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Sacre Bleu, A Wild, Colorful Ride Through Art, Time, and Madness

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If you're a fan of historical fiction, satire, or just delightfully strange novels that make you laugh out lou...

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Their Eyes Were Watching God and the Legacy of Zora Neale Hurston

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Published in 1937, Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God stands as a seminal work in both African ...

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In films, we are voyeurs, but in novels, we have the experience of being someone else: knowing another person’...

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Unlocking the Creative Genius Within, A Joyful Dive into Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert

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If creativity were a mythical creature, Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert would be the shimmering net that helps ...

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“There is this idea that you either read to escape or you read to find yourself.” -Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay...

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Night Circus

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The circus arrives without warning. It’s a simple sentence. Deceptively quiet. But once those words land in...

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The Ecological Elegance of Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver’s Prodigal Summer is a lush, evocative novel that seamlessly intertwines ecology, human con...

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A prolog I'm working on for the book I'm writing, The Wood Fairy

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After the emptiness, and the dreadfully long and circular expanses of times outside of time, within the someth...

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Nature's Best Hope

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From Goodreads: "Douglas W. Tallamy’s first book, Bringing Nature Home, sparked a national conversation about...