Author Laura Bird is back with her monthly batch of book recommendations, this time with an eye on books that match the sentiment of the season: thankfulness.

She tells us about eight books: “Maggie; or a Man and a Woman Walk Into a Bar” by Katie Yee, “A Marriage at Sea” by Sophie Elmhurst, “Everything is Tuberculosis” by John Green, “Birds of the Great Lakes” by Dexter Patterson, “Unabridged: the Thrill of (and Threat to) the Modern Dictionary" by Stefan Fatsis, “So Many Stars: An Oral History of Trans, Nonbinary, Genderqueer, and Two-Spirit People of Color” by Caro De Robertis, “Carbon: the Book of Life” by Paul Hawken and “How Books Can Save Democracy” by Michael Fischer.

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