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A Everyone's Read Except You Read More Reading Challenge 2021 |
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1984
by George Orwell
Portrays life in a future time when a totalitarian government watches over all citizens and directs all activities.
Read the ebook on Hoopla or Overdrive. You can also listen to the audiobook on Hoopla.
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The Handmaid's Tale
by Margaret Atwood
A chilling look at the near future presents the story of Offred, a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, once the United States, an oppressive world where women are no longer allowed to read and are valued only as long as they are viable for reproduction.
Read the ebook on Overdrive or listen to the audio version on Hoopla.
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The Color Purple
by Alice Walker
The lives of two sisters--Nettie, a missionary in Africa, and Celie, a southern woman married to a man she hates--are revealed in a series of letters exchanged over thirty years. Alice Walker won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for the novel, originally published in 1982, which also inspired the 1985 blockbuster movie starring Oprah Winfrey.
The ebook is available on Overdrive and Hoopla.
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Rebecca
by Daphne Du Maurier
A classic novel of gothic romantic suspense finds the second Mrs. Maxim de Winter entering the home of her mysterious and enigmatic new husband and learning the story of the house's first mistress, to whom the sinister housekeeper is unnaturally devoted. A best seller in 1938.
Listen to the audiobook on Overdrive or Hoopla.
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In Cold Blood
by Truman Capote
Presents Capote's masterful account of the senseless 1959 murders of four members of a farm family in Holcomb, Kansas, and the search for the killers, Richard Eugene Hickock and Perry Edward Smith. This one has been creeping out people since 1966.
The audiobook and ebook versions are available through Overdrive.
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The Little Prince
by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
An aviator whose plane is forced down in the Sahara Desert encounters a little prince from a small planet who relates his adventures in seeking the secret of what is important in life.
Get the ebook on Overdrive or Hoopla. The audiobook is also available through Hoopla.
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The Martian
by Andy Weir
Stranded on Mars by a dust storm that compromised his space suit and forced his crew to leave him behind, astronaut Mark Watney struggles to survive in spite of minimal supplies and environmental challenges that test his ingenuity.
Read the ebook on Overdrive.
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