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Everything My Mother Taught Me, by Alice Hoffman
This is our first Patreon-chosen book! What we thought was going to be a nonfiction sunshine filled book of appreciation actually turned out to be a fiction short story about ...
Bea Wolf, by Zach Weinersmith
Jake picked this awesome graphic novel retelling of Beowulf, reimagined as Bea Wolf, a child hero defending the kid kingdom from boring adult villain Grindle. Jake loved it. Read it. ...
Scorch, Hedgehog of Doom, by Cate Berry
Jake picked out a book for Katieand its a kids book! About an adorable hedgehog who wants to be ferocious!! Too cute. Join us. Have a book you want us ...
The Art Thief, by Michael Finkel
Katie picked this book based on the cover she saw in Libby. This book is the true story of Stephane Breitwieser and his girlfriend, Anne-Catherine Kleinklaus. Breitweiser stole art amassing ...
The Z Word, by Lindsay King-Miller
Katie picked out this book because the cover was awesome and the back said something along the lines of the queer zombie novel you didnt know you needed. It DELIVERED, ...
Summer Break!
Whats the book this week? The cover is empty, because Jake is on Mars. Catch up with us and find out what were up to this week If you ...
Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World, by Andrea Pitzer
A crew of Dutch explorers, including navigator William Barents, get icebound in the arctic circle in Nova Zembla in 1596. The crew spends 10 months stuck in the arctic, fighting ...
The Mistress, by PA Stockwell
Jake really wanted to pick out the sequel to this book, which had an image of people walking through the desert on its cover. But, after talking to the author, ...
The Apocalypse Factory: Plutonium and the Making of the Atomic Age, by Steve Olson
If youre interested in the development of the atomic bombs and the implications for our world, this book is for you. Steve Olson makes the argument that Hanford was the ...
grayson, by Lynne Cox
While out on a training swim in the ocean off the coast of Los Angeles at 17 years old, Lynne Cox is followed by a baby gray whale and spends ...