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"Most of us watch with mild concern the fast disappearing wild spaces or the recurrence of pollution-related crises such as …
Levin creates a world driven equally by moral fervor and slapstick comedy. Expelled from multiple Jewish day-schools for acts of …
Wise, funny, and heartbreaking, Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi’s memoir of growing up in Iran during …
Shocking and beautiful. I love the stark black and white art.
It was my first time reading about how Iran was before the revolution. She was born the same year I was so it really made me think.
The Bell Jar is the only novel written by American poet Sylvia Plath. It is an intensely realistic and emotional …
This is the diary of a young Jewish girl whose family went into hiding from the Nazis in 1942 when …
Changed the way I think about humanity. Lots of good arguments against social darwinism. And fascinating animal facts!
The author shows that before there was money, there was debt. For 5,000 years humans …
How much do I love this book? Well it's the only book I have a pair of earrings made to look like.
Unravels everything I thought I knew about money, economic systems and debt. As dull as those topics sound, these unravelings expose a lot of assumptions about human nature. This is a book about human nature as much as it is about debt. History is far weirder and more compassionate than we've been led to believe.
I could read this over and over until I have it memorized.
Twelve-year-old September lives in Omaha, and used to have an ordinary life, until her father …
I envy her imagination.
"Severin Unck's father is a famous director of Gothic romances in an alternate 1986 in …
Not my favorite Valente book, though they're all so good. Her descriptions are certainly five-star.
My favorite Lovecraft story. Unsettling, creepy, and wholly original. Made me imagine things I'd never dreamed of before.
