John Marrs, “Code. Carriers.”
In the twenty-first century, information is a godsend. But how to protect it? Any repository can be hacked, except… A few ordinary people are chosen by the government to participate
Julian Barnes, A Premonition of the End
Julian Barnes is perhaps the most brilliant and original novelist of modern Britain. And his novel A Premonition of the End won the Booker Prize
Michael Ondaatje “War Light”
After the end of World War II, the parents temporarily remove fourteen-year-old Nathaniel and his older sister Rachel from London and leave them in the care of a family friend
Itaf Ram “A woman is not a man”
Eighteen-year-old Daya Raad lives in New York City, the “city of unlimited possibilities. But she has no cell phone, no computer, no friends.
Hanya Yanagihara “A Small Life”
A university chronicle, an ancient Greek tragedy, an educational novel modeled on the thick novels of the 19th century, a scary bedtime story
Nancy Tucker First Day of Spring
This novel grabs the reader’s attention literally from the first page, where the main character, 8-year-old Chrissy, murders a 2-year-old child.
Colleen Hoover “Verity”
Whose truth is a lie? Stay up all night reading a sensational psychological thriller that obsesses readers, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of “All Ends With Us” .
Pajal Kadakia “LifePass”
Give yourself permission to live the life you most want. When Payal Kadakia got rid of the need to pursue traditional success, she tuned into her calling and turned ClassPass into a billion-dollar business.
Patricia Walsh Chadwick, “Little Sister: Memories”
Imagine an 18-year-old girl who had never read a newspaper, never watched TV or been to a restaurant; who had never heard of Elvis Presley or Marilyn Monroe
Rachel Cerrotti, “We Have the Same Sky: Memories of Memory and Migration.”
In 2009, Rachel Cerrotti, a college student aspiring to become a photojournalist, asked her grandmother Hana if she could record her story. Rachel knew