The Daily Progress Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Gender Queer: A Memoir
Maia KobabeThe Daily ProgressThe graphic novel “Gender Queer: A Memoir” by Maia Kobabe is set to be removed from Virginia Beach public school libraries after a work group determined many illustrations in it are “pervasively vulgar.” https://dailyprogress.com/news/state-and-regional/virginia-beach-school-board-group-removes-gender-queer-book-from-libraries-calls-it-pervasively-vulgar/article_146e5697-4e2b-5ce3-b44a-fe90018550a7.html?utm_campaign=snd-autopilot&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter_DailyProgress
Paperback, 2019
$24.99$12.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Book of Maps
Ernest ThompsonThe Daily Progress"The Book of Maps" is the tale of a two-week, 16-state road trip that takes a filmmaker father and his 10-year-old son to Mount Rushmore, the Rock and Roll Hall https://t.co/IjESFpxdIy
Hardcover, 2022
$29.99$14.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret AtwoodThe Daily Progress"The Handmaid's Tale" has never been burned, as far as author Margaret Atwood knows, but has often been subjected to bans or attempted bans. https://dailyprogress.com/entertainment/books/a-burn-proof-edition-of-the-handmaids-tale-is-up-for-auction/article_28b39c96-29b7-50ac-bfcb-a6b3fa1bb191.html?utm_campaign=snd-autopilot&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter_DailyProgress
Paperback, 1998
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Satanic Verses
Salman RushdieThe Daily ProgressIn 1989, Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini called on Muslims to kill Salman Rushdie, author of “The Satanic Verses,” a novel condemned as blasphemous, and more events that happened on this day https://t.co/LJnLuLTypd
Paperback, 2008
$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
It's Ok to Be Angry about Capitalism
Bernie SandersThe Daily ProgressVermont Sen. Bernie Sanders passionately addressed a packed auditorium at the University of Virginia’s Old Cabell Hall that was left with standing room only on Thursday evening. https://t.co/BtDX5Yt40h
Hardcover, 2023
$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Peril
Bob WoodwardThe Daily ProgressMark Milley, the top military adviser to outgoing President Donald Trump, was worried. That’s how the new book “Peril” begins, its authors told a rapt audience at University of Virginia https://t.co/VdWetZYZAn
Paperback, 2023
$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Covenant of Water (Oprah's Book Club)
Abraham VergheseThe Daily ProgressThe long-awaited new novel by Abraham Verghese is Oprah Winfrey's latest book club pick. "The Covenant of Water" is Verghese's first work of fiction since his million-selling "Cutting for Stone" https://t.co/dQGQ6usvvR
Hardcover, 2023
$32.00$16.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book