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    • Small Great Things Cover
      by testsuphomeAdmin Small Great Things by ​Jodi Picoult​ (2016) is a grip­ping nov­el that explores ​racism, priv­i­lege, and jus­tice​ in mod­ern Amer­i­ca. The sto­ry fol­lows ​Ruth Jef­fer­son, an expe­ri­enced Black labor and deliv­ery nurse, who is for­bid­den from car­ing for a new­born after the white suprema­cist par­ents request “no African Amer­i­can staff.” When the baby goes into car­diac arrest and Ruth hes­i­tates to inter­vene, she is charged…
    • [Joe Pickett 18] • The Disappeared Cover
      by testsuphomeAdmin In The Dis­ap­peared, Wyoming game war­den ​Joe Pick­ett​ is drawn into a high-stakes mys­tery when a British ​CEO’s daugh­ter, ​Kate Shelford-Long­den, van­ish­es from an exclu­sive ​guest ranch​ near ​Sarato­ga. Tasked with inves­ti­gat­ing by Gov­er­nor ​Colter Allen, Joe uncov­ers a web of secrets involv­ing: A ​van­ished ranch employ­ee​ with a vio­lent past A ​ruth­less Sil­i­con Val­ley investor​ with ties to the ranch A ​local jour­nal­ist​ dig­ging…
      Mystery • Thriller • True Crime
    • The Obelisk Gate Cover
      by testsuphomeAdmin The Obelisk Gate con­tin­ues N.K. Jemisin’s Hugo Award-win­ning Bro­ken Earth tril­o­gy, plung­ing read­ers deep­er into a world rav­aged by apoc­a­lyp­tic cli­mate dis­as­ters. As the Fifth Season—a cat­a­stroph­ic cli­mate event—unfolds, the sto­ry fol­lows: ​Essun, a griev­ing moth­er and pow­er­ful oro­gene, who seeks refuge in the under­ground comm of Castri­ma while hunt­ing her daughter’s kid­nap­per. ​Nas­sun, Essun’s miss­ing daugh­ter, whose emerg­ing pow­ers draw her into a dan­ger­ous fac­tion with…
      Dystopian • Fantasy • Fiction • Science Fiction
    • The Hunger Games Cover
      by testsuphomeAdmin In The Hunger Games, ​Kat­niss Everdeen, a 16-year-old girl from the impov­er­ished ​Dis­trict 12, vol­un­teers to take her younger sister’s place in the ​annu­al Hunger Games—a tele­vised fight to the death between 24 chil­dren, orches­trat­ed by the tyran­ni­cal ​Capi­tol​ to sup­press rebel­lion in ​Panem, the dystopi­an remains of North Amer­i­ca. Thrust into the ​are­na​ with fel­low trib­ute ​Pee­ta Mel­lark, Kat­niss must use her ​hunt­ing skills,…
    • Thomas Covenant 8 — The Fatal Revenant Cover
      by testsuphomeAdmin In Fatal Revenant, Stephen R. Don­ald­son shat­ters expec­ta­tions as ​Thomas Covenant—long believed dead—returns to the Land in a shock­ing, enig­mat­ic form. Reunit­ed with ​Lin­den Avery, Covenant and his for­mer com­pan­ion ​Jere­mi­ah​ (now mys­te­ri­ous­ly healed) bring urgent warn­ings: the ​Worm of the World’s End​ is stir­ring, and ​Lord Foul’s​ final vic­to­ry is immi­nent. But noth­ing is as it seems. Covenant’s res­ur­rec­tion defies the Land’s laws, his…
      Fantasy • Fiction • Psychological
    • Mad Honey Cover
      by testsuphomeAdmin Mad Hon­ey (2022) by ​Jodi Picoult​ and ​Jen­nifer Finney Boy­lan​ is a ​mul­ti-lay­ered nov­el​ blend­ing ​mys­tery, court­room dra­ma, and LGBTQ+ themes. The sto­ry fol­lows ​Olivia McAfee, a bee­keep­er and sin­gle moth­er, whose son ​Ash­er​ stands accused of mur­der­ing his girl­friend, ​Lily Cam­pan­el­lo. As the tri­al unfolds, secrets about Lily’s trans­gen­der iden­ti­ty and Asher’s volatile behav­ior emerge, forc­ing Olivia to con­front her past—including her own escape…
    • The Scorch Trials Cover
      by testsuphomeAdmin In The Scorch Tri­als, the sec­ond install­ment of the Maze Run­ner series, ​Thomas​ and his fel­low Gladers emerge from the dead­ly Maze—only to face an even dead­lier chal­lenge. Thrust into a des­o­late waste­land known as the ​Scorch, they must cross a ​sun-blast­ed, dis­ease-rav­aged​ land­scape to reach a promised safe haven with­in ​two weeks. But the ​Scorch​ hides hor­rors worse than the Maze: ​Cranks, zom­bie-like vic­tims of the…
    • The Pact Cover
      by testsuphomeAdmin The Pact is a heart-wrench­ing and thought-pro­vok­ing nov­el that explores love, loss, and the unbreak­able bonds of fam­i­ly and friend­ship. The sto­ry revolves around two families—the Hartes and the Golds—who have been insep­a­ra­ble neigh­bors and best friends for years. Their teenage chil­dren, ​Chris Harte​ and ​Emi­ly Gold, grew up togeth­er and were assumed to be soul­mates. But when a shock­ing tragedy occurs—a sui­cide pact that…
      Drama • Fiction • Psychological
    • The Children of Men Cover
      by testsuphomeAdmin In The Chil­dren of Men, P.D. James crafts a haunt­ing dystopi­an vision set in ​2021, where human­i­ty faces extinc­tion after decades of glob­al infer­til­i­ty. The last gen­er­a­tion born, the ​Omegas, are now adults, and soci­ety has descend­ed into despair under the author­i­tar­i­an rule of ​The War­den of Eng­land, Xan Lyp­pi­att. Theo Faron, a dis­il­lu­sioned Oxford pro­fes­sor and cousin to the War­den, is drawn into a…
      Dystopian • Fiction • Thriller
    • Hillbilly Elegy Cover
      by testsuphomeAdmin Hill­bil­ly Ele­gy is a deeply per­son­al mem­oir by J.D. Vance that exam­ines his upbring­ing in a poor Rust Belt town and offers a pow­er­ful insight into the strug­gles of America’s white work­ing class. Raised in Mid­dle­town, Ohio, by a fam­i­ly with roots in the Appalachi­an region of Ken­tucky, Vance tells a sto­ry marked by insta­bil­i­ty, addic­tion, vio­lence, and pover­ty. Despite these chal­lenges, he even­tu­al­ly…
      Non-fiction • Politics • Society
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