Wobbly Wizard

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RN, progressive, proud Seattleite, elderly ice skater, food security activist acting locally/thinking globally, long-time women's basketball fan

A plain, cream-colored book cover for the book, Invitation To A Beheading. The top two lines of text, in large grey letters, it reads, Invitation To A. Directly below that, with a yellow background and bold letters, slightly larger, it reads, Beheading. Directly below that, in smaller, bold, red letters is the author's name, Vladimir Nabokov. Below that, in small gray print on two lines it reads, A Novel By The Author Of. Below that, in slightly larger but still small print, in bold, it reads, Lolita

A brown book cover, designed to imitate the appearance of something worn and old. At the top, in gold letters, is the book's title, The Arrival, with the first word in elaborate script. At the bottom, also in gold type, is the author's name, Shaun Tan. Between the two, and taking up over half the cover, is a drawing of a man in a long brown coat and fedora with a suitcase encountering a small, white creature not known in our world but appearing to be a cross between, perhaps, a lizard and a mouse. Other than the creature, the drawing is all in sepia tones

A mostly white book cover. At the very top, in very small black type is what appears to be a blurb for the book. The resolution of the photo is not sufficient to read the blurb. Just below that, in larger black letters, is the author's name, Brian Boyle. In the center of the cover and taking up most of the vertical space is a large crow. Superimposed on the crow in white block letters is the book's title, Mink River. Behind the crow is a vague landscape, perhaps an ocean, in gray tones

A book cover. In the background is a white circle with a swastika in it. An evil-looking cat is at the center of the swastika. Above that cat is the title, Maus, in ragged red letters. Above the title it says, The Complete in small white letters. Below the cat figure are two mice, one larger than the other, in coats, the larger mouse on the left. The larger mouse's coat is blue and the smaller's is brown. Just below their faces is the author's name in script, Art Spiegelman. Just to the left of the larger mouse is a ragged red circle and on it are the yellow words, Winner of the Pulitzer Prize

Photo of a book cover. At the top is a blurb in small print that, because of the resolution of this picture, is unreadable. In the center third of the cover is the drawing of a Black girl with kinky hair and a red bandana. She is wearing ragged cutoffs and white tennis shoes. She is holding a sign over the bottom half of her face to just below her waist that reads, in black capital letters, The Hate U Give. At the very bottom of the cover, just below the girl's shoes, is the author's name, Angie Thomas, in red letters

A book cover. In a narrow white strip on the leftr side is the author's name, Wendell Berry. The top half of the rest of the cover, on a red background in large yellow letters, is the title, Jayber Crow, with very small letters below that saying, A Novel. The bottom third is a red background with yellow letters that say, The life story of Jayber Crow, Barber of the Port William Membership written by himself. In between this and the title block is a drawing of a peaceful-looking river valley with green hills on both sides, a river in the middle reflecting what appears to be dawn light, and sun shining through clouds at the top. There is the very top of what appears to be a church steeple in the foreground

A cartoon divided vertically into two panels. In the first panel is an anthropomorphized dog with a hat on his head, sitting calmly on a chair, a cup of something on the table in front of him. The room is on fire and heavy smoke billows above his head. The second panel is a closeup view of the same scene, with a word bubble over the dog's head that reads, This Is Fine

A book cover divided horizontally and approximately into thirds. The top third is the author's name, Jonathan Kozol, in white letters on a green background. Above his name in smaller script are the words, New York Times Bestseller. Below his name is a blurb in tiny script that is unreadable in this photo. In the center third of the cover is a black and white photo of Black children on a school bus. In the bottom third, on a white background with green letters, is the book's title, Savage Inequalities. Below the title, in smaller black letters, it reads, Children In America's Schools

Photo of a black book cover, showing both the front and spine of the book. On both the cover and spine there are elaborate white curlicues. In large, slanting, elaborate white script, diagonally across the front cover is the book title, Great Expectations. At the bottom, in red letters, the author's name, Charles Dickens. To the right, in the bottom third, is an elaborate red clock with white numerals. The spine replicates many of these elements, except there is no clock, the title is in red letters, and the author's name is at the bottom in a red box and black letters

A light green book cover with a white Christian cross in the center. On the top half of the cover is black text that reads, The International Bestseller, Marilynne Robinson, Gilead. In very small print below that it reads, A Novel. Below that and off to the right a bit is a gold seal saying, Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. There is a blurb in very small print at the bottom of the cover

A black book cover with a red ring in the center. Within that ring in white letters, the title of the book, Lord Of The Rings. Between the words Lord and Of is the author's name in red script, J.R.R Tolkien. Outside the red ring is the suggestion of another ring. Between the two rings, in red script, is text in an invented language we cannot decipher

An aqua book cover. In dark blue letters at the top it says So You Want To. Below that is a jagged, white word bubble with the words, Talk About Race in it. The bottom of the word bubble points toward the author's name, Ijeoma Oluo, in dark blue letters. Right above her name is a blurb that says, Fascinating, real, and necessary. At the very top of the cover it says, The #1 New York Times Bestseller

A blue book cover. In very large font in the center of the cover are the words, The 1619 Project. At the top are the words, A New American Origin Story. At the bottom are the words, Created by Nikole Hannah-Jones, Winner of the Pulitzer Prize

A book cover. The background is bright red. The lettering is in yellow. On the top two thirds of the cover, in flowing script, is the book's title, Beloved. In smaller script in the bottom third, it says, A novel by Toni Morrison, winner of the Nobel Prize

Book cover of Sometimes A Great Notion, Ken Kesey. The background is green river banks in the upper right and lower left, with a blue area of what we assume to be water in the middle. In the water are several dark and light brown objects (if one has read the book, these are clearly logs)

Photo of a book cover for Slaughterhouse Five or The Children's Crusade, A New Novel by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr

Photo of a book cover with the title, All The Pretty Horses at the top in black letters and the author, Cormac McCarthy below that in a black box with white letters. The bottom two thirds of the cover show an extreme closeup of a horse's mane with a landscape in the background

Photo of a book cover. The book's title is Their Eyes Were Watching God, which is in white letters at left center. At the top of the photo is the author's name, Zora Neale Hurston. The background is a drawing of a Black woman with her eyes closed, a look of repose on her face. The entire cover is sepia-colored

A book cover The background is mostly yellow, with a strip of green grass and trees at the bottom. A two-story white house is to the left of the green area. On the upper, yellow part of the cover are the words "The Brothers K," with the K taking up the entire right portion of the yellow area

Photo of a book cover, Ridley Walker, Russell Hoban

Photo of Kamala Harris with the words, "Don't blame me, I voted for her" beside it

Photo of a white man with a long, white beard, black, round glasses, a wizard hat, and what looks like a wizard's cape