Woodworking by @emilystjams.bsky.social

Erica Skyberg is a teacher in rural South Dakota. Recently divorced from her best friend, she is growing weary from the cognitive dissonance of maintaining the facade of being a man.

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Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy

McConaghy has a knack for penning lyrical, suspenseful novels featuring natural world settings that center human grief and a changing world.

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@flatironbooks.bsky.social

Mother Mary Comes to Me by Arundhati Roy

Roy's difficult mother memoir is on par with both her fiction and her journalism, which is to say, it's spectacular.

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A Marriage at Sea by Sophie Elmhirst

One morning in March 1973, drifting in the Pacific on their beloved yacht, Maralyn and Maurice Bailey discover that a dying whale has struck the ship, creating a lethal hole.

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Is a River Alive? by @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social

Nature writer MacFarlane, drawing inspiration from his local springs near Oxford, sets off on three journeys around the world to explore the question posed by the book's title.

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W.W. Norton

A Flower Traveled in My Blood by @hco96.bsky.social

The incredible true story of the grandmothers who fought to find a stolen generation of children.

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Flesh by David Szalay

Teenager István lives with his mother in a quiet apartment complex in Hungary. Shy and new in town, he is a stranger to the social rituals practiced by his classmates and soon becomes isolated.

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Flashlight by Susan Choi

Spanning continents and decades, this haunting, evocative family saga will linger in your memory well after reading it.

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The Buffalo Hunter by @sgj.bsky.social

A manuscript from 1912 uncovered by construction workers ends up in the hands of Professor Etsy Beaucarne, who thinks the history within it may finally earn her tenure.

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Black in Blues by @imaniperry.bsky.social

Perry's collection of interconnected essays delves into the complex relationship between the color blue and the Black experience.

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