The hate u give by angie thomas6/28/2023 ![]() Thomas does a spectacular job of exploring not only race but also class, as Starr lives in a poor neighborhood but attends a prep school in the wealthy suburbs. ![]() This is a well-paced novel with a variety of fleshed-out secondary characters.The Hate U Give explores police violence and brutality, in a manner that readers can relate to the ongoing cultural reality and to the #BlackLivesMatter movement.Angie Thomas’s The Hate U Give is a stand-alone, contemporary debut novel told through the raw, unfiltered voice of sixteen-year-old Starr Carter and set in an unnamed, yet familiar, urban area.Why you like Angie Thomas’s The Hate U Give And it only seems right to begin with one of the most buzzed-about, decorated titles in a long time: Angie Thomas’s The Hate U Give. Let’s take a look at books like The Hate U Give. ![]() Thanks to a much more interesting weekly bestseller list, as well as a wider array of titles to highlight, “Beyond the Bestsellers” is back. By signing up you agree to our terms of use ![]() Thank you for signing up! Keep an eye on your inbox. ![]()
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ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Boston Globe, NPR, BuzzFeed, Glamour, PopSugar.LONGLISTED FOR THE ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE ![]() Tara Stringfellow will be an author to watch for years to come.”-Jacqueline Woodson, New York Times bestselling author of Red at the Bone “I fell in love with this family, from Joan’s fierce heart to her grandmother Hazel’s determined resilience. ![]() “A rhapsodic hymn to Black women.”- The New York Times Book Review A spellbinding debut novel tracing three generations of a Southern Black family and one daughter’s discovery that she has the power to change her family’s legacy.READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK AS FEATURED ON TODAY. ![]() Batman scott snyder omnibus6/27/2023 ![]() ![]() Like Grant Morrison did before him, Scott Snyder didn’t begin writing Batman with the main series. 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The end of Grant Morrison famous run on Batman in 2011 was also the end of the long post-Crisis era. ![]() Grisha book 36/27/2023 ![]() ![]() (previously published as The Grisha Trilogy) To win this fight, she must seize a legend's power-but claiming the firebird may be her ruin. ![]() Now her hopes lie with the magic of a long-vanished ancient creature and the chance that an outlaw prince still survives.Īs her allies and enemies race toward war, only Alina stands between her country and a rising tide of darkness that could destroy the world. The Darkling rules from his shadow throne while a weakened Alina Starkov recovers from their battle under the dubious protection of the zealots who worship her as a Saint. 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Thus began the legendary ordeal of Shackleton and his crew of twenty-seven men. In January 1915, after battling its way through a thousand miles of pack ice and only a day's sail short of its destination, the Endurance became locked in an island of ice. In August 1914, polar explorer Ernest Shackleton boarded the Endurance and set sail for Antarctica, where he planned to cross the last uncharted continent on foot. Experience one of the greatest adventure stories of the modern age in this New York Times bestseller: the harrowing tale of British explorer Ernest Shackleton's 1914 attempt to reach the South Pole. ![]() |