Sim Kern - Preorder THE FREE PEOPLE’S VILLAGE Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Cli-fi author & enviro journalist, DEPART, DEPART!, REAL SUGAR IS HARD TO FIND, SEEDS FOR THE SWARM they/them rep:@RebeccaPodos
![Book Cover for: Iron Widow (Book 1), Xiran Jay Zhao](https://d16057n354qyo4.cloudfront.net/9780735269958.jpg?nextExtension=webp&version=1717973179)
Iron Widow (Book 1)
Xiran Jay Zhao![Sim Kern - Preorder THE FREE PEOPLE’S VILLAGE](https://d1iyvy95qprisd.cloudfront.net/avatars-md/21571d37-d448-4a67-9713-ef21e441ca10.webp)
IRON WIDOW is the first book I’ve read in a long time that’s sucked me into its plot so completely that I’ve had to tell my family, basically, y’all need to fend for yourself for a day or two until I finish this. Thank you @XiranJayZhao!
Paperback, 2023
$11.99$5.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book![Book Cover for: Real Sugar is Hard to Find: a collection of stories by, Sim Kern](https://d16057n354qyo4.cloudfront.net/9781958121030.jpg?nextExtension=webp&version=1725753074)
Real Sugar is Hard to Find: a collection of stories by
Sim Kern![Sim Kern - Preorder THE FREE PEOPLE’S VILLAGE](https://d1iyvy95qprisd.cloudfront.net/avatars-md/21571d37-d448-4a67-9713-ef21e441ca10.webp)
Just learned about this review of REAL SUGAR IS HARD TO FIND in @strangehorizons, written by @tinaszhu. Peruse for an in-depth description of some of the stories, exploring themes of loss throughout. Fair warning, there are some spoilers. https://t.co/LHqO8UxREe
Paperback, 2022
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book![Book Cover for: Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, Robin Wall Kimmerer](https://d16057n354qyo4.cloudfront.net/9781571313560.jpg?nextExtension=webp&version=1713717027)
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer![Sim Kern - Preorder THE FREE PEOPLE’S VILLAGE](https://d1iyvy95qprisd.cloudfront.net/avatars-md/21571d37-d448-4a67-9713-ef21e441ca10.webp)
Really struggling with despair. I need to read something that’s genuinely hopeful or just redeeming about the human race—something like BRAIDING SWEETGRASS, which got me through last year. Any recs?
Paperback, 2015
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book![Book Cover for: Dress Codes: How the Laws of Fashion Made History, Richard Thompson Ford](https://d16057n354qyo4.cloudfront.net/9781501180088.jpg?nextExtension=webp&version=1725753074)
Dress Codes: How the Laws of Fashion Made History
Richard Thompson Ford![Sim Kern - Preorder THE FREE PEOPLE’S VILLAGE](https://d1iyvy95qprisd.cloudfront.net/avatars-md/21571d37-d448-4a67-9713-ef21e441ca10.webp)
And yeah, I'm not a trained scholar, I don't have a PhD, I'm a fiction author doing my best to research these things. So I will leave some links to some actual scholars whose work informed that thread. Here's Richard Thompson Ford's DRESS CODES: https://t.co/ukM7BzTRNI
Paperback, 2022
$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book![Book Cover for: When the Angels Left the Old Country, Sacha Lamb](https://d16057n354qyo4.cloudfront.net/9781646141760.jpg?nextExtension=webp&version=1712611261)
When the Angels Left the Old Country
Sacha Lamb![Sim Kern - Preorder THE FREE PEOPLE’S VILLAGE](https://d1iyvy95qprisd.cloudfront.net/avatars-md/21571d37-d448-4a67-9713-ef21e441ca10.webp)
WHEN THE ANGELS LEFT THE OLD COUNTRY by @mosslamb is such a delightful, cozy read for a cold night. Although it’s really no surprise that I was gonna love a queer Jewish coming-to-America story that’s like GOOD OMENS meets YENTL.
Hardcover, 2022
$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book![Book Cover for: American Gods, Neil Gaiman](https://d16057n354qyo4.cloudfront.net/9780063081918.jpg?nextExtension=webp&version=1725753074)
American Gods
Neil Gaiman![Sim Kern - Preorder THE FREE PEOPLE’S VILLAGE](https://d1iyvy95qprisd.cloudfront.net/avatars-md/21571d37-d448-4a67-9713-ef21e441ca10.webp)
I started American Gods on audiobook, bc it’s one of those important genre-defining books I’ve never read, and I usually love Neil Gaiman, but like…I kinda wanna DNF. Do I need to persist? Did this book fall flat for anyone else?
Paperback, 2021
$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book![Book Cover for: Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation, Ruth Wilson Gilmore](https://d16057n354qyo4.cloudfront.net/9781839761713.jpg?nextExtension=webp&version=1709848386)
Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation
Ruth Wilson Gilmore![Sim Kern - Preorder THE FREE PEOPLE’S VILLAGE](https://d1iyvy95qprisd.cloudfront.net/avatars-md/21571d37-d448-4a67-9713-ef21e441ca10.webp)
For years, I've taken heart from Ruth Wilson Gilmore's concept of Abolition Geography. This idea that though we may not live to see the world a free & just place, can we draw a map around our family, our friends, our neighbors and our community, and say--here we are free? 1/
Paperback, 2023
$24.95$12.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book![Book Cover for: It Feels Good to Be Yourself: A Book about Gender Identity, Theresa Thorn](https://d16057n354qyo4.cloudfront.net/9781250302953.jpg?nextExtension=webp&version=1712609846)
It Feels Good to Be Yourself: A Book about Gender Identity
Theresa Thorn![Sim Kern - Preorder THE FREE PEOPLE’S VILLAGE](https://d1iyvy95qprisd.cloudfront.net/avatars-md/21571d37-d448-4a67-9713-ef21e441ca10.webp)
We read a whole lot of picture books over here, but this is maybe my favorite page out of all of them 🥺 From IT FEELS GOOD TO BE YOURSELF by @theresathorn and art by @noahgrigni https://t.co/s2cH5hLG4y
Hardcover, 2019
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book![Book Cover for: Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition, Cedric J. Robinson](https://d16057n354qyo4.cloudfront.net/9780807848296.jpg?nextExtension=webp&version=1725753074)
Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition
Cedric J. Robinson![Sim Kern - Preorder THE FREE PEOPLE’S VILLAGE](https://d1iyvy95qprisd.cloudfront.net/avatars-md/21571d37-d448-4a67-9713-ef21e441ca10.webp)
Both leftist thought and CRT lay bare the immoral rot at the heart of conservativism (and if you want a two-fer, check out BLACK MARXISM by Cedric Robinson), and so the right will never stop trying to suppress these ideas. And there's no magical guarantee that "truth will out."
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![Book Cover for: The Coin, Yasmin Zaher](https://d16057n354qyo4.cloudfront.net/9781646222100.jpg?nextExtension=webp&version=1709845670)
The Coin
Yasmin Zaher![Sim Kern - Preorder THE FREE PEOPLE’S VILLAGE](https://d1iyvy95qprisd.cloudfront.net/avatars-md/21571d37-d448-4a67-9713-ef21e441ca10.webp)
The main character is very unlikable and flawed in many ways and that felt like a breath of fresh air...it is a powerful expose of the isolation, the loneliness, the shallow materialism of US culture, and it's just delightfully bizarre. And I can't wait to see more from this author.
Hardcover, 2024
$27.00$13.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book