Slaughterhouse-Five

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Slaughterhouse-Five

Kurt Vonnegut

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Slaughterhouse-Five is one of the world's great anti-war books. Centering on the infamous fire-bombing of Dresden, Billy Pilgrim's odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we are afraid to know.

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Homeward Bound: On Pigeon Racing by Oliver Egger

November 26, 2025 – “Imagine being blindfolded and loaded in a car, then dropped nearly four hundred miles from your house in a random field in rural Iowa and trying to get home before dark. Oh, and not only do you not know you’re in Iowa, you don’t even know what Iowa is. That’s what these pigeons do.”

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