During her junior year of high school, Romy was sexually assaulted by Kellan Turner, the sheriff’s son. When she tries to speak out about it, the incident is pushed under the rug by the sheriff himself. To make matters worse, …
For 900 years, Arcadia has been sealed off from the rest of the world. This piece of land has also been under the rule of a demon lord, whose bargains with people bring misfortune instead of happiness.
Seventeen-year-old Nyx has …
Lissla has always lived in the shadow of her parents, the king and queen. Lissla’s mother was the most beautiful woman in all the kingdoms, and the king was deeply in love with her. Due to illness, the queen dies …
In Sapiens, Yuval Harari delves into the history of humankind. 2.5 million years ago, the first humans appeared in East Africa. However, these humans were not Homo sapiens, which is what all humans today are. In fact, there were …
In How Democracies Die, Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt analyze failed democracies of 1930s Europe and contemporary Latin America, as well as times when the United States’ democracy seemed at stake. From their analyses, the authors find four behaviors …
Samantha lives a seemingly perfect life. She’s a beautiful teenage girl, lives in a big house, and gets good grades. But family life at home is lacking, to say the least. Samantha only has her mother, an always busy state …
The Golem and the Jinni centers around Ahmad and Chava. Ahmad is a jinni, a being made of fire, who hails from the Syrian Desert. He has been trapped in a flask for almost a thousand years, and is accidentally …
In Hillbilly Elegy, author J.D. Vance describes his childhood struggles of living in Middletown, Ohio, a town home to a white, working-class community. Vance’s father was mostly absent from his life, and although he still had his mother, she …
Long May She Reign tells the story of Freya, a girl who would rather conduct experiments in her laboratory than socialize with members of the court. As twenty-third in line to the throne, she can get away with shirking her …
In this second installment of Sarah J. Maas’ A Court of Thrones and Roses trilogy, Feyre Archeron faces an uncertain future. Although she was once a human, Feyre now finds herself a powerful High Fae. She must discover the full …
