Author: Natalia Heroux

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How can you play the game when the cards are stacked against you? This instant New York Times bestseller is a blistering exploration of racism, identity, and privilege.

When Devon and Chiamaka are selected to be part of their elite school’s senior class prefects, it looks like their year is off to an amazing start. Shortly after the announcement, someone begins using anonymous text messages to reveal secrets about the two of them that turn their lives upside down. What seemed like a sick prank quickly turns into a dangerous game.

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Two giraffes. One truck. A 1938 road trip. Woodrow Wilson Nickel, age 105, feels his life ebbing away. But when he learns giraffes are going extinct, he recalls an unforgettable experience from 1938. The Great Depression lingers. Hitler is threatening Europe and world-weary Americans long for wonder. They find it in two giraffes who miraculously survive a hurricane while crossing the Atlantic. What follows is a twelve-day road trip in a custom truck to deliver the first giraffes to the San Diego Zoo. Read West with Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge, an incredible novel inspired by true events.

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More than two decades ago, respected family man and guidance counselor Clayton Jay Pelley confessed to the brutal murder of teenage student Leena Rai. But why he killed her has always been a mystery. Now he’s revealing all to true crime podcaster Trinity Scott. Clayton says he didn’t do it. Was he lying then? Or is he lying now? As her listeners increase and ratings skyrocket, one thing becomes clear: Clayton is not the only one in this small town with a secret. Read Beneath Devil’s Bridge from Amazon Charts bestselling author Loreth Anne White.

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Julián “Jules” Luna has a plan for his life: Graduate. Get into UCLA. Move away from Corpus Christi, Texas. Then, with one impulsive tweet, he outs himself, ruining his plans for a low-key move. When Mat, a cute Twitter crush from Los Angeles, slides into Jules’s DMs, Jules can tell him anything. But when Jules’s fears about coming out come true, the person he needs most is fifteen hundred miles away. Now that Jules is in control of his life, what he does next is up to him. Read Fifteen Hundred Miles from the Sun by Jonny Garza Villa.

Sponsored by Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé with Fierce Reads

How can you play the game when the cards are stacked against you? This instant New York Times bestseller is a blistering exploration of racism, identity, and privilege.

When Devon and Chiamaka are selected to be part of their elite school’s senior class prefects, it looks like their year is off to an amazing start. Shortly after the announcement, someone begins using anonymous text messages to reveal secrets about the two of them that turn their lives upside down. What seemed like a sick prank quickly turns into a dangerous game.

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Mischief and her side-cat Mayhem are your respectably heinous villains. They’ll spoil new movies, steal cake from parties they weren’t invited to, and hit the good citizens where it’ll dirty them most—their toilet paper. But before they were supervillains, they were just Missy and Gizmo, fresh recruits at superhero boot camp.

Except Missy lied on her hero application and has exactly zero superpowers, just her brainpower. Humiliated when caught, only one fellow recruit is willing to stand by her—Melvira. But unbeknownst to others, Melvira has her own villainous agenda.

Can Missy face the friend who was once her defender?