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2) Kariba
A secret unicorn, a desperate family, and a cop dead set on hunting them down.
Lem and the rag-tag gang of galactic adventurers on the starship Teapot are set to become roadies for the galaxy's hottest band – but an urgent call from Bexley's family means the rock stars will have to wait.
Bexley's soon-to-be-born sibling has a big secret: wings. On planet Hwin, skeledivergence is outlawed, so the Teapot crew
...<p><strong>Embark on an epic fantasy adventure in A Hunter Rises, the captivating first book of the Jacob Crestmore Trilogy by Sean Clarke.</strong></p><p><br></p><p>Dive into a modern world on the brink of war, where Jacob Crestmore, a disillusioned hunter, is thrust into a perilous journey to recover a long-lost artifact and unlock an unimaginable power. With an evil empire relentless in
...Since 2006, Clarkesworld Magazine has been entertaining fans with their brand of unique science fiction and fantasy stories. Collected here are all of the stories this Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning magazine published during the second half of their twelfth year. Includes stories by Kelly Robson, Kij Johnson, Lavie Tidhar, Vajra Chandrasekera, Robert Reed, Rich Larson, Hao Jingfang, and many more!
10) The hike
One of the strongest fiction writers of his generation, Truman Capote became a literary star while still in his teens. His most phenomenal successes include Breakfast at Tiffany’s, In Cold Blood, and Other Voices, Other Rooms. Even while his literary...
Award-winning journalist and host of Black Enterprise Business Report Caroline Clarke's moving memoir of her surprise discovery of her birthmother—Cookie Cole, the daughter of Nat King Cole—and the relationship that blossomed between them through the heartfelt messages they exchanged on hundreds of postcards.
Caroline Clarke was born in an era when adoptions were shameful, secret, and sealed. While she wondered
...13) Jurassic Dark
There's something in the dark ... but is Lem's imagination worse than reality?
Out in the vast emptiness of the galaxy, anything can happen. It's a fact that Lem and her trusty companion Spock know all too well.
Sometimes, the things lurking in the darkness are all in your head. Then again, maybe there really is something out there.
With her talking dog and an infuriatingly literal AI by her side, Lem must
...On an ill-fated mission to Jupiter in 2001, the mutinous supercomputer HAL sent crewmembers David Bowman and Frank Poole into the frozen void of space. Bowman’s strange transformation into a Star Child is traced through...
16) Girl, 11
Winner of the Bancroft Prize. "[A] beautifully conceived and penetrating book . . . one of the finest studies of American slavery ever written."—The New Republic
Published some thirty years ago, Robert Manson Myers's Children of Pride: The True Story of Georgia and the Civil War won the National Book Award in history and went on to become a classic reference on America's slaveholding South. That book presented
20) Undone
Jem Halliday is in Love with Her Best Friend.
It doesn't matter that Kai is gay, or that he'll never look at her the same way she looks at him. Their friendship is all she needs. But when Kai is outed online by one of their classmates, he does the unthinkable: he commits suicide.
Jem's world is shattered. All she has left of her best friend are twelve letters—one for each month of the year—he wrote her before he
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