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Championing democracy, intellectual growth, and lifelong learning. Advocate for books, education, and thoughtful conversations. Building a brighter, smarter future one idea at a time.
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Dr Simon Copland is an Honorary Fellow at the Australian National University School of Sociology. Tomorrow he releases a book called The Male Complaint: The Manosphere and Misogyny Online. This will be one of the best and most important books of 2025. #booksky
April 8, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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March 31, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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You may know about Project Gutenberg, which is an online repository of older, public domain works where copyright has expired.
Its offshoot, Project Gutenberg Self-Publishing, lets authors upload their own modern works while retaining all rights.

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December 9, 2024 at 1:16 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 20/20
#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
December 7, 2024 at 5:59 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 19/20
#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
December 6, 2024 at 7:31 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 18/20
#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
December 5, 2024 at 3:17 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 17/20
#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
December 5, 2024 at 7:26 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 16/20
#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
December 3, 2024 at 3:10 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 15/20
#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
December 2, 2024 at 5:12 PM
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Kash Patel has openly expressed his plans to “come after” journalists he doesn’t like. He is for retribution, not justice.

This is from my book, #RoughBeast:
Kash Patel threatens revenge, on Bannin podcast.
December 1, 2024 at 2:31 AM
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Orcas start wearing dead salmon hats again after ditching the trend for 37 years
Orcas off the coast of Washington State are balancing dead fish on their heads like it's the 1980s, but researchers still aren't sure why they do it.
www.livescience.com
December 2, 2024 at 2:17 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 14/20
#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
December 1, 2024 at 1:14 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 13/20
#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
November 30, 2024 at 2:31 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 12/20
#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
November 29, 2024 at 4:50 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 11/20
#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
November 28, 2024 at 2:46 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 10/20
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#Books
#BookChallenge
November 27, 2024 at 1:12 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 9/20
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#Books
#BookChallenge
November 26, 2024 at 1:22 PM
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Oh, hot dignity-dang-de-dang! Books We Love is back!

#booksky

apps.npr.org/best-books/?...
Books We Love
Here are 350+ great reads from 2024 hand-picked just for you by NPR staff and trusted critics.
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November 25, 2024 at 2:49 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 8/20
#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
November 25, 2024 at 2:52 PM
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New publisher going all out on paying no authors, publishing material with software that uses stolen works from writers, and making a ton of money, which in techbro speak is “disrupting”. We are in hell.

#publishing #booksky
November 25, 2024 at 1:55 PM
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‘We live in a climate of fear’: Graphic novelist’s Elon Musk book can’t find UK or US publisher
‘We live in a climate of fear’: Graphic novelist’s Elon Musk book can’t find UK or US publisher
Darryl Cunningham blames fear of ‘legal consequences’ for reluctance to take on book, now only available in French
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2024 at 4:11 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 7/20
#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
November 24, 2024 at 8:58 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 6/20
#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
November 24, 2024 at 2:11 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 5/20
#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
November 22, 2024 at 5:52 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 4/20
#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
November 21, 2024 at 5:36 PM