2025 Books
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Animal Farm
George Orwell • 2025
This Time It's Real
Ann Liang • 2023
I Hope This Doesn't Find You
Ann Liang • 2025
Archer's Voice
Mia Sheridan • 2018
It Only Hurts at First
Allison Rogers • 2023
When Breath Becomes Air
Paul Kalanithi • 2016
A Hue Of Blue
Anastasia Chacon • 2023
Better Than the Movies
Lynn Painter • 2022
<b>A <i>USA TODAY</i> and <i>New York Times</i> bestseller</b><br> <br><b>Perfect for fans of Kasie West and Jenn Bennett, this “sweet and funny” (Kerry Winfrey, author of <i>Waiting for Tom Hanks</i>) teen rom-com follows a hopelessly romantic teen girl and her cute yet obnoxious neighbor as they scheme to get her noticed by her untouchable crush.</b><br><br>Perpetual daydreamer Liz Buxbaum gave her heart to Michael a long time ago. But her cool, aloof forever crush never really saw her before he moved away. Now that he’s back in town, Liz will do whatever it takes to get on his radar—and maybe snag him as a prom date—even befriend Wes Bennet.<br> <br>The annoyingly attractive next-door neighbor might seem like a prime candidate for romantic comedy fantasies, but Wes has only been a pain in Liz’s butt since they were kids. Pranks involving frogs and decapitated lawn gnomes do not a potential boyfriend make. Yet, somehow, Wes and Michael are hitting it off, which means Wes is Liz’s in.<br> <br>But as Liz and Wes scheme to get Liz noticed by Michael so she can have her magical prom moment, she’s shocked to discover that she likes being around Wes. And as they continue to grow closer, she must reexamine everything she thought she knew about love—and rethink her own ideas of what Happily Ever After should look like.
Better Than the Prom
Lynn Painter • 2024
Die kostenlose Bonusgeschichte zu BETTER THAN THE MOVIES. Prom-Night mit Dual POV. Es ist der Abend des Abschlussballs, und Wes Bennett könnte nicht weniger begeistert sein. Dass er nicht mit dem Mädchen hingehen kann, das er liebt, seit er denken kann, ist schlimm genug. Nein, Liz geht ausgerechnet mit Michael als Date: ihrem Traummann, seit sie denken kann. Und das nach dem unglaublichen Kuss, den Wes und Liz geteilt haben. Es wird kein Abschlussball, es wird ein Albtraum werden. Auf dem Prom gelingt es Wes, die beiden so gut es geht zu meiden. Aber jeder heimliche Blick auf Liz in ihrem weißen Abendkleid, wie sie Michael anstrahlt, tut einfach verdammt weh. Als Wes den Ball vorzeitig verlässt und nach Hause fährt, wartet zu seiner Überraschung Liz auf ihn ...
People We Meet on Vacation
Emily Henry • 2021
<b>From the #1 <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>Funny Story </i>comes a sparkling novel that will leave you with the warm, hazy afterglow usually reserved for the best vacations.</b><br><b><br></b><i>Two best friends. Ten summer trips. One last chance to fall in love.<br></i><br>Poppy and Alex. Alex and Poppy. They have nothing in common. She’s a wild child; he wears khakis. She has insatiable wanderlust; he prefers to stay home with a book. And somehow, ever since a fateful car share home from college many years ago, they are the very best of friends. For most of the year they live far apart—she’s in New York City, and he’s in their small hometown—but every summer, for a decade, they have taken one glorious week of vacation together. <br><br>Until two years ago, when they ruined everything. They haven't spoken since. <br><br>Poppy has everything she should want, but she’s stuck in a rut. When someone asks when she was last truly happy, she knows, without a doubt, it was on that ill-fated, final trip with Alex. And so, she decides to convince her best friend to take one more vacation together—lay everything on the table, make it all right. Miraculously, he agrees. <br><br>Now she has a week to fix everything. If only she can get around the one big truth that has always stood quietly in the middle of their seemingly perfect relationship. What could possibly go wrong?
