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| | The only time I remember being sent to "the quiet chair" in elementary school was for reading the wrong book. Everyone else was poring over a class reading assignment, which I had already finished. We didn't have dunce caps, but the spirit of them lived on in the quiet chair. I tend to think of that moment as when I first embraced transgressive reading habits. By the time I discovered Chuck Palahniuk's novels as a teen, there was no turning back.
"More than seven in 10 voters oppose attempts to remove books from public libraries, and that number crosses party lines," librarians Suzette Baker and Amanda Jones reported in a recent Time article, yet thousands of new bans are proposed every year anyway. We readers must stay vigilant and continually raise our voices, otherwise we risk a future where all but a few are "the wrong book" and any one of them could be grounds for punishment.
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 | | As Many Souls as Stars | | | Natasha Siegel |
| | | An immortal, demon-like being and a powerful witch match wits in this atmospheric, sapphic dark fantasy novel of magic and obsession.
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| | Humor Me: How Laughing More Can Make You Present, Creative, Connected, and Happy | | | Chris Duffy |
| | | Fans of Adam Grant-style research and anecdotes will find much to love in comedian Chris Duffy's Humor Me.
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| | The Living and the Dead | | | Christoffer Carlsson, trans. by Rachel Willson-Broyles |
| | | This smart, twisty mystery depicts a series of deaths, thefts, and explosions in a small Swedish town during the waning days of the 20th century.
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| | Frog: A Story of Life on Earth | | | Isabel Thomas, illus. by Daniel Egnéus |
| | | The dynamic and captivating picture book Frog: A Story of Life on Earth links the evolution of frogs with the origins of the universe.
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| | | | | | Set in Pakistan, with scenes at a U.S. college, this contemporary epic expands superbly on themes of ambition and betrayal introduced in the author's award-winning story collection.
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| | | | As its protagonist wrestles with grief and challenges to intellectual freedom, this inspiring and very funny story showcases the power of love and libraries.
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| | | | This erudite Belgian novel follows an employee at the European Commission through personal and career obstacles, all of them concerning an uncertain future.
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| | | | A grieving sister finds that hope, silliness, angst, and even love may be possible amid loss in this astonishing first novel.
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| | | | Tara Moss's taut, well-plotted third Billie Walker mystery takes its PI protagonist from Australia to Italy in pursuit of her late father's secrets.
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| | | | This urban fantasy set in Singapore is a loving sendup of life in civil service and a fascinating interdimensional adventure in one.
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| | | | High school friends reunite after 20 years apart in Olivia Dade's funny, body-positive romance novel, Second Chance Romance.
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| | | | Longtime New Yorker contributor Ian Frazier offers an ample collection of his writing, both short and long, on an assortment of subjects over more than half a century.
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| | | | An expert on Katherine Mansfield explores the writer's brilliant wit and offers an intriguing new lens through which to appreciate the innovative literary icon's legacy.
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| | | | Picture book The Wildest Thing splendidly depicts the magic that happens when a girl unleashes the "wild things" inside of her.
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| | | | Sibert Award winner author Nicholas Day invites readers to walk in Charles Darwin's footsteps with this approachable picture book biography.
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| | | | In this outstanding middle-grade novel, an adopted Black tween learns she is royalty and must race to break a curse that haunts her newly found lineage.
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| | |  Chris Duffy is a comedian and host of the TED podcast How to Be a Better Human. His book, Humor Me: How Laughing More Can Make You Present, Creative, Connected, and Happy, explores various utilities of humor with an appealing lightness, joy, and vulnerability. But drafting it required him to adjust his creative process, from the short feedback loop of standup to the private endeavor of longform writing...(continued)
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| | | |  Poet, musician, and writer Charles Coe died late last year at age 73. The Boston Globe reported that, with an economy of words, Coe "wrote poems that told vast stories, and he filled prose essays with passages that could enliven any verse. An accomplished musician and chef as well, he wrote and performed songs and prepared meals that were a chorus of tastes."
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