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• The Handmaid's Tale

  Atwood, Margaret

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  In a future world where the birth rate has declined, fertile women are rounded up, indoctrinated as "handmaids," and forced to bear children to prominent men.

• Underground to Canada

  Smucker, Barbara Claassen

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  Taken away from her mother by a ruthless slave trader, all Julilly has left is the dream of freedom. Every day that she spends huddled in the slaver trader's wagon travelling south or working on the brutal new plantation, she thinks about the land…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz

  Richler, Mordecai, 1931-2001

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  Duddy the third generation of a Jewish immigrant family in Montreal -- is combative, amoral, scheming, a liar, and totally hilarious. From his street days tormenting teachers at the Jewish academy to his time hustling four jobs at once in a grand…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Persepolis

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  The poignant story of a young girl coming-of-age in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. Clever and fearless, she outsmarts the "social guardians" and discovers punk, ABBA and Iron Maiden. Yet when her uncle is senselessly executed and as bombs fall…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Forever Amber

  Winsor, Kathleen

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  Abandoned pregnant and penniless on the teeming streets of London, 16-year-old Amber St. Clare manages, by using her wits, beauty, and courage, to climb to the highest position a woman could achieve in Restoration England that of favourite mistress…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• American Psycho

  Easton Ellis, Bret

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  Patrick Bateman moves among the young and trendy in 1980s Manhattan. Young, handsome, and well educated, Bateman earns his fortune on Wall Street by day while spending his nights in ways we cannot begin to fathom. Expressing his true self through…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• American Psychos

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  What happened to best friends forever?

• Thirteen Reasons Why

  Asher, Jay

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  Clay Jensen returns home from school to find a strange package with his name on it lying on his porch. Inside he discovers several cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker—his classmate and crush—who committed suicide two weeks earlier. Hannah's…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Year of Wonders

  A Novel of the Plague

  Brooks, Geraldine

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  When the plague visits an isolated village in the English countryside, a housemaid named Anna Frith emerges as an unlikely heroine and healer. Through Anna's eyes we follow the story of the fateful year of 1666, as she and her fellow villagers…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Feed

  Anderson, M. T.

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  M. T. Anderson has created a brave new world - and a hilarious new lingo - sure to appeal to anyone who appreciates smart satire, futuristic fiction laced with humour, or any story featuring skin lesions as a fashion statement.

• The Hate U Give

  Thomas, Angie

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  Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighbourhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Perks of Being a Wallflower

  Chbosky, Stephen

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  Most people think 15-year-old Charlie is a freak. But then seniors Patrick and his beautiful stepsister Sam take Charlie under their wings and introduce him to their eclectic, open-minded, hard-partying friends. It is from these older kids that…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

  Alexie, Sherman

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  Based on the author's own experiences, coupled with poignant drawings by Ellen Forney that reflect the character's art, chronicles the contemporary adolescence of one Native American boy as he attempts to break away from the life he was destined to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Oryx and Crake

  Atwood, Margaret

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  Snowman, known as Jimmy before mankind was overwhelmed by a plague, is struggling to survive in a world where he may be the last human, and mourning the loss of his best friend, Crake, and the beautiful and elusive Oryx whom they both loved. In…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Upside of Unrequited

  Albertalli, Becky

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  Seventeen-year-old Molly Peskin-Suso knows all about unrequited love. No matter how many times her twin sister, Cassie, tells her to woman up, Molly can't stomach the idea of rejection. So she's careful. Fat girls always have to be careful.

• Eleanor & Park

  Rowell, Rainbow

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  Set over the course of one school year in 1986, this is the story of two star-crossed misfits--smart enough to know that first love almost never lasts, but brave and desperate enough to try.

• Empire of Storms

  Maas, Sarah J.

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  The long path to the throne has only just begun for Aelin Galathynius as war looms on the horizon. Loyalties have been broken and bought, friends have been lost and gained, and those who possess magic find themselves increasingly at odds with those…Read moreRead more of this annotation