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	The Maternal Is Political: Women Writers at the Intersection of Motherhood and Social Change by Shari MacDonald Strong (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner (Foreword), Judith Stadtman Tucker (Contributor) 3.99 avg rating — 108 ratings — published 2008 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Protectors: Stories to Benefit PROTECT by Thomas Pluck (editor), Patti Abbott (Contributor), Ian Ayris (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.88 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 2012 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The EastOver Anthology of Rural Stories: Writers of Color 2023 by Keith Pilapil Lesmeister (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Jinwoo Chong (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Risë Kevalshar Collins (Contributor) 4.57 avg rating — 7 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	An Anthology of Rural Stories by Writers of Color, 2024 by Erika T. Wurth (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Ron Austin (Contributor), Venita Blackburn (Contributor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	real Pure Slush Vol. 3 by John Wentworth Chapin, Rebecca Chekouras, Diana J. Wynne it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Teaching Information Literacy through Faculty Development (Libraries Unlimited Series for Teaching Information Literacy Today) by Jane Hammons (Goodreads Author), Silvia Lin Hanick (Series Editor), Lori Townsend (Series Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Jane Hammons and 16 other people liked Emmeline's review of The Wax Child: "This feels like a sort of companion to two other books I read this year, I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Toward Darkness, and We Are Green and Trembling. All by women authors who seem to hover in a not-entirely literary state, crossing over a little i" Read more of this review »
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Jane Hammons and 1 other person liked Cooper Renner's review of The Wax Child: "Distinctive, distinguished, heart-breaking. "
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Jane Hammons rated a book it was amazing The Wax Child by Olga Ravn	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
I heard Ravn in conversation with David Naimon on his podcast, Between the Covers, and knew I had to read this historical novel. Ravn talked about the amount of research she did in order to write this book, and while reading I felt very grounded in t ...more
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Jane Hammons rated a book really liked it We Are Watching by Alison Gaylin (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Interesting plot, if a bit far-fetched. But in this age of conspiracy theories . . . A good, fast-paced, page turner.
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Jane Hammons rated a book really liked it What We Can Know by Ian McEwan (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
I loved the beautiful descriptions of landscape, which are important as the novel is set in a not-too-distant future when the planet has been significantly altered by climate change. Until the last section, which is part of Vivien's memoir, I most en ...more
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Jane Hammons liked Cooper Renner's review of What We Can Know: "Part mystery, part SF, handled as “literary fiction,” a genre like any other. "
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Jane Hammons rated a book really liked it The Librarians by Sherry Thomas (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Very engaging fast-paced book with great characters. I picked it up partly because it is set in Austin where I lived for 5 years. It gets a little over the top action/spy caper blended with romance (as in the genre, not the thing :) toward the end, b ...more
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Jane Hammons rated a book it was amazing Toni at Random: The Iconic Writer’s Legendary Editorship by Dana A. Williams (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
A beautifully written and thoroughly researched biography of Toni Morrison as an editor, which, of course, includes other aspects of her biography, but her time at Random House is the focus of the book. If you read, you are aware of Morrison's achiev ...more
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