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Both humorous and scientifically accurate, this book details an astronaut's trip to Mars and events that unfold leading to him being left behind. How does he survive? Will he make it back to Earth?

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The Martian

A Novel

By Andy Weir

Random House LLC

Copyright © 2014 Andy Weir
All rights reserved.
ISBN: 978-0-553-41802-6
CHAPTER 1

LOG ENTRY: SOL 6

I'm pretty much fucked.

That's my considered opinion.

Fucked.

Six days into what should be the greatest two months of my life, and it's turned into a nightmare.

I don't even know who'll read this. I guess someone will find it eventually. Maybe a hundred years from now.

For the record ... I didn't die on Sol 6. Certainly the rest of the crew thought I did, and I can't blame them. Maybe there'll be a day of national mourning for me, and my Wikipedia page will say, "Mark Watney is the only human being to have died on Mars."

And it'll be right, probably. 'Cause I'll surely die here. Just not on Sol 6 when everyone thinks I did.

Let's see ... where do I begin?

The Ares Program. Mankind reaching out to Mars to send people to another planet for the very first time and expand the horizons of humanity blah, blah, blah. The Ares 1 crew did their thing and came back heroes. They got the parades and fame and love of the world.

Ares 2 did the same thing, in a different location on Mars. They got a firm handshake and a hot cup of coffee when they got home.

Ares 3. Well, that was my mission. Okay, not mine per se. Commander Lewis was in charge. I was just one of her crew. Actually, I was the very lowest ranked member of the crew. I would only be "in command" of the mission if I were the only remaining person.

What do you know? I'm in command.

I wonder if this log will be recovered before the rest of the crew die of old age. I presume they got back to Earth all right. Guys, if you're reading this: It wasn't your fault. You did what you had to do. In your position I would have done the same thing. I don't blame you, and I'm glad you survived.

I guess I should explain how Mars missions work, for any layman who may be reading this. We got to Earth orbit the normal way, through an ordinary ship to Hermes. All the Ares missions use Hermes to get to and from Mars. It's really big and cost a lot so NASA built only one.

Once we got to Hermes, four additional unmanned missions brought us fuel and supplies while we prepared for our trip. Once everything was a go, we set out for Mars. But not very fast. Gone are the days of heavy chemical fuel burns and trans-Mars injection orbits.

Hermes is powered by ion engines. They throw argon out the back of the ship really fast to get a tiny amount of acceleration. The thing is, it doesn't take much reactant mass, so a little argon (and a nuclear reactor to power things) let us accelerate constantly the whole way there. You'd be amazed at how fast you can get going with a tiny acceleration over a long time.

I could regale you with tales of how we had great fun on the trip, but I won't. I don't feel like reliving it right now. Suffice it to say we got to Mars 124 days later without strangling each other.

From there, we took the MDV (Mars descent vehicle) to the surface. The MDV is basically a big can with some light thrusters and parachutes attached. Its sole purpose is to get six humans from Mars orbit to the surface without killing any of them.

And now we come to the real trick of Mars exploration: having all of our shit there in advance.

A total of fourteen unmanned missions deposited everything we would need for surface operations. They tried their best to land all the supply vessels in the same general area, and did a reasonably good job. Supplies aren't nearly so fragile as humans and can hit the ground really hard. But they tend to bounce around a lot.

Naturally, they didn't send us to Mars until they'd confirmed that all the supplies had made it to the surface and their containers weren't breached. Start to finish, including supply missions, a Mars mission takes about three years. In fact, there were Ares 3 supplies en route to Mars while the Ares 2 crew were on their way home.

The most important piece of the advance supplies, of course, was the MAV. The Mars ascent vehicle. That was how we would get back to Hermes after surface operations were complete. The MAV was soft-landed (as opposed to the balloon bounce-fest the other supplies had). Of course, it was in constant communication with Houston, and if there had been any problems with it, we would have passed by Mars and gone home without ever landing.

The MAV is pretty cool. Turns out, through a neat set of chemical reactions with the Martian atmosphere, for every kilogram of hydrogen you bring to Mars, you can make thirteen kilograms of fuel. It's a slow process, though. It takes twenty-four months to fill the tank. That's why they sent it long before we got here.

You can imagine how disappointed I was when I discovered the MAV was gone.

It was a ridiculous sequence of events that led to me almost dying, and an even more ridiculous sequence that led to me surviving.

The mission is designed to handle sandstorm gusts up to 150 kph. So Houston got understandably nervous when we got whacked with 175 kph winds. We all got in our flight space suits and huddled in the middle of the Hab, just in case it lost pressure. But the Hab wasn't the problem.

The MAV is a spaceship. It has a lot of delicate parts. It can put up with storms to a certain extent, but it can't just get sandblasted forever. After an hour and a half of sustained wind, NASA gave the order to abort. Nobody wanted to stop a monthlong mission after only six days, but if the MAV took any more punishment, we'd all have gotten stranded down there.

We had to go out in the storm to get from the Hab to the MAV. That was going to be risky, but what choice did we have?

Everyone made it but me.

