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1.
My Monticello

My Monticello : Fiction by Jocelyn Nicole Johnson EN

Rating: 4     8 Votes
Description:
A young woman descended from Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings driven from her neighborhood by a white militia. A university professor studying racism by conducting a secret social experiment on his own son. A single mother desperate to buy her first home even as the world hurtles toward catastrophe. Each fighting to survive in America. Tough-minded, vulnerable, and brave, Jocelyn Nicole Johnson’s precisely imagined debut explores burdened inheritances and extraordinary pursuits of belonging. Set in the near future, the eponymous novella, “My Monticello,” tells of a diverse group of Charlotte... continue

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Signs Preceding the End of the World
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Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera EN

Rating: 5     2 Votes
Description:
A streetwise heroine crosses from Mexico to USA to find her brother in this mythologizing novel by Juan Rulfo's heir.
Recommended: 13 Oct 2022

3.
Station Eleven

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel EN

Rating: 4     348 Votes
Description:
DAY ONE The Georgia Flu explodes over the surface of the earth like a neutron bomb. News reports put the mortality rate at over 99%. WEEK TWO Civilization has crumbled. YEAR TWENTY A band of actors and musicians called the Travelling Symphony move through their territories performing concerts and Shakespeare to the settlements that have grown up there. Twenty years after the pandemic, life feels relatively safe. But now a new danger looms, and he threatens the hopeful world every survivor has tried to rebuild. STATION ELEVEN Moving backwards and forwards in time, from the glittering years just... continue
Recommended: 27 May 2023

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The Handmaid's Tale
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The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood EN

Rating: 4     22 Votes
Description:
The Republic of Gilead offers Offred only one function: to breed . If she deviates, she will, like dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness. But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire - neither Offred's n
Recommended: 25 May 2022

5.
The Marrow Thieves

The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline EN

Rating: 4     3 Votes
Description:
In this futuristic dystopian novel for teens, the Indigenous people of North America are on the run in a fight for survival.
Recommended: 27 Dec 2022

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The Testaments
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The Testaments by Margaret Atwood EN

Rating: 4     91 Votes
Description:
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE • A modern masterpiece that "reminds us of the power of truth in the face of evil” (People)—and can be read on its own or as a sequel to Margaret Atwood’s classic, The Handmaid’s Tale. “Atwood’s powers are on full display” (Los Angeles Times) in this deeply compelling Booker Prize-winning novel, now updated with additional content that explores the historical sources, ideas, and material that inspired Atwood. More than fifteen years after the events of The Handmaid's Tale, the theocratic regime of the Republic of Gilead maintains its grip ... continue

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