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2022 selection · Graphic novels
Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands
Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton appears in NPR’s 2022 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around staff picks, biography & memoir, comics & graphic novels, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
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