Our main communications dish, which relayed signals from the Hab to Hermes, acted like a parachute, getting torn from its foundation and carried with the torrent. Along the way, it crashed through the reception antenna array. Then one of those long thin antennae slammed into me end-first. It tore through my suit like a bullet through butter, and I felt the worst pain of my life as it ripped open my side. I vaguely remember having the wind knocked out of me (pulled out of me, really) and my ears popping painfully as the pressure of my suit escaped.

The last thing I remember was seeing Johanssen hopelessly reaching out toward me.

I awoke to the oxygen alarm in my suit. A steady, obnoxious beeping that eventually roused me from a deep and profound desire to just fucking die.

The storm had abated; I was facedown, almost totally buried in sand. As I groggily came to, I wondered why I wasn't more dead.

The antenna had enough force to punch through the suit and my side, but it had been stopped by my pelvis. So there was only one hole in the suit (and a hole in me, of course).

I had been knocked back quite a ways and rolled down a steep hill. Somehow I landed facedown, which forced the antenna to a strongly oblique angle that put a lot of torque on the hole in the suit. It made a weak seal.

Then, the copious blood from my wound trickled down toward the hole. As the blood reached the site of the breach, the water in it quickly evaporated from the airflow and low pressure, leaving a gunky residue behind. More blood came in behind it and was also reduced to gunk. Eventually, it sealed the gaps around the hole and reduced the leak to something the suit could counteract.

The suit did its job admirably. Sensing the drop in pressure, it constantly flooded itself with air from my nitrogen tank to equalize. Once the leak became manageable, it only had to trickle new air in slowly to relieve the air lost.

After a while, the CO2 (carbon dioxide) absorbers in the suit were expended. That's really the limiting factor to life support. Not the amount of oxygen you bring with you, but the amount of CO2 you can remove. In the Hab, I have the oxygenator, a large piece of equipment that breaks apart CO2 to give the oxygen back. But the space suits have to be portable, so they use a simple chemical absorption process with expendable filters. I'd been asleep long enough that my filters were useless.

The suit saw this problem and moved into an emergency mode the engineers call "bloodletting." Having no way to separate out the CO2, the suit deliberately vented air to the Martian atmosphere, then backfilled with nitrogen. Between the breach and the bloodletting, it quickly ran out of nitrogen. All it had left was my oxygen tank.

So it did the only thing it could to keep me alive. It started backfilling with pure oxygen. I now risked dying from oxygen toxicity, as the excessively high amount of oxygen threatened to burn up my nervous system, lungs, and eyes. An ironic death for someone with a leaky space suit: too much oxygen.

Every step of the way would have had beeping alarms, alerts, and warnings. But it was the high-oxygen warning that woke me.

The sheer volume of training for a space mission is astounding. I'd spent a week back on Earth practicing emergency space suit drills. I knew what to do.

Carefully reaching to the side of my helmet, I got the breach kit. It's nothing more than a funnel with a valve at the small end and an unbelievably sticky resin on the wide end. The idea is you have the valve open and stick the wide end over a hole. The air can escape through the valve, so it doesn't interfere with the resin making a good seal. Then you close the valve, and you've sealed the breach.

The tricky part was getting the antenna out of the way. I pulled it out as fast as I could, wincing as the sudden pressure drop dizzied me and made the wound in my side scream in agony.

I got the breach kit over the hole and sealed it. It held. The suit backfilled the missing air with yet more oxygen. Checking my arm readouts, I saw the suit was now at 85 percent oxygen. For reference, Earth's atmosphere is about 21 percent. I'd be okay, so long as I didn't spend too much time like that.

I stumbled up the hill back toward the Hab. As I crested the rise, I saw something that made me very happy and something that made me very sad: The Hab was intact (yay!) and the MAV was gone (boo!).

Right that moment I knew I was screwed. But I didn't want to just die out on the surface. I limped back to the Hab and fumbled my way into an airlock. As soon as it equalized, I threw off my helmet.

Once inside the Hab, I doffed the suit and got my first good look at the injury. It would need stitches. Fortunately, all of us had been trained in basic medical procedures, and the Hab had excellent medical supplies. A quick shot of local anesthetic, irrigate the wound, nine stitches, and I was done. I'd be taking antibiotics for a couple of weeks, but other than that I'd be fine.

I knew it was hopeless, but I tried firing up the communications array. No signal, of course. The primary satellite dish had broken off, remember? And it took the reception antennae with it. The Hab had secondary and tertiary communications systems, but they were both just for talking to the MAV, which would use its much more powerful systems to relay to Hermes. Thing is, that only works if the MAV is still around.

I had no way to talk to Hermes. In time, I could locate the dish out on the surface, but it would take weeks for me to rig up any repairs, and that would be too late. In an abort, Hermes would leave orbit within twenty-four hours. The orbital dynamics made the trip safer and shorter the earlier you left, so why wait?

Checking out my suit, I saw the antenna had plowed through my bio-monitor computer. When on an EVA, all the crew's suits are networked so we can see each other's status. The rest of the crew would have seen the pressure in my suit drop to nearly zero, followed immediately by my bio-signs going flat. Add to that watching me tumble down a hill with a spear through me in the middle of a sandstorm ... yeah. They thought I was dead. How could they not?

They may have even had a brief discussion about recovering my body, but regulations are clear. In the event a crewman dies on Mars, he stays on Mars. Leaving his body behind reduces weight for the MAV on the trip back. That means more disposable fuel and a larger margin of error for the return thrust. No point in giving that up for sentimentality.

