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October 2023

Here are all of the books we've reviewed that were published October 2023.

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Brushed Aside

by Sarah White

Art historian Noah Charney’s book "Brushed Aside" is a colorful overview of underrecognized women artists and art influencers throughout history. While an estimated 75 percent of the human handprints found with cave paintings belonged... Read More

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The Korean Cookbook

by Rachel Jagareski

Rigorous in detail and yet explained in an accessible manner, "The Korean Cookbook" presents a panorama of recipes and food history punctuated with artful color images of finished dishes. Throughout its pages, Junghyun Park and Jungyoon... Read More

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The Beauty of the Flower

by Kristen Rabe

Visually stunning and astonishing in scope, Stephen A. Harris’s "The Beauty of the Flower" is a history of botanical illustration that has all the makings of a classic reference text. Hundreds of gorgeous images are used to trace the... Read More

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All That Rises

by Willem Marx

In Alma García’s novel "All That Rises", two families living on the borderland between the US and Mexico share a tangled history. Rose Marie leaves her husband and three children without explanation. On the same day but a few houses... Read More

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A Cloud in a Jar

by Danielle Ballantyne

The people of Firelight Bay have summer all year, but they have never experienced the wonder of rain. Armed with a cloud in a jar, a coat stuffed with knickknacks, and a lot of ingenuity, two young explorers set out to fix that in this... Read More

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Dragging Mason County

by Allison Janicki

In Curtis Campbell’s stunning, funny novel "Dragging Mason County", queer teenagers put on a spectacular show—the Drag Extravaganza—in their small town. In rural Mason County, Peter and his best friend Alan—two of the few gay... Read More

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