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March 9, 2020

Wilder Girls by Rory Power

I’m a huge fan of dystopian novels, although with the threat of COVID-19 creeping ever closer to me, it was a bit unsettling to read about a plague of sorts called the Tox that kept killing off or causing deformities in these girls stuck on an island in Maine.
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March 8, 2020

The Day the World Came to Town by Jim DeFede

September 11th is a hard day for me. My father was working at the Pentagon at the time, and I spent most of the day thinking he had been killed. I was only 22 years old, fresh out of college and working at my first job, which I left in tears that terrible Tuesday morning as the jets from NAS Oceana screamed over my head on their way to protect the President in Washington.
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March 4, 2020

Nimona by Noelle Stevenson

Noelle Stevenson presents a world that is basically a cross between a renaissance faire with magic and, like, the MythBusters (if half of the MythBusters were evil monsters and the other half morally ambiguous types just trying to do their best, and you don’t know who’s who until it’s time to save the faire from fiery destruction).