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We have quite the assortment today (though I feel like I say that every time). We have a graphic novel, a cyberpunk novella, organization non-fiction, and a mystery series that originally released in the 80s.

Have you receive any good book recommendations? Please share them in the comments!

• Bunt!

  

  The creator of Check, Please! has a new graphic novel out with more LGBTQ+ rep and sports themes! If you picked up The Avant-Guards graphic novel after seeing it in a previous Whatcha Reading, you might like this!

  Molly Bauer’s first year of college is not the picture-perfect piece of art she’d always envisioned. On day one at PICA, Molly discovers that—through some horrible twist of fate—her full-ride scholarship has vanished! But the ancient texts (PICA’s dusty financial aid documents) reveal a loophole. If Molly and 9 other art students win a single game of softball, they’ll receive a massive athletic scholarship. Can Molly’s crew of ragtag artists succeed in softball without dropping the ball?

  The author of the New York Times best-selling Check, Please series, Ngozi Ukazu, returns with debut artist Madeline Rupert to bring an energetic young adult story about authenticity, old vs. new, and college failure. It also poses the question: “Is art school worth it?”

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• Ghost of the Neon God

  

  A cyperpunk novella set in Australia! I saw a Goodreads review describe it as “unapologetically Australian.” I love Ghost in the Shell and will say I didn’t find that particular inspiration as obvious or as overt as I was expecting.

  A thrilling, propulsive story of escape as a small-time crook goes on the run across Australia with a stolen secret that will change the world, from the award-winning author of 36 Streets, perfect for fans of William Gibson’s All Tomorrow’s Parties, Richard Morgan and Ghost in the Shell.

  Jackson Nguyen is a petty crook living slim on the mean streets of Melbourne. When he crosses paths with a desperate, but wealthy, Chinese dissident, begging for his help, Jack responds in the only natural he steals her shoes.

  And yet, despite every effort to mind his own damn business, a wild spiral into the worst kind of trouble begins – Murder, mayhem, fast cars, fast-talking, bent cops, and long straight highways into the terrible beauty of the vast Australian Outback.

  In Jack’s world, taking a stand against the ruling class is the shortest path to a shallow grave. But when an Earth-shattering technology falls into his hands, he must do everything he can to stop the wrong people taking it. In a world of pervasive government surveillance and oppressive corporate control, it’s up to a small-time criminal to keep the spark of human rebellion alive.

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• How to Keep House While Drowning

  

  While some may find release from Marie Kondo-ing their living space, I am both a maximalist and have depression. I loved this take on organization, while holding space for compassion in lieu of shame.

  How to Keep House While Drowning will introduce you to six life-changing principles that will revolutionize the way you approach home care—without endless to-do lists. Presented in 31 daily thoughts, this compassionate guide will help you begin to get free of the shame and anxiety you feel over home care.

  Inside you will learn:
  · How to shift your perspective of care tasks from moral to functional
  · How to stop negative self-talk and shame around care tasks
  · How to give yourself permission to rest, even when things aren’t finished
  · How to motivate yourself to care for your space

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• Sweet, Savage Death

  

  Sarah: This is an older series but a listener emailed me about it after the RT and Romance Reader Handbook podcast episodes: Jane Haddam’s Patience McKenna series, is a mystery series about a romance author.

  When a literary agent is murdered, every bodice-ripping author is a suspect
  
  The nation’s most famous romance authors are often so over-the-top that they could star in their own work. Catty, eccentric, and vain, they live to make each other miserable—and Patience McKenna does all she can to stay out of their line of fire. Too smart for her own genre, she writes romance novels to pay the rent and investigates stories to stay sane. Now the romance wars are about to hit her on the home front. A few nights before the start of the annual American Writers of Romance conference, Pay comes home to find her apartment locked from the inside. When the police break down the door, they stumble onto Julie Simms, literary agent to the leading lights of romance, lying dead on the floor. When the conference convenes, Pay asks: Which of her colleagues has traded make-believe passion for real-life murder?

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