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Taylor sets off from her rural Kentucky home in search of adventure.  She befriends an eclectic group of characters, and inherits a child named Turtle. This book has many comical situations; I needed an uplifting story!

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Shocking. Maddening. Can you pick one person responsible for this tragedy at sea?

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Recursion is from the "hard science fiction" genre, which takes cutting edge science and explores where it might lead.

This philosophical thriller will change the way that a reader perceives reality.

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The breathtaking story of five brothers who bring each other up in a world run by their own rules. As the Dunbar boys love and fight and learn to reckon with the adult world, they discover the moving secret behind their father’s disappearance.

At the center of the Dunbar family is Clay, a boy who will build a bridge—for his family, for his past, for greatness, for his sins, for a miracle.

The question is, how far is Clay willing to go? And how much can he overcome?

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A music loving teen with OCD does everything she can to find her way back to her mother during the historic race riots in 1969 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in this heart-pounding literary debut.

Melati Ahmad looks like your typical movie-going, Beatles-obsessed sixteen-year-old. Unlike most other sixteen-year-olds though, Mel also believes that she harbors a djinn inside her, one who threatens her with horrific images of her mother’s death unless she adheres to an elaborate ritual of counting and tapping to keep him satisfied.

A trip to the movies after school turns into a nightmare when the city erupts into violent race riots between the Chinese and the Malay. When gangsters come into the theater and hold movie-goers hostage, Mel, a Malay, is saved by a Chinese woman, but has to leave her best friend behind to die.

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Akata Witch transports the reader to a magical place where nothing is quite as it seems. Born in New York, but living in Aba, Nigeria, twelve-year old Sunny is understandably a little lost. She is albino and thus, incredibly sensitive to the sun. All Sunny wants to do is be able to play football and get through another day of school without being bullied. But once she befriends Orlu and Chichi, Sunny is plunged in to the world of the Leopard People, where your worst defect becomes your greatest asset. Together, Sunny, Orlu, Chichi and Sasha form the youngest ever Oha Coven. Their mission is to track down Black Hat Otokoto, the man responsible for kidnapping and maiming children. Will Sunny be able to overcome the killer with powers stronger than her own, or will the future she saw in the flames become reality?

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Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel

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Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel

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In this graphic memoir, Alison Bechdel charts her fraught relationship with her late father.

Distant and exacting, Bruce Bechdel was an English teacher and director of the town funeral home, which Alison and her family referred to as the Fun Home. It was not until college that Alison, who had recently come out as a lesbian, discovered that her father was also gay. A few weeks after this revelation, he was dead, leaving a legacy of mystery for his daughter to resolve.

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There's a fungus among us!  A fun romp of a terrifying read, by the screenwriter of 𝘑𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘤 𝘗𝘢𝘳𝘬.

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A superior post-apocalypse saga. Intricate and ornate prose that tells a suspenseful and exciting story of love and survival.

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A road novel with teeth--in both senses of the word. Dark doings dwell along the highways and byways of Middle America. Beware the Thistle Men . . . .

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The incredible true story of mountain man Hugh Glass and his odyssey of revenge through the early-nineteenth-century American frontier. Much more than just the famous grizzly bear attack--and much better than the ballyhooed movie.

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A sweeping, multi-layered romance set in the perilous days of World Wars I and II, where gods hold the fates–and the hearts–of four mortals in their hands.

They are Hazel, James, Aubrey, and Colette. A classical pianist from London, a British would-be architect turned soldier, a Harlem-born ragtime genius in the U.S. Army, and a Belgian orphan with a gorgeous voice and a devastating past. Their story, as told by the goddess Aphrodite, who must spin the tale or face judgment on Mount Olympus, is filled with hope and heartbreak, prejudice and passion, and reveals that, though War is a formidable force, it’s no match for the transcendent power of Love.