So that's the situation. I'm stranded on Mars. I have no way to communicate with Hermes or Earth. Everyone thinks I'm dead. I'm in a Hab designed to last thirty-one days.

If the oxygenator breaks down, I'll suffocate. If the water reclaimer breaks down, I'll die of thirst. If the Hab breaches, I'll just kind of explode. If none of those things happen, I'll eventually run out of food and starve to death.

So yeah. I'm fucked.

CHAPTER 2

LOG ENTRY: SOL 7

Okay, I've had a good night's sleep, and things don't seem as hopeless as they did yesterday.

Today I took stock of supplies and did a quick EVA to check up on the external equipment. Here's my situation:

The surface mission was supposed to be thirty-one days. For redundancy, the supply probes had enough food to last the whole crew fifty-six days. That way if one or two probes had problems, we'd still have enough food to complete the mission.

We were six days in when all hell broke loose, so that leaves enough food to feed six people for fifty days. I'm just one guy, so it'll last me three hundred days. And that's if I don't ration it. So I've got a fair bit of time.

I'm pretty flush on EVA suits, too. Each crew member had two space suits: a flight spacesuit to wear during descent and ascent, and the much bulkier and more robust EVA suit to wear when doing surface operations. My flight spacesuit has a hole in it, and of course the crew was wearing the other five when they returned to Hermes. But all six EVA suits are still here and in perfect condition.

(Continues...)

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Reading Group Guide

A castaway story for the new millennium, The Martian presents a fresh take on the classic man-vs-nature battle for survival by setting it on the surface of Mars-a planet completely hostile to sustaining human life. Yet debut novelist and self-proclaimed space nerd Andy Weir manages to make every moment of astronaut Mark Watney's outer-space ordeal painstakingly realistic and believable.

After Mark Watney is injured, separated from his crew in a sandstorm, and left for dead, alone on the red planet and cut off from any communication, his first priority is tending to his injury and making it through the first day-or sol. Soon he realizes he must do more than survive the day-he must plan long-term if he is to live for years until the next mission is due to arrive.

At its heart, The Martian is a tale of survival of the geekiest. Mark's scientific ingenuity, his radically inventive botanical solution to starvation, his ability to address seemingly insurmountable problems with rationality and practicality, his sanity-saving sense of humor, and his understated bravery becomes a moving testament to the human spirit. When the ground team at NASA and his crew discover he is alive, their commitment to rescuing one man against all odds likewise speaks to humanity's deeply rooted sense of connection.

Ultimately, The Martian transcends its undeniable nerdy thrills of how to survive on Mars to celebrate human resilience. We hope the following questions will make your reading group's experience truly out of this world.

1. How did The Martian challenge your expectations of what the novel would be? What did you find most surprising about it?

2. What makes us root for a character to live in a survival story? In what ways do you identify with Mark? How does the author get you to care about him?

3. Do you believe the crew did the right thing in abandoning the search for Mark? Was there an alternative choice?

4. Did you find the science and technology behind Mark's problem-solving accessible? How did that information add to the realism of the story?

5. What are some of the ways the author established his credibility with scientific detail? Which of Mark's solutions did you find most amazing and yet believable?

6. What is your visual picture of the surface of Mars, based on the descriptions in the book? Have you seen photographs of the planet?

7. Who knew potatoes, duct tape, and seventies reruns were the key to space survival? How does each of these items represent aspects of Mark's character that help him survive?

8. How is Mark's sense of humor as much a survival skill as his knowledge of botany? Do you have a favorite funny line of his?

9. To what extent does Mark's log serve as his companion? Do you think it's implicit in the narrative that maintaining a log keeps him sane?

10. The author provides almost no back story regarding Mark's life on Earth. Why do you think he made this choice? What do you imagine Mark's past life was like?

11. There's no mention of Mark having a romantic relationship on Earth. Do you think that makes it easier or harder to endure his isolation? How would the story be different if he was in love with someone back home?

12. Were there points in the novel when you became convinced Mark couldn't survive? What were they, and what made those situations seem so dire?

13. The first time the narrative switched from Mark's log entries to third-person authorial narrative back on Earth, were you surprised? How does alternating between Mark's point of view and the situation on Earth enhance the story?

14. Did you believe the commitment of those on Earth to rescuing one astronaut? What convinced you most?

15. To what extent do you think guilt played a part in the crew's choice to go back to Mark? To what extent loyalty? How would you explain the difference?

16. How does the author handle the passage of time in the book? Did he transition smoothly from a day-to-day account to a span of one and a half years? How does he use the passage of time to build suspense?

17. Unlike other castaways, Mark can approximately predict the timing of his potential rescue. How does that knowledge help him? How could it work against him?

18. When Mark leaves the Hab and ventures out in the rover, did you feel a loss of security for him? In addition to time, the author uses distance to build suspense. Discuss how.

19. Where would you place The Martian in the canon of classic space exploration films like 2001: A Space Odyssey, Apollo 13, and Gravity? What does it have in common with these stories? How is it different?

