Holiday Gift Guides 2022: Bookworms
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Tag: Fiction
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My Best Friend’s Exorcism
$16.00
Written by Grady Hendrix, My Best Friend’s Exorcism combines horror, adventure, comedy and ’80s nostalgia for a story that ultimately celebrates friendship. Set in 1988 Charleston, the tale of high school sophomores …
Holiday Gift Guides 2021: Bookworms
Fiction, fantasy, fairytales, food, photography and beyond in our first guide for the season
Open Water
$15.00
There is some prose that, upon reading a single sentence, immediately strikes a chord. Caleb Azumah Nelson’s writing is like that. Whether describing a serendipitous glance between two unwitting lovers or the …
The Recent East: A Novel
$14.00
Through illuminating prose, Thomas Grattan masterfully chronicles the story of Beate Haas and her two children—as they grapple with the concepts of home, togetherness, personal identity and queerness—in his epic debut novel, …
Human Croquet
$13.00
British writer Kate Atkinson’s Human Croquet, released back in 1997, remains off-kilter and enjoyable 20+ years later. Imbued with magic realism, the Shakespearean tale combines a coming of age story with time …
Gift Guide: Books + Blankets
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NYPL’s List of Essential Reads on Feminism
On the 100-year anniversary of the 19th Amendment (securing some women’s right to vote in the USA, though it’s crucial to note that Black women would have to wait almost 50 years), …
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The 1970s Video Game Inspired By Real-Life Deep Cave Crawls
The 1970s text-based video game Colossal Cave Adventure challenged players to navigate a long tunnel with wealth at its end. An influential coding feat, Adventure—as it’s primarily known—was the first-ever work of …
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