If you're feeling antsy while social distancing, reading is a wonderful way to travel from the cozy comfort of your living room and learn something new in the process. You can follow the echo of blues riffs in the Gulf Coast, forage for poke sallet and turtle soup in Appalachia, solve mysteries in the Northwoods of Minnesota, soak up Chicano lore in Texas, roam the back streets of Baltimore, and laugh alongside good-natured farmers in Nebraska, one page and one book at a time.

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An employee adjusts face masks displayed for sale in an open window for curbside pickup at a Lockwood store in the Astoria neighborhood in the Queens borough of New York, U.S., on Friday, June 5, 2020. For New York's small businesses, which depend almost entirely on city residents, Monday marked a vital moment to start bringing in the customers and revenue they lost during the shutdown an undertaking all the more precarious with the current social unrest. Photographer: Gabby Jones/Bloomberg via Getty Images

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