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To Those Who Have Confused You to Be a Person
by Alia Dastagir

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Book cover of To Those Who Have Confused You to Be a Person by Alia Dastagir
March 3, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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Pushback: The 2,500-Year Fight to Thwart Women by Restricting Abortion
by Mary Fissell

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Book cover of Pushback: The 2,500-Year Fight to Thwart Women by Restricting Abortion by Mary Fissell
March 3, 2025 at 6:27 AM
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Just hit the store shelf - the classics return!

Dragonlance Chronicles
by Tracy Hickman & Margaret Weis

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features the three novels Dragons of Autumn Twilight, Dragons of Winter Night, and Dragons of Spring Dawning

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Black and gold cover of the Dragonlance Chronicles compendium by Tracy Hickman & Margaret Weis
January 31, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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Pussypedia: A Comprehensive Guide
by the founders of Pussypedia.net
Editor: Zoe Mendelson, Illustrator: Maria Conejo

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Hot pink book cover of Pussypedia: A Comprehensive Guide by the founders of Pussypedia.net Editor: Zoe Mendelson, Illustrator: Maria Conejo
January 29, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage
by Rachel E. Gross

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January 29, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture
by Kyle Chayka

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January 28, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information
by Alberto Cairo

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January 28, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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I'm Sorry for My Loss: An Urgent Examination of Reproductive Care in America
by Rebecca Little and Colleen Long

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Book cover of I'm Sorry for My Loss: An Urgent Examination of Reproductive Care in America by Rebecca Little and Colleen Long
January 26, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next)
by Dean Spade

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January 26, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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Founder Vs Investor: The Honest Truth about Venture Capital from Startup to IPO
by Elizabeth Joy Zalman, Jerry Neumann

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Cover of the book Founder Vs Investor: The Honest Truth about Venture Capital from Startup to IPO by Elizabeth Joy Zalman and Jerry Neumann
January 24, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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The Founders: The Story of Paypal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley
by Jimmy Soni

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Cover of the book The Founders: The Story of Paypal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley by Jimmy Soni
January 24, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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People just accepting made-up revisionist propanganda history about #xiaohongshu because it "sounds right" is ticking me off

#RedNote was started as an international SHOPPING GUIDE for cn tourists - that's why it has pinterest-type functions and why it's available outside the great firewall
History Xiaohongshu was founded by Miranda Qu and Charlwin Mao in 2013 as an online tour guide for Chinese shoppers, providing a platform for users to review products and share their shopping experiences with the community.[16][17] In 2015, Xiaohongshu set up its warehouses in Shenzhen, Guangdong and Zhengzhou, Henan.[18] Etymology The app was initially called "Hong Kong Shopping Guide" and targeted Chinese tourists.[9] The name Xiaohongshu or 'Little Red Book' was inspired by its co-founder Mao Wenchao's career at Bain & Company and education at the Stanford Graduate School of Business; both institutions feature red as their main color.[10][11] 'Little Red Book' is also the English nickname for the 1964 compilation Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung.[9][12] The company stated that the platform's name is not a reference to the book.[13] Internationally, the app has been officially listed under the name REDnote on the Google Play store since at least September 2024,[14][2] and it is often called by that name by US users.[11][15]
January 19, 2025 at 6:02 AM
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#20BooksChallenge
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#formativebooks

Day 8
Original Ballantine/Del Rey mass market cover of Agent of Change by Steve Miller & Sharon Lee, the first book in the Liaden Universe series
December 6, 2024 at 6:19 AM
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Day 7
Cover of the Signet Classic paperback version of Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glas by Lewis Carroll
December 6, 2024 at 6:15 AM
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Give me a single image from a film that immediately makes you hear the song from the soundtrack playing in your head.
Kevin Bacon sitting on a tractor in a still from the movie Footloose (1984) in the scene over which Bonnie Tyler's "Holding Out for a Hero" plays
December 6, 2024 at 6:07 AM
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The Blue Sword by Robin Mckinley

Day 6
1980s book cover of The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley, featuring art of a scarf-masked rider on a sandstone-colored horse carrying a gliwing blue sword
December 4, 2024 at 3:08 AM
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Neuromancer by William Gibson

Day 5
Ace paperback cover of Neuromancer by William Gibson, faded all white cover with a square of vaguely computer-generated art of a man's face, with title, author, and multiple splash promo quotes in red, black, and blue
December 4, 2024 at 3:04 AM
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Around the World in 200 Globes: Stories of the Twentieth Century by Willem Jan Neutelings
Luster Publishing

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Around the World in 200 Globes: Stories of the Twentieth Century by Willem Jan Neutelings
December 3, 2024 at 4:58 AM
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#LiuChangMufasa
#LiuChang
Photo of actor Liu Chang in white hanfiu, hair drawn back with loose tendrils, holding a folded fan against a wall by an evergreen tree
December 2, 2024 at 6:33 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.

#20BooksChallenge
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#formativebooks

Day 4
Book cover of The Darkangel by Meredith Ann Pierce, first in the trilogy
December 2, 2024 at 6:06 AM
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Time to Orbit: Unknown
The Javelin Program
Book 1
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The Antarctica Conspiracy
Book 2
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(incredible serialized weekly science fiction from Derin Edala at derinstories.com)
Cover of Time to Orbit: Unknown Book 1, The Javelin Program Cover of Time to Orbit: Unknown Book 2, The Antarctica Conspiracy
December 2, 2024 at 4:40 AM
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My Beloved Monster
Masha, the Half-wild Rescue Cat Who Rescued Me
by Caleb Carr

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Cover of My Beloved Monster: Masha, the Half-wild Rescue Cat Who Rescued Me by Caleb Carr featuring a photo of Masha, an orange and white tabby
December 1, 2024 at 11:48 PM
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Yes, I’m religious. I believe in the Holy trinity. #DMBJ
Zhang Qiling, Wu Xie, and Wang Pangzi - the Iron Triangle from Reunion: the Sound of the Providence, 2019 installment of The Lost Tomb/Daomu Biji
December 1, 2024 at 10:00 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.

#20BooksChallenge
#booksky
#formativebooks

Day 3
Book cover of A Planet of Your Own by John Brunner, one side of a 1966 Ace Double science fiction mass market paperback
December 1, 2024 at 4:30 AM
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The Travelling Cat Chronicles, and The Goodbye Cat
by Hiro Arikawa
translated by Philip Gabriel

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Book cover of The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa, translated by Philip Gabriel. Art of the shape of a white cat among branches of autumn leaves Book cover of The Goodbye Cat by Hiro Arikawa, translated by Philip Gabriel. Art if a small gray tabby cat on the shoulder of a person facing away.
November 30, 2024 at 6:47 AM