Owl! at the Library 😴🧙♀️ Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution
R. F. Kuang
@BrandyLJensen I just started reading R. F. Kuang's Babel and so far it's preposterously good
Paperback, 2023
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
London Labour and the London Poor: A Cyclopædia of the Condition and Earnings of Those That Will Work, Those That Cannot Work, and Those That Will Not
Henry Mayhew
@ClareCoffey I was just telling @wren_and_paper, I think the Lord of the Nazgul could probably bribe us easily by offering a cheap four-volume edition of Henry Mayhew's London Labour and the London Poor (1851)
Paperback, 2022
$27.95$13.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality
Tomiko Brown-Nagin
If you would like to read more about these events, please check out the new book CIVIL RIGHTS QUEEN by Tomiko Brown-Nagin. As @mayascade says, “There is a history of the world only discoverable outside of digital means waiting for us to engage with it meaningfully.” https://t.co/JtT2zZlT4j
Paperback, 2023
$21.00$10.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Hans Andersen's Christmas tales: Fairy Tales: The Snow Queen; The Fir-Tree; The Snow Man; The Little Match Girl
Hans Andersen
beefing with a writer is sooo dangerous. Hans Christian Andersen’s teacher once told him his stories were trash and Hans made him the villain in his fairy-tales for the next twenty years💀💀
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Stories
Hans Christian Andersen
@ericsmithrocks true story: Hans Christian Andersen was once told by a teacher to stop writing fiction, and he made him the villain in his stories for the next twenty years
Hardcover, 2016
$32.95$16.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Lottery
Shirley Jackson
Guy de Maupassant's “The Necklace”? Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery”? @stephenking’s “All That You Love Will Be Carried Away”? any given story by Ray Bradbury? WRECKED me.
Hardcover, 2008
$34.25$17.13 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Antonina; or, The fall of Rome By: Wilkie Collins: Novel
Wilkie Collins
Wilkie Collins may have written the best-ever ending to a novel (from The Haunted Hotel) https://t.co/DhAriZwaV0
Paperback, 2017
$14.90$7.45 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Life in London
Pierce Egan
@wren_and_paper Pierce Egan's Life in London is SO FUN 😍😂
Paperback, 2011
$62.99$37.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories Volume I
Arthur Conan Doyle
hard to take Sherlock Holmes seriously when you remember that Arthur Conan Doyle waged a public campaign to convince the world that fairies were real after seeing this photograph https://t.co/8EkOXRFfCy
Paperback, Mass Market, 1986
$7.99$3.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Mahabharata: A Modern Rendering, Vol 1
Ramesh Menon
@LeftOfPete @iconawrites I am! I read Ramesh Menon's abridged (1,500-page) novelization of the Mahabharata a while back... I'm slowly making my way through his recent unabridged translation
Paperback, 2006
$34.95$17.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book