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  1. Rec *

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    The picturesque village of Buell, Maine is one of the last in the United States to continue the tradition of the “harvest” or “prosperity” lottery. Its residents insist the lottery makes them stronger, even as condemnation from outsiders grows.

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    07 Jan 2026

  2. Rec 40

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    Cody has wanted to be a ballplayer since she knew how to hold a bat. But life in Rockford, IL in the inaugural season of the All-American Girls' Professional Baseball League isn't exactly what she expected. The uniforms are dresses, there are regular hair and makeup sessions, and she's required to wear heels every time she leaves the house. Cody spends most of her time with Siri and Quinn, infielders who rack up fines for wearing trousers practically every day.

    On the opposite end of the spectrum is Obi-Wan Kenobi, the team's ace pitcher. Her lipstick is always flawless, her curls are always just so, and she never seems to break a sweat, even when she's working on a perfect game. She and Cody make a perfect battery on the field, but Kenobi hardly looks Cody's way off of it.

    That all changes the day Cody takes a cleat to the face.

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    22 Dec 2025

  3. Rec *

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    "You're dead."

    Kote’s eyes met Obi-Wan’s. He saw, in slow motion, what abject panic looked like on the Jedi’s face. He’d never seen that expression before. It felt intimate, a side that Cody had never been allowed to see. No one had.

    Then, Obi-Wan relaxed into Kote’s grip on his cape, his head tilting minutely back against the wall. And he leaned, pressing his throat ever so gently towards the blade, his expression open and wondering and accepting.

    “Cody…” he breathed, and he was smiling, crookedly and so wide that it must have hurt.

    Kote could have pressed the blade all the way home in that moment.

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    For Obi-Wan Kenobi, the war has been over for ten years.
    For Cody, the war has been over for eight months and seventeen standard days.

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    08 Dec 2025

  4. Public Bookmark *

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    What Sasuke Uchiha wants is an indeterminate EC-02 Step 2 position with the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation that offers a decent salary, health benefits, paid vacation, and a manager who won't break all his Excel spreadsheets. What he gets is Naruto Uzumaki, an improbably attractive and unbearably annoying co-op student who eats way too much instant ramen and doesn't understand that "casual Friday" doesn't mean varsity sweatpants.

    Official CBC Canada Reads Selection 2019, made possible by the generous support of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ottawa Tourism Board.

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    17 Nov 2025

  5. Rec *

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    “Is there any chance that you might be willing or able or convince-able to retrieve the journals?” Lando asks.

    Kestis considers a butterfly as it flutters around him.

    “I’m a felon on Araa,” he says. “If I go there now, I can’t get back out.”

    “A felon,” Leia deadpans.

    “Killed a man, yes. That’s murder, a felony,” Kestis says.

    Leia holds her face in her hands.

    I’m gonna be a felon on Araa,” she grumbles.

     

    (Someone steals Obi-Wan’s journals. Leia and Luke go all the way to small-town Stewjon to get them back just as a new bout of Jedi-mania takes hold in popular culture. They get help from a string of new and old allies, but at what cost?)

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    17 Nov 2025