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What Happened to Millennials : In Defense of a Generation
by Charlie Wells

A cultural history of millennials' disrupted adulthood, combining interviews with five individuals and extensive research to explore how major 21st-century events and social changes shaped their personal experiences of love, work, loss and resilience.
To the Moon and Back : a novel
by Eliana Ramage

After fleeing domestic violence for the Cherokee Nation, Steph Harper dedicates her life to escaping Oklahoma and reaching NASA, but her relentless pursuit of independence strains her ties with her sister Kayla, her girlfriend Della and her mother Hannah.
Artificial Wisdom : a novel
by Thomas R. Weaver

In a climate-ravaged landscape where AI and humans vie for political power, a journalist must unravel a murderous plot that will either upend the world or save it.
Monopoly X : How Top-Secret World War II Operations Used the Game of Monopoly To Help Allied POWs Escape, Conceal Spies, and Send Secret Codes
by Philip Orbanes

Details how England's top-secret MI-9, and later America's MIS-X, created a special version of the game, hiding tools, maps, and money within game boards—delivered by an unwitting Red Cross—to captured Allied servicemen held at gunpoint in German prison camps.
Wooing the Witch Queen
by Stephanie Burgis

In a gaslamp-lit world of magic and danger, Queen Saskia, a feared sorceress, unknowingly hires an Imperial archduke disguised as a librarian, sparking a forbidden romance that threatens to unravel their secrets, alliances, and the fragile peace between their lands.
Buckeye : a novel
by Patrick Ryan

In postwar Ohio, a stolen moment between Cal Jenkins and Margaret Salt reverberates through generations, as a small town's buried secrets and a wife's spiritual gift expose the longing for love and goodness.
Count My Lies : a novel
by Sophie Stava

When Sloane lies about being a nurse to meet an attractive single father, she becomes his children's nanny, entering a seemingly perfect world that hides dangerous secrets and forces her to confront the consequences of her deceptions.
The CIA Book Club : The Secret Mission To Win the Cold War with Forbidden Literature
by Charlie English

Recounts a covert Cold War operation led by George Minden to smuggle banned literature into Eastern Europe, focusing on the cultural and psychological battle against Soviet censorship and the role underground reading networks played in weakening totalitarian control, especially in Poland.
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