Think The Godfather plus magic on this wild ride of a novel featuring rival gangs warring against each other and the threat of a foreign invasion.
Rebecca
National borders have been eliminated in favor of centenals, geographical groupings of every 100,000 citizens who vote every ten years. The corporate party Heritage holds the majority, but the system may be upended by idealistic Policy1st--or warmongering Liberty, a party playing on old nationalist tensions. I have never been so fascinated by the innards of a fictional election. Complex and compelling.
Rebecca
McLemore has been longlisted for the National Book Award, and her latest does not disappoint. The Nomeolvides women have tended the lush estate La Pradera for almost a century, but have also hidden a tragic legacy: if they fall in love too deeply, their lovers vanish. But when a mysterious boy appears in the gardens, the sisters unearth secrets that lead them to question everything they know about La Pradera, and their own family. Haunting and beautifully written.
Rebecca
This gorgeous feminist reimagining of Snow White feels as familiar as hot chocolate in front of a crackling fire and as fresh as a winter day. Read if you liked Novik's Uprooted!
Rebecca
The Daily Show comedian Trevor Noah chronicles his childhood growing up under apartheid in South Africa. This memoir is eye-opening, gut-wrenching, and at times hilarious.
Rebecca
Four children's lives intersect when a bullying prank leads to a heroic rescue operation. Finishing this book is like getting a big hug and believing that everything is going to be alright in the world. Completely satisfying.
Rebecca
This memoir of taking up space in an ambivalent (and often hostile) world is funny, insightful, and satisfying.
Rebecca
When Aventurine is trapped in a puny human body by an enchanted cup of hot chocolate, she knows she must do all it takes to regain her true dragon form. But what will she do about her weakness for chocolate...and the humans that make it? A completely charming adventure and a feisty heroine.
After years spent living on the run, Loo moves with her father Samuel to her mother's hometown. There she struggles to fit in and to unravel the mysteries surrounding Samuel's past. A riveting, complicated read.
Flora 717 is a sanitation worker, one of the lowliest bees in a hive where work is paramount and worship of the Queen the only religion. But Flora is not like other bees. Her self-knowledge and curiosity make her a threat to the ways of her kin...but she may also be their only hope during a season that threatens the hive's very survival. Laline Paull delivers a totally weird and brilliantly imaginative chronicle based on observations of actual bees.
Rebecca
