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• Book Match

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  Fill out a survey with information about your reading tastes, and one of our Matchmakers will send you a personalized reading list within two weeks. You can select a specific Matchmaker, or you can fill out a general survey and one of the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Water Knife

  Bacigalupi, Paolo,

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  "In the near future, the Colorado River has dwindled to a trickle. Detective, assassin, and spy, Angel Velasquez “cuts” water for the Southern Nevada Water Authority, ensuring that its lush arcology developments can bloom in Las Vegas.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Light Pirate

  Brooks-Dalton, Lily, 1987-

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  "Told in four parts-power, water, light, and time-The Light Pirate mirrors the rhythms of the elements and the sometimes quick, sometimes slow dissolution of the world as we know it. It is a meditation on the changes we would rather not…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• American War

  El Akkad, Omar, 1982-

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  "Sarat Chestnut, born in Louisiana, is only six when the Second American Civil War breaks out in 2074. But even she knows that oil is outlawed, that Louisiana is half underwater, and that unmanned drones fill the sky. When her father is…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Future Home of the Living God

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  Erdrich, Louise,

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  "A tale set in a world of reversing evolution and a growing police state follows pregnant thirty-two-year-old Cedar Hawk Songmaker, who investigates her biological family while awaiting the birth of a child who may emerge as a member of a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Fifth Season

  Jemisin, N. K.,

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  "Three terrible things happen in a single day. Essun, masquerading as an ordinary schoolteacher in a quiet small town, comes home to find that her husband has brutally murdered their son and kidnapped their daughter. Mighty Sanze, the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Road

  McCarthy, Cormac, 1933-

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  "In a novel set in an indefinite, futuristic, post-apocalyptic world, a father and his young son make their way through the ruins of a devastated American landscape, struggling to survive and preserve the last remnants of their own…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Trail of Lightning

  Roanhorse, Rebecca,

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  "While most of the world has drowned beneath the sudden rising waters of a climate apocalypse, Dinétah (formerly the Navajo reservation) has been reborn. The gods and heroes of legend walk the land, but so do monsters."

• Dry

  Shusterman, Neal,

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  "A lengthy California drought escalates to catastrophic proportions, turning Alyssa's quiet suburban street into a warzone, and she is forced to make impossible choices if she and her brother are to survive."

• Bangkok Wakes to Rain

  a Novel

  Sudbanthad, Pitchaya,

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  "A house in the center of Bangkok becomes the point of confluence where lives are shaped by upheaval, memory, and the lure of home. Witness to two centuries' flux in one of the world's most restless cities, a house plays host to longings…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Gold Fame Citrus

  Watkins, Claire Vaye,

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  "In a parched southern California of the near future, Luz, once the poster child for the country’s conservation movement, and Ray, an army deserter turned surfer, are squatting in a starlet’s abandoned mansion. Most “Mojavs,” prevented by…Read moreRead more of this annotation