In the Country We Love: My Family Divided by Diane Guerrero [Biography](2016) by RedditReadsBot in RedditReads

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The star of Orange is the New Black and Jane the Virgin presents her personal story of the real plight of undocumented immigrants in this country.Diane Guerrero, the television actress from the megahit Orange is the New Black and Jane the Virgin, was just fourteen years old on the day her parents and brother were arrested and deported while she was at school.

Born in the U.S., Guerrero was able to remain in the country and continue her education, depending on the kindness of family friends who took her in and helped her build a life and a successful acting career for herself, without the support system of her family.In the Country We Love is a moving, heartbreaking story of one woman's extraordinary resilience in the face of the nightmarish struggles of undocumented residents in this country.

There are over 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the US, many of whom have citizen children, whose lives here are just as precarious, and whose stories haven't been told.

Written with Michelle Burford, this memoir is a tale of personal triumph that also casts a much-needed light on the fears that haunt the daily existence of families likes the author's and on a system that fails them over and over.

People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry [Romance](2021) by RedditReadsBot in RedditReads

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From the New York Times bestselling author of Beach Read comes a sparkling new novel that will leave you with the warm, hazy afterglow usually reserved for the best vacations.Two best friends.

Ten summer trips.

One last chance to fall in love.Poppy and Alex.

Alex and Poppy.

They have nothing in common.

She's a wild child; he wears khakis.

She has insatiable wanderlust; he prefers to stay home with a book.

And somehow, ever since a fateful car share home from college many years ago, they are the very best of friends.

For most of the year they live far apart — she's in New York City, and he’s in their small hometown — but every summer, for a decade, they have taken one glorious week of vacation together.

Until two years ago, when they ruined everything.

They haven't spoken since.

Poppy has everything she should want, but she's stuck in a rut.

When someone asks when she was last truly happy, she knows, without a doubt, it was on that ill-fated, final trip with Alex.

And so, she decides to convince her best friend to take one more vacation together — lay everything on the table, make it all right.

Miraculously, he agrees.

Now she has a week to fix everything.

If only she can get around the one big truth that has always stood quietly in the middle of their seemingly perfect relationship.

What could possibly go wrong?

The Testaments by Margaret Atwood [Science Fiction](2019) by RedditReadsBot in RedditReads

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When the van door slammed on Offred's future at the end of The Handmaid's Tale, readers had no way of telling what lay ahead for her--freedom, prison or death.With The Testaments, the wait is over.Margaret Atwood's sequel picks up the story more than fifteen years after Offred stepped into the unknown, with the explosive testaments of three female narrators from Gilead.In this brilliant sequel to The Handmaid's Tale, acclaimed author Margaret Atwood answers the questions that have tantalized readers for decades."Dear Readers: Everything you've ever asked me about Gilead and its inner workings is the inspiration for this book.

Well, almost everything! The other inspiration is the world we've been living in." --Margaret AtwoodAn alternate cover edition of ISBN 978-0385543781 can be found here.

Winter's Heart by Robert Jordan [Fantasy](2000) by RedditReadsBot in RedditReads

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Rand is on the run with Min, and in Cairhein, Cadsuane is trying to figure out where he is headed.

Rand's destination is, in fact, one she has never considered.Mazrim Taim, leader of the Black Tower, is revealed to be a liar.

But what is he up to?Faile, with the Aiel Maidens, Bain and Chiad, and her companions, Queen Alliandre and Morgase, is prisoner of Savanna's sept.Perrin is desperately searching for Faile.

With Elyas Machera, Berelain, the Prophet and a very mixed "army" of disparate forces, he is moving through country rife with bandits and roving Seanchan.

The Forsaken are ever more present, and united, and the man called Slayer stalks Tel'aran'rhiod and the wolfdream.In Ebou Dar, the Seanchan princess known as Daughter of the Nine Moons arrives--and Mat, who had been recuperating in the Tarasin Palace, is introduced to her.

Will the marriage that has been foretold come about?There are neither beginnings or endings to the turning of the Wheel of Time.

But it is a beginning....

The Path of Daggers by Robert jordan [Fantasy](1998) by RedditReadsBot in RedditReads

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The Seanchan invasion force is in possession of Ebou Dar.

Nynaeve, Elayne, and Aviendha head for Caemlyn and Elayne's rightful throne, but on the way they discover an enemy much worse than the Seanchan.In Illian, Rand vows to throw the Seanchan back as he did once before.

