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Everyone's Table: Global Recipes for Modern Health—A James Beard Award Winner

by Gregory Gourdet

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The Everything Classical Mythology Book: From the heights of Mount Olympus to the depths of the Underworld - all you need to know about the classical myths (Everything® Series)

by Nancy Conner

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The United States of Cryptids: A Tour of American Myths and Monsters

by J.W. Ocker (Goodreads Author)

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The Raven Boys (The Raven Cycle, #1) by Maggie Stiefvater

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She wasn’t interested in telling other people’s futures. She was interested in going out and finding her own.

Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things

by Jenny Lawson

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“come spring, come hell come collapse, come dusk, stretching tubers, stretching petals that wrap us in their future regardless of whether or not we’re breathing.”
― Tiffany Morris, Elegies of Rotting Stars

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“Woodland You It’s easy to look at the contours of a forest and feel a bone deep love for nature. It’s less easy to remember that the contours of your own body represent the exact same nature. The pathways of your mind. Your dreams, dark and strange as sprouts curling beneath a flat rock. Your regret, bitter as the citrus rot of old cut grass. It’s the same as the nature you make time to love. That you practice loving. The forest. The meadow. The sweeping arm of a galaxy. You are as natural as any postcard landscape and deserve the same love.”
― Jarod K. Anderson, Field Guide to the Haunted Forest

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“SIT WITH ME
I’m not trying to write a tailored suit.
I’m trying to write boot socks, warm from the dryer.
There’s an endless autumn in me,
scenting my thoughts like campfire smoke.
I write for the weather I know.”
― Jarod K. Anderson, Field Guide to the Haunted Forest

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“You may feel separated from the natural world, but just look at what you are. Look at how you live. You are not born to this place. You are born of this place.”
― Jarod K. Anderson, Field Guide to the Haunted Forest

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“But even as I proselytized to my bewildered family, even as I wore a sterling silver Jesus fish on my finger like an engagement ring, even as I listened to DC Talk and Jars of Clay, even as I prayed each night, I’m not sure I ever really believed. In a small town, the promises of religion are the language of protection, and I was being promised unconditional love—just as my body, and my very existence as a girl, had begun to betray me. Just as my desires had begun to consume me. Just as I was being taught to believe those desires were wrong, that they would mark me irreparably as both sinner and slut.”
― Melissa Faliveno, Tomboyland: Essays

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