Last Night at the Telegraph Club is an amazing and detailed historical fiction novel set in 1950s San Francisco, during the Red Scare, when there was a lot of cultural conservatism in America. The book is about 17-year-old Lily Hu, a Chinese American girl living in Chinatown, who is dealing with the struggles of her identity, family expectations and love. Lily is a very smart student who dreams of working at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Our Infinite Fates is an amazing fantasy that explores love, fate, identity and more! The story is about Evelyn, a girl who is reborn over and over again- in different countries, different centuries and even different genders. All she know is that she dies before her eighteenth birthday by a person named Arden. In this book, Evelyn becomes reincarnated as Branwen in Wales and must survive long enough to help her little sister, Gracie, who desperately needs a bone marrow transplant.
The Phone Booth at the Edge of the World is a psychological fiction novel written by Laura Imai Messina. This book follows the story of Yui, who lost both her mother and her daughter to a tsunami in 2011. The death of her mother and daughter caused Yui to feel immense grief. She decides to find a way to cope with her grief and she does this by visiting a disconnected phone booth. After hearing about the phone booth she begins the journey to it. During her journey she meets a widowed husband named Takeshi.
This book tells the story of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, two brothers from Germany who loved stories. They lived a long time ago, in the 1800s, and worked as teachers and librarians. The Brothers Grimm are best known for writing down old fairy tales like Cinderella, Snow White, Hansel and Gretel and Rapunzel. People used to tell these stories out loud, but the brothers wrote them down so they wouldn’t be lost. The book shows how they collected the stories and how their fairy tales became famous all over the world.
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros is an interesting book about a girl named Esperanza. This book is unique because it follows Esperanza’s life, but instead of being a continuous story throughout, we see her story through snippets of her life. Esperanza grew up in a poor neighborhood. We see important parts of her life and how these memories shaped her into who she became. I loved this book because it is a unique story that sends a strong message to its readers.
Anthem by Ayn Rand is a captivating story that takes place in a dystopian society. In this society everyone is the same. The idea of personalities and uniqueness is eliminated. The main character is Equality and compared to others in his world, Equality is different because he thinks uniquely and acts differently. Equality goes against society and in secret he makes a discovery that will forever change his life.
The Ballad of Never After is a captivating fantasy book about a girl named Evangeline. It was always said in her world that no one should make a deal with the fates because they always take more than you can give. Despite the warnings, Evangeline makes a deal with the Prince of Hearts to get her true love. Little does she know this deal will change the entire trajectory and purpose of her life.
If You Could See the Sun by Ann Liang follows the classic enemies to lovers plot but with a twist. When Chloe, an overachieving student, finds out that her parents can no longer afford to pay for her fancy private school on the same day she finds out she can turn invisible, she is devastated. But out of desperation she decides to take advantage of her mysterious power and strikes a deal with the schools most popular guy who is also her academic rival. We follow her story as she tries to keep her entire life together.
This Time It’s Real by Ann Laing is an entertaining and gripping novel about a girl named Eliza. Having moved around a lot when she was younger due to her mom's job, Eliza did not have any close friends. When she is assigned to write an essay about her life she decides to make up a story about her non-existent love life. Unexpectedly her writing goes viral and now she is swarmed by people wondering who her boyfriend is.
Hardstone psycho is Don Toliver's fourth studio album, containing five total discs. The album cover contains a person holding up a flag while standing next to a motorcycle. Hardstone Psycho is a total of 1 hour and 2 minutes, and it includes a total of 20 songs (4 songs per disc). The features of this album include Travis Scott, Metro Boomin, Kodak Black and more. Hardstone Psycho placed 1 on the Top Rap Albums chart and at No. 3 on the all-genre Billboard 200.
