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This week on the Handsell, Amanda recommends Big Friendship by Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman.

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Amanda and guest Jeff discuss books where the couple DOESN’T end up together, Indigenous reads, and pre-18th century history!

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Wicked Plants and The Drunken Botanist by Amy Stewart (rec’d by Angie)

How To Do Nothing by Jenny Odell

Grit by Angela Duckworth

The Wrong Stars by Tim Pratt

The Water Dancer

Fleishman is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner

Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf

The Eerie Elementary series by Jack Chabert, Sam Ricks (#1 The School is Alive!)

Paper Girls

The Yield by Tara June Winch (tw: child sexual abuse, racism)

Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko

Beloved by Toni Morrison (tw slavery, harm to children)

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

Sea People by Christina Thompson

1491 by Charles McCann

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This week on the Handsell, Jenn recommends Trejo’s Tacos: Recipes and Stories from LA by Danny Trejo with Hugh Garvey.

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Amanda and Jenn discuss non-Christmas holiday reads, African authors, dark histories, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked.

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Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu and Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson (rec’d by Rebecca)

Born in Fire by K.F. Breene, Ilona Andrews, and Patricia Briggs (rec’d by Stephanie)

My Lovely Wife in the Psych Ward by Mark Lukach

Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb

Snow in Love by Melissa de la Cruz et al

Together at Midnight by Jennifer Castle (rec’d by Hey YA) 

The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum

A is for Alibi by Sue Grafton

The Woman Next Door by Yewande Omotoso (tw racism)

The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell (Zambian writer) (tw: colonialism, racism, racial slurs, just all the racial triggers, rape)

From Here to Eternity by Caitlin Doughty

The Poisoner’s Handbook by Deborah Blum

Ross Gay (esp. Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude)

When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through, edited by Joy Harjo with Leanne Howe and Jennifer Foerster

A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara (tw: all of them)

Chang-Rae Lee; On Such a Full Sea (tw: sexual assault, medical experimentation, abduction and imprisonment), Native Speaker

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This week on the Handsell, Amanda recommends Intimations by Zadie Smith.

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Amanda and Jenn answer holiday gift-giving questions in this week’s episode of Get Booked.

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The Line Becomes a River by Francisco Cantu

The Answer Is by Alex Trebek

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

The Poppy War series by R.F. Kuang (ALL THE TRIGGER WARNINGS)

Humankind by Rutger Bregman transl Elizabeth Manton and Erica Moore

Braiding Sweetgrass, the gift edition, by Robin Wall Kimmerer, illustrated by Nate Christopherson

The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs by Stephen Brusatte

Once Upon a Time I Lived on Mars by Kate Greene

Reaching for the Moon by Katherine G. Johnson

Outcasts United by Warren St. John (mention of violence against women and children)

Written in the Stars by Alexandria Bellefleur

Mangos and Mistletoe by Adriana Herrera

Resurrection Bay by Emma Viskic

A Study in Scarlet Women by Sherry Thomas (tw: child abuse, sexual assault)

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This week on the Handsell, Jenn recommends Can’t Escape Love by Alyssa Cole.

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