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Nov 27

Book Notes 11/27/2023

Posted to Book Notes on November 27, 2023 at 10:52 AM by Genesis Gaule

Blog Book Notes

11/27/2023

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All the Gold Stars

Reimagining ambition and the ways we strive
by Rainesford Stauffer

Call Number: 302.54 STAUFFER

This book looks at how the cultural, personal, and societal expectations around ambition are driving the burnout epidemic by funneling our worth into productivity, limiting our imaginations, and pushing us further apart.


Hot Pot Murder

L.A. night market mysteries
by Jennifer J. Chow

Call Number: Mystery CHOW L.A. Large Print

Yale and Celine Yee’s food stall business is going so well that they’ve been invited to join an exclusive dinner with the local restaurant owner's association. The members gather together for a relaxing hot pot feast…until Jeffery Vue, president of the group, receives a literal shock to his system and dies.


Pageboy

A Memoir
by Elliot Page

Call Number: 791.4302 PAGE

Full of intimate stories, from chasing down secret love affairs to battling body image and struggling with familial strife, this book is a love letter to the power of being seen.


A Stranger in the Citadel

by Tobias S. Buckell

Call Number: Fantasy BUCKELL

The life of the youngest musketress of Ninetha has been one of hard training. But Lilith’s days have also contained many pleasures, the royal privileges of her family’s guardianship of the Cornucopia, a mystical source of limitless bounty. Lilith has never seen a book, and she never expects to encounter one within the safety of the citadel. When Ishmael, an outcast librarian, shows up outside the Afriq Gate, Lilith saves him from immediate execution by her father’s second-in-command, the zealot Kira. As Lilith’s curiosity draws her to Ishmael, she lets slip her family’s most dangerous secret, sparking a deadly rebellion and an unexpected journey full of stunning revelations.


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