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Book cover of The Sun Is a Compass: A 4,000-Mile Journey Into the Alaskan Wilds

Christine Reed Author Of Blood Sweat Tears

From Christine's 3 favorite reads in 2024.

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Christine's 3 favorite reads in 2024

Christine Reed Why Christine loves this book

It's a personal story where the writer questions her own desires in life, but also experiences an adventure with her partner, that pushes at the edges of what they thought was possible.

By Caroline Van Hemert ,

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6 authors picked The Sun Is a Compass as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

During graduate school, as she conducted experiments on the peculiarly misshapen beaks of chickadees, ornithologist Caroline Van Hemert began to feel stifled in the isolated, sterile environment of the lab. Worried that she was losing her passion for the scientific research she once loved, she was compelled to experience wildness again, to be guided by the sounds of birds and to follow the trails of animals.

In March of 2012 she and her husband set off on a 4,000-mile wilderness journey from the Pacific rainforest to the Alaskan Arctic. Travelling by rowboat, ski, foot, raft and canoe, they explored northern…


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Book cover of The High House

The High House by James Stoddard,

The Victorian mansion, Evenmere, is the mechanism that runs the universe.

The lamps must be lit, or the stars die. The clocks must be wound, or Time ceases. The Balance between Order and Chaos must be preserved, or Existence crumbles.

Appointed the Steward of Evenmere, Carter Anderson must learn the…

Book cover of Unbound

Christine Reed Author Of Blood Sweat Tears

From Christine's 3 favorite reads in 2024.

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Christine's 3 favorite reads in 2024

Christine Reed Why Christine loves this book

This book is about the search for self that many of us experience in our 20s -- a breaking away from the ideas of who we are that are passed down by family members, and aren't always serving us as we grow into our own identities. The author handles this eloquently and through the process of an amazing physical feat.

By Steph Jagger ,

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1 author picked Unbound as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

A young woman follows winter across five continents on a physical and spiritual journey that tests her body and soul, in this transformative memoir, full of heart and courage, that speaks to the adventurousness in all of us. Steph Jagger had always been a force of nature. Dissatisfied with the passive, limited roles she saw for women growing up, she emulated the men in her life-chasing success, climbing the corporate ladder, ticking the boxes, playing by the rules of a masculine ideal. She was accomplished. She was living "The Dream." But it wasn't her dream. Then the universe caught her…


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