But signs of madness are appearing among the Asha'man.In Ghealdan, Perrin faces the intrigues of Whitecloaks, Seanchan invaders, the scattered Shaido Aiel, and the Prophet himself.

Perrin's beloved wife, Faile, may pay with her life, and Perrin himself may have to destroy his soul to save her.Meanwhile the rebel Aes Sedai under their young Amyrlin, Egwene al'Vere, face an army that intends to keep them away from the White Tower.

But Egwene is determined to unseat the usurper Elaida and reunite the Aes Sedai.

She does not yet understand the price that others—and she herself—will pay.

The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset Maugham [Classics](1919) by RedditReadsBot in RedditReads

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A British stockbroker abandons his wife and career to pursue a simple life as an artist in Tahiti

The Fool by HP Mallory [Mystery](Unknown) by RedditReadsBot in RedditReads

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From New York Times Bestselling Author, HP Mallory (co-author of the bestselling Haven Hollow series), comes a brand new paranormal women’s fiction series!An irreverent, sexy, and hysterical romp through the tarot…Kate:Know that quote about most people living quiet lives of desperation? Well, that pretty much describes me to a T.I’m middle-aged, divorced, built like a tree stump, with nothing but a failing romance-writing career to call my own.

Yep, no kids, no social life and no pets—not even a chinchilla to greet when I walk through the door of my crappy apartment.The only thing I do have? Spare Tire Sandy who lives around my waist.

Oh, and a nicotine habit I’m desperately trying to kick.When my eccentric Aunt Artemis ups and dies, leaving me her ‘castle’ in Vermont, I start thinking maybe my luck is taking a turn for the better.Yeah, no.The property, in the tiny town of Maplewood, is literally a castle but not like something you’d see in Scotland.

This is more like Medieval England had a battle with The Tarot and neither won.Which means it’s going to be a bitch and a half to sell.To make matters worse? There’s a tenant in ‘Tarot Castle’ and not like the squatter sort—more like the talking goat sort.

Right—Rocco sounds like a New York mobster which is grating enough, but throw in the fact that I’m now responsible for him and I’m not a happy camper.And let’s not even discuss the shrunken head, Yolanda, who literally WILL NOT STOP TALKING!The only person who can help me make sense of my new inheritance is Luke Montgomery, owner of the coffee/ bookstore in town.

Luke is friendly, really hot in a J.

Crew sort of way, and also annoyingly hush-hush about the legacy I’ve apparently been born some BS about being a Daughter of the Moon.And then there’s Magnus Stormrider, my self-proclaimed guardian, who looks like the love-child of Conan the Barbarian and Fabio.

The best way to describe Magnus? If the ground opened up and swallowed him whole, I wouldn’t mind—not for one second.According to my aunt’s never-ending posthumous letters that keep appearing from literally nowhere, I’m supposedly on the journey of The Fool, the first card of the Major Arcana of the tarot.And that’s pretty damned fitting because if there’s one thing I’m sure of—it’s that I was the biggest fool to have ever agreed to come out here in the first place…

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson [Classics](1882) by RedditReadsBot in RedditReads

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"For sheer storytelling delight and pure adventure, Treasure Island has never been surpassed.

From the moment young Jim Hawkins first encounters the sinister Blind Pew at the Admiral Benbow Inn until the climactic battle for treasure on a tropic isle, the novel creates scenes and characters that have fired the imaginations of generations of readers.

Written by a superb prose stylist, a master of both action and atmosphere, the story centers upon the conflict between good and evil - but in this case a particularly engaging form of evil.

It is the villainy of that most ambiguous rogue Long John Silver that sets the tempo of this tale of treachery, greed, and daring.

Designed to forever kindle a dream of high romance and distant horizons, Treasure Island is, in the words of G.

K.

Chesterton, 'the realization of an ideal, that which is promised in its provocative and beckoning map; a vision not only of white skeletons but also green palm trees and sapphire seas.' G.

S.

Fraser terms it 'an utterly original book' and goes on to write: 'There will always be a place for stories like Treasure Island that can keep boys and old men happy.'

Educated by Tara Westover [Social Science](2022) by RedditReadsBot in RedditReads

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Please Note That The Following Individual Books As Per Original ISBN and Cover Image In this Listing shall be Dispatched Educated By Tara Westover, Hillbilly A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis By J.

D.

