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Isolation eReads August 2020 Check out more adult, teen, and juvenile eBooks and eAudiobooks on our website!
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The Consuming Fire
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John Scalzi
The Interdependency―humanity’s interstellar empire―is on the verge of collapse and Emperox Grayland II is ready to take desperate measures to help ensure the survival of billions. But while Grayland prepares for disaster, others are preparing for a civil war. A war that will take place in the halls of power, the markets of business and the altars of worship as much as it will between spaceships and battlefields.
Sequel Alert: This is the sequel to the 2018 Hugo Award Best Novel finalist and 2018 Locus Award-winning novel, The Collapsing Empire.
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In Five Years
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Rebecca Serle
Where do you see yourself in five years? After being asked this question at the most important interview of her career, Dannie has a meticulously crafted answer at the ready. Later, after nailing her interview and accepting her boyfriend's marriage proposal, Dannie goes to sleep knowing she is right on track to achieve her five-year plan.
But when she wakes up, she’s suddenly in a different apartment, with a different ring on her finger, and beside a very different man. It’s 2025, five years in the future. After an intense, shocking hour, Dannie wakes again back in 2020. She can’t shake what has happened. Determined to ignore the odd experience, she files it away in the back of her mind. That is, until four-and-a-half years later, when by chance Dannie meets the very same man from her long-ago vision.
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Let the Great World Spin
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Colum McCann
Corrigan, a radical young Irish monk, struggles with his own demons as he lives among the prostitutes in the middle of the burning Bronx. A group of mothers gather in a Park Avenue apartment to mourn their sons who died in Vietnam, only to discover just how much divides them even in grief. A young artist finds herself at the scene of a hit-and-run that sends her own life careening sideways. Tillie, a thirty-eight-year-old grandmother, turns tricks alongside her teenage daughter, determined not only to take care of her family but to prove her own worth.
A sweeping and radical social novel, Let the Great World Spin captures the spirit of America in a time of transition, extraordinary promise, and, in hindsight, heartbreaking innocence.
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A Prayer for Travelers
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Ruchika Tomar
Cale Lambert, a bookish loner of mysterious parentage, lives in a dusty town near the California-Nevada border with her grandfather. As soon as she's left high school, his health begins an agonizing decline. Set adrift for the first time, Cale starts waitressing at the local diner, where she reconnects with a charismatic former classmate running mysterious side-hustles to fund her dreams. Penny exposes Cale to the reality that exists beyond their small town, and the girls become inseparable—until one terrifying act of violence shatters their world.
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Writers & Lovers
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Lily King
Blindsided by her mother's sudden death, and wrecked by a recent love affair, Casey Peabody has arrived in Massachusetts in the summer of 1997 without a plan. A former child golf prodigy, she now waits tables in Harvard Square and rents a tiny, moldy room at the side of a garage where she works on the novel she's been writing for six years. At thirty-one, Casey is still clutching onto the determination to live a creative life. When she falls for two very different men at the same time, her world fractures even more.
Casey's fight to fulfill her creative ambitions and balance the conflicting demands of art and life is challenged in ways that push her to the brink.
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Dazed but Not Confused: Tales of a Wilderness Wanderer
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Kevin Callan
Kevin Callan presents his best adventures - and misadventures - in the wilderness. Entertaining, yet enlightening, the stories are full of enthusiasm and are designed to get people to explore the wilderness on their own, and it''s hoped, be inspired to protect what''s still left.Book Annotation
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Mamaskatch: A Cree Coming of Age
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Darrel J. Mcleod
As a small boy in remote Alberta, Darrel J. McLeod is immersed in his Cree family’s history, passed down in the stories of his mother, Bertha. But after a series of tragic losses, Bertha turns wild and unstable and their home life becomes chaotic. Darrel struggles to maintain his grades and pursue interests in music and science while changing homes, witnessing domestic violence, caring for his younger siblings, and suffering abuse at the hands of his brother-in-law. Meanwhile, he begins to question and grapple with his own sexual identity.
