Heal Your Gut, Save Your Brain- by Dr. Partha Nandi
Jake picked out this book, by gastroenterologist Dr. Partha Nandi. Dr. Nandi provides a guide to a healthy gut microbiome and simple ways to slow or reduce neurogenerative diseases based …
Jake picked out this book, by gastroenterologist Dr. Partha Nandi. Dr. Nandi provides a guide to a healthy gut microbiome and simple ways to slow or reduce neurogenerative diseases based …
Jake FINALLY read Dune, by Frank Herbert. Jake describes this book as a political sci-fi, featuring Paul Atreides and his mother, Jessica, who survive an assassination plot by their enemy, …
Katie was ready for a horror book and this one was ready to borrow on Libby! This story features main character Tess, whose daughter Julia is kidnapped on the same …
Jake picked out this book even though he doesn’t like smut, and was pleasantly surprised at how much he enjoyed it. This book is about Willa and Hayes, next door …
It’s spooky season and we’ve appropriately picked a spooky book for today’s episode! The House Where Death Lives is an anthology of short, young adult horror stories. Katie picked this …
Jake picked out this book, which turned out to be an amazing fiction about billionaire preppers and the end of the world….sort of 🙂 Listen to our review, but as …
This is our first Patreon-chosen book! What we thought was going to be a nonfiction sunshine filled book of appreciation actually turned out to be a fiction short story about …
Jake picked this awesome graphic novel retelling of Beowulf, reimagined as Bea Wolf, a child hero defending the kid kingdom from boring adult villain Grindle. Jake loved it. Read it. …
Jake picked out a book for Katie…and it’s a kids book! About an adorable hedgehog who wants to be ferocious!! Too cute. Join us. Have a book you want us …
Katie picked this book based on the cover she saw in Libby. This book is the true story of Stephane Breitwieser and his girlfriend, Anne-Catherine Kleinklaus. Breitweiser stole art amassing …
Katie picked out this book because the cover was awesome and the back said something along the lines of “the queer zombie novel you didn’t know you needed.” It DELIVERED, …
What’s the book this week? The cover is empty, because Jake is on Mars. Catch up with us and find out what we’re up to this week 🙂 If you …
A crew of Dutch explorers, including navigator William Barents, get icebound in the arctic circle in Nova Zembla in 1596. The crew spends 10 months stuck in the arctic, fighting …
Jake really wanted to pick out the sequel to this book, which had an image of people walking through the desert on its cover. But, after talking to the author, …
If you’re interested in the development of the atomic bombs and the implications for our world, this book is for you. Steve Olson makes the argument that Hanford was the …
While out on a training swim in the ocean off the coast of Los Angeles at 17 years old, Lynne Cox is followed by a baby gray whale and spends …
Jake picked this book because of the typewriter on the cover. Turns out, he has always wanted to type on a typewriter, and this book inspired him to go and …
Katie was drawn to the cover of this book by the beautiful watercolor art on the front and the words “a kayak journey from Vancouver Island to Alaska.” This is …
You may remember from a previous episode that Jake does not read Stephen King. But, he read this book!! Go Jake. This story follows a teen, Charlie, who inherits a …
The Berry Pickers, by Amanda Peters, is a fiction novel featuring the voices of Joe, an indigenous person of Nova Scotia who lost his four-year-old sister, Ruthie, in the berry …
Jake found this book calling to him by the cover in a different bookstore than he normally shops at. The cover spoke of ninjas, shadows and swords, and offered dark, …
This is another book Katie picked, but both of us read it this time! A Horse Walks into a Bar is a novel by David Grossman. We thought it would …
Katie picked up this book in the library in the section titled, “You May Have Missed These.” Drawn to the title, combined with the image of an angry skunk (or …
Jake was drawn to this book, Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery, by the cover. He was looking for something “grungy.” Jake and Katie both read this one. Join us for …
This is Katie’s pick. What drew her to it? A bright pink cover, the words VENOMOUS LUMPSUCKER, and a weird fish on the front. What the heck is this book …
Jake picked this book, which he describes is about a lesbian cop in a futuristic high-tech city with mushroom houses that is very anti-gay and not welcoming to our main …
We’re siblings! And on our first episode of By Its Cover, we talk about the book Into the Planet: My Life as a Cave Diver, written by Jill Heinerth. Katie picked …