When Vega, daughter of the last astronomer, sees the twin stars on the horizon, she knows that it's the sign several generations have been waiting for. She leaves the safety of the valley and the only home she's ever known to go in search of someone known as The Architect. But she has to hide …
In the 1830's, Afong Moy was the first Chinese woman to set foot on American soil. She made money as a curiosity, exhibited like a carnival attraction, and at some point seemed to disappear from historical records. In this book, Jamie Ford takes this historical figure as his starting point and mixes in the notion …
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We Spread is the third novel from the author, whose name may be familiar from I'm Thinking Of Ending Things, which was adapted by Netflix, and Foe, which is also being made into a film. His books explore things like existential dread and ideas about the human condition which get under our skin and keep …
Set in the near future, when a huge solar storm knocks out the worlds power grids and technology, two adult siblings face the problem with very different perspectives. Aubrey, a woman with a dead beat ex who left her to raise his teen from a previous relationship, stays put and finds community, while her brother, …
Val, a linguist who specializes in dead languages, is processing the recent loss of her twin and living with crippling anxiety, when a girl is found frozen in ice near where her brother died in the Arctic. The girl was thawed out alive, and Val is asked to come and try to figure out what …
Ines is running from her past and her bad decisions when a kind hearted teacher helps her get into the prestigious and mysterious Catherine House. It's a university that's highly selective, where students enter and have no contact with the outside world (no phone calls, no tv, no movies, no music, no personal effects, no …
The Need by Helen Phillips Molly is a scientist and a mother of two who recently found some strange things on the site where she and her colleagues are digging up plant fossils. The objects seem everyday, but each has a slight impossible difference and none of them should be where they were found. As …
In a dystopian future, 2044, the world is a crumbling mess, with most people incredibly poor. Wade Watts is an orphaned teen who essentially lives online via the OASIS, a virtual reality construct that's more appealing than the real world. He attends high school there and has one friend, who shares his love of a …
Crimson Ash is a gripping new young adult thriller and we have one copy to give away! In a dark dystopian future, a disease has ravaged the world, killing off a large part of the population. In response, one man has taken over. He uses mind control to create emotionless soldiers who capture the remaining …
The second book about Winter Agent Juno, this was sent to me by the author to review and share with you. When Juno is informed of the death of her estranged mother through suicide, she is compelled to head back to her home town to find out what happened and face the past. But no …
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