Leanne Yanabu

@olopua.com

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She/her. University of New Mexico website designer. I love reading, board games, roller skating, photography, cooking and hiking. First 25 posts are books that changed my outlook. Ongoing posts are current reads. See me at olopua.com

"How can I help you" by Laura Sims. Black cover with white text. Cover illustration is a library checkout manila pocket card on fire
"Lies and Weddings" by Kevin Kwan. Title and author's name in outlined hot pink, cover image of a bride and groom holding hands, facing away from the viewer, with 6 coconut trees outlined against an erupting volcano
"Advice no one asked for" by Jenny Hagel. Light blue background, white title and author text. A blank white folded paper fortune teller is centered on the cover.
"This Beautiful, Ridiculous City" by Kay Sohini. Cover drawing of the author in a blue jacket with a striped shirt and black pants, slightly turning away to the right, in a New York subway as people enter a train in the background. A sign on the right says "West 4 St"
"Crazy Rich Asians" by Kevin Kwan. Cover has an orange background with a side profile drawing of a woman's head with black hair in a bun, round sunglasses with a thick black frame, red lips, a pearl choker, and a large gemstone drop earring.
"Cannon" by Lee Lai. Cover is a drawing of a woman in a t-shirt and black apron, with a startled expression on her face, with a red and black background, with bird wings surrounding her.
"Dark Skies" by Tiffany Francis-Baker. Cover image drawn by the author, depicting a mountain and pine trees below a night sky with northern lights, a half moon, and the big dipper constellation
"American Photographs" by Walker Evans. Black title, author, and publisher text over a light grey square cover
"Meet Me by the Fountain" by Alexandra Lange. Cover is a collage of the insides of several malls, recent and past.
"Survival in the Office" by Risu Akizuki. Volume 2 of the Office Ladies manga. Cartoon people on small bowls and plates, against a white background
"Careless People" by Sarah Wynn-Williams. Black title and author on a white background; cover image is a blue trapezoid with rounded corners; a stylized gray shark fin with a shadow protrudes from the top left corner
"Raising Raffi" by Keith Gessen. White background, crayoned letters in aqua, red, green.
"Hong Konged" by Paul Hanstedt. Cover title in red with a yellow background. Two photos of the Hanstedt children, one photo a chicken's head in a white bowl with black chopsticks overlaid. A drawing of an asian gong in the bottom right.
"Pig Years" by Ellyn Gaydos. A combination of three stock images: a red Shaker shovel with a blue morning glory flower and vine twisting around it, embedded in a smattering of brown soil, on a white background
"A Fool's Errand" by Lonnie G. Bunch III. Photo of Mr. Bunch in a suit and a gold tie, wearing glasses and a kindly smile, hands clasped in front of him. Background is the filigree metal corona of the National Museum of African American History and Culture.
"Metamaus" by Art Spiegelman. A cartoon drawing of half a mouse face in closeup with a lit cigarette protruding from his mouth over a black background. The mouse has an aqua collared shirt under a black vest. The mouse's eye is a cutout with a swastika and a death's head stylized cat in red.
"The Red Parts" by Maggie Nelson. Title and author in white uppercase text on a black background
"Stone Fruit" by Lee Lai. Cover drawing in blue tritone, a side view of two women walking single file, with a child between them, gleefully running with her hands up. All three are wearing pants, jackets, and books. The background is a leafy, grassy forest
"Which Lie Did I Tell?" by William Goldman. Cover is a variety of fonts in autumn colors; background is two rhomboids in light green and light orange, with a photo of a hand poking out of a coat and shirt sleeve, pointing with the index finger
"The Lantern of Lost Memories" by Sanaka Hiiragi. Cover is light blue/gray background with a pink frame. Cover illustration is a drawing of a person sitting on a chair under a lantern with pictures of a mountain and a moon or sun above a white tree
"Life will be the death of me" by Chelsea Handler. Photo of the author, smiling, dressed in a white shirt and white pants, crosslegged and holding two oranges, sitting on a low white bed, flanked by her two rescue Chows wearing green bandannas
"Killing Floor" by Lee Child. Title and author in black uppercase over a white background with a red handprint
"No Road Leading Back" by Chris Heath. Cover shows a misty forest with white text overlay
"The Sweet Life in Paris" by David Lebovitz. Cover photograph of a delectable puffy croissant in the foreground, a blurry cup of coffee on a green table on a saucer resting on a newspaper
"Moneyball" by Michael Lewis. Title text in red over a black and white closeup photo of a hand holding a baseball next to a leg in white pants with contrasting black piping
"Joyride" by Susan Orlean. Purple title text above the author's name in red. Off kilter in between the title and author is a photo of the author, a side view of her driving a bumper car, looking extremely happy
"How Does Aspirin Find a Headache?" by David Feldman. Red cover with white text. At the top of the cover, a square drawing of three aspirin pills using a compass and a map of a yellow head with a red X on it
"Too Famous" by Michael Wolff. Red title and author in uppercase over a black background with names of the profiled, also in black
"Everything is Tuberculosis" by John Green. Cover is yellow with text in black. There is an inverted green cone with a drawing of bacteria in a red circle
"Everyone in this room will someday be dead" by Emily Austin. Cover is white with 15 rabbit silhouettes in pink, light blue, yellow, and red.
"strangers tend to tell me things" by amy dickinson. Yellow background with two sheep in the foreground
