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• Off the Grid

  Houses for Escape Across North America

  Bradbury, Dominic

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  Nonfiction. A showcase of over forty of the most exciting and unique off-grid houses in North America, across a wide variety of wild and remote landscapes. (Catalog description)

• Yesteryear

  a Novel

  Burke, Caro Claire,

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  Fiction. A social media celebrity, a wife and mother who sells her fantasy pioneer lifestyle of sourdough and farm-fresh eggs to her millions of followers, suddenly wakes up cold, dirty, and hungry in the year 1805 and must uncover the nature --…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Every Step She Takes

  Cochrun, Alison

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  Fiction. To get away from her family’s attempts to match her up with the perfect man, Sadie Wells takes her travel-influencer sister Vi’s place on a two-week trip to Portugal to walk the Camino de Santiago. (Booklist)

• Middle Distance

  a Graphic Memoir

  Choy, Mylo

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  Nonfiction Graphic Novel. Nonbinary musician and cartoonist Choy debuts with a meditative graphic memoir detailing their practice of daily running. (Publishers Weekly)

• Encounterism

  the Neglected Joys of Being in Person

  Field, Andy (Artist)

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  Nonfiction. Performance artist Field offers a spirited ode to in-person interactions. Blending science, history, and personal anecdotes, Field serves up loosely connected considerations of how such activities as going to the movies, clubbing,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Love by the Book

  a Novel

  George, Jessica, 1994-

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  Fiction. Two lonely women connect at a time when they both desperately need a friend...A beautiful and all-too-rare look at the importance of platonic love. (Kirkus)

• Romantic Friction

  Goldstein, Lori (Lori A.),

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  Fiction. Lori Gold has crafted a raucous romp through the world of publishing, asking what it really means to be a writer in the time of AI. (NoveList)

• Vita Contemplativa

  in Praise of Inactivity

  Han, Byung-Chul

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  Nonfiction. In an ode to the art of being still, Han shows that the current crisis in our society calls for a very different way of life: one based on the vita contemplative. (Publisher description)

• Stolen Focus

  Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again

  Hari, Johann,

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  Nonfiction. Journalist Hari (Lost Connections) explores a growing "crisis"--people's inability to focus their attention for extended periods--in this provocative study...a comprehensive and chilling lay of the land. (Publishers Weekly)

• Where the Wildflowers Grow

  a Novel

  Harris, Terah Shelton

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  Fiction. Harris returns with an emotionally charged novel about Leigh Wilde, who has escaped incarceration and finds sanctuary on a wildflower farm in a small Alabama town. (Library Journal)

• The Fullness of Time

  Marking the Day by Birdsong, Blooms, Shadows, and Stars

  Haynes, Cathy

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  Nonfiction. Debut author Haynes, an artist and Timekeeper in Residence at University of College London’s Petrie Museum, takes an immersive ramble through the “forgotten art” of telling time without a modern clock. (Publishers Weekly)

• Babe in the Woods

  Or, the Art of Getting Lost

  Heffernan, Julie, 1956-

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  Nonfiction Graphic Novel. In this stunning graphic memoir debut, painter Heffernan sets out with her infant son on a hike that begins in the tradition of the flaneur and ends as a survival story. (Publishers Weekly)

• Immaculate Conception

  a Novel

  Huang, Ling Ling, 1989-

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  Fiction. Desperate to stay close to her brilliant but distant best friend Mathilde, struggling artist Enka uses cutting-edge technology to absorb her bestie's trauma, blurring their identities and setting off a chilling series of events with…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Cabin

  Off-the-grid Adventures With a Clueless Craftsman

  Hutchison, Patrick (Journalist)

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  Nonfiction. Disillusioned by his Seattle copywriting job and in search of a new purpose, Patrick Hutchinson purchased a dilapidated cabin in the Cascade Mountains, spending years battling renovations and the elements in his quest for a more…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop

  Hwang, Po-rŭm,

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  Fiction. A snapshot of life in a quiet corner of Seoul examines how reading can help give voice to emotions, worries, and dreams. (Kirkus)

• Surviva

  a Future Ancestral Field Guide

  Luger, Cannupa Hanska, 1979-

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  Fiction. Interdisciplinary Native American artist Luger delivers a daring work of speculative fiction set in a future in which the wealthy and non-Indigenous have fled the Earth they ravaged. This audacious hybrid work, which adapts a vintage Army…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Whidbey

  a Novel

  Madden, T Kira

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  Fiction. Birdie Chang arrives on Washington’s Whidbey Island for a summer of escape and healing...Neither a revenge story nor a moralizing one, this is an absorbing, energized novel of real-feeling characters attempting to live through…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Enchantment

  Awakening Wonder in An Anxious Age

  May, Katherine

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  Nonfiction. Craving a different way to live, May begins to explore the restorative properties of the natural world, moving through the elements of earth, water, fire, and air, and identifying the quiet traces of magic that can be found only when we…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Automatic Noodle

  Newitz, Annalee, 1969-

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  Fiction. You don't have to eat food to know the way to a city's heart is through its stomach. So when a group of deactivated robots come back online in an abandoned ghost kitchen, they decide to make their own way doing what they know: making food…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Night Owl

  Poems

  Nezhukumatathil, Aimee

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  Nonfiction/Poetry. In her latest poetry collection, Aimee Nezhukumatathil plumbs the depths of nighttime, crafting a series of nocturnes that explore the magic, sensuality, and life that emerge as the rest of the world goes to bed. (NoveList)