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"Kakigori Summer", by Emily Itami. Cover image a drawing of a landscape of three tiny figures in white on a promontory next to a red hexagonal building with a peaked grey roof and tree, above a rocky black coastline with white capped waves below.

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Listening to "Behind the Bastards: How Jeffrey Epstein Helped Build the Modern World". Depressing to think if he hadn't killed himself, he very well could have been part of the current cabinet.

"Airplane Mode" by Shahnaz Habib. Cover: tan to light blue gradient background with an airplane-shaped silhouette collage of flowers and other travel-related images

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"Earthsea" a graphic novel based on Ursula Le Guin's "A Wizard of Earthsea". Adapted and illustrated by Fred Fordham. Cover shows a figure of a man from far overhead, walking on a beach away from the water with a long shadow behind him as if arising from the ocean depths.

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"The Bride Test" by Helen Hoang. A woman with red lips and black hair in a bun on the top of her head is wearing a white shirt and studying a paper in front of her. There is a dark green airplane icon with a heart-shaped, dotted line flight path in the foreground and light yellow plane drawings against a yellow background. The title is in dark red and the author's name is upper case dark green.

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"Taco USA" by Gustavo Arellano. Cover image, a family looks at the front of a restaurant with the title as the restaurant sign. There is a parking meter and a potted saguaro cactus in front of the restaurant. The American and Mexican flags top the restaurant, and statues of an eagle and a rooster as well.

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Oh geez, I did not realize that was leather

"Excellent Advice for Living" by Kevin Kelly. Title and author in hot red; cover background purple

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"The Last American Road Trip" by Sarah Kendzior. Cover photo a flat plain with low brush in the foreground, with large power lines crisscrossing the sky

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"The Look" by Michelle Obama. Text is buff gold on a dark blue background. Photo of Michelle Obama wearing a light blue off the shoulder gown with a full skirt, at the White House

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"I Regret Almost Everything" by Keith McNally. Black and white photo of the author in an overcoat, walking down an urban street alone

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"Ready Player One" by Ernest Cline. Title in white block letters outlined in orange; background depicts the title character on a scaffold of many RVs and trailers stacked in a ramshackle way.

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"Food Person" by Adam Roberts. Title in black; checkered tablecloth background with a hank of cooked spaghetti tumbling into a white plate. A pink comb is inserted in the spaghetti above the plate

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"This American Woman" by Zarna Garg. Cover image is Zarna, holding a torch, wearing a hot pink outfit and pink athletic shoes, being carried by the Statue of Liberty, in front of a bright blue sky and several skyscrapers

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"A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson. Cover image, a forest with dark tree trunks and bright greenery undergrowth. In the foreground is the top half of a large bear, facing the viewer.

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"Run" by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, L. Fury, and Nate Powell. Title in large yellow uppercase font, taking up half the top of the cover, superimposed over a drawing of a crowd running about, with a young John Lewis in a jacket and tie, walking away from the crowd against a red background. A woman in sunglasses follows him holding a sign, "We Demand the RIGHT to VOTE EVERYWHERE". A young man holding a sign, "My vote was paid in BLOOD" is also visible in the background.

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"Soonish" by Kelly and Zach Weinersmith. Title in white and author in black text over a light blue background. The top of the cover is a cartoon drawing of an astronaut standing on an extraterrestrial planet looking up to a space elevator connecting with the earth in outer space

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"Shining City" by Tom Rosenstiel. Title text in yellow against a blue duotone photo of Washington DC pillars

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"I shouldn't be telling you this (but I'm going to anyway)" by Chelsea Devantez. Handwritten title in black and subtitle in red on a light green tile background as if in a public bathroom with a cracked tile in the corner

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"Jaws" by Peter Benchley. A woman, seen from the side, is swimming in the ocean above a large shark with an open mouth, looming from below

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"March, Book Three" by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, Nate Powell. The title is part of the drawing of a road that a crowd of marchers are walking on

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"March, Book Two" by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, Nate Powell. Top of cover: a burning bus. Bottom cover: John Lewis addressing the crowd at the August 28, 1963 March on Washington

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"March, Book One" by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, Nate Powell. Top of the cover is a drawing of a crowd's legs walking; bottom third is a drawing of John Lewis and other protestors sitting at a counter with the sign "Counter Closed"

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"Safe Enough" by Lee Child. Cover shows a man silhouetted at dusk digging with a shovel behind a car with an open trunk

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"Ernie Pyle in the American Southwest" by Richard Melzer. Black and white photo of Ernie Pyle in profile wearing Stetson hat by Ferenz Fedor. Background depicts a pinon/juniper landscape

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"Cross Country" by Robert Sullivan. Title and author text in ransom note effect font. Background depicts collage cutout images of trees, buildings, a boat, bird, trees and more text

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"I'll look so hot in a coffin" by Carla Sosenko. Yellow text over a red background, with a drawing of two legs in high heeled shoes resting on a headstone with RIP and flowers

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"Strip Tease" by Carl Hiaasen. Title in white against a teal background, author name in red against a black background, above two pasties with tassels on a fuschia background

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"Christmas Shopaholic" by Sophie Kinsella. Cover drawing of a long haired brunette in tights and a blue overcoat, holding 6 multicolored wrapped presents in her arms, against a teal background with snow dots

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