful, even sacred—and offer an edition that will inspire readers to gift it again and again, spreading the word about scientific knowledge, indigenous wisdom, and the teachings of plants. As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowledge together to take us on “a journey that is every bit as mythic as it is scientific, as sacred as it is historical, as clever as it is wise” (Elizabeth Gilbert). Drawing on her life as an indigenous scientist, a mother, and a woman, Kimmerer shows how other living beings—asters and goldenrod, strawberries and squash, salamanders, algae, and sweetgrass—offer us gifts and lessons, even if we’ve forgotten how to hear their voices. In a rich braid of reflections that range from the creation of Turtle Island to the forces that threaten its flourishing today, she circles toward a central argument: that the awakening of a wider ecological consciousness requires the acknowledgment and celebration of our reciprocal relationship with the rest of the living world. For only when we can hear the languages of other beings will we be capable of understanding the generosity of the earth, and learn to give our own gifts in return. Hardcover.
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| Author: Sarah A. Denzil | Publisher: Sarah Dalton | Publication Date: Jun 01, 2020 | Number of Pages: 270 pages | Language: English | Binding: Hardcover | ISBN-10: 1916223524 | ISBN-13: 9781916223523
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This fantasy book is about the Hogfather, who is similar to Santa. If you need to know the kinds of things you'll learn from it, just read this excerpt:Death: Yes. As practice, you have to start out learning to believe the little lies.Susan: So we can believe the big ones?Death: Yes. Justice, mercy, duty. That sort of thing.Susan: They're not the same at all.Death: You think so? Then take the universe and grind it down to the finest powder, and sieve it through the finest sieve, and then show me one atom of justice, one molecule of mercy. And yet, you try to act as if there is some ideal order in the world. As if there is some, some rightness in the universe, by which it may be judged.
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About Viability Selected as a Winner of the National Poetry Series by Mary Jo Bang Sarah Vap’s sixth work of poetry, Viability is an ambitious and highly imaginative collection of prose poems that braids together several kinds of language strands in an effort to understand and to ask questions about the bodies (and minds, maybe even souls) that are owned by capitalism. These threads of language include definitions from an online financial dictionary, samples from an essay on the economics of slavery, quotations from an article about slavery in today’s Thai fishing industry, lyric bits and pieces about pregnancy and infants of all kinds, and a wealth of quotations falsely attributed to John of the Cross. The viability that Vap is asking about is primarily economic and biological (but not only). The questions of viability become entwined with the need, across the book, to “increase”—in both a capitalist and a gestational sense. John of the Cross tries, at first with composure, to comment on or to mediate between all the different strands of the collection.
