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And So I Roar by Abi Daré
Synopsis: When Tia accidentally overhears a whispered conversation between her mother—terminally ill and lying in a hospital bed in Port Harcourt, Nigeria—and her aunt, the repercussions will send her on a desperate quest to uncover a secret her mother has been hiding for nearly two decades. Back home in Lagos a few days later, Adunni,…
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Orbital by Samantha Harvey
Synopsis: A slender novel of epic power and the winner of the Booker Prize 2024, Orbital deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men traveling through space. Selected for one of the last space station missions of its kind before the program is dismantled, these astronauts and cosmonauts—from America, Russia, Italy,…
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I Love You S’more by Auriane Desombre – tour review.
Happy Wednesday! Today I am taking part in my first blog tour with TBR & Beyond Tours for I Love You S’more by Auriane Desombre. Thank you to Random House Children’s for providing a digital ARC via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Synopsis: A sapphic rival-to-lovers story about two counselors who find an unexpected romance during a summer they…
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The Cat Who Saved the Library by Sōsuke Natsukawa, translated by Louise Heal Kawai
Synopsis: Nanami sees nothing wrong with a library and cat combination. But a talking cat is a whole other story. Thirteen-year-old Nanami Kosaki loves reading. The local library is a home from home and books have become her best friends. When Nanami notices books disappearing from the library shelves, she’s particularly curious about a suspicious…
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Briefly Very Beautiful by Roz Dineen
Synopsis: A spellbinding dystopian novel about the lengths one will go to for their children in a world teetering on the edge of apocalypse In a land destabilized by unsafe air, wildfires, floods, viruses, supply shortages, and homegrown terror, Cass is raising three small children by herself in the city. Her husband, Nathaniel, has gone…
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The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Daré
Synopsis: All you have are your words. Adunni is a fourteen-year-old Nigerian girl who knows what she wants: an education. As the only daughter of a broke father, she is a valuable commodity. Removed from school and sold as a third wife to an old man, Adunni’s life amounts to this: four goats, two bags…
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