Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
Ryland Grace wakes up from a deep sleep… and
has no idea who he is. Then he discovers that he’s in space.
And completely alone. On a mission with the fate of planet
Earth and the entirety of humanity resting on his shoulders.
How can he possibly succeed when he can’t even remember how
he got there? (Lisa)
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
In this dystopian classic, firemen don’t put out
fires, they start them. Specifically, they burn books, the
houses they are found in, and even the people who are hiding
them. Fahrenheit 451 follows the story of a fireman who
begins to question everything he has ever known after
meeting an eccentric neighbor and reading one of the books
he was supposed to burn.
(Abigail)
Daggermouth by H.M. Wolfe
To save her people, she must kill the prince. To save herself,
she must marry him. Survival is a currency paid in blood.
Shadera Kael is the city’s most ruthless mercenary, a weapon
forged in the shadows of the outer rings to do one thing:
tear down the corrupt regime. Her final directive is simple
– assassinate Greyson Serel, the pristine, untouchable heir
to the presidency.
(KJ)
Murder by
Design
by Lee Goldberg
A funny, clever mystery featuring the most infuriatingly confident detective since Sherlock Holmes, and his struggling-actor assistant. Edison Bixby is brilliant, wealthy, and has no verbal filter thanks to a traumatic brain injury. Wally Nash is hired to perform damage control for anything offensive Bixby says during investigations. Their first case together appears to be an open-and-shut accident, but Bixby smells murder. All the world's a stage and we are merely players... but what if the stage itself is a player too?! (Kate)
The Astral Library by Kate Quinn
The author branches out from her
usual genre of historical fiction to write fantasy! What if
you could escape your current life to live inside the pages
of a favorite book? Follow Alexandria Watson as she
discovers a hidden door that takes her from the Boston
Public Library to the Astral Library. She teams up with its
ageless guardian, the Librarian, to fight a threatening
enemy and we follow them through literary worlds as they
race to save and protect the power of literature and
libraries as sanctuaries for everyone. (Vicki)
