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The Divers' Game by Jesse BallThe award-winning author of Census depicts an unsettlingly familiar society that has renounced equality, where state-sanctioned abuses shape the final moments of a woman's life against a backdrop of two violent festivals. Also available on Libby and Hoopla
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All Things Are Too Small: essays in praise of excess by Becca RothfeldA cultural critic advocates for embracing imbalance, obsession and gluttony across all aspects of life, contending that our contemporary culture's misguided pursuit of equality in love and art, coupled with economic disparities, has left us spiritually impoverished. Also available on Hoopla (e-Audio)
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Troublemaker by John ChoFollowing the events of the LA Riots, a 12-year-old Korean American boy must come to terms with the racism within and affecting their community while trying to protect his father, a store owner. Also available on Libby
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The sixth studio album by English singer Charli XCX. The album's pop sound draws on both rave music and the singer's previous experimental releases, and balances an aggressive and brash attitude with moments of vulnerability.
Available to listen on Hoopla
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I Hope This Finds You Well by Natalie SueTrapped between petty revenge and a life-changing opportunity, Jolene navigates coworker drama, hidden secrets and forbidden feelings to save her job, risking exposure of an email vendetta and the walls she's built around her heart. Also available on Libby
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NOS4A2 by Joe HillWhen Charles Talent Manx, an unstoppable monster who transforms children into his own terrifying likeness, kidnaps her son, Victoria McQueen, the only person to ever escape his unmitigated evil, must engage in a life-and-death battle of wills to get her boy back. Also available on Libby and Hoopla
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The Hired Girl by Laura Amy SchlitzFourteen-year-old Joan Skraggs chronicles her life in a journal when she leaves her family's farm in Pennsylvania to work as a hired girl in Baltimore in the summer of 1911 Also available on Libby and Hoopla
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Dances With Wolves Sent to protect a U.S. outpost on the frontier, Lt. John Dunbar befriends the local Sioux Indians and must make a choice about how he wants to live his life as the U.S. Army threatens to push the Sioux out. Available on DVD or on Hoopla
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The Anthropocene Reviewed: essays on a human-centered planet by John GreenThe Anthropocene is the current geological age, in which human activity has profoundly shaped the planet and its biodiversity. In this remarkable symphony of essays adapted and expanded from his groundbreaking podcast, John Green reviews different facets of the human-centered planet. John Green's gift for storytelling shines throughout this artfully curated collection that includes both beloved essays and all-new pieces exclusive to the book. Also available on Libby
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The Fellowship of the Rings by J. R. R. TolkienIn a quiet village in the Shire, Frodo is about to receive a gift that will change his life forever. Thought lost centuries ago, it is the One RIng, an object of terrifying power once used by the Dark Lord to enslave Middle-earth. Now darkness is rising, and Frodo must travel deep into the Dark Lord's realm, to the one place the Ring can be destroyed: Mount Doom. The journey will test Frodo's courage, his friendships, and his heart. Because the Ring corrupts all who bear it--can Frodo destroy it, or will it destroy him? Also available on Libby and Hoopla
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Heartless Hunter by Kristen CiccarelliMoonlighting as the Crimson Moth, a witch vigilante who rescues her kind from being purged, Rune courts Gideon Sharpe, an unforgiving witch hunter, while pretending to be a vapid young socialite during the day in order to gain the intel she desperately needs. However, she can't help falling for him. Also available on Libby
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Hello Beautiful by Ann NapolitanoAwarded a college basketball scholarship away from his childhood home, which was silenced by tragedy, a young man befriends a spirited young woman who welcomes him into her loving, loud, chaotic household. Also available on Libby
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The Incendiaries by R. O. KwonA dark tale of violence, faith and loss follows the experiences of a young Korean-American woman at an elite university who is drawn into acts of domestic terrorism by a cult with ties to North Korea. Also available on Libby
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Swan Song by Elin HilderbrandWhen a 22-million-dollar summer home is purchased by the mysterious and overly extravagant Richardsons, social mayhem ensues in the tight-knit Nantucket community, but when their house burns to the ground and their most essential employee goes missing, the entire island must save the day—and their way of life. Also available on Libby
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The Paris Novel by Ruth ReichlWhen her estranged mother dies, Stella is left with an unusual inheritance: a one-way plane ticket and a note reading "Go to Paris." But Stella is hardly cut out for adventure. When her boss encourages her to take time off, Stella resigns herself to honor her mother's wishes, even if a spontaneous trip to Paris is the last thing she wants. A feast for the senses, this novel is a testament to what it means to live deliciously, to be authentic, to embrace adventure, and to find a home in the last place you might expect. Also available on Libby
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The Many Lives of Mama Love: a memoir of lying, stealing, writing, and healing by Lara Love HardinThe New York Times best-selling author, who was convicted of 32 felonies, recounts her slide from soccer mom to heroin addict to jailhouse “shot caller” and how she made an unlikely comeback despite a system that makes it almost impossible for us to move beyond the worst thing we've ever done. Also available on Libby
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Molly by Blake ButlerBlake Butler and Molly Brodak instantly connected, fell in love, married and built a life together. Both writers with deep roots in contemporary American literature, their union was an iconic joining of forces between two major and beloved talents. Nearly three years into their marriage, grappling with mental illness and a lifetime of trauma, Molly took her own life. In the days and weeks after Molly's death, Blake discovered shocking secrets she had held back from the world, fundamentally altering his view of their relationship and who she was.
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Liberation Day: stories by George SaundersThis brilliant collection of stories, written with the author's trademark prose—wickedly funny, unsentimental and perfectly tuned, encompass joy and despair, oppression and revolution, bizarre fantasy and brutal reality. Also available on Libby
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The Other Valley by Scott Alexander HowardVying for a coveted seat on the Conseil, 16-year-old Odile, who lives in an isolated town neighbored by its own past and future, discovers her friend Edme is about to die, and sworn to secrecy to preserve the timeline, instead finds herself drawing closer to the doomed boy, imperiling her entire future. Also available on Libby
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Reggie and Delilah's Year of Falling by Elise BryantPretending to be someone they're not, Delilah, who is unable to open up, and Reggie, a D&D Dungeon Master who is role-playing someone confident, fall for a version of each other that doesn't really exist when fate keeps throwing them together. Also available on Hoopla and Libby
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The Parker Inheritance by Varian JohnsonSpending the summer in Lambert, South Carolina, Candice discovers the letter that sent her grandmother on a treasure hunt, and with her new friend Brandon, sets off to expose the injustice once committed against a local African American family. Also available on Hoopla and Libby
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