Mar 10 2025
with Lisa Dickey. Subtitled Lessons for Anyone Who Wants to Make a Difference. Despite being fairly politically informed, I wasn’t super familiar with Governor Gretchen Whitmer until the news of her attempted kidnapping and murder made national headlines. Even then, her policies didn’t (and still don’t, as most if not all of my Midwestern friends …
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Feb 26 2025
with illustrations by Johnalynn Holland and an afterword by Tiffany Momon. As Black History Month draws to a close, I decided to leapfrog past the other books in my schedule to make sure that I could provide coverage for this important title while the month is still ongoing. And this is a very important title, …
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Feb 12 2025
featuring the art of Tracy Chahwan, Ganzeer, Ghadi Ghosn, Omar Khouri, Sirene Moukheiber, Hicham Rahma and Enas Satir. Hoo boy, readers, what a book. If you’re as unfamiliar with current events in the Middle East and North Africa as I am, then this book is likely to be a jarring experience for you, as Yazan …
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Feb 11 2025
subtitled Track And Record Your Wilderness Adventures. A part of me has always wanted to have wilderness adventures. I want to be that person who enjoys camping and hiking and surviving in the outdoors. Alas, even with my well-practiced adaptability, I am only ever reluctantly the outdoorsy type, and less and less so as the …
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Feb 06 2025
subtitled Two Decades Of Photos From Comic Books & Hollywood. So I’ve been a comic book fan since the mid 1980s but darned if I can think of a single Gerry Duggan comic that I’ve read. This is not meant to be an insult, especially since my devotion to mainstream Marvel/DC Comics faded soon after …
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Feb 04 2025
subtitled An Enchanting Immersion Into The Magic Of Natural Witchcraft. When I was a young teenager first interested in learning more about witchcraft, I pestered my poor dad into getting me books on the subject whenever he traveled overseas — heaven knows, you weren’t about to find anything accessible on the topic in Malaysia back …
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Jan 22 2025
subtitled 500 Practice Exercises to Take Your Game to the Next Level. Despite being a huge fan of games and puzzles of all kinds, chess has never been my thing. I have tried since I was a kid to learn and enjoy it but I get super bored and, frankly, can’t see all the options …
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Jan 10 2025
I was very lucky as a child to be able to travel extensively, both with my parents and on my own in college. Venice was one of the places my parents brought me, and it still lives indelibly in my mind as one of the most romantic cities of the world. So when I got …
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Jan 08 2025
subtitled: Understanding the Wonders of Nature Ah, what a refreshing collection of essays for the intermediate scientist on the many wonderful things around us! I would say that it helps to have a knowledge of basic science before diving in, but if this book with its beautiful selection of photos and plainly stated appreciation for …
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Dec 19 2024
The Updated & Expanded Version! Okay, I have to admit it: I’m not a hardcore Swiftie. I love music, so I’ve definitely enjoyed listening to her stuff ever since We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together showed that she was embracing her sense of humor and not taking herself too seriously any more (unsurprisingly, my …
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Al Singh
Doug Merrill
Doreen Sheridan
Emily Lauer
John Pitzel
Lars N. Goldschlager
Laura Eilers
Professor X
Robert Maedgen
Sylvere Ap Leanan
The Shire