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When She Woke
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Salt Sugar Fat by Michael Moss
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"I've been wanting to read this one since it came out. I read and loved Mudbound last year. This one does remind me of the Handmaids Tale. "
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The Merry Misogynist by Colin Cotterill
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When She Woke by Hillary Jordan
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The Ghosts of Nagasaki
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Wave by Sonali Deraniyagala
Wave
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Barbara Kingsolver
“There must be transients in the bird world too, rumple-feathered outcasts that naturally seek out each other’s company in inferior and dying trees.”
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Sherman Alexie
“I used to sleep with my books in piles all over my bed and sometimes they were the only thing keeping me warm and always the only thing keeping me alive. Books are the best and worst defense.”
Sherman Alexie, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

George R.R. Martin
“A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

John Keats
“Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard, are sweeter”
John Keats, Ode on a Grecian Urn and Other Poems

Sherman Alexie
“And finally this, when the sun was falling down so beautiful we didn’t have time to give it a name, she held the child born of white mother and red father and said,’ Both sides of this baby are beautiful’.”
Sherman Alexie, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

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