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Exit Party, Emily St John Mandel
2031. America is at war with itself, but for the first time in weeks there is some hope: the Republic of California has been declared, the curfew in Los Angeles is lifted, and everyone in the city is going to a party.
Ari, newly released from prison, arrives with her friend Gloria just as a fragile new era begins. But there are people at the party who shouldn’t be there. Something is very wrong …
Years later, living a different life in Paris, Ari remains haunted by that night. Whatever happened at the party fractured her sense of reality – and may hold the key to a very different world.
Partita, Barbara Kingsolver
A song without any answer in it? That’s the sound of waiting.
Livia Bohusz misses her brother, Cyrus. Unmoored by his death and the stifling silence of the family farm, 11-year-old Livia has no choice but to survive. Her only solace: music, an escape in the quiet rapture piano practice brings. The promise of a new life her talent offers, intoxicating.
So when Livia starts her college music scholarship, it feels as if a new life might begin. Immersing herself in her passions in a world where she excels, even as she...