Beach Read
Emily Henry • 2020
<b><b>FROM THE #1 <i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF <i>FUNNY STORY</i>!<br><br>A romance writer who no longer believes in love and a literary writer stuck in a rut engage in a summer-long challenge that may just upend everything they believe about happily ever afters.<br><br>As featured in <i>The New York Times Book Review</i> ∙ <i>Entertainment Weekly</i> ∙ <i>Oprah Magazine</i> ∙ Betches ∙ Shondaland ∙ Good Morning America ∙ <i>The New York Post</i> ∙ <i>Good Housekeeping</i> ∙ CNN ∙ and more!</b></b><br><br>Augustus Everett is an acclaimed author of literary fiction. January Andrews writes bestselling romance. When she pens a happily ever after, he kills off his entire cast. <br><br>They’re polar opposites. <br><br>In fact, the only thing they have in common is that for the next three months, they're living in neighboring beach houses, broke, and bogged down with writer's block.<br><br>Until, one hazy evening, one thing leads to another and they strike a deal designed to force them out of their creative ruts: Augustus will spend the summer writing something happy, and January will pen the next Great American Novel. She’ll take him on field trips worthy of any rom-com montage, and he’ll take her to interview surviving members of a backwoods death cult (obviously). Everyone will finish a book and no one will fall in love. Really.
Alice
Christina Henry
Reading
Hard-boiled Hard Luck
Banana Yoshimoto • 2017
The Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka • 2025
The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas • 2003
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, A Young Man and Life's Greatest Lesson
Mitch Albom • 1997
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The beloved book that has changed millions of lives with the story of an unforgettable friendship, the timeless wisdom of older generations, and healing lessons on loss and grief<br/><br/>“A wonderful book, a story of the heart told by a writer with soul.”—Los Angeles Times<br/><br/>“The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.”<br/><br/>Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher, or a colleague. Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, helped you see the world as a more profound place, gave you sound advice to help you make your way through it.<br/><br/>For Mitch Albom, that person was Morrie Schwartz, his college professor from nearly twenty years ago.<br/><br/>Maybe, like Mitch, you lost track of this mentor as you made your way, and the insights faded, and the world seemed colder. Wouldn't you like to see that person again, ask the bigger questions that still haunt you, receive wisdom for your busy life today the way you once did when you were younger?<br/><br/>Mitch Albom had that second chance. He rediscovered Morrie in the last months of the older man's life. Knowing he was dying, Morrie visited with Mitch in his study every Tuesday, just as they used to back in college. Their rekindled relationship turned into one final "class": lessons in how to live.<br/><br/>Tuesdays with Morrie is a magical chronicle of their time together, through which Mitch shares Morrie's lasting gift with the world.
Dragon's Gate (Trophy Newbery)
Laurence Yep • 2007
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The Girl Who Drank the Moon (Winner of the 2017 Newbery Medal)
Kelly Barnhill • 2019
<b>The beloved, Newbery Medal–winning classic is now in paperback! With more than a million copies sold, <i>The Girl Who Drank the Moon</i> is a must-read for fans of timeless fantasy fables.<br> <br> And coming in March 2022, an immersive new fantasy from Kelly Barnhill, <i>The Ogress and the Orphans</i>!</b><br><br> Every year, the people of the Protectorate leave a baby as an offering to the witch who lives in the forest. They hope this sacrifice will keep her from terrorizing their town. But the witch in the Forest, Xan, is kind. She shares her home with a wise Swamp Monster and a Perfectly Tiny Dragon. Xan rescues the children and delivers them to welcoming families on the other side of the forest, nourishing the babies with starlight on the journey.<br><br> One year, Xan accidentally feeds a baby moonlight instead of starlight, filling the ordinary child with extraordinary magic. Xan decides she must raise this girl, whom she calls Luna, as her own. As Luna’s thirteenth birthday approaches, her magic begins to emerge—with dangerous consequences. Meanwhile, a young man from the Protectorate is determined to free his people by killing the witch. Deadly birds with uncertain intentions flock nearby. A volcano, quiet for centuries, rumbles just beneath the earth’s surface. And the woman with the Tiger’s heart is on the prowl . . .
