Summary: Three years ago an event destroyed the small city of Poughkeepsie, forever changing reality within its borders. Uncanny manifestations and lethal dangers now await anyone who enters the Spill Zone. The Spill claimed Addison's parents and scarred her little sister, Lexa, who hasn't spoken since. Addison provides for her sister by photographing the Zone's twisted attractions on illicit midnight rides. Art collectors pay top dollar for these bizarre images, but getting close enough for the perfect shot can mean death--or worse. When an eccentric collector makes a million-dollar offer, Addison breaks her own hard-learned rules of survival and ventures farther than she has ever dared. Within the Spill Zone, Hell awaits--and it seems to be calling Addison's name.
Summary:Throughout the ten stories in 'You Think It, I'll Say It,' Sittenfield upends assumptions about class, relationships, and gender roles in a nation that feels both adrift and viscerally divided.
Summary: There are so many ways the world could end. There could be a fire. A catastrophic flood. A super eruption that spews lakes of lava. Ellis Kimball has made note of all possible scenarios, and she is prepared for each one. What she doesn’t expect is meeting Hannah Marks in her therapist’s waiting room. Hannah calls their meeting fate.
Summary: Arkansas, 1984: The town of Griffin Flat is known for almost nothing other than its nuclear missile silos. MAD—Mutually Assured Destruction—is a fear every local lives with and tries to ignore. Unfortunately that’s impossible now that film moguls have picked Griffin Flat as the location for a new nuclear holocaust movie, aptly titled The Eve of Destruction.
Summary: Describes the cultural significance of Louisa May Alcott's classic ["Little Women,"] exploring how its relatable themes and depictions of family resilience, community, and female resourcefulness have inspired generations of writers.
genre: non-fiction
Are there "girl" books and "boy books/" Why do girls read boys books but not vice versa?
"Who even reads anymore?"
club members say they hear this *too much*
other students seem to pride themslevs on being non-readers
