Title: Being ThereAuthor: Jerzy KosinskiPublisher: Grove PressRelease Date: September 15, 1999 (originally published January 1, 1970) A modern classic now available from Grove Press, Being There is one of the most popular and significant works from a writer of international stature. It is the story of Chauncey Gardiner – Chance, an enigmatic but distinguished man
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Title: Ladder of YearsAuthor: Anne TylerPublisher: Ballantine BooksRelease Date: March 26, 1996 A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKBALTIMORE WOMAN DISAPPEARS DURING FAMILY VACATION, declares the headline. Forty-year-old Delia Grinstead is last seen strolling down the Delaware shore, wearing nothing more than a bathing suit and carrying a beach tote with five hundred dollars tucked inside.
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Title: Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More Author: Janet MockPublisher: Atria BooksRelease Date: February 4, 2014 In 2011, Marie Claire magazine published a profile of Janet Mock in which she stepped forward for the first time as a trans woman. Those twenty-three hundred words were life-altering for the People.com
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Title: The Talented Mr. RipleyAuthor: Patricia HighsmithRelease Date: June 17, 2008 (first published in 1955)Publisher: W.W. Norton CompanySeries: Ripley #1 Since his debut in 1955, Tom Ripley has evolved into the ultimate bad boy sociopath, influencing countless novelists and filmmakers. In this first novel, we are introduced to suave, handsome Tom Ripley: a young striver,
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Title: Fight ClubAuthor: Chuck PalahniukRelease Date: October 17, 2005 (first published 1996)Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company (NYC) “The first rule about fight club is you don’t talk about fight club.” Chuck Palahniuk’s outrageous and startling debut novel that exploded American literature and spawned a movement. Every weekend, in the basements and parking lots of bars
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Title: The Bell Jar Author: Sylvia PlathRelease Date: August 2, 2015 (originally published January 1963)Publisher: HarperCollins The Bell Jar chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going under– maybe for the last time. Sylvia Plath masterfully draws the reader into Esther’s breakdown with such intensity that Esther’s insanity
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Title: Dreaming in CubanAuthor: Cristina GarciaPublisher: Ballantine BooksRelease Date: February 10, 1993 Here is the dreamy and bittersweet story of a family divided by politics and geography by the Cuban revolution. It is the family story of Celia del Pino, and her husband, daughter and grandchildren, from the mid-1930s to 1980. Celia’s story mirrors the
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Title: The AwakeningAuthor: Kate ChopinPublisher: Bedford/St. Martin’sRelease Date: December 29, 1999 (first published 1899) This revision of a widely adopted critical edition presents the 1969 Seyersted text of Kate Chopin’s novel along with critical essays that introduce students to The Awakening from the perspectives of feminism, gender (new essay), new historical, deconstructionist, and reader response criticism.
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Title: Fahrenheit 451 Author: Ray BradburyPublisher: Simon & SchusterRelease Date: November 29, 2011 Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with
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Title: Queen of Shadows Author: Sarah J. MaasPublisher: Bloomsbury USA ChildrensRelease Date: September 1, 2015Series: Throne of Glass #4 The queen has returned.Everyone Celaena Sardothien loves has been taken from her. But she’s at last returned to the empire-for vengeance, to rescue her once-glorious kingdom, and to confront the shadows of her past…She has embraced
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Title: Milk and HoneyAuthor: Rupi KaurPublisher: CreatespaceRelease Date: November 4, 2014 milk and honey is a collection of poetry and prose about survival. It is about the experience of violence, abuse, love, loss, and femininity. It is split into four chapters, and each chapter serves a different purpose, deals with a different pain, heals a
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Title: Heir of Fire Author: Sarah J. MaasPublisher: Bloomsbury USA ChildrensRelease Date: September 2, 2014Series: Throne of Glass #3 Calaena has survived deadly contests and shattering heartbreak-but at an unspeakable cost. Now, she must travel to a new land to confront her darkest truth… a truth about her heritage that could change her life-and her
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Title: The Raven King Author: Maggie StiefvaterRelease Date: April 26, 2016Publisher: Scholastic PressSeries: The Raven Cycle #4 The fourth and final installment in the spellbinding series from the irrepressible, #1 New York Times bestselling author Maggie Stiefvater.All her life, Blue has been warned that she will cause her true love’s death. She doesn’t believe in
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So, it’s a little late, but… Happy New Year! I’ve been extremely busy since getting back to school, which is why I’m literally just now getting the time to post my top ten of 2017. Overall, I read 57 books in 2017. Though this isn’t as many as I normally read, I am proud of
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Title: Blue Lily, Lily Blue Author: Maggie StiefvaterRelease Date: October 21, 2014Publisher: Scholastic PressGenre: Fantasy, ParanormalSeries: The Raven Cycle #3 The third installment in the all-new series from the #1 NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author Maggie Stiefvater!Blue Sargent has found things. For the first time in her life, she has friends she can trust, a
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Hey guys! Today I am featuring Kelly Garrett as part of the 2017 Debut Author’s Bash hosted by YA Reads!About The Last to Die, Kelly’s debut novel: Sixteen-year-old Harper Jacobs and her bored friends make a pact to engage in a series of not-quite illegal break-ins. They steal from each other’s homes, sharing their keys
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Hi guys! Today I have a playlist for you, based on the novel This Mortal Coil by Emily Suvada. If you have the chance, I definitely suggest giving this book a read. Maybe this playlist will convince you! If you click on the song title, it will bring you to the YouTube link where you
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Title: AutonomousAuthor: Andy MarinoPublisher: Disney-HyperionRelease Date: November 14, 2017Source: Netgalley William Mackler is about to go on a road trip of a lifetime. After winning a contest-and nearly dying in the process-he becomes the proud owner of Autonomous, a driverless car that knows where you want to go before you do. #Worthit! To sweeten the
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Title: The Dark Intercept Author: Julia KellerPublisher: Tor TeenRelease Date: November 7, 2017Source: Netgalley The Dark Intercept is the first novel in a “riveting” (Emmy Laybourne) science fiction series for teens by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Julia Keller that challenges the voluntary surrender of liberties for the perception of safety.When the state controls your emotions, how
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Title: Satellite Author: Nick LakePublisher: Knopf Books for Young ReadersRelease Date: October 3, 2017 A teenage boy born in space makes his first trip to Earth.He’s going to a place he’s never known before: home.Moon 2 is a space station that orbits approximately 250 miles above Earth. It travels 17,500 miles an hour, making one
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