20. A survival story has to resonate on a universal level to be effective, whether it's set on a desert island or another planet. How important are challenges in keeping life vital? To what extent are our everyday lives about problem-solving and maintaining hope?

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"The science-fiction writer John Scalzi has aptly referred to Ready Player One as a 'nerdgasm' [and] there can be no better one-word description of this ardent fantasy artifact about fantasy culture. . . . But Mr. Cline is able to incorporate his favorite toys and games into a perfectly accessible narrative." -Janet Maslin, The New York Times

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The five people you meet in heaven is a fiction book that gives the reader on what heaven can look like. Eddie, the main character, had a beautiful life with beautiful people, but during his last years, he was lonely. When he passed, he met 5 people in heaven, one by one. Each person defined as an importance within his life. Some of the people were ones who he didn't think they would have an importance in his life, but when the message was given from that person, he realized that those 5 people are more then just important. I am not a reader, and I do not like reading books, but this book was one that I wanted to keep reading. I enjoyed it very much because I have always wondered what heaven can be, and what it looks like, and this gave me a beautiful vision. Anything by the author Mitch Album is very good, like Tuesdays with Morrie as well. I recommend this book because I dislike reading, and I loved this book. I could summarize it for hours.

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I know that the title of the book spoils the ending so you think, "Why read it if I know how it's going to end?" But once you start the book you realize that you don't want the book to end that way. Your first meet these two boys who are both living their last day separately since they were both told that they have 24 hours. One lives life too dangerously and the other lives extremely sheltered. Once realizing that they have no one they want to spend their day with they find each other on an app made specifically for this situation. They spend their entire day together doing things that both of them like. They build a relationship like no other. And even knowing the ending of this book made me SOB uncontrollably. I highly recommend this book to everyone it was extremely good.

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I highly recommend reading this book. It is an easy read but has a highly developed plotline. This story is about a man, Eddie, who works as a mechanic for a pier carnival. He passes away in an accident only to meet several people in his passing stage who impacted his life in one way or another. This leads Eddie to realize the truth about his own life, and allows him to peacefully move on to his next life.

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The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

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The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

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The Secret Life of Bees is set in South Carolina during 1964 with Lily, a fourteen year old white girl, being the main character. Being caught in the repeating memory of the afternoon her mother got killed, Lily's "stand-in-mother" Rosaleen escapes with her to Tiburon, South Carolina to figure out the mystery of her mother's past. With Lily on a mission to get answers, she comes upon a trio of sisters who are also beekeepers and falls in love with their lifestyle and the world around her. But of course... an easy ending doesn't always have an easy journey.

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The book follows Collin, former child prodigy and current high school graduate. Collin has had 19 girlfriends all named Kathrine. After his most recent breakup, he and his best friend go on a road trip in search of adventure and meaning. Despite the eventful plot, this book is not wordy or tiring to read and no one does coming of age books quite like than John Green.

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This is the best murder mystery book... EVER. It's based on a teenage friend group in Massachusetts (Fictional) that is torn apart by a murder of one of their best friends, but rekindled their dead friendship to solve who is the "Catalog Killer". There's tons of twists, hidden love, and an ending you would never expect. 10/10 recommend!

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Only Mostly Devastated - Sophie Gonzales

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Only Mostly Devastated - Sophie Gonzales

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A rendition on the classic romance musical and novel Grease, this book chronicles the budding relationship between contemporary teenagers. After Ollie's dream summer fling with Will Tavares comes to an abrupt end, he receives the devastating news that he must move across the country and enroll at a different school. To Ollie's delight, he finds out that Will also attends Collinswood High. But, he's dismayed to discover that the Will in school is far too different, and closeted, to ever be interested in him. And, despite his initial indifference towards Will, over the course of the book, Ollie begins to fall head over heels for the guy who once left his heart in shambles. Will the two ever get back together? That's for you to read and find out!

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This book is the origin story of one of R.L. Stine's best selling series; "Fear Street". It centers around a family with the last name "Fier" (which eventually gets changed to "Fear"). The book follows them throughout the centuries, starting at the Salem Witch Trials, where Benjamin Fier falsely accuses a woman named Susannah Goode of being a witch. This causes a feud between the two families that continue through each generation. The feud causes horrific events, which leads to the legend of "Fear Street" and its curse on the people who live there.

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this is where it ends by Marieke Nijkamp

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This book follows the lives of four students in high school writing in each students perspective. When bouncing between the students it shows their thoughts and troubles while stuck in the midst of a school shooting. While they try to discover what's going on in different parts of the town, they try to reach out for help to stop the terrorist. (This book contains heavy subjects such as gun violence and profanity. However, it keeps you on your toes from beginning to end and is genuinely the best book I have ever read.)

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Let's Get Physical: How Women Discovered Exercise and Changed the World by Danielle Friedman

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Let's Get Physical: How Women Discovered Exercise and Changed the World by Danielle Friedman

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This is a nonfiction book that covers Women's rights and history within the exercise industry. It talks about the stories of women who made extreme advances in exercise inequality. Each has their own unique, individual experience, and they all made different advances. This book talks about how exercise evolved from a "beauty tool" meant to "reduce" women's bodies to a self care practice that is meant to be used to feel good. This book is inspiring, and encourages the reader to to be comfortable in their own skin especially when in an exercise environment.

