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Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives The revelatory New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller, shortlisted for the Financial Times Best Business Book of the Year Award. An unflinching investigation reveals the human rights abuses behind the Congo’s cobalt mining operation―and the moral implications that affect us all. Cobalt […]
Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes A haunting and beautiful memoir from a Cambodian refugee who lost her country and her family during Pol Pot’s genocide in the 1970s but who finds hope by reclaiming the recipes she tasted in her mother’s kitchen. […]
I can’t believe how fast October has gone by! It’s already the last week of the month, and today’s prompt is a Halloween Freebie, so I decided to lean towards my favorite type of spooky season books to read featuring witches. I’m going to try to include a […]
The Gendarme What would you do if the love of your life, and all your memories, were lost- only to reappear, but with such shocking revelations that you wish you had never remembered… Emmett Conn is an old man, near the end of his life. A World War […]
Voidwalker Thank you to Orbit and Oliver Wehner for sending me an ARC of this novel in exchange for an honest review. WOULD IT BE SO BAD TO BE DEVOURED? Fi smuggles contraband between worlds, stockpiling funds and stolen magic to keep her village free from the blood […]
First Lines Fridays is a weekly feature for book lovers hosted by Wandering Words. What if, instead of judging a book by its cover, its author or its prestige, we judged it by its opening lines? The Rules: First Lines: “The problem with mushrooms, Pansy decided, half-squatting in […]
Warrior Girl Unearthed Perry Firekeeper-Birch was ready for her Summer of Slack but instead, after a fender bender that was entirely not her fault, she’s stuck working to pay back her Auntie Daunis for repairs to the Jeep. Thankfully she has the other outcasts of the summer program, […]
As we inch closer to weather that actually feels like autumn, it has an impact on my reading choices. At first, I find myself reading more cozy reads and romance, but then when the days are short and the weather is cold and icky, I find myself reading […]
I’ll Make a Spectacle of You Thank you to Orbit and Oliver Wehner for sending me an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. This heart-pounding Southern-Gothic horror debut takes readers to Bricksbury Mountain College, the oldest and most storied HBCU in the nation. But […]
Hostage In a raw and unflinching memoir, Eli Sharabi, a survivor of 491 days in Hamas captivity, recounts the harrowing ordeal of his abduction from Kibbutz Be’eri on October 7th, 2023, the loss of his wife and daughters, and his unyielding resolve to survive. “I refuse to let […]
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