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La veggente indecorosa di Lourdes (Paperback, Italian language, Eris Edizioni)
C’è una Lourdes che non conosciamo, che è stata cancellata dalla storia. Una Lourdes inaspettata e possibile che ci parla …
This compact volume is a wealth of knowledge on Neapolitan witchcraft, with a primary focus on the folklore behind the …
This compact volume is a wealth of knowledge on Neapolitan witchcraft, with a primary focus …
giving it five stars because it is the only resource i found it about the subject so far, but saying it's outdated is an euphemism.
the first part about witchcraft in the neapolitan area has a nice beginning and nice ending, but the whole middle chunk is so boring...
the chapter about the cimaruta is very very nice, but then, again, old and, probably, for that same reason, could go more in depth on some things.
i really like the last chapter with the illustrations though. very 19th century. lol.
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When Mackenzie wakes up with a severed crow's head in her hands, she panics. Only moments earlier she had been …
Fierce, poignant sci-fi, about hacking, love, and resistance.
Jumping to alternate realities sounds great, if you're in control. But what …
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Palo Alto’s weather is temperate, its people are educated and enterprising, its corporations are spiritually …
Content warning genocide
the Ohlone people are not gone, though the federal government refuses to acknowledge that. The Muwékma Ohlone Tribe asserts an aboriginal claim to the South Bay, including Palo Alto. In 1925, the UC Berkeley ethnologist Alfred Kroeber mistakenly listed the Verona Band of Alameda County, the government’s name for the group, as extinct, a classification the feds adopted, reversing its 1906 recognition of the Ohlone. The government claimed that, in those 20 years, the tribe disintegrated. This did not happen, but for nearly a century now government authorities have stuck by the same erroneous line.
— Palo Alto by Malcolm Harris
u.s. social science at work.
The art of reading tarot is the art of telling stories. Finding stories, claiming stories, …
this book sounds way too much liberal xr-esque sometimes. which is common, i know, but what really bothers me is the non-violent, shows the other cheek conversation. it's so insensible and stupid.
n 2016, a United Nations report found the UK government culpable for "grave and systematic …
i saw the author of this book talking a lot about disability as a social construct in online videos, and so i thought that her book was about that.
but the synopsis kind of says otherwise.
as anyone read it and can tell me more?
or just straight up suggest books that actually talk about social vs medical disability?
Seven students find unusual common ground in this warm, puzzle-like Japanese bestseller laced with gentle fantasy and compassionate insight.
Bullied …
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Seven students find unusual common ground in this warm, puzzle-like Japanese bestseller laced with gentle …
Genuinely moving, involving story following seven junior high students in Tokyo who have stopped going to school. The early part of the book may seem a little slow-paced, but I think it's just laying the groundwork and developing the characters, ready for the intensity to pick up with a wild twist in the middle and an ending that's both heartbreaking and yet, strangely, hopeful.
CWs: bullying, cancer, death, sexual assault
The art of reading tarot is the art of telling stories. Finding stories, claiming stories, shaping them and making them …
As Jane Alison writes in the introduction to her insightful and appealing book about the …
boring. cant remember who suggested it to me, but i hate them now.
i won't read a "how to write" book for a long while.
also, the author acts all like girlboss-i-eat-men-for-brekkie and then every single example is from a white cis het dude. lol.
As Jane Alison writes in the introduction to her insightful and appealing book about the craft of writing: "For centuries …
Michael is a mixed-race gay teen growing up in London. All his life, he’s navigated …
it's a teen queer story, but one that feels real for once, unlike some shitty tv series. there is doubt, there is mess, there is poetry, there is sex. but the teen sex, the one full of questions, discoveries, possibly dangerous, but in a naive way. i dont know what dean atta did, but i truly believe he was a 20 years old writing this. lol. anyway, very smooth and lovely read. it's classified as young adult and i found it in the children's section, but for that same reason it costs only £8, which is an amazing deal. eheh!
Michael is a mixed-race gay teen growing up in London. All his life, he’s navigated …
took it for the cover. bought it for the prose written like poetry.