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Beneath the Surface by Kristi Hugstad is a young adult non-fiction book about the challenges people face, specifically teenagers. It uncovers the sad truth behind drug use, self harm, mental illness, eating disorders, and death. Hugstad tells the story of others including her husband and the impact it has had on others. She provides supportive resources and techniques to better the overall health of yourself and others. If you or anyone you know has or is struggling with any of these things, this is a great book to understand and assist with said challenges. I have a deeper understanding of the challenges people face and think now, after reading, I could better assist myself or others.

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YOU DON'T HAVE TO COPE ALONE

Depression and mental illness don't discriminate. Even in the most picture-perfect life, confusion and turmoil are often lurking beneath the surface. For a teenager in a world where anxiety, depression, and other mental illnesses are commonplace, life can sometimes feel impossible. Whether or not you or someone you love is suffering from any of these issues, it's important to be able to recognize the warning signs of mental illness and know where to turn for help. This comprehensive guide provides the information, encouragement, and tactical guidance you need to help yourself or others experiencing:

* Depression * Academic or parental pressures * Eating disorders * Bullying * Self-harm * PTSD * Peer pressure * Anxiety * Substance abuse * Technology addiction * Suicidal thoughts or actions

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Beneath the Surface: A Teen's Guide to Reaching Out When You or Your Friend Is in Crisis

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Every Year the Sinclair family spends their summer on a private island in Cape Cod. Despite spending every summer together, the Sinclair's still have their fair share of family drama. Cadence had recently suffered an injury in a previous summer that has left her trying to remember the events of the summer of 15'. Her family members make it difficult for her to remember the events of that summer, but some of her cousins are able to give her pieces of the puzzle. Cadence is determined to remember what happened in summer of 15' before the summer is over and she has to wait another year. We Were Liars is filled with interesting character relationships and a riveting, unexpected ending that will leave you in shock.

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The Fault In Our Stars is a fabulous book about a young teenage girl who has been diagnosed with lung cancer and attends a cancer support group. Hazel is 16 and is reluctant to go to the support group, but she soon realizes that it was a good idea. Hazel meets a young boy named Augustus Waters.
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This book is a beautiful, heart-wrenching journey for anyone who reads it <3

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this book had many different lessons within it and if you look past the wording,  it is very enjoyable. Hester (the main charcter) believes herself a widow, but her husband, Roger Chillingworth, arrives in New England very much alive and conceals his identity. this leads to many different complications throughout her life and her daughters life

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A really captivating book, it kept me interested the whole time.

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The Sun Is Also A Star is a sweet romantic novel about two teenagers living in New York City. Natasha is an illegal immigrant from Jamaica. She lives with her parents and younger brother in a one bedroom apartment. They got caught in the country and have 24 hours until they will be deported. Daniel is poet, who wants to chase his dreams, but his parents want him to follow their dreams. They want him to go to the best school possible, but he feels that's not his path. They have one day to fall in love, before time runs out.

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one punch man is a anime and a manga it's about the mc named,Saitama, a superhero who can defeat any opponent with a single punch but seeks to find a worthy opponent after growing bored by a lack of challenge due to his overwhelming strength.

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The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood is a dystopian fiction novel that focuses on the main question: What could happen if all power over our lives and bodies was taken away? In this novel, the main character Offred lives in a corrupted, futuristic United States where she is forced to serve those with a higher social status by having their children. Atwood does an amazing job of displaying emotions and descriptions of settings and will keep you intrigued throughout the entire 311-page novel. Follow Offred as she struggles with oppression on many levels while discussing major themes of corruption and power, love and LGBTQ+ relationships, feminism, and more.

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Unwholly is the sequel to the very popular book "Unwind." After the events of the first book, two young teenagers: Connor and Lisa find themselves taking full control over the "Graveyard," a place where AWOL (or runaway unwinds) stay until their seventeen. Meanwhile, another young teen named Lev finds himself in a place filled with escaped tithes (or children who were born to be unwound at thirteen) where he is treated like a role-model towards them, only to be dragged on yet another adventure by a girl who didn't approve of his previous actions. Meanwhile, a Frankenstein-like human being is being made in the background with parts of Unwinds. People begin questioning the concept of Unwind, and debates spark across this dystopian version of the U.S, where badly-behaved children are unwound, or in other words removing all the organs of that person and giving them to others who need it.

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Battle Tendency takes place from 1938-to 1939 in America/Europe. They are statues that are called pillar men that are awakened by a German general called Stroheim. Pillar men are vampires and One man name Joseph Joestar has a breathing technique that uses power from the sun to kill the vampires. Joseph goes through America and Europe with his trusty pal Ceaser Zeppeli

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The Main Character Named Cole gets a one year banishment and to a remote island. There he is mauled by a big white mysterious bear. He gets extremely injured, Cole then waits for himself to die but when he is dying he his thoughts shift from anger to humility. The only way he can survive this island is if he stops blaming people and  put others before himself.
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Touching Spirit Bear, A gory but fascinating book about what a 15 year old boy finds on an island he's been condemned to for 6 months. I personally loved this book and I liked that the main character shows a bunch of character development throughout the book.

