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"All men are enemies. All animals are comrades." Author: George Orwell Animal Farm is a political fable about human nature, the ultimate corruption of idealism by power. It starts with Mr. Jones, the drunken farmer hated by the animals he mistreats and uses. As Jones sleeps off another hangover in his farmhouse, the animals begin to talk, and one old pig describes a dream – a dream where animals are their own masters, where their toil produces benefits they can reap, and where all animals are equal. Soon, two other pigs, Napoleon and Snowdrop, champion transforming the dream into a reality. [...]

A Thrilling Cozy Mystery Series Start Author: Alan Bradley Eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce lives in her family’s crumbling English mansion, indulging her love of chemistry and poisons, occasionally tormenting her siblings, and helping the eccentric gardener through his bouts of violent shell-shock. For Flavia, life is one exciting potion after another, until a dying man appears in the garden patch and breathes his last into her excited  face. As Flavia tries to tie the clues together and figure out who is the real killer, police start to hone in on her retiring, pillarist father, who spends his days pouring over his [...]

The Emperor, His Clothes, and an Unpopular Opinion Author: V.E. Schwab France, 1714 – a desperate young woman makes a deal with the darkness to escape her provincial village, the expectations of marriage, and the work-a-day demands of life to gain immortality and adventure. But, of course, there’s a cost. While Addie will live forever, no one will ever remember her, and she can leave no mark of herself on the world. Her family, her friends, everyone she ever meets will forget her the moment she walks away. And the darkness will follow her through the centuries, taunting and demanding the [...]