Title: Doughnuts and Doom
Author: Balazs Lorinczi
Genre: Fantasy, Queer Fiction, Graphic Novel
Witches, snakes, and rock n' roll! This cute graphic novel is about a witch and a musician both having a bad day. Their bad days compound one another and leads to a new friendship....or something more!
- Gina
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Title: Eating to Extinction: The World's Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them
Author: Dan Saladino
Genre: Nonfiction
This is an important, fascinating, readable, and enlightening book about the loss of so much diversity in the food we eat. Saladino travels around the world and talks about efforts to save some of the more unique and often ancient foods, ingredients, plants, animals, and seeds that are currently dying out. These varieties are often simply not as easily produced on mass scale and so are not compatible with industrial agriculture. Saladino does a great job of showing why this is a huge loss, not just for biodiversity but for cultural preservation and simply for keeping the world interesting and fascinating. I would recommend it to anyone interested in farming, food culture, history, conservation, gardening, or, honestly, eating delicious food and drinking delicious drinks! This issue will only become more pressing as climate change accelerates and Saladino leaves readers inspired to learn more and do what they can to preserve our incredible planet and the plants and animals we eat.
- Meagan
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Title: The Bookshop of Dust and Dreams
Author: Mindy Thompson
Genre: Children's Fantasy
A bookshop is such a natural location for time travel! I know books have always been my favorite way to wander into different time periods. This story is a true examination of the balance that we all need to strive to find between doing things for our own benefit, and striving to do things for the good of all those around us that we don't know personally.
- Katrina
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Title: Thirteen Storeys
Author: Jonathan Sims
Genre: Horror
Thirteen strangers are invited to dinner by an enigmatic billionaire. And by the end of the night, their host is dead, but despite there being thirteen witnesses, no one ever comes forward with the truth.
If you've heard of the podcast The Magnus Archives, then this author's name might be familiar to you. Jonathan Sims is an amazing storyteller, all of his characters are well fleshed out, as is the world they live in. Despite telling thirteen different stories, he somehow manages to make the plot flow well and it never becomes overwhelming despite the amount of characters introduced.
- Megan H.
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Title: Dava Shastri's Last Day
Author: Kirthana Ramisetti
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Have you ever wondered what people will say about you after you have died? Billionaire Dava Shastri has decided to ensure that it is publicly announced that she has died on a specific day, but has arranged her own death to happen a short time afterward. She knows she is dying, but wants to know what people will share about her legacy and is used to the world conforming to her own desires. She invites her family to her island, and they all cope with the public news of her death - and learning of her impending death - in their own ways. Her grandchildren finally find a way to connect with her, and family secrets are discovered, but nothing quite works out the way that Dava planned! Maybe you can't orchestrate the big life and death events, but there are lots of moments that are worth reaching for in-between, as this book demonstrates.
- Katrina
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