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this book is about a 10 year old boy who has had 27 surgery's on his face and looks different then the average 10 year old, and because of this he gets made fun of a lot. This book is a very strong anti bullying book.

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Millions of people have fallen in love with Auggie Pullman, an ordinary boy with an extraordinary face- who shows us that kindness brings us together no matter how far apart we are. Read the book that inspired the Choose Kind movement, a major motion picture, and the critically acclaimed graphic novel White Bird.

And don't miss R.J. Palacio's highly anticipated new novel, Pony, available September 2021!

I won't describe what I look like. Whatever you're thinking, it's probably worse.

August Pullman was born with a facial difference that, up until now, has prevented him from going to a mainstream school. Starting 5th grade at Beecher Prep, he wants nothing more than to be treated as an ordinary kid-but his new classmates can't get past Auggie's extraordinary face. Beginning from Auggie's point of view and expanding to include his classmates, his sister, her boyfriend, and others, the perspectives converge to form a portrait of one community's struggle with empathy, compassion, and acceptance. In a world where bullying among young people is an epidemic, this is a refreshing new narrative full of heart and hope.

R.J. Palacio has called her debut novel "a meditation on kindness" -indeed, every reader will come away with a greater appreciation for the simple courage of friendship. Auggie is a hero to root for, a diamond in the rough who proves that you can't blend in when you were born to stand out.

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1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Millions of people have fallen in love with Auggie Pullman, an ordinary boy with an extraordinary face-who shows us that kindness brings us together no matter how far apart we are. Read the book that inspired the Choose Kind movement, a major motion picture, and the critically acclaimed graphic novel White Bird.And don't miss R.J.

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Katniss Everdeen voluntarily takes her younger sister's place in the Hunger Games.  It is a competition in which two teenagers from each of the twelve Districts of Panem are chosen at random to fight to the death. A Story filled with action, love and death.
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The Hunger Games is an annual event in which one boy and one girl aged 12–18 from each of the twelve districts surrounding the Capitol are selected by lottery to compete in a televised battle royale to the death. The book received critical acclaim from major reviewers and authors.

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If you are a fan of the batman movie series or even the joker this book is a great read. Within this book you get to learn more about the Joker and go nto depth about his past life and why he became what he is. It differs from the movies because rather than be seen as always killing you instead get to see. And towwards the end of the book you can see Batman trying to hlp the Joker and you can read Joker say "its already too late."

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A non-fiction book detailing the events of the Chernobyl Nuclear Accident in Ukraine. It goes over both the accident itself and the aftermath, as well as witness and victim testimonies.

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To All the Boys I've Loved Before- Jenny Han

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To All the Boys I've Loved Before- Jenny Han

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To All the Boys I've Loved Before is a book and movie series. It is about a girl who's mom passed away and had to learn how to fall in love without her mother. Her little sister sent out the love letters she wrote in middle school and all the boys confronted her. In order to get the boys to leave her alone, Laura Jean faked a relationship with Peter Kavinsky. After faking the relationship for a few months, going on trips together, and more, they ended up truly falling in love. The three books and movies go on about their love story and all the bumps along the way. In the ending, Peter and Laura Jean end up together and live happily ever after.

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If you love Mythology, you will LOVE this! If you were a fan of "Percy Jackson", you will LOVE this! Miller's retelling of a classic Greek Myth works to give Circe a voice. Lose yourself in the world of Greek mythology and experience a much needed new perspective. I believe that everyone could benefit from a little Circe in their life! If you want to read more from Miller, you can check out "Song of Achilles" as well :)

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What a fun read! A young woman without much of a life plan gets asked to be the nanny for an old friend and her senator's children. There is something very unexpected about these twins, however. This nanny in thrown into a wealthy, powerful family, and she has to figure out how to protect herself and the kids she's responsible for.
Enjoy! Milani
#liarliarpantsonfire #firstworldproblems #beachread

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Nothing to See Here: Wilson, Kevin: 9780062913494: Books

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Celaena Sardothien is "freed" from a slave labor camp to fight in the competition to become the king's assassin. However, the castle and the king are full of deadly secrets. Celaena must figure out what's behind these dark forces and come to terms with her own past.

This is an entire series, and each book gets more interesting, surprising, and more complex. Definitely my favorite fantasy series!

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The Round House by Louise Erdrich is a book I now recommend to everyone. It is the story of an Ojibwe teen living on a reservation with his family. Then one day his entire life turns upside down when his mother get assaulted. The boy seeks justice and revenge for his mother while trying to be a normal teenager. This book talks about MMIW, (Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women), which unfortunately is very common for the people living on reservations today. The book is shows the reality of life for indigenous people and adds to the purpose of the book.

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The daughter of the pirate king is a very fast paced, action packed book about pirates. It will keep your interest throughout the 300 pages and you will want to read it in one sitting. It is about Alosa who is sent on a mission to recover a hidden portion of a map, to find a cove of treasure. She has to partner with her enemy family who has a third of the map. I cannot recommend this book enough

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After the invasion of her kingdom, Princess Theodosia has become a prisoner of her own castle. She's spent the past decade keeping her head down and enduring almost daily torture with what little hope she has left to survive. However, when she is forced to remove her last chance of hope, Theo is ready to seek revenge and fight for her kingdom. A fantasy novel with LGBTQ+ representation within the side characters and the first in a trilogy, Laura Sebastian takes a spin on the damsel in distress trope and has created a cast of captivating characters.

