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Neglected Books @neglectedbooks.com · 18/11/2025

Next in the Recovered Books series from @bhousepress.bsky.social: Makeshift, Sarah Campion's 1940 novel about the journey of Charlotte Herz, a German Jewish woman, from 1919 through the Weimar republic, the rise of the Nazis, and her journey in search of a new home.

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Neglected Books @neglectedbooks.com · 18/11/2025

Josephine Johnson wrote Seven Houses: a Memoir of Time and Places (1973) when she was in her sixties. It’s a memoir constructed around the framework of the seven houses in which she had spent most of her life to that point. (Not all innovation in the memoir is recent.) neglectedbooks.com/?...

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Barbara Drake-Vera @barbaradrakevera.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

My accomplishment this week has been not dying in the heat dome.

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Barbara Drake-Vera @barbaradrakevera.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Thank you for outlining it so clearly. My heart weeps

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Barbara Drake-Vera @barbaradrakevera.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Grateful to the Key West Literary Seminar for hosting me as their June writer in residence for my novel in progress. What a gift! (View from my KW studio)

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Neglected Books @neglectedbooks.com · 24/07/2025

H. L. Davis's Winds of Morning (1952) is a western in the same sense that Norman Maclean's A River Runs Through It is a western: yes, there are cows and cowboys in Davis's book, but fundamentally, it's about how people come to ways of living in a land so much bigger than us. neglectedbooks.com/?...

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Neglected Books @neglectedbooks.com · 01/07/2025

Back in 2021, I read a 1966 novel about a young woman on a remote ranch in Nevada that had never been published in the US. Luckily, I tracked down its author, Joaquina Howles, and arrange to republish No More Giants with @bhousepress.bsky.social before she died last year. neglectedbooks.com/?...

Joaquina Ballard Howles holding a copy of the new edition of No More Giants from Boiler House Press in November 2023

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Barbara Drake-Vera @barbaradrakevera.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Thank you. They took our gardener. Such a decent hardworking family man. I can't believe I am witnessing such evil.

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Barbara Drake-Vera @barbaradrakevera.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Horrific. It is happening in my own community.

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

My interview earlier this evening on #BBC #WorldNewsAmerica about the closing window for averting dangerous planetary warming: www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7DU...

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Michael Mann on BBC World News America Discussing Closing Window for Limiting Warming Below 1.5C

YouTube video by Michael Mann

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 10/06/2025

A milestone: the first electric aircraft has landed at JFK. "...the flight from the airport in East Hampton to New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport took 45 minutes with a pilot and four people" and cost ... $8 worth of electricity.

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First electric aircraft lands at JFK — General Aviation News

According to Beta Technology officials, the ALIA can fly 250 nautical miles on a single charge. He told reporters from Reuters that it cost just $8 to power the 45-minute flight.

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Barbara Drake-Vera @barbaradrakevera.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Your endorsement meant the world to me. And it captured the book!

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Barbara Drake-Vera @barbaradrakevera.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

My residency workspace at the Key West Literary Seminar. So grateful for this opportunity.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

'Rising Tides' by contemporary US painter Samantha French #WomensArt

Painting featuring a Black woman, head and shoulders, floating under turquoise water with eyes closed smiling and with bubbles coming out of her nose

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 05/06/2025

A plague a’ both houses!

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Barbara Drake-Vera @barbaradrakevera.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

They will always remember the teeny book.

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JoseKerstenProtectAnimals @josevoordieren.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

"The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have someone write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long, that nation will forget what it is and what it was." - Milan Kundera

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Barbara Drake-Vera @barbaradrakevera.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Entrance to my residency cottage in Key West, with the generous support of the Key West Literary Seminar. So grateful for the opportunity.

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✨ A Goddess has NO KING ✨ @the-goddess-speaks.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

A Florida weatherman telling his viewers he can no longer be confident in his forecasts due to cuts to atmospheric science is the kind of resistance content I’m here for. Kudos, Sir.🌦️

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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Remembering Marilyn Monroe on her birthday 🎂 📷 Ed Feingersh, 1955 “Her fame increases, & as it does so we see how far she depended on, and excelled in, photographs - not movies. She is funnier in stills, sexier, more mysterious & protected against being. ” - David Thomson

Marilyn in a subway station, under signs:
Uptown Local - Grand Central

A passer-by watches

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Brianna Craft @briannacraft.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Climate memoirs are special. They’re how my storytelling journey began. @barbaradrakevera.bsky.social was the first writer to ask me for an endorsement. Melt ❤️ Literally 😭 Barbara’s story centers her Peruvian family & her time with an Andean glacier. I so enjoyed returning there through her words.

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Barbara Drake-Vera @barbaradrakevera.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

I would love to see that in a restored version.

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Barbara Drake-Vera @barbaradrakevera.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Thank you, Brianna, for featuring MELTED AWAY as this month's climate read. So honored!

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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Remembering Rachel Carson on her birthday 🎂 📷 Alfred Eisenstaedt for Life magazine, 1962 That was the year Carson published her classic book Silent Spring

Carson sitting by a stream with a pair of binoculars

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ACOG @acog.org · 27/05/2025

ACOG is deeply disappointed by HHS’s move to drop COVID-19 vaccine recommendations in pregnancy. The science is clear: COVID-19 remains dangerous in pregnancy and vaccination protects both patients and newborns. The vaccine is safe and protects families. Read our full statement: buff.ly/OGue7sO

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

This Memorial Day weekend, the best way to honor the soldiers who gave the ultimate sacrifice is to honor and protect the freedoms and the democracy they died for.

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Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Today is #WorldDraculaDay because Bram Stoker's classic novel was first published #onthisday in 1897. It's also worth remembering that if Stoker hadn't come across the name Dracula in a book while researching in a LIBRARY the main character was going to be called Count Wampyr. 🧛‍♂️

A section of Bram Stoker's notes where the name Wampyr is crossed out and replaced with Dracula

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Barbara Drake-Vera @barbaradrakevera.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Wow. Vile is the word. Thank you for sharing.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 21/05/2025

You have three days, starting today, to leave a public comment with the FDA about, say, why COVID-19 boosters should remain available to everyone and also free. "Individual consumer" is the category you most likely want (unless you are one of the other categories; if so, choose that).

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Barbara Drake-Vera @barbaradrakevera.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Yeah. Their groove is so deep and fluid. Major respect for Clinton and his musicians.

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Ryan Ray @ryanrayfla.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

My favorite road sign

A sign designating a canopy road in Tallahassee, Florida

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