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Justina Ireland

    Justina Ireland is an author who masterfully blends historical elements with fantasy and horror. Her works often delve into themes of identity, legacy, and power within unconventional settings. Ireland is known for her engaging prose and her ability to craft strong, memorable characters that draw readers into thrilling adventures. Her writing explores complex societal issues through fascinating and often unsettling narratives.

    Justina Ireland
    Rust in the Root
    Dread Nation
    Lost Lad London, Vol. 2
    Deathless Divide
    Ophie's Ghosts
    The Leisure Class
    • The Leisure Class

      A Novel

      • 480 pages
      • 17 hours of reading

      In a world where AI has rendered work obsolete, citizens enjoy a life of endless leisure, but this seemingly utopian existence hides darker realities. The narrative explores the complexities of a society grappling with the consequences of such freedom, revealing that the absence of work may lead to unforeseen challenges and discontent. Justina Ireland's adult debut blends speculative elements with a thought-provoking examination of human nature and societal structures.

      The Leisure Class
      5.0
    • Ophie's Ghosts

      • 336 pages
      • 12 hours of reading

      The New York Times bestselling author of Dread Nation makes her middle grade debut with a sweeping tale of the ghosts of our past that won't stay buried, starring an unforgettable girl named Ophie. Ophelia Harrison used to live in a small house in the Georgia countryside. But that was before the night in November 1922, and the cruel act that took her home and her father from her. Which was the same night that Ophie learned she can see ghosts. Now Ophie and her mother are living in Pittsburgh with relatives they barely know. In the hopes of earning enough money to get their own place, Mama has gotten Ophie a job as a maid in the same old manor house where she works. Daffodil Manor, like the wealthy Caruthers family who owns it, is haunted by memories and prejudices of the past--and, as Ophie discovers, ghosts as well. Ghosts who have their own loves and hatreds and desires, ghosts who have wronged others and ghosts who have themselves been wronged. And as Ophie forms a friendship with one spirit whose life ended suddenly and unjustly, she wonders if she might be able to help--even as she comes to realize that Daffodil Manor may hold more secrets than she bargained for.

      Ophie's Ghosts
      4.3
    • Deathless Divide

      • 464 pages
      • 17 hours of reading

      Age range 14+ After the fall of Summerland, Jane McKeene hoped her life would get simpler: Get out of town, stay alive, and head west to California to find her mother. But nothing is easy when you're a girl trained in putting down the restless dead, and a devastating loss on the road to a protected village called Nicodemus has Jane questioning everything she thought she knew about surviving in 1880s America. What's more, this safe haven is not what it appears-as Jane discovers when she sees familiar faces from Summerland amid this new society. Caught between mysteries and lies, the undead, and her own inner demons, Jane soon finds herself on a dark path of blood and violence that threatens to consume her. But she won't be in it alone. Katherine Deveraux never expected to be allied with Jane McKeene. But after the hell she has endured, she knows friends are hard to come by-and that Jane needs her too, whether Jane wants to admit it or not. Watching Jane's back, however, is more than she bargained for, and when they both reach a breaking point, it's up to Katherine to keep hope alive-even as she begins to fear that there is no happily-ever-after for girls like her.

      Deathless Divide
      4.2
    • The truth about the murder of London's mayor has roots in the mayor's own secrets, and the real culprit has manipulated information to frame Al as suspect #1. Ellis continues his investigation in secret, and it doesn't look to be wrapping up any time soon...

      Lost Lad London, Vol. 2
      4.1
    • Dread Nation

      • 451 pages
      • 16 hours of reading

      This highly anticipated release is getting lauded as equal parts exciting, terrifying, and oh-so-relevant. Crackles on every page. Brightly

      Dread Nation
      4.1
    • Publisher Annotation: It is 1937, and Laura Ann Langston lives in an America divided-between those who work the mystical arts and those who do not. Ever since the Great Rust, a catastrophic event that blighted the arcane force called the Dynamism and threw America into disarray, the country has been rebuilding for a better future. And everyone knows the future is industry and technology-otherwise known as Mechomancy-not the traditional mystical arts. But Laura disagrees... The author of the visionary New York Times bestseller Dread Nation returns with another spellbinding historical fantasy set at the crossroads of race and power in America

      Rust in the Root
      4.1
    • A murder on the London Underground and a mysterious bloody knife draw a regular university