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Pixel rated Last Mapmaker: 5 stars

Christina Soontornvat: Last Mapmaker (2022, Candlewick Press)
Last Mapmaker by Christina Soontornvat
A Newbery Honor Book A Walter Dean Myers Honor Book
From Christina Soontornvat, the visionary and versatile author of three …
Pixel rated Last Mapmaker: 4 stars

Christina Soontornvat: Last Mapmaker (2022, Candlewick Press)
Last Mapmaker by Christina Soontornvat
A Newbery Honor Book A Walter Dean Myers Honor Book
From Christina Soontornvat, the visionary and versatile author of three …
Pixel rated Waste Tide: 2 stars

Waste Tide by Chen Qiufan
Mimi is a 'waste girl', a member of the lowest caste on Silicon Isle.
Located off China's southeastern coast, Silicon …
Pixel rated Kamogawa Food Detectives: 3 stars

Hisashi Kashiwai, Jesse Kirkwood: Kamogawa Food Detectives (Hardcover, 2024, Penguin Publishing Group)
Kamogawa Food Detectives by Hisashi Kashiwai, Jesse Kirkwood
The Kamogawa Food Detectives is the first book in the bestselling, mouth-watering Japanese series, for fans of Before the Coffee …
Pixel rated Kamogawa Food Detectives: 4 stars

Hisashi Kashiwai, Jesse Kirkwood: Kamogawa Food Detectives (Hardcover, 2024, Penguin Publishing Group)
Kamogawa Food Detectives by Hisashi Kashiwai, Jesse Kirkwood
The Kamogawa Food Detectives is the first book in the bestselling, mouth-watering Japanese series, for fans of Before the Coffee …
Pixel rated Manicurist's Daughter: 5 stars

Susan Lieu: Manicurist's Daughter (Hardcover, 2024, Celadon Books)
Manicurist's Daughter by Susan Lieu
An emotionally raw memoir about the crumbling of the American Dream and a daughter of refugees who searches for answers …
Pixel rated Disability Intimacy: 4 stars

Alice Wong: Disability Intimacy (2024, Penguin Random House)
Disability Intimacy by Alice Wong
The much-anticipated follow up to the groundbreaking anthology Disability Visibility: another revolutionary collection of first-person writing on the joys and …
Pixel rated She Is a Haunting: 2 stars

She Is a Haunting by Trang Thanh Tran
A House with a terrifying appetite haunts a broken family in this atmospheric horror, perfect for fans of Mexican Gothic. …
Pixel rated The Golem of Brooklyn: 4 stars

Adam Mansbach: The Golem of Brooklyn (Paperback, 2023, Random House Publishing Group)
The Golem of Brooklyn by Adam Mansbach
The dazzlingly imaginative, ferociously funny story of an art teacher, a bodega clerk, and a five-thousand-year-old clay crisis monster, from …
Pixel rated Good Enough Job: 4 stars

Good Enough Job by Simone Stolzoff
"Superb."—Oliver Burkeman
A challenge to the tyranny of work and a call to reclaim our lives from its clutches.
From …
Pixel rated Translation State: 5 stars

Ann Leckie: Translation State (EBook, 2023, Orbit)
Translation State by Ann Leckie
The mystery of a missing translator sets three lives on a collision course that will have a ripple effect across …
Pixel rated A Year Without A Name: 3 stars
Pixel rated You Feel It Just Below the Ribs: 4 stars

Jeffrey Cranor, Janina Matthewson: You Feel It Just Below the Ribs (Hardcover, 2021, Harper)
You Feel It Just Below the Ribs by Jeffrey Cranor, Janina Matthewson
A haunting, provocative novel, You Feel It Just Below the Ribs is a fictional autobiography in an alternate twentieth century …
Pixel rated Stranger in a Strange Land: 4 stars

Robert A. Heinlein: Stranger in a Strange Land (1991)
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
Stranger in a Strange Land is a 1961 science fiction novel by American author Robert A. Heinlein. It tells the …