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thisisfranklin rated WE HEREBY REFUSE: 5 stars
WE HEREBY REFUSE by Matt Sasaki, Ross Ishikawa, Frank Abe, and 1 other
Three voices. Three acts of defiance. One mass injustice.
The story of camp as you’ve never seen it before. Japanese …
thisisfranklin rated Midnight's Children: 5 stars
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
Saleem Sinai is born at the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, the very moment of India’s independence. Greeted …
thisisfranklin rated Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats: 5 stars
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1939) is a collection of whimsical light poems by T. S. Eliot about feline …
thisisfranklin rated The Carnal Prayer Mat: 4 stars
thisisfranklin rated Edible memory: 2 stars
Edible memory by Jennifer A. Jordan
The complex relations between memories of foods eaten and the rise of heirloom produce.
thisisfranklin rated The Thursday Murder Club: 5 stars
The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman (The Thursday Murder Club, #1)
Welcome to... THE THURSDAY MURDER CLUB
In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet weekly in the Jigsaw Room …
thisisfranklin rated Small Fires: 5 stars
thisisfranklin rated Safe Area Gorazde: 5 stars
thisisfranklin rated Uncommon Reader: 5 stars
Alan Bennett: Uncommon Reader (2022, Picador)
Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
The Uncommon Reader is none other than HM the Queen who drifts accidentally into reading when her corgis stray into …
thisisfranklin rated Free Food for Millionaires: 1 star
Min Jin Lee: Free Food for Millionaires (2022, Grand Central Publishing)
Free Food for Millionaires by Min Jin Lee
Casey Han's four years at Princeton gave her many things, "But no job and a number of bad habits." Casey's …
thisisfranklin rated Chokepoint Capitalism: 3 stars
Chokepoint Capitalism by Rebecca Giblin, Cory Doctorow
A call to action for the creative class and labor movement to rally against the power of Big Tech and …
thisisfranklin rated Kingdom of Characters: 4 stars
thisisfranklin rated Kampung boy: 3 stars
Kampung boy by Lat.
Relates the life experiences, from birth to beginning boarding school, of a boy growing up on a rubber plantation in …