As the curtains draw on the fourth season of LIT Society, our book podcast, and our baby, it’s a moment brimming with sentimentality and anticipation for what’s to come. This season, we’ve embarked on a…
Two men have formed an unlikely friendship, traveling from place to place, working toward one united dream: Owning their own ranch, a place in the world where they’ll belong. This dream becomes their life’s purpose, but it is as unreachable as happiness.
Bloodthirsty enemies of the state have kidnapped the president’s daughter. With more enemies than friends in the white house and abroad, the commander-in-chief is unsure whom he can trust and if he’ll ever bring his baby girl home safely.
Bloodthirsty enemies of the state have kidnapped the president’s daughter. With more enemies than friends in the white house and abroad, the commander-in-chief is unsure whom he can trust and if he’ll ever bring his baby girl home safely.
Alex and Josie are from different worlds. They’ve come to know each other after discovering they’re “birthday twins.” Alex’s work inspires Josie, and she soon decides she wants Alex to document her transformation story as she steps out of her tainted world into a new life.
Obi Okonkwo, grandson of deceased village leader Okonkwo, is returning to Nigeria from England after earning a proper British education. He quickly finds his world is riddled with bribes and corruption, but Obi is determined never to accept an illegal payment and never compromise his principles. But as his black-and-white world becomes grey, he must wrestle with who he truly is versus who he’d like to believe himself to be. Does his African culture and Western lifestyle render him a hypocrite, and if so, which world is to judge him, the black world or the white?
Athena is a writing wunderkind, and June, an unsuccessful author, is jealous of her friend’s success. When a tragedy leaves one dead, will the other exploit the memory of her companion for her personal gain?
In a novel that reads like nonfiction, two girls find love at the end of adolescence and the beginning of adulthood. The choices made with that newfound love lead to consequences neither imagined and in the end, they must fight for their destiny and future, alone or lonely.
Myriam loves her children, but after months of caring for her newborns, she feels they’re literally “sucking the life out of her!” She’s ready to get back to her craft as a lawyer. Fortunately, her family finds and hires the perfect nanny, a woman who is in many ways a child but utterly devoted to her duty and the children. She goes above and beyond consistently, but at what point is beyond too far? As the family realizes they cannot function without the nanny, love turns to jealousy, and devotion becomes an obsession.
A five-year-old boy lets us into his world by describing what he loves, his mom, Dora the Explorer, and his room. But as we spend more time with Jack, we realize something is seriously wrong with his world. Does the room hold more than he knows? And is he in more danger than he understands?
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