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I know what you're thinking. "Shakespeare? Isn't that that pretentious 500 year-old British dude who no one has ever read by choice?" Yes, you are correct. No one has ever read Shakespeare by choice, myself included. However, I regret to inform you that some of his writing is actually like, really good.
"Hamlet" follows the titular Prince Hamlet as he uncovers the corruption behind his own royal family and seeks revenge for his late father. It's got plots, murder, and soliloquies. LOTS of soliloquies. Admittedly, there's a lot of filler, but once the plot gets moving, "Hamlet" could pass for an episode of Game of Thrones. If you want some classic family drama with a little more than the average amount of death, "Hamlet" is the play for you.

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A great cautionary tale. A group of self aware animals overtake a farm, and attempt to run the farm themselves. They build a stable set of rules to dictate their new farm. Slowly, the animals begin to disagree and lose their original motives. This was written as story about the tragedy of people forgetting what they truly want in life.

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The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky

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The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky

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The Perks Of Being A Wallflower is a moving story about Charlie, a freshman in high school who is by no means popular. He is very shy, but that all comes down to a mental issue that occurred because of something that happened when he was younger. Charlie is coping with first love, the suicide of his best friend, and his own mental illness while struggling to find a group of people with whom he belongs.

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I strongly recommend reading the color purple. It has such a deeper meaning behind it that just makes you want to keep reading, to figure out what happens next. Those are the best books. It is narrated from the perspective of a suppressed young woman, Cecile. She faces many hardships throughout the book. She goes into the topics of race, gender inequalities, domestic abuse, education of women, sexuality, the white standards of beauty, god/religion and so much more. The author is the voice of the culture. It is a very sad novel and goes into some touchy subjects with a lot of detail for some people but it has a very happy and empowering ending for people like Cecile. Overall, I really recommend this book. I personally don’t enjoy reading and get distracted easily but I can say this book has hooked me in and it was a very incredible book.

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The Color Purple  (1985) Official Trailer  - Oprah Winfrey, Steven Spielberg Movie HD

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Crier’s War by Nina Varela is one of my favorite novels ever. It tells the story of the Automae Princess, Crier, and her handmaid, Ayla. The humans are no longer in control, and have been taken over by the creatures that they built to be their servants. Ayla becomes Criers handmaid with the intent of killing her and starting a revolution, but ends up falling in love with her. To stop the cruelty that runs deep within the land, they will have to start a war. It is full of twists and turns that grab you in, and keep you invested. Although some of them aren’t, the characters feel wholly human and make you sympathize with their actions and emotions.

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Editorial Reviews

Rife with mystery, romantic tension, and political intrigue, Varela's debut novel is perfect for readers craving queer fantasy with dense world building.

This interesting mesh of sci-fi and fantasy situates androids within court intrigue, enhanced with a steamy, well-paced lesbian romance that will make readers impatient to nab the next novel.

Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books

This interesting mesh of sci-fi and fantasy situates androids within court intrigue, enhanced with a steamy, well-paced lesbian romance that will make readers impatient to nab the next novel.

Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books

10/14/2019

Fifty years ago, the Automae-created with alchemical magick, automaton components, and flesh and bone-won the War of Kinds, subsequently enslaving their human creators. Crier, the Designed daughter of Sovereign Hesod, an Automata, prepares for a politically advantageous marriage to Kinok, a philosophizing war hero. After Kinok uses blueprints to reveal that Crier is Flawed, she is thrown into an existential crisis, even as she questions Kinok's ultimate objectives. Meanwhile, 16-year-old human revolutionary Ayla schemes to kill Crier in order to avenge the murders of her family by Hesod's soldiers. But after Ayla saves Crier's life and is rewarded with a coveted position as her handmaiden, the two young women must confront their shifting emotions about human and Automae coexistence, even as the tension between their Kinds builds toward war. Tropes, including an enemies-to-lovers plotline, prevail in Varela's dystopian debut, which employs increasingly captivating political machinations among the intricately linked characters to create a suspenseful read with particular appeal to fans of queer romance. Ages 14-up. Agent: Patrice Caldwell, Howard Morhaim Literary. (Oct.)

Publishers Weekly

This interesting mesh of sci-fi and fantasy situates androids within court intrigue, enhanced with a steamy, well-paced lesbian romance that will make readers impatient to nab the next novel.

Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books

Rife with mystery, romantic tension, and political intrigue, Varela's debut novel is perfect for readers craving queer fantasy with dense world building.

Masterful storytelling, woven with gorgeous poetic prose. You can't help but be lured into this vividly imagined world. As heart-wrenching as it is unforgettable.

Erin Summerill

Crier's War is a beautiful poem of a book. Fans of both fantasy and sci-fi: this book is for you.

