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Dungeon Crawler Carl
A man and his ex-girlfriend's cat are luckily outside when every human-erected structure on Earth flattens to the ground and the people who were inside were either killed or, along with other bits of human civilization, become fodder for the dungeon. The dungeon is an 18-level labyrinth filled with traps, monsters, and loot and is so enormous, it circles the entire globe. Carl and Donut enter and once they're in, there's no way out but through. They must compete—video game style—to survive, but not just survive, they must do it in style, appealing to the viewers of the most-watched game show in the galaxy that they suddenly find themselves participating…
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Wrong Place Wrong Time
Late October. After midnight. You’re waiting up for your seventeen-year-old son. He’s past curfew. As you watch from the window, he emerges, and you realize he isn’t alone: he’s walking toward a man, and he’s armed. You can’t believe it when you see him do it: your funny, happy teenage son, he kills a stranger, right there on the street outside your house. You don’t know who. You don’t know why. You only know your son is now in custody, his future shattered. That night you fall asleep in despair. All is lost. Until you wake and it is yesterday. And then you wake again and it is the day…
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Kindred
Dana, a modern Black woman, is celebrating her 26th birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner, is drowning, and Dana has been summoned to save him. Dana is drawn back repeatedly through time to the slave quarters, and each time the stay grows longer, more arduous, and more dangerous until it is uncertain whether or not Dana’s life will end, long before it has a chance to begin.
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How to Stop Time
One thing that Matt Haig does so well is write about the nuance of the human experience. I love the way his mind works to come up with creative ways to explore everything about what it means to be humans, specifically in this novel, the way we let our emotions control us.
Life In The Making
