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1) Wrong way
Author
Publisher
MCD x FSG Originals/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"An idea-driven portrait of a woman cornered by capitalism who lands her dream job as a full-time ride share driver"--
2) Wild Massive
Author
Publisher
Tordotcom, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Welcome to the Building, an infinitely tall skyscraper in the center of the multiverse, where any floor could contain a sprawling desert oasis, a cyanide rain forest, or an entire world. Carissa loves her elevator. Up and Down she goes, content with the sometimes chewy food her reality fabricator spits out, as long as it means she doesn't have to speak to another living person. But when a mysterious shapeshifter from an ambiguous world lands on top...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Justin C. Key has long been obsessed with monsters. Reading R.L. Stine's Goosebumps as a kid, he imagined himself battling monsters and mayhem to a triumphant end. But when watching Scream 2, in which the movie's only Black couple is promptly killed off, he realized that the Black and Brown characters in his favorite genre were almost always the victim or villain--if they were portrayed at all. In The World Wasn't Ready for You, Key expands and subverts...
4) Big time
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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2024 Reading Challenge: Book about time or has a measure of time in the title
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Description
The New York Times best-selling author of The Quiet Boy returns with a speculative, corporate espionage thriller that takes the adage "Time is money," and makes it literally, frighteningly so.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"March 1919. Far-flung Korean patriots establish the Korean Provisional Government to protest the Japanese occupation of their country. This government-in-exile proves mostly symbolic, its petitions ignored by heads of state as Korea's nationhood is erased. After Japan's defeat in World War II, the KPG dissolves and civil war erupts, resulting in the North-South split that remains today. But what if the KPG still existed now, today-working toward...
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