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offering eye-opening stories about the diversity of animal life

Quell reluctantly inducts into a debutante society of magical social elites called the Order that she never knew existed

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The Abandoners: On Mothers and Monsters Fiction_Gift_Guide not just salvation for someOne of NPR's "Books We Love" in 2024 An incisive collection about motherhood and creative life through the lens of mothers in history, literature, and pop culture who have abandoned their children. What kind of mother abandons her child? During the pandemic, trapped at home with young children and struggling to find creative space to write, journalist Begoa Gmez Urzaiz became fixated on artistic women who overcame both society's condemnation and their