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| | Being an avid reader can be hard on the body. It's not uncommon for me to look up after a reading marathon and realize I've been hunched forward for who knows how long. Experts recommend sitting upright in an armchair, feet flat on the floor, elbows resting at 90 degrees, with your book propped at eye level. They also advise taking breaks every 30-45 minutes. These all seem like achievable goals, but I think we all know how quickly posture can fall from top of mind once we're in the throes of a good book. Sometimes I'll turn on an audiobook to mitigate the stubborn crick in my neck. Lying back with headphones on and staring at the ceiling has a gentle way of relieving the years of tension pooling between my shoulders. In any case, it's good to remember that our favorite quiet activity has physical demands, and to strategize accordingly. Stay safe out there!
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 | | One of Us | | | Elizabeth Day |
| | | Elizabeth Day uses complex characters and sharp commentary to explore and expose the pitfalls of the elite's wealth and power in One of Us.
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| | Nobody's Baby | | | Olivia Waite |
| | | The first birth on a starship in 300 years leaves a ship's detective with the task of discovering the baby's origins and securing his future.
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| | Is This... Spring? | | | Helen Yoon, illus. by Helen Yoon |
| | | Helen Yoon's picture book delightfully captures the frolicsome energy of a pup enjoying spring's floral fields--despite the seasonal allergies that require inventive human intervention.
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| | Big Nobody | | | Alex Kadis |
| | | Alex Kadis's debut novel, Big Nobody, is a wickedly funny and cutting coming-of-age narrative of revenge and escape.
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| | | | | | This intoxicating novel about a female friendship explores the characteristics of all-consuming relationships forged during one's formative years, and the joy and pain they bring.
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| | | | Uketsu's eerily enigmatic Strange Buildings connects 11 houses through interlinked tragedy and horror.
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| | | | Jade Song's sophomore novel intriguingly examines a solipsistic young woman's obsession with death.
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| | | | A solitary aging painter rages against the slow loss of her partner to dementia in this spare, feeling first novel.
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| | | | Stories: The Collected Short Fiction by the Australian author Helen Garner is a volume of memorable short works about women and the challenges they face, most of them involving unreliable men.
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| | | | This suspenseful novel of vengeance, justice, and family love links two young women--one a cop, the other a murderer--both mourning the loss of a sister.
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| | | | In a masterpiece of tension, set within a lavish island community for the corporate select, a disappeared infant calls into question everything one mother thought she knew.
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| | | | Lauren Kung Jessen's charming fourth novel mixes Chinese traditions with a sweet love story and asks thoughtful questions about fortune, agency, and luck.
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| | | | Bravepaw and the Heartstone of Alluria is the first in a darling and adventurous illustrated series for younger middle-grade readers that pays tribute to classic fantasy stories.
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| | | | In this moving middle-grade First Nations take on the romanticization of 19th-century pioneer stories, a Métis girl joins her community as they resist subjugation by the government.
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| | | | A greenhouse-dwelling frog meets an avian friend who inspires the pursuit of new experiences in this cozy, lighthearted picture book.
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| | | | Burn the Water is a dynamic, brutal, yet ultimately hopeful YA dystopian tale inspired by Romeo and Juliet and set in a flooded, future London.
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| | |   Authors Carole Lindstrom and Linda Sue Park have both created works of middle-grade historical fiction that act as "counternarratives" to Little House on the Prairie. Like the Little House books, both Lindstrom's Red River Rose and Park's Prairie Lotus are told from the point of view of a girl in 19th-century North America. Here Lindstrom and Park chat about their fears of treading on beloved literary ground and how one book even inspired the other. (continued)
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| | | |  The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power by Daniel Yergin is a definitive history of the global petroleum industry from the 1850s through the book's publication in December 1990, four months after Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait and one month before Operation Desert Storm. It became a major bestseller and won the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. (continued)
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