"Making the Best of What's Left" by Judith Viorst. Cover is white with five green, red, yellow, and orange autumn leaves scattered across it
"People Who Eat Darkness" by Richard Lloyd Parry. Cover is dark red, metallic, and slightly reflective. In the bottom right corner is a halftone photo of the accused killer, hair parted to his left, wearing dark glasses
"The Great Taos Bank Robbery" by Tony Hillerman. Picture of Shiprock on the cover
"Assume the Worst" by Carl Hiaasen. Cover illustration by Roz Chast of an anvil falling out of a blue sky onto a small stick figure in a meadow landscape
"The Firm" by John Grisham. Title and author in gold behind a man in a business suit scrambling upwards, holding a briefcase in his right hand. Thin blue lines are descending towards his hands, ankles, and the briefcase, as if to imply a marionette.
"The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid" by Bill Bryson. Cover image of a grey sweater with a yellow thunderbolt hanging from a clothesline. The background is a blue sky with white clouds.
"I Deliver Parcels in Beijing" by Hu Anyan. Cover drawing of a man in a courier uniform surrounded by packages, in a glass elevator overlooking a cityscape.
"Kakigori Summer", by Emily Itami. Cover image a drawing of a landscape of three tiny figures in white on a promontory next to a red hexagonal building with a peaked grey roof and tree, above a rocky black coastline with white capped waves below.
"Airplane Mode" by Shahnaz Habib. Cover: tan to light blue gradient background with an airplane-shaped silhouette collage of flowers and other travel-related images
"Earthsea" a graphic novel based on Ursula Le Guin's "A Wizard of Earthsea". Adapted and illustrated by Fred Fordham. Cover shows a figure of a man from far overhead, walking on a beach away from the water with a long shadow behind him as if arising from the ocean depths.
"The Bride Test" by Helen Hoang. A woman with red lips and black hair in a bun on the top of her head is wearing a white shirt and studying a paper in front of her. There is a dark green airplane icon with a heart-shaped, dotted line flight path in the foreground and light yellow plane drawings against a yellow background. The title is in dark red and the author's name is upper case dark green.
"Taco USA" by Gustavo Arellano. Cover image, a family looks at the front of a restaurant with the title as the restaurant sign. There is a parking meter and a potted saguaro cactus in front of the restaurant. The American and Mexican flags top the restaurant, and statues of an eagle and a rooster as well.
"Excellent Advice for Living" by Kevin Kelly. Title and author in hot red; cover background purple
"The Last American Road Trip" by Sarah Kendzior. Cover photo a flat plain with low brush in the foreground, with large power lines crisscrossing the sky
"The Look" by Michelle Obama. Text is buff gold on a dark blue background. Photo of Michelle Obama wearing a light blue off the shoulder gown with a full skirt, at the White House
"I Regret Almost Everything" by Keith McNally. Black and white photo of the author in an overcoat, walking down an urban street alone
"Ready Player One" by Ernest Cline. Title in white block letters outlined in orange; background depicts the title character on a scaffold of many RVs and trailers stacked in a ramshackle way.
"Food Person" by Adam Roberts. Title in black; checkered tablecloth background with a hank of cooked spaghetti tumbling into a white plate. A pink comb is inserted in the spaghetti above the plate
"This American Woman" by Zarna Garg. Cover image is Zarna, holding a torch, wearing a hot pink outfit and pink athletic shoes, being carried by the Statue of Liberty, in front of a bright blue sky and several skyscrapers
"A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson. Cover image, a forest with dark tree trunks and bright greenery undergrowth. In the foreground is the top half of a large bear, facing the viewer.
"Run" by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, L. Fury, and Nate Powell. Title in large yellow uppercase font, taking up half the top of the cover, superimposed over a drawing of a crowd running about, with a young John Lewis in a jacket and tie, walking away from the crowd against a red background. A woman in sunglasses follows him holding a sign, "We Demand the RIGHT to VOTE EVERYWHERE". A young man holding a sign, "My vote was paid in BLOOD" is also visible in the background.
"Soonish" by Kelly and Zach Weinersmith. Title in white and author in black text over a light blue background. The top of the cover is a cartoon drawing of an astronaut standing on an extraterrestrial planet looking up to a space elevator connecting with the earth in outer space
"Shining City" by Tom Rosenstiel. Title text in yellow against a blue duotone photo of Washington DC pillars
"I shouldn't be telling you this (but I'm going to anyway)" by Chelsea Devantez. Handwritten title in black and subtitle in red on a light green tile background as if in a public bathroom with a cracked tile in the corner
"Jaws" by Peter Benchley. A woman, seen from the side, is swimming in the ocean above a large shark with an open mouth, looming from below
"March, Book Three" by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, Nate Powell. The title is part of the drawing of a road that a crowd of marchers are walking on
"March, Book Two" by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, Nate Powell. Top of cover: a burning bus. Bottom cover: John Lewis addressing the crowd at the August 28, 1963 March on Washington
"March, Book One" by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, Nate Powell. Top of the cover is a drawing of a crowd's legs walking; bottom third is a drawing of John Lewis and other protestors sitting at a counter with the sign "Counter Closed"
"Safe Enough" by Lee Child. Cover shows a man silhouetted at dusk digging with a shovel behind a car with an open trunk