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Kate
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reading, baking, art, archaeology, museums, sparkles, birds, politics
My kid saw me reading Gregory Ying & asked me to read it out loud so I’ve been rereading that one again.#BookSky 📚📱🎧 💡⏳🪐🌶️
November 27, 2025 at 1:19 PM
I think this might be the first time my pie chart has been roughly equally divided between physical copy, ebook & audiobook, which I thought was interesting. Lots of good reads, my favorites were probably The Other Side of Now & The Amalfi Curse.
November 27, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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My book Ghosts Behind Glass: Encountering Extinction in Museums came out this month!
I’m so happy with how gorgeous it is in full color with 90 photos. Would make a fantastic gift for any animal lover or museum goer.

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November 27, 2025 at 5:40 AM
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It doesn’t come out until May, but my novel is part satire, part SFF adventure about a Hollywood film franchise that’s grown so large it’s become real and about how freeing people from misinformation is difficult and maybe even impossible! us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
The Franchise
Game of Thrones meets The Truman Show in this epic tale of a Hollywood-owned fantasy world where nothing is quite as it seems to the people who live and die ...
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November 26, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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I didn't send a courtroom sketch artist to secretly record any interviews for my new book, which I'm proud of and readers and reviewers seem to like and I'd be grateful if you ordered it
Unabridged: The Thrill of (and Threat To) the Modern Dictionary
The Thrill of (and Threat To) the Modern Dictionary
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November 26, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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OK! My book is a comedy of manners set in a bookstore and it even has a Thanksgiving scene in it! You might like it! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/760835...
Storybook Ending by Moira Macdonald: 9780593851296 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
A charming story about friendship, community, and the magic that happens in bookstores—when an anonymous note left in a book finds the wrong recipient. April, a smart and lonely tech worker, worries....
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November 27, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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How our current medical establishment spread COVID disinformation and leveraged the rage they created to seize power, where they are showing the malevolence and incompetence.
November 27, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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This won an award and it just came out in paperback! yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
Fashion Victims
A thoughtful, lavishly illustrated, and highly readable account of the fabulous French fashion world in the pre-Revolutionary period   This award-winning bo...
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November 27, 2025 at 5:52 AM
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My book about how Americans have remembered, forgotten, and manipulated the history of George Washington and slavery over the past 250 years comes out in April. And Titus Kaphar’s art makes it the one of the coolest covers you’ll see next year. uncpress.org/978146969352...
November 26, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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I am still very proud of my college reunion romance novel!! Queer millennial angst, chosen family, tech thought leaders getting roasted on Twitter, some smooching:
But How Are You, Really by Ella Dawson: 9780593473771 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
A five-year college reunion. A chance to go back in time. A chance to get it right. Charlotte Thorne does not want to go back to Hein University. Her life postcollege isn’t what she expected—her...
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November 27, 2025 at 12:50 AM