Jena is reading...Braiding Sweetgrassby Robin Wall KimmererAs a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowledge together to take us on "a journey that is every bit as mythic as it is scientific, as sacred as it is historical, as clever as it is wise."
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Natalie is reading...The Dead Take the A Train by Cassandra KhawTrying to establish herself in the NYC magic scene, Julie, a coked-up, burnt-out 30-year-old, finds her desperation for a quick fix to break the dead-end grind and help save her best friend Sarah, setting off a deadly chain of events that puts them all directly in the path of annihilation.
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Selena is reading...Iron Flameby Rebecca YarrosAfter surviving her first year at Basgiath War College, dragon rider Violet Sorrengail discovers that the real danger is just beginning, in the second novel of the series following Fourth Wing.
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Vaile is reading... Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-GarciaHelping a cult horror director shoot the missing scene from his magic film that was never finished to lift a curse, sound editor Montserrat and her best friend Tristán start seeing strange things and must unravel the mystery of this film and the obscure occultist who once roamed their city.
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Charlie is reading...Rifqaby Mohammed El-KurdEach day after school, Mohammed El-Kurd's grandmother welcomed him at the door of his home with a bouquet of jasmine. Her name was Rifqa--she was older than Israel itself and an icon of Palestinian resilience. With razor-sharp wit and glistening moral clarity, El-Kurd lays bare the brutality of Israeli settler colonialism.
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dAS is reading...The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington by Leonora Carrington
Surrealist writer and painter Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) was a master of the macabre, of gorgeous tableaus, biting satire, roguish comedy, and brilliant, effortless flights of the imagination. Nowhere are these qualities more ingeniously brought together than in the works of short fiction she wrote throughout her life.
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