Kristen Sieh

One summer, a teenager disappears from Deep Valley, Pennsylvania. She is beautiful, intelligent, richer than most in those parts - and black. The cops search for her, but not as hard as they would if she were a white girl. Watching this drama unfold is Cindy, a younger girl from a white trash family, living up in the woods on the edge of town. She has idolized Jude for years, yearning for her glamour, her popularity, her loving home and decent chance in life. And so, in the absence of anyone to give a damn where she goes or what becomes of her, Cindy starts to slip out of her own skin and into the space Jude left behind…

This is a story about a life lived in two halves. It's about what happens when real life collides with the increasing absurdity of a world accessed through a screen. It's about living in world that contains both an abundance of proof that there is goodness, empathy, and justice in the universe, and a deluge of evidence to the contrary. It's a meditation on love, language and human connection from one of the most original voices of our time. 

A radical argument that we are living on the wrong clock one that tells us time is money and that embracing a new concept of time can open us up to bold hopeful possibilities from the New York Times bestselling author of How to Do Nothing. Our daily experience dominated by the corporate clock that so many of us contort ourselves to fit inside is destroying us. It wasn't built for people it was built for profit. This is a book that tears open the seams of reality as we know it-the way we experience time itself-and rearranges it reimagining a world not centered around work the office clock or the profit motive. Explaining how we got to the point where time became money Odell offers us new models to live by--inspired by pre-industrial cultures ecological and geological time--that make a more humane more hopeful way of living seem possible.

In this dazzling subversive and deeply hopeful reframing of time Jenny Odell takes us on a journey through other temporal habitats. As planet-bound animals we live inside shortening and lengthening days alongside gardens growing birds migrating and cliffs eroding. The stretchy quality of waiting and desire the way the present may suddenly feel marbled with childhood memory the slow but sure procession of a pregnancy or the time it takes to heal from injuries--physical or emotional. Odell urges us to become stewards of these different rhythms of life to imagine a life identity and source of meaning outside of the world of work and profit and to understand that the trajectory of our lives--or the life of the planet--is not a foregone conclusion. In that sense 'saving' time-recovering its fundamentally irreducible and inventive nature-could also mean that time saves us.

When the Jedi Order falls, the Inquisitors rise.  From the aftermath of Order 66 comes a new group of former Jedi, each with their own reason to serve the Empire under Darth Vader. Among them is Iskat, who survived the destruction of her old Order to claim a new destiny in the Force. Iskat joins the Inquisitors in the hope of uncovering her hidden past that the Jedi refused to share with her.

It's the summer of 1969, and the shock of conflict reverberates through the youth of America, both at home and abroad. As a student at a quiet college campus in the heartland of Indiana, Terry Ives couldn't be farther from the front lines of Vietnam or the incendiary protests in Washington. But the world is changing, and Terry isn't content to watch from the sidelines. When word gets around about an important government experiment in the small town of Hawkins, she signs on as a test subject for the project, code-named MKULTRA. Unmarked vans, a remote lab deep in the woods, mind-altering substances administered by tight-lipped researchers . . . and a mystery the young and restless Terry is determined to uncover.

But behind the walls of Hawkins National Laboratory-and the piercing gaze of its director, Dr. Martin Brenner-lurks a conspiracy greater than Terry could have ever imagined. To face it, she'll need the help of her fellow test subjects, including one so mysterious the world doesn't know she exists-a young girl with unexplainable superhuman powers and a number instead of a name: 008. Amid the rising tensions of the new decade, Terry Ives and Martin Brenner have begun a different kind of war-one where the human mind is the battlefield.