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The Testaments: The Sequel to The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

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The Testaments: The Sequel to The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE

The Testaments is a modern masterpiece, a powerful novel that can be read on its own or as a companion to Margaret Atwood’s classic, The Handmaid’s Tale.

More than fifteen years after the events of The Handmaid’s Tale, the theocratic regime of the Republic of Gilead maintains its grip on power, but there are signs it is beginning to rot from within. At this crucial moment, the lives of three radically different women converge, with potentially explosive results.

Two have grown up as part of the first generation to come of age in the new order. The testimonies of these two young women are joined by a third: Aunt Lydia.  Her complex past and uncertain future unfold in surprising and pivotal ways.

With The Testaments, Margaret Atwood opens up the innermost workings of Gilead, as each woman is forced to come to terms with who she is, and how far she will go for what she believes.

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An instant New York Times bestseller!

"Internment sets itself apart...terrifying, thrilling and urgent."--Entertainment Weekly

Rebellions are built on hope.

Set in a horrifying near-future United States, seventeen-year-old Layla Amin and her parents are forced into an internment camp for Muslim American citizens.

With the help of newly made friends also trapped within the internment camp, her boyfriend on the outside, and an unexpected alliance, Layla begins a journey to fight for freedom, leading a revolution against the camp's Director and his guards.

Heart-racing and emotional, Internment challenges readers to fight complicit silence that exists in our society today.

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Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed by Lori Gottlieb

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Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed by Lori Gottlieb

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When writer and therapist Lori Gottlieb is stunned by a sudden break-up, she seeks the help of a therapist named Wendell who helps her process her pain.  But her therapy with Wendell also hones her professional skills; after all, a good therapist possesses the ability to empathize with her patients (four of whom Gottlieb chronicles in funny, frustrating,  and heartbreaking detail). Anyone interested in psychology, or in interesting stories about real people, will really enjoy this book.

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When she was eighteen years old, Carolyn Jessop was coerced into an arranged marriage with a total stranger: a man thirty-two years her senior. Merril Jessop already had three wives. Not only did she manage a daring escape from a brutal environment, she became the first woman ever granted full custody of her children in a contested suit involving the FLDS. And in 2006, her reports to the Utah attorney general on church abuses formed a crucial part of the case that led to the arrest of their notorious leader, Warren Jeffs.

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The Lost City of the Monkey God by  Douglas Preston

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The Lost City of the Monkey God by  Douglas Preston

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In 1940, swashbuckling journalist Theodore Morde returned from the rainforest with hundreds of artifacts and an electrifying story of having found the Lost City of the Monkey God-but then committed suicide without revealing its location. Three quarters of a century later, bestselling author Doug Preston joined a team of scientists on a groundbreaking new quest. In 2012 he climbed aboard a rickety, single-engine plane carrying the machine that would change everything: lidar, a highly advanced, classified technology that could map the terrain under the densest rainforest canopy. Venturing into this raw, treacherous, but breathtakingly beautiful wilderness to confirm the discovery, Preston and the team battled torrential rains, quickmud, disease-carrying insects, jaguars, and deadly snakes. But it wasn't until they returned that tragedy struck: Preston and others found they had contracted in the ruins a horrifying, sometimes lethal-and incurable-disease.

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On a brisk autumn day in 1686, eighteen-year-old Nella Oortman arrives in Amsterdam to begin a new life as the wife of illustrious merchant trader Johannes Brandt. But her new home, while splendorous, is not welcoming.
But Nella’s world changes when Johannes presents her with an extraordinary wedding gift: a cabinet-sized replica of their home. To furnish her gift, Nella engages a miniaturist. In this repressively pious society where gold is worshiped second only to God, to be different is a threat to the moral fabric of society, and not even a man as rich as Johannes is safe. Only one person seems to see the fate that awaits them. Is the miniaturist the key to their salvation . . . or the architect of their destruction?

