Jennifer is reading... The Phoenix Crownby Kate QuinnOffered patronage by Henry Thornton, a charming railroad magnate, in 1906, Gemma, a silver-voiced soprano, and Suling, a Chinatown embroideress, when Henry disappears, along with the fabled Phoenix Crown, are brought together five years later in one last desperate quest for justice.
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dAS is reading...A Pure Solar World: Sun Ra and the Birth of Afrofuturism by Paul YoungquistYoungquist (English, Univ. of Colorado; Cyberfiction: After the Future) explores the roots of Afrofuturism through the lens of musician Sun Ra's life and work. This is not a biography; John Szwed's Space Is the Place fulfills that need. Youngquist's book is, rather, a series of meditations on the remarkable influences, people, and ideas that encompassed Ra's equally remarkable career.
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Giuliano is reading...The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Diseaseby Daniel LiebermanA Harvard evolutionary biologist presents an engaging discussion of how the human body has evolved over millions of years, examining how an increasing disparity between the needs of Stone Age bodies and the realities of the modern world are fueling a paradox of greater longevity and chronic disease.
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Vaile is reading...Build Your House Around My Bodyby Violet KupersmithThe fate of an unhappy woman who disappears in 2011 while living in Saigon is entwined with a teenager who gets lost in an abandoned rubber plantation in 1986 and a woman who captures a two-headed cobra in 2009.
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