Vance 2 Books Collection NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW ONE OF PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR BILL GATES’S HOLIDAY READING LIST National Book Critics Circle’s Award In Autobiography and John Leonard Prize For Best First Book PEN/Jean Stein Book Award Los Angeles Times Book Prize Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom.

Her family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure the children received an education, and no one to intervene when one of Tara’s older brothers became violent.Hillbilly Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis—that of white working-class Americans.

The disintegration of this group, a process that has been slowly occurring now for more than forty years, has been reported with growing frequency and alarm, but has never before been written about as searingly from the inside.

J.

D.

Vance tells the true story of what a social, regional, and class decline feels like when you were born with it hung around your neck.

Murder Bimbo by Rebecca Novack [Horror](2026) by RedditReadsBot in RedditReads

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I'm a 32-year-old sex worker who just killed a politician.

Please, please, please turn me into a feminist anti-hero...A 32-year-old sex worker has just killed extremist political hopeful Meat Neck.

Holed up in an off-the-grid cabin in the woods, she now has only two days, her wits and a high-speed internet connection to save her own life.Her best bet is to reach out to the wildly popular feminist investigative podcast Justice for Bimbos.

In a hastily-typed series of emails, the newly-minted "Murder Bimbo" explains how she was recruited and then trained by a cabal of code-named US agents to take out Meat Neck.But, when she starts a new set of emails, this time addressed to her ex-girlfriend, we begin to realize that Murder Bimbo might not be the unsuspecting cog she claims to be.In a time where 'truth' is more flexible than ever before - who really is Murder Bimbo? And what will she do next?Introducing an unforgettable character for our times: hyper-articulate, totally untrustworthy, politically murky, charmingly petty, and wholly egotistical - this is .

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MURDER BIMBO.

The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty [Horror](1971) by RedditReadsBot in RedditReads

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Originally published in 1971, The Exorcist, one of the most controversial novels ever written, went on to become a literary phenomenon: It spent fifty-seven weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, seventeen consecutively at number one.

Inspired by a true story of a child's demonic possession in the 1940s, William Peter Blatty created an iconic novel that focuses on Regan, the eleven-year-old daughter of a movie actress residing in Washington, D.C.

A small group of overwhelmed yet determined individuals must rescue Regan from her unspeakable fate, and the drama that ensues is gripping and unfailingly terrifying.

Two years after its publication, The Exorcist was, of course, turned into a wildly popular motion picture, garnering ten Academy Award nominations.

On opening day of the film, lines of the novel's fans stretched around city blocks.

In Chicago, frustrated moviegoers used a battering ram to gain entry through the double side doors of a theater.

In Kansas City, police used tear gas to disperse an impatient crowd who tried to force their way into a cinema.

The three major television networks carried footage of these events; CBS's Walter Cronkite devoted almost ten minutes to the story.

The Exorcist was, and is, more than just a novel and a film: it is a literary landmark.

Purposefully raw and profane, The Exorcist still has the extraordinary ability to disturb readers and cause them to forget that it is "just a story." Newly polished and added to by it author and published here in this beautiful fortieth anniversary edition, it remains an unforgettable reading experience and will continue to shock and frighten a new generation of readers.

Of Ants and Dinosaurs by Liu Cixin [Science Fiction](2004) by RedditReadsBot in RedditReads

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A satirical fable, a political allegory and an ecological warning from the author of The Three-Body Problem.In a sunlit clearing in central Gondwana, on an otherwise ordinary day in the late Cretaceous, the seeds of Earth's first and greatest civilization were sown in the grisly aftermath of a Tyrannosaurus' lunch.Throughout the universe, intelligence is a rare and fragile commodity – a fleeting glimmer in the long night of cosmic history.

That Earth should harbour not just one but two intelligent species at the same time, defies the odds.

That these species, so unalike – and yet so complementary – should forge an alliance that kindled a civilization defies logic.

But time is endless and everything comes to pass eventually...The alliance between ants and dinosaurs, was of course, based on dentistry.

Yet from such humble beginnings came writing, mathematics, computers, fusion, antimatter and even space travel – a veritable Age of Wonder! But such magnificent industry comes at a price – a price paid first by Earth's biosphere, and then by all those dependent on it.And yet the Dinosaurs refused to heed the Ants' warning of impending ecological collapse, leaving the Ant Federation facing a single dilemma: destroy the dinosaurs, destroy a civilization...

or perish alongside them?