Mamaskatch--"It's a wonder!" in Cree--is a heartbreaking account of how traumas are passed down from one generation to the next, and an uplifting story of one individual who broke the cycle in pursuit of a fulfilling and adventurous life.
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My Wife Said You May Want to Marry Me
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Jason Rosenthal
On March 3, 2017, Amy Krouse Rosenthal penned an op-ed piece for the New York Times’ “Modern Love” column —”You May Want to Marry My Husband.” It appeared ten days before her death from ovarian cancer. A heartbreaking, wry, brutally honest, and creative play on a personal ad, the column quickly went viral.
In My Wife Said You May Want to Marry Me, Jason describes what came next: his commitment to respecting Amy’s wish, even as he struggled with her loss. Surveying his life before, with, and after Amy, Jason ruminates on love, the pain of watching a loved one suffer, and what it means to heal—how he and their three children, despite their profound sorrow, went on. Jason’s emotional journey offers insights on dying and death and the excruciating pain of losing a soulmate, and illuminates the lessons he learned.
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Wow, No Thank You
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Samantha Irby
A new collection of humorous and edgy essays from the author of Meaty and We Are Never Meeting in Real Life that highlight the ups and downs of aging, marriage and living with step-children in small-town Michigan. Original.
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Code of Honor
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Alan Gratz
Kamran Smith has it all and can’t wait to enlist in the army like his big brother, Darius. Although his mother is from Iran, Kamran has always felt 100% American.
And then everything implodes.
Darius is accused of being a terrorist. Kamran refuses to believe it. But Darius has been filmed making threats against his country, hinting at an upcoming deadly attack. Suddenly, everyone in Kamran’s life turns against him and his family. It’s up to him to clear his brother’s name. Kamran must piece together a series of clues and codes that will lead him to Darius—and the truth.
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Lady Smoke
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Laura Sebastian
Theo has taken back her rightful title, but her people remain enslaved under the Kaiser's rule. To get them back, she will need an army, but an army can only be produced if Theo takes a husband. Something an Astrean Queen has never done.
Theo knows that freedom comes at a price, but she is determined to find a way to save her country without losing herself.
Series Alert: Catch #1 in the series, Ash Princess, or follow up with #3 Ember Queen.
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Surviving the City
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Tasha Spillett
Miikwan and Dez are best friends. Miikwan is Anishinaabe; Dez is Inninew. Together, the teens navigate the challenges of growing up in an urban landscape – they’re so close, they even completed their Berry Fast together. However, when Dez’s grandmother becomes too sick, Dez is told she can’t stay with her anymore. With the threat of a group home looming, Dez can’t bring herself to go home and disappears.
Series Alert: Watch for book #2 From the Roots Up coming Fall 2020.
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The Bad Guys: Episode 3: The Furball Strikes Back
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Aaron Blabey
The Bad Guys are about to have a VERY BAD DAY! Mr Wolf and his bad, bad buddies have messed with the wrong guinea pig. And this nasty little furball wants revenge! Will they survive? Will they be heroes? And will they just stop trying to eat each other? It’s time to put on your chuckle-pants and find out!
Series Alert: Check out #1 in the series, The Bad Guys: Episode 1.
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The Ice Monster
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David Walliams
When Elsie, an orphan on the streets of Victorian London, hears about the mysterious Ice Monster – a woolly mammoth found at the North Pole – she’s determined to discover more. A chance encounter brings Elsie face to face with the creature, and sparks the adventure of a lifetime – from London to the heart of the Arctic! Heroes come in all different shapes and sizes in David Walliams’ biggest and most epic adventure yet!
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Wondrous Rex
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Patricia MacLachlan
Grace’s aunt is a writer. She works with words every day and teaches Grace interesting words like “melancholy” and “delirious.” But Lily is often “flummoxed” by her writing, so she posts an ad for an assistant: A writer of books needs an assistant, a coach, a helper, for inspiration and some magic!
The next day, Grace opens the door, and there is Rex: a Labrador retriever who will change Grace’s life. The word “amazing” is an everyday word for Rex, who inspires Lily, and helps Grace find the words to write her own story.
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