Crier's War is a beautiful poem of a book. Fans of both fantasy and sci-fi: this book is for you." %COMM_CONTRIB%Tara Sim

09/01/2019

Gr 9 Up-Crier is an Automae, made by the King of Rabu to become the perfect successor. Ayla is human, desperate for revenge against the king for her family. But when the two meet, will they set aside their differences for the connection they feel with each other, or will they lead one another to their doom? As the two slowly inch closer to one another, the political climate of this world around them continues to fester. Readers will find themselves immersed in a sapphic story shrouded in political intrigue. Crier and Ayla both find themselves dealing with inner turmoil while their crafted world slowly descends into chaos. Politics plays a major role in the story as Varela pulls from historical tactics and ideas. This book takes the time to build the world and highlight important instances that led to the humans being overthrown by the creations they made. As the history and the present unwind, choices will be made that will forever change the future. VERDICT A lush #OwnVoices fantasy debut with science fiction elements and LGBTQIA+ representation, perfect for fans of Sarah J. Maas's Throne of Glass.- Zoe Leonarczyk, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL

School Library Journal

2019-07-13
War brews between humans and their automaton overlords.

In a nigh-unrecognizable world, humans are kept as servants on large estates controlled by Automa, impossibly advanced creations who have recently seized power. The history of how artificial intelligence took over develops in interstitial chapters told by various historians while tensions rise in the present. Humans have various skin tones, including swarthy and brown, but racial categories don't seem to matter in a world where the main axis of power is human versus Made. Crier is the daughter of Sovereign Hesod, who loves appropriating human culture while brutally oppressing the people under his rule. She is also betrothed to Kinok, an Automa with more separatist beliefs toward humans as well as a plan to make him and his kin invulnerable. Meanwhile Ayla, a human girl who lost her family to Automa violence, takes a job as Crier's handmaiden in an attempt to take them down from the inside. Dizzying political machinations intertwine with a burgeoning romance between mistress and servant, especially since Crier suspects that she was built with a capacity for love that her kind shouldn't have. The plot zooms ahead despite being a setup for the sequel, with nail-biting sexual tension between Crier and Ayla-queerness is unremarkable in this world but cross-species relations are unthinkable.

A fresh, suspenseful take on the robot apocalypse. (map, timeline) (Fantasy. 14-18)

Kirkus Reviews

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From debut author Nina Varela comes the first book in a richly imagined epic fantasy duology about an impossible love between two girls-one human, one Made-whose romance could be the beginning of a revolution.Perfect for fans of Marie Rutkoski's The Winner's...

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Utterly Inspiring! Former "perfect Christian wife" reclaims her independence and reframes her thoughts on womanhood, motherhood, and society after falling in-love with her current wife, Women's soccer star Abby Wambach. A love letter to her children and to herself and an amazing take on contemporary feminism.

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Two Million Unleashed GET UNTAMED.

" Untamed. The next great guidance from an extraordinary woman. Devouring this gospel of truth."

- Sara Bareilles

"Glennon Doyle's Untamed is changing my life."

- Lana Condor

" Untamed will liberate women - emotionally, spiritually, and physically... It's phenomenal."

- Elizabeth Gilbert

Since the pandemic began, more than one indie bookstore every week has been forced out of business. To support indies, Glennon has signed a special edition quote page bound into a limited number of copies of Untamed. Some of these booksellers also have signed special editions of the cheetah art page as well. Both are perfect for holiday gifts.

**Booksellers: please send inquiries about this promotion to UntamedHoliday@PRH.com

It's thrilling to see that so many of you have chosen to read Untamed with your book club.

Here you will find a reading group guide with thoughtful questions to help you guide your discussion. Feel free to use them to reflect on the reading experience on your own, too!

If you are reading Untamed with your book club, please send an email to UntamedBookClub@gmail.com with the date, time, and zoom link for your book club meeting because Glennon wants to crash into some of them!

Download, print, and color this Untamed mantra page to decorate your home and inspire your family and neighbors during this difficult time.

"'We can do hard things' becomes my hourly life mantra. It is my affirmation that living life on life's own absurd terms is hard. It isn't hard because I'm weak or flawed or because I made a wrong turn somewhere, it is hard because life is just hard for humans and I am a human who is finally doing life right. 'We can do hard things' insists that I can, and should, stay in the hard because there is some kind of reward for staying. I don't know what the reward is yet, but it feels true that there would be one, and I want to find out what it is. I am especially comforted by the We part. I don't know who the We is; I just need to believe that there is a We somewhere, either helping me through my hard things or doing their own hard things while I do mine."
-Untamed

About the Author

Glennon Doyle is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Untamed, a Reese's Book Club selection, which has sold over two million copies, as well as the new workbook on which it is based, Get Untamed: The Journal. She is also the author of the #1 New York Times Bestseller Love Warrior, an Oprah's Book Club selection, as well as the New York Times Bestseller Carry On, Warrior. Glennon hosts the We Can Do Hard Things Podcast. An activist, speaker, and thought leader, she is also the founder and president of Together Rising, an all-women led nonprofit organization that has revolutionized grassroots philanthropy-raising over $35 million for women, families, and children in crisis, with a most frequent donation of just $25. Glennon was named among OWN Network's SuperSoul100 inaugural group as one of 100 "awakened leaders who are using their voices and talent to elevate humanity." She lives in California with her wife and three children.

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Who Were You Before the World Told You Who to Be? When we quit abandoning ourselves and instead abandon the world's expectations of us, we become women who can finally look at our lives and recognize: There She Is. Untamed is about how to be brave.