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historical fiction
The Copenhagen Trilogy: Childhood; Youth; Dependency
Tove Ditlevsen 路 2021
The Woman in White
Wilkie Collins 路 2017
Where the Crawdads Sing
Delia Owens 路 2021
The Secret Life of Bees
Sue Monk Kidd 路 2003
Passing (Penguin Classics)
Nella Larsen 路 2003
Jane Eyre (Dover Thrift Editions: Classic Novels)
Charlotte Bront毛 路 2003
Charlotte Bront毛 characterized the eponymous heroine of her 1847 novel as being "as poor and plain as myself." Presenting a heroine with neither great beauty nor entrancing charm was an unprecendented maneuver, but Bront毛's instincts proved correct, for readers of her era and ever after have taken Jane Eyre into their hearts. The author drew upon her own experience to depict Jane's struggles at Lowood, an oppressive boarding school, and her troubled career as a governess. Unlike Jane, Bront毛 had the advantage of a warm family circle that shared and encouraged her literary pursuits. She found immediate success with this saga of an orphan girl forced to make her way alone in the world, from Lowood School to Thornfield, the estate of the majestically moody Mr. Rochester, and beyond. A selection of the Common Core State Standards Initiative.
The Glutton
Blakemore A.K. 路 2024
non fiction
The Copenhagen Trilogy: Childhood; Youth; Dependency
Tove Ditlevsen 路 2021
The Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion 路 2007
When God Was a Woman
Merlin Stone 路 1978
Gender, Creation Myths and their Reception in Western Civilization
ids 路 2022
short stories
St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves
Karen Russell 路 2007
horror
My Lips, Her Voice
L. L. Madrid 路 2025
Copper City鈥檚 bloody history is steeped in ghost stories and whispers of serial killers, but three girls have caught the attention of something far more sinister.<br/>A grandmother tormented by visions tried to warn the town, but no one listened. Now, a haunted inheritance has passed to her granddaughters, Audrey and Mara. When Mara鈥檚 body is discovered in the old mine, Audrey fears her grandmother鈥檚 premonition is manifesting.<br/>The nightmare begins as Mara鈥檚 spirit returns鈥攍urking under Audrey鈥檚 skin, hellbent on vengeance and desperate to rekindle things with her former girlfriend, Zadie. Willing to hijack Audrey鈥檚 body to get what she wants, Mara drags them both into a deadly pursuit.<br/>When another girl in town goes missing, Audrey, Mara, and Zadie know the killer has struck again. In a fight to solve Mara's death and uncover the mystery of disappearances in Copper City, the girls soon find themselves at war with each other. How do you survive long enough to hunt a murderer on the loose if the person inside you might kill you first?
Pig (hardcover)
Matilde Pratesi
romance
Moderation: A Novel
Elaine Castillo 路 2025
A bold and inventive novel about real romance in the virtual workplace鈥攂ringing Castillo's trademark wit and sharp cultural criticism to an irresistible story about the possible future of love.<br/><br/>Girlie Delmundo is the greatest content moderator in the world, and despite the setbacks of financial crises, climate catastrophe, and a global pandemic, she鈥檚 going places: she鈥檚 getting a promotion. Now thanks to her parent company Paragon鈥檚 purchase of Fairground鈥攖he world鈥檚 preeminent virtual reality content provider鈥攕he鈥檚 on the way to becoming an elite VR moderator, playing in the big leagues and, if her enthusiastic bosses are to be believed, moderating the next stage of human interaction.<br/><br/>Despite the isolation that virtual reality requires from colleagues, friends, and family, the unbelievable perks of her new job mean she can solve a lot of her family's problems with money and mobility. She doesn't have to think about the childhood home they lost back in the Bay Area, or history at all鈥攕he can just pay any debts that come due. But when she meets William Cheung, Playground鈥檚 wry, reticent co-founder (now Chief Product Officer) and slowly unearths some of his secrets, and finds herself somehow falling in love, she鈥檒l learn that history might be impossible to moderate and the future utterly impossible to control.
