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Anne's pick

Mad Woman

By Louisa Treger

Historical fiction, 1877

The name Nellie Bly is one we’re familiar with but who was Nellie Bly?

Mad Woman is historical fiction based on this incredible woman’s life as she starts in Victorian NYCity as a 23 year old journalist and woman in the newsroom. First as a trailblazer journalist, she faked insanity and had herself committed to an asylum. Her successful journalistic career resulted in tremendous social change for the rights of women. Nellie Bly ended her career as the first female war correspondent, reporting from the front lines of World War I for five consecutive years.

Julie's pick

Looking Up: The True Adventures of a Storm-Chasing Weather Nerd

By Matthew Cappucci

Looking Up: The True Adventures of a Storm-Chasing Weather Nerd by Matthew Cappucci is a memoir/true adventure tale/weather science lesson all rolled into one. Cappucci is a meteorologist and as he storm-chases around the country he outlines the science of weather in clear, understandable language that is necessary to express the greater impact climate change is having on our daily lives. He has also given me new respect for meteorologists and the mountain of frustration they must feel trying to predict weather events when everything these days is a weather “anomaly” and we regularly see 200 or 500 year weather events. This book is also just a really fun adventure and a really good book!

NOTE: I highly recommend the audio version of this book!

Rani's pick

The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey

By Rinker Buck

The Oregon Trail is a fascinating, sometimes scary, and oftentimes hilarious account of a modern-day, old-timey journey.

In 2008 Rinker Buck drove through Kansas and encountered a journal from 1850 describing life on the Oregon Trail. He was hooked. Rinker’s interest became an obsession which, in 2011, became an actual, real-life journey complete with wagon and mules, to traverse the actual Oregon Trail. Over the course of four months, Rinker and his younger brother Nick, traveled the roughly 2,000 miles across the western half of the country by covered wagon.

This book is a combination history, social study of past and present America, thriller, and comedy. I’m listening to it on audio and originally thought I’d use it on a timer to lull me back to sleep in the mids of the nights. But when I found myself staying awake, setting timer after timer, engrossed, and laughing out loud…..well I listen in the daytime now. It's truly entertaining.

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The Jasmine Throne

By Tasha Suri

A story inspired by the history of India. It's fantasy packed with political intrigue, wild magic, a budding sapphic romance, and all-around slow-burns. Seriously, the plot and characters are a slow-burn in their own way, which creates a delightful, simmering build-up that makes it so satisfying to read all of these plot lines come together and clash and crash. And the romance! One of my favorites of all time! The characters are as complex as the plot, and seeing them all fight tooth and nail to regain power had me constantly on the edge of my seat.

The Jasmine Throne takes its time building every single aspect of it in the best of ways, the author's voice is enchanting, and its so immersive that you won't want to put it down! A must-read for fantasy lovers!!

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