The Overstory Check out The Overstory - <p> <em>The Overstory</em>, winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, is a sweeping, impassioned work of activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation of--and paean to--the natural world. From the roots to the crown and back to the seeds, Richard Powers's twelfth novel unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fables that range from antebellum New York to the late twentieth-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond. There is a world alongside ours--vast, slow, interconnected, resourceful, magnificently inventive, and almost invisible to us. This is the story of a handful of people who learn how to see that world and who are drawn up into its unfolding catastrophe.</p> by Richard Powers on Bookshop.org US!

If you’ve ever suspected the trees are watching us (and judging, gently), this is your kind of beautifully unsettling read. The Overstory is on our reading pile this month. 🌿https://f.mtr.cool/xkysebdsnr  #bookstagram #nature #spinstersreads #affiliate

A Pair of Aces Check out A Pair of Aces - <b>A gripping novel about two trailblazing women on opposite sides of the law&mdash;a prosecutor and a madam&mdash;who team up to bring down notorious mob boss Lucky Luciano in 1930s New York, from the <i>New York Times</i> bestselling authors of the million-copy bestseller <i>The Personal Librarian.</i></b><br><br>Eunice Carter, assistant district attorney for the City of New York and Manhattan&rsquo;s first Black female prosecutor, has her sights set on the one and only Lucky Luciano, head of New York City&rsquo;s five largest organized crime families. Other prosectors have tried to bring down Lucky, but they&rsquo;ve all focused on the crime syndicate&rsquo;s traditional businesses&mdash;bootlegging, gambling, loan sharking, and drug dealing&mdash;or tax evasion. No one has thought to approach the mob through its hand in prostitution. Until Eunice. But she can&rsquo;t get Luciano alone.<br><br>Polly Adler has worked long and hard to build up her high-class brothel business. Her client list is filled with well-known names, both the famous and the infamous, who all know her booze is top-notch, her music first-rate, her food exquisite, and her girls the best. But Lucky has gone too far, putting her girls in danger, and Polly finally sees the chance to end his reign once and for all.<br><br>Together, Eunice and Polly fashion a case utilizing a network of women. Bridging the enormous divide between them and risking their own lives, they assemble evidence bit by bit, under the nose of the man they&rsquo;re trying to convict. It is this very alliance&mdash;of two women from vastly different worlds&mdash;that launches the most sensational trial New York City has ever seen. by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray on Bookshop.org US!

A Black female prosecutor + a high-class madam = a quiet alliance to take down a powerful man in 1930s New York? 

Exactly the kind of elegant, dangerous chaos we’ll always make time for.  Off to pre-order it now: https://f.mtr.cool/uhszjwcvid  #BookSky #SpinstersReads #affiliate

You never know what you’ll find when your curiosity is pricked. Lose yourself in a whimsical Parisian magical realism short story by one of The Original Spinsters. spinstersrow.com/falling-into-the-wonders... #ShortStory #MagicalMonday #SpinstersReads #SpinstersRow #Booksky

A heroine who is an everyday woman, and stumbles into being an assistant to THE Villian......who hasn't done that?
It's fantasy + slow-burn Rom-Com + fan-fiction in all the best ways. bookshop.org/a/112861/978... @hannahnicolemae.bsky.social
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Studio Ghibli energy + scrappy heroine = Vonceil. ✨ 
A post-WWI farm girl takes on the witch who cursed her family’s water. https://bookshop.org/a/112861/9780823450503 #SpinstersReads #GirlPower #GraphicNovel 
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