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The Chronicles of Samuel Carter | Alexander Ipfelkofer | Speculative (NA) (I) (F)

One rainy Sunday morning, Doctor Samuel Carter answers a phone call that would change his life. Curious, he joins a secret expedition to Egypt to “find what no one else could,” only to stumble from one mishap into the next. Upon his return to London, not quite himself, his whole world starts to unravel.

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Arrivals & Departures: Journeys in Poems | Reena Kapoor | Poetry (P)

Arrivals & Departures is writer and photographer Reena Kapoor's debut poetry collection. Her poems take the reader on journeys through a multitude of places, time periods, and emotions. From the nostalgia of one's homeland, to the suffering and resilience of women who experienced India's 1947 Partition, to parenthood, to life's other simple pleasures, Arrivals & Departures draws readers into new worlds and allows them to find themselves within.

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The Artist's Mind : The Creative Lives and Mental Health of Famous Artists | Kathryn Vercillo | Art and Mental Health (B)

Kathryn Vercillo explores the complex relationship between art and mental heath, including not just art as therapy but also how mental health symptoms impact creative process, content, medium, productivity, self-perception and reception by others. In this book, she applies that lens to short biographies of famous visual artists known or believed to have had complicated mental health histories. From the influence of anxiety and hallucinations in the work of Yayoi Kusama to the impact of trauma on to the work created in and about psychiatric care by Richard Dadd and Louis Wain, this book explores how mental health helped, hindered, or otherwise may have impacted famous creative works.

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Amy's Electronic Girls | Amy Letter | Speculative  (S) (I) (F)

All the stories in this series are short SF stories written from the perspective of "electronic girls": the first one is about a sexbot; the next story will be about a worker at a triangle factory; the next about a surveillance bot devised to camouflage among high school students, and there will be many more to come.

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