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We owe our good health to a humble parasite -- a genetically engineered tapeworm developed by the pioneering SymboGen Corporation. When implanted, the Intestinal Bodyguard worm protects us from illness, boosts our immune system -- even secretes designer drugs. It's been successful beyond the scientists' wildest dreams. Now, years on, almost every human being has a SymboGen tapeworm living within them. But these parasites are getting restless. They want their own lives . . . and will do anything to get them.

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A Nix can take many forms. In Norwegian folklore it is a spirit who sometimes appears as a white horse that steals children away. In Nathan Hill's remarkable first novel, a Nix is anything you love that one day disappears, taking with it a piece of your heart. From the suburban Midwest to New York City to the 1968 riots that rocked Chicago and beyond, The Nix explores - with sharp humor and a fierce tenderness - the resilience of love and home, even in times of radical change.

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A spice called melange is the most valuable substance known in the universe, and its only source is the desert planet Arrakis. A royal decree awards Arrakis to Duke Leto Atreides and ousts his bitter enemies, the Harkonnens. However, when the Harkonnens violently seize back their fiefdom, it is up to Paul, Leto's son, to lead the Fremen, the natives of Arrakis, in a battle for control of the planet and its spice.

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In 1518, in a small town in Alsace, Frau Troffea began dancing and didn’t stop. She danced until she was carried away six days later, and soon thirty-four more villagers joined her. Then more. In a month more than 400 people had been stricken by the mysterious dancing plague. In late-seventeenth-century England an eccentric gentleman founded the No Nose Club in his gracious townhome―a social club for those who had lost their noses, and other body parts, to the plague of syphilis for which there was then no cure. And in turn-of-the-century New York, an Irish cook caused two lethal outbreaks of typhoid fever, a case that transformed her into the notorious Typhoid Mary.

Throughout time, humans have been terrified and fascinated by the diseases history and circumstance have dropped on them. Some of their responses to those outbreaks are almost too strange to believe in hindsight. Get Well Soon delivers the gruesome, morbid details of some of the worst plagues we’ve suffered as a species, as well as stories of the heroic figures who selflessly fought to ease the suffering of their fellow man. With her signature mix of in-depth research and storytelling, and not a little dark humor, Jennifer Wright explores history’s most gripping and deadly outbreaks, and ultimately looks at the surprising ways they’ve shaped history and humanity for almost as long as anyone can remember.

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The Curies' newly discovered element of radium makes gleaming headlines across the nation as the fresh face of beauty and wonder drug of the medical community. From body lotion to tonic water, the popular new element shines bright in the otherwise dark years of the First World War.

Meanwhile, hundreds of girls toil amidst the glowing dust of the radium-dial factories. The glittering chemical covers their bodies from head to toe; they light up the night like industrious fireflies. With such a coveted job, these "shining girls" are the luckiest alive — until they begin to fall mysteriously ill.

But the factories that once offered golden opportunities are now ignoring all claims of the gruesome side effects, and the women's cries of corruption. And as the fatal poison of the radium takes hold, the brave shining girls find themselves embroiled in one of the biggest scandals of America's early 20th century, and in a groundbreaking battle for workers' rights that will echo for centuries to come.

Written with a sparkling voice and breakneck pace, The Radium Girls fully illuminates the inspiring young women exposed to the "wonder" substance of radium, and their awe-inspiring strength in the face of almost impossible circumstances. Their courage and tenacity led to life-changing regulations, research into nuclear bombing, and ultimately saved hundreds of thousands of lives...

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She is someone you root for and end up really liking.

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The Tatooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris

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The Tatooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris

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In April 1942, Lale Sokolov, a Slovakian Jew, is forcibly transported to the concentration camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau. When his captors discover that he speaks several languages, he is put to work as a Tätowierer (the German word for tattooist), tasked with permanently marking his fellow prisoners.

A vivid, harrowing, and ultimately hopeful re-creation of Lale Sokolov's experiences as the man who tattooed the arms of thousands of prisoners with what would become one of the most potent symbols of the Holocaust, The Tattooist of Auschwitz is also a testament to the endurance of love and humanity under the darkest possible conditions.

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The extraordinary #1 New York Times bestseller that is now a major motion picture, Markus Zusak's unforgettable story is about the ability of books to feed the soul.

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A gripping and richly told story of the Trueba family. It spans multiple generations in Chile. One of my all time favorites.

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The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border by Francisco Cantú

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The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border by Francisco Cantú

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The true story of a U.S. Border Patrol officer who works the U.S./Mexico border, with all the challenges and horrors the job entails, and confronts his own identity as Mexican-American.

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The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates by (get this) Wes Moore

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The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates by (get this) Wes Moore

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The author grew up in a tough neighborhood in Baltimore, only a couple of blocks from another young man with the name Wes Moore. The book looks at their lives and how two people, with the same name, from the same neighborhood can end up with such different lives. One goes on to be an author and political figure while the other ends up with a life sentence in prison. Great read.

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The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness by Simon Wiesenthal

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The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness by Simon Wiesenthal

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This is a super interesting read, written by a former prisoner in a Nazi concentration camp. As a Nazi soldier lies on his deathbed and asks for forgiveness, the prisoner is forced to look at all he has experienced. The second half of the book is composed of people's responses to the survivor's exploration of self.

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Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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Short... but heavy read. You probably know the premise. It's kind of difficult to sum up. Amazon noted it's about "about the young student of science Victor Frankenstein, who creates a grotesque but sentient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment.". Really, it's Shelley's nightmare turned into a text.

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The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman

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The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman

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A man returns home after decades and starts to remember a terrifying and mystical period from his childhood.  The "ocean" is actually a pond,  but Lettie (a childhood friend) saw the world differently.  This story is a blend of fantasy and horror you will never forget. It is short too. :-)

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A Long Way Gone:  Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ismael Beah

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A Long Way Gone:  Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ismael Beah

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Beah tells the story of how he became a child soldier during the civil war in Sierra Leone.  He was eventually rescued by UNICEF and brought to a rehabilitation center.  His story is horrifying, yet shows the resilience of humanity.

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Atwood fictionalizes the notorious 1843 murders of Thomas Kinnear and his housekeeper Nancy Montgomery in Canada. Grace Marks, the convicted murderess, cannot remember what happened on the night of the murders, but a young doctor slowly leads her to reveal details. The reader must decide whether Grace is innocent or guilty. This book inspired a Hulu series.

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Stamped:  Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi

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Stamped:  Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi

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The construct of race has always been used to gain and keep power, to create dynamics that separate and silence. This remarkable reimagining of Dr. Ibram X. Kendi's National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning reveals the history of racist ideas in America, and inspires hope for an antiracist future. It takes you on a race journey from then to now, shows you why we feel how we feel, and why the poison of racism lingers. It also proves that while racist ideas have always been easy to fabricate and distribute, they can also be discredited.

Through a gripping, fast-paced, and energizing narrative written by beloved award-winner Jason Reynolds, this book shines a light on the many insidious forms of racist ideas--and on ways readers can identify and stamp out racist thoughts in their daily lives. (Recommended by Jen Fall)

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Ifemelu and Obinze are young and in love when departing military-ruled Nigeria for the West. Ifemelu journeys to America, where despite her academic success, she is forced to struggle with what it means to be black in America. Obinze experiences a dangerous, undocumented life in London. Fifteen years later, they reunite in a newly democratic Nigeria.

This novel raises questions about race and belonging, and shows the search for identity and a home.  It is a great read!

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Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

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Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

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Coates addresses the concept of race as a social construct throughout history, and as an inescapable force and reality in our current world. Framed as a letter to his adolescent son, Coates blends narrative and reporting to help all understand how racial conflicts in our present are tied to moments from the past. As a father, he finds hope for a way to move forward. This is not an easy read, but an important start to understanding the realities of race in America.