SHOW NOTES

Creep: Accusations & Confessions by Myriam Gurba

Mean by Myriam Gurba

Poppy: A Labyrinth of Plants and a Story of Beginnings by Myriam Gurba

Myriam Gurba author site

"Pendaja, You Ain't Steinbeck" by Myriam Gurba

El Norte film

"On True Crime" by Myriam Gurba

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BOOKSTORE SPOTLIGHT

Goodwill Books: Books, Music, Movies, & Games

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CATEGORY: FAVORITE CHRISTMAS MOVIES

The Incredibles

Spy

The Ref

Uncle Buck

The Birdcage

Black Christmas

SHOW NOTES

Kanopy

501 French Verbs

The Hunkendunkens by Richard R. Livingston and Harriet Pincus

The Family Minus by Fernando Krahn

The Stupids Step Out by Harry Allard, Jr. and James Marshall

George & Martha by James Marshall

All of a Kind Family by Sydney Taylor

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INDEPENDENT BOOKSTORE SPOTLIGHT

Librairie Mosaique

Show Notes:

What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia by Elizabeth Catte

Trillbilly Workers Party podcast

Episode 1: JD Vance Is A Snitch

Episode 37: Cattehouse, or We're Broke and Our Hearts Are Too

Ken Burns documentary: The Feud

American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land by Monica Hesse

Strange as This Weather Has Been by Ann Pancake

Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia by Steven Stoll

Tooth & Claw: True Stories of Animal Attacks (podcast)

EOS Vanilla Bean Lip Balm

Lush Curl Power Hair Cream

Paintbox Soapworks: Emulsifying Sugar Scrubs

Independent Book Store:

Red Balloon Bookshop

Super Dooper Jezebel by Tony Ross

Dr. Dog by Babette Cole

Show Notes:

While They Slept: An Inquiry into the Murder of a Family by Kathryn Harrison

Damnation Island: Sick, Poor, Mad, and Criminal in 19th Century New York by Stacy Horn

The Kiss: A Memoir by Kathryn Harrison

Article: What Happens to a School Shooter's Sister?

She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb

The Surrender: An Erotic Memoir by Toni Bentley

Independent Bookstore Highlight

Next Chapter Books

Catzen Coffee

SHOW NOTES:

A Barn in New England: Making a Home on Three Acres by Joseph Monninger

Inside the Third World: The Anatomy of Poverty by Paul Harrison

FEATURED BOOKSTORE:

Epilogue Books

Rockford, Michigan

Epilogue Books Bookshop.org Link

SHOW NOTES:

Cabbage Soup recipe (again)

Sex Lies & Videotape: Graham's One Key Strategy

'It's Insanely Sinister': Horror Writers On the Scariest Stories They've Ever Read

White is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi

The Icarus Girl by Helen Oyeyemi

Gingerbread by Helen Oyeyemi

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

Soucouyant

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

Beloved by Toni Morrison

Still Life with Bones: Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains by Alexa Hagerty

The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe

The Family That Couldn't Sleep: A Medical Mystery by D.T. Max

What is Not Yours Is Not Yours by Helen Oyeyemi

Shameless (US)

Independent Bookstore Highlight

Booked - Evanston, Illinois

Our purchases:

⁠Stag Dance by Torrey Peters⁠

⁠Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail⁠

Show Notes:

Cabbage Soup recipe

Pan's Labyrinth

Frankenstein

Books That Look Like This reddit

The Unmothers by Leslie J. Anderson

Bookshop.org

Black Garnet Books

Tropes & Trifles

Lamb

In this episode:

Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail

Kristin's AI Clearinghouse Desk

Ed Zitron

American Witches: A Broomstick Tour through Four Centuries by Susan Fair

Pearl Street Books