This Long Thread
By: Jen Hewett
4.55
Format: 366 pages, Paperback
Weaving together interviews, first-person essays, and artist profiles, This Long Thread explores th…
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1. The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey
By: Walter Mosley
3.56
Format: 304 pages,
A masterful, moving novel about age, memory, and family from one of the true literary icons of our … read more
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2. Mind of My Mind (Patternmaster, #2)
By: Octavia E. Butler
3.98
Format: 296 pages, Mass Market Paperback
For 4,000 years, an immortal has spread the seeds of a master race, using the downtrodden as his pr… read more
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3. Death Comes for the Archbishop
By: Willa Cather
3.67
Format: None pages, Paperback
There is something epic--and almost mythic--about this sparsely beautiful novel by Willa Cather, al… read more
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4. Agatha Raisin and the Witches' Tree (Agatha Raisin #28)
By: M.C. Beaton
3.50
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
The Witches’ Tree continues the tradition in M. C. Beaton's beloved Agatha Raisin mystery series―no… read more
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5. Wear It Well: Reclaim Your Closet and Rediscover the Joy of Getting Dressed
By: Allison Bornstein
4.03
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Define your style and use fashion as a tool for self-discovery using the Three-Word Method and AB … read more
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- nonfiction
6. Butts: A Backstory
By: Heather Radke
3.75
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Whether we love them or hate them, think they’re sexy, think they’re strange, consider them too big… read more
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- nonfiction
- race
- history
"Garment makers are rarely in the business of making clothes that will work for actual people. Instead, they cater to a fantasy of who the customer hopes to be."-Heather Radke, Butts: A Backstory
"To see your butt, you need the cocoon of mirrors of a dressing room, the cumbersome triangulation of a hand mirror in a bedroom, or an awkwardly held smartphone."-Heather Radke, Butts: A Backstory
"Our bodies, by their very nature, resist control, a fact that always has felt paradoxically triumphant when I encounter it. We invent bustles and girdles and exercise videos and cabbage diets and siz…"-Heather Radke, Butts: A Backstory
7. Bibliophile: An Illustrated Miscellany
By: Jane Mount
4.33
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
This volume brims with bookish treasures, all delightfully illustrated by avowed bibliophile, Jane … read more
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- art
- nonfiction
- history
"I know that any book, when read at the right moment, might make my life better, might give me a greater understanding of the universe and all the other people in it."-Jane Mount, Bibliophile: An Illustrated Miscellany
"As Neil Gaiman said, a book is a "little empathy machine," and it is "very hard to hate people of a certain kind when you've just read a book of one of those people"."-Jane Mount, Bibliophile: An Illustrated Miscellany
"[John McPhee] has taught writing at Princeton for decades. He tells his classes, "Taking things from one source is plagiarism; taking things from several sources is research."-Jane Mount, Bibliophile: An Illustrated Miscellany
"The goal of this book is to triple the size of your To Be Read pile. It's a literary Wunderkammer, connecting you with books you might love for all kinds of reasons―because the subject speaks to you,…"-Jane Mount, Bibliophile: An Illustrated Miscellany
8. The Book of Delights: Essays
By: Ross Gay
4.16
Format: 274 pages, Hardcover
Ross Gay’s The Book of Delights is a genre-defying book of essays—some as short as a paragraph; som… read more
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- race
- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
"The more stuff you love the happier you will be."-Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays
"...which is simply called sharing what we love, what we find beautiful, which is an ethics."-Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays
"Is sorrow the true wild? And if it is—and if we join them—your wild to mine—what’s that? For joining, too, is a kind of annihilation. What if we joined our sorrows, I’m saying. I’m saying: What if th…"-Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays
"...in witnessing someone's being touched, we are also witnessing someone's being moved, the absence of which in ourselves is a sorrow, and a sacrifice. And witnessing the absence of movement in ourse…"-Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays
9. Threads of Life: A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle
By: Clare Hunter
4.09
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A globe-spanning history of sewing, embroidery, and the people who have used a needle and thread to… read more
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- art
- history
- sewing
- nonfiction
- crafts
"Sewing is a way to mark our existence on cloth: patterning our place in the world, voicing our identity, sharing something of ourselves with others and leaving the indelible evidence of our presence …"-Clare Hunter, Threads of Life: A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle
10. Mending Life: A Handbook for Repairing Clothes and Hearts
By: Nina Montenegro
4.47
Format: 223 pages, Kindle Edition
Learn the art of visible mending—a joyful, meditative, and restorative practice—to repair the cloth… read more
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- art
- sewing
- memoir
- nonfiction
- crafts
"A mended garment is a little piece of artwork that you wear around all day, on display like a living gallery wall, eliciting comments, starting conversations, an opening sentence to a good story."-Nina Montenegro, Mending Life: A Handbook for Repairing Clothes and Hearts
11. Devil’s Delight (Agatha Raisin, #33)
By: M.C. Beaton
3.83
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Beloved New York Times bestseller M.C. Beaton's cranky, crafty Agatha Raisin—the star of her own hi… read more
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12. Red Paint: The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk
By: Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe
4.14
Format: 225 pages, Hardcover
An Indigenous artist blends the aesthetics of punk rock with the traditional spiritual practices of… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- memoir
13. Worn: A People's History of Clothing
By: Sofi Thanhauser
4.17
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping and captivatingly told history of clothing and the stuff it's made of--an unparalleled d… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- social justice
14. Dead on Target (Agatha Raisin #34)
By: M.C. Beaton
3.95
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Beloved New York Times bestseller M.C. Beaton's cranky, crafty Agatha Raisin—the star of her own hi… read more
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15. Bibliophile: Diverse Spines
By: Jamise Harper
4.41
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
It's time to diversify your reading list. This richly illustrated and vastly inclusive collectio… read more
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- art
- nonfiction
"In creating this miscellany, our goal is for you to find at least ten new-to-you and irresistible books by authors of backgrounds different from your own...that you'll read in the next year...The ide…"-Jamise Harper, Bibliophile: Diverse Spines
16. Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
By: Zora Neale Hurston
4.04
Format: 193 pages, Paperback
In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston went to Plateau, Alabama, just outside Mobile, to interview eighty-six-… read more
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- nonfiction
- race
- history
- memoir
"The present was too urgent to let the past intrude."-Zora Neale Hurston, Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
"You see de rattlesnake in de woods?' Dey say, 'Yeah.' I say 'If you bother wid him, he bite you. If you know de snake killee you, why you bother wid him?' (Oluale Kossula)"-Zora Neale Hurston, Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
"So den we gittee married by de license, but I doan love my wife no mo' wid de license than I love her befo' de license. She a good woman and I love her all de time. (Oluale Kossula)"-Zora Neale Hurston, Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
"Whole nations are transported, exterminated, their name to be forgotten, except in the annual festival of their conquerors, when sycophants call the names of the vanquished countries to the remembran…"-Zora Neale Hurston, Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
17. Girly Drinks: A World History of Women and Alcohol
By: Mallory O'Meara
4.18
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
“At last, the feminist history of booze we’ve been waiting for!” —Amy Stewart, author of The Drunke… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"It's hilarious that having a cushion on a barstool to make it more comfortable is considered a feminine touch, but there you go. Maybe it's a mark of masculine virility to have a sore butt."-Mallory O'Meara, Girly Drinks: A World History of Women and Alcohol
"So many names and stories have been lost to time. Having a legacy is a privilege afforded only to a few. Often, it's about class. . . . sometimes it's just about when and were you were born."-Mallory O'Meara, Girly Drinks: A World History of Women and Alcohol
"The Western world entered a new era: medieval times. Unfortunately, it wasn't anything like the themed restaurant. There were a lot less roasted turkey legs and a lot more open-air latrines."-Mallory O'Meara, Girly Drinks: A World History of Women and Alcohol
"Generally, the gendering of alcohol is only found where women have access to drinking space. If you can't keep women out of the space where drinking happens, you keep them out of the drinks themselve…"-Mallory O'Meara, Girly Drinks: A World History of Women and Alcohol
18. Hot to Trot (Agatha Raisin, #31)
By: M.C. Beaton
3.86
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
When Private Investigator Agatha Raisin learns that her friend and one-time lover Charles Fraith is… read more
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19. The Fixed Stars
By: Molly Wizenberg
3.69
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From a bestselling memoirist, a thoughtful and provocative story of changing identity, complex sexu… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"She walked the line between man and woman, smudged it under her foot."-Molly Wizenberg, The Fixed Stars
"Do not marry someone who will not go to therapy, both on their own and with you. Refusing to go to therapy with your partner is like looking the other way when they're drowning."-Molly Wizenberg, The Fixed Stars
20. Knitting for Radical Self-Care: A Modern Guide
By: Brandi Cheyenne Harper
4.19
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
From knitting expert Brandi Harper, a must-have pattern book for modern knitters, with essays on se… read more
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- crafts
- art
- nonfiction
- knitting
"Every stitch you knit can be a self-care practice. Knitting is our constant companion as we grow and expand our capacity for joy."-Brandi Cheyenne Harper, Knitting for Radical Self-Care: A Modern Guide
"You can own the title of adventurous beginner from day one of your knitting journey. You can be an experienced knitter for half your life and still be an adventurous beginner. This book will ask you …"-Brandi Cheyenne Harper, Knitting for Radical Self-Care: A Modern Guide
21. This Long Thread
By: Jen Hewett
4.55
Format: 366 pages, Paperback
Weaving together interviews, first-person essays, and artist profiles, This Long Thread explores th… read more
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- memoir
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- nonfiction
- social justice
- essays
- crafts
