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The White Mosque: A Memoir by Sofia Samatar is $2 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)
Samatar is a well-known fantasy author.

A historical tapestry of border-crossing travelers, of students, wanderers, martyrs and invaders, The White Mosque is a memoiristic, prismatic record of a journey through Uzbekistan and of the strange shifts, encounters, and accidents that combine to create an identity

In the late nineteenth century, a group of German-speaking Mennonites traveled from Russia into Central Asia, where their charismatic leader predicted Christ would return.

Over a century later, Sofia Samatar joins a tour following their path, fascinated not by the hardships of their journey, but by its aftermath: the establishment of a small Christian village in the Muslim Khanate of Khiva. Named Ak Metchet, “The White Mosque,” after the Mennonites’ whitewashed church, the village lasted for fifty years.

In pursuit of this curious history, Samatar discovers a variety of characters whose lives intersect around the ancient Silk Road, from a fifteenth-century astronomer-king, to an intrepid Swiss woman traveler of the 1930s, to the first Uzbek photographer, and explores such topics as Central Asian cinema, Mennonite martyrs, and Samatar’s own complex upbringing as the daughter of a Swiss-Mennonite and a Somali-Muslim, raised as a Mennonite of color in America.

A secular pilgrimage to a lost village and a near-forgotten history, The White Mosque traces the porous and ever-expanding borders of identity, asking: How do we enter the stories of others? And how, out of the tissue of life, with its weird incidents, buried archives, and startling connections, does a person construct a self?

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Proving Ground: The Untold Story of the Six Women Who Programmed the World’s First Modern Computer is $3 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)

Discover a fascinating look into the lives of six historic trailblazers in this World War II-era story of the American women who programmed the world's first modern computer.

After the end of World War II, the race for technological supremacy sped on. Top-secret research into ballistics and computing, begun during the war to aid those on the front lines, continued across the United States as engineers and programmers rushed to complete their confidential assignments. Among them were six pioneering women, tasked with figuring out how to program the world's first general-purpose, programmable, all-electronic computer—better known as the ENIAC—even though there were no instruction codes or programming languages in existence. While most students of computer history are aware of this innovative machine, the great contributions of the women who programmed it were never told—until now.

Over the course of a decade, Kathy Kleiman met with four of the original six ENIAC Programmers and recorded extensive interviews with the women about their work. Proving Ground restores these women to their rightful place as technological revolutionaries. As the tech world continues to struggle with gender imbalance and its far-reaching consequences, the story of the ENIAC Programmers' groundbreaking work is more urgently necessary than ever before, and Proving Ground is the celebration they deserve.

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Back to Basics
(4th Edition)

Abigail Gehring

99 cents

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00NS42CYW

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Nuclear War Survival Skills

Cresson H. Kearny

99 cents

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B017WS31XK

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Off-Grid Living Guide:
Become Self-Sufficient in 9 Steps:
Essential Items, Equipment, and Knowledge Necessary for Easy Off-Grid Living

free

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C8V2SK1L

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Fearless Foraging Guide to Mushrooms

: Rapidly Identify Edible and Medicinal Mushrooms in North America
and Discover How to Use Trees to Forage Fungi

free

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CK7LMQ5F

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ELECTROCULTURE FOR BEGINNERS

: A Step-by-Step Guide with Advanced Electroculture Techniques
| Learn about Plant Growth and Crop Health with Eco-friendly...

free

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CGTG7J5B

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The Swedish Death Cleaning Bible: [3 in 1]

Unlock the Secrets to Decluttering,
Organizing, and
Finding Joy in the Swedish Art of Döstädning

free

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CBGCXMGT

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No Grid Survival Projects Bible

: Proven DIY Methods for Surviving Crises, Blackouts, and Unforeseen Disasters
: A Step-by-Step Guide for a Secure Home, Food Supply and Reliable Power
[10 books in 1]

99 cents

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CKTTN32W

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Why Is My House Always a Mess?
: How to Declutter & Organize Your Home in Just 30 Days

free

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CMD627QC

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No Grid Survival Projects Bible: [13 in 1]

Definitive DIY Guide to Master Self-Sufficiency and Overcome the Upcoming Economic Downturn

| Embark on a 2000-Day Self-Reliant Odyssey with Tested Project

99 cents

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CMKSZD1H

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Three books about Palestine by Haymarket Books are currently free: (registration required)
https://www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs...free-palestine

Light in Gaza - Writings Born of Fire edited by Jehad Abusalim, Jennifer Bing, and Mike Merryman-Lotze

Imagining the future of Gaza beyond the cruelties of occupation and Apartheid, Light in Gaza is a powerful contribution to understanding Palestinian experience.

Gaza, home to two million people, continues to face suffocating conditions imposed by Israel. This distinctive anthology imagines what the future of Gaza could be, while reaffirming the critical role of Gaza in Palestinian identity, history, and struggle for liberation.

Light in Gaza is a seminal, moving and wide-ranging anthology of Palestinian writers and artists. It constitutes a collective effort to organize and center Palestinian voices in the ongoing struggle. As political discourse shifts toward futurism as a means of reimagining a better way of living, beyond the violence and limitations of colonialism, Light in Gaza is an urgent and powerful intervention into an important political moment.

Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions - The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights by Omar Barghouti

THIRTY YEARS ago, an international movement utilizing boycott, divestment, and sanction (BDS) tactics rose in solidarity with those suffering under the brutal apartheid regime of South Africa. The historic acts of BDS activists from around the world isolated South Africa as a pariah state and heralded the end of apartheid.

Now, as awareness of the apartheid nature of the State of Israel continues to grow, Omar Barghouti, founding member of the Palestinian Civil Society Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel, presents a renewed call to action. Aimed at forcing the State of Israel to uphold international law and universal human rights for the Palestinian people, here is a manifesto for change.

Palestine: A Socialist Introduction edited by Sumaya Awad and Brian Bean

Palestine: A Socialist Introduction systematically tackles a number of important aspects of the Palestinian struggle for liberation, contextualizing it in an increasingly polarized world and offering a socialist perspective on how full liberation can be won.

Through an internationalist, anti-imperialist lens, this book explores the links between the struggle for freedom in the United States and that in Palestine, and beyond. It examines both the historical and contemporary trajectory of the Palestine solidarity movement in order to glean lessons for today’s organizers, and compellingly lays out the argument that, in order to achieve justice in Palestine, the movement has to take up the question of socialism regionally and internationally.

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How To Not Clean
: Stop Wasting Time Cleaning House & Tidying Clutter
– Discover How To Go Beyond Organizing and Minimalism to Eliminate Chores So You Can Clean Less and Live More

free

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CN3NXKSF

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The Hacker Mindset
: How thinking like a hacker can improve your code, your coffee, and your life

free

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C6V39WXD