By Its Cover

By Its Cover


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The Z Word, by Lindsay King-Miller
August 06, 2024

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!
July 16, 2024

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
July 09, 2024

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
July 02, 2024

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
June 25, 2024

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
June 18, 2024

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 ...

Olivetti, by Allie Millington
June 11, 2024

Jake picked this book because of the typewriter on the cover. Turns out, he has always wanted to type on a typewriter, and this book inspired him to go and ...

A Complex Coast, by David Norwell
June 04, 2024

Katie was drawn to the cover of this book by the beautiful watercolor art on the front and the words a kayak journey from Vancouver Island to Alaska. This is ...

Fairy Tale, by Stephen King
May 28, 2024

You may remember from a previous episode that Jake does not read Stephen King. But, he read this book!! Go Jake. This story follows a teen, Charlie, who inherits a ...

The Berry Pickers, by Amanda Peters
May 21, 2024

The Berry Pickers, by Amanda Peters, is a fiction novel featuring the voices of Joe, an indigenous person of Nova Scotia who lost his four-year-old sister, Ruthie, in the berry ...