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Get Booked

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Get Booked is a weekly show of personalized book recommendations.

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Old Men Waiting to Die

Amanda and guest Jeff discuss books where the couple DOESN’T end up together, Indigenous reads, and pre-18th century history!

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Wicked Plants and The Drunken Botanist by Amy Stewart (rec’d by Angie)

BOOKS DISCUSSED

How To Do Nothing by Jenny Odell

Grit by Angela Duckworth

The Wrong Stars by Tim Pratt

The Water Dancer

Fleishman is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner

Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf

The Eerie Elementary series by Jack Chabert, Sam Ricks (#1 The School is Alive!)

Paper Girls

The Yield by Tara June Winch (tw: child sexual abuse, racism)

Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko

Beloved by Toni Morrison (tw slavery, harm to children)

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

Sea People by Christina Thompson

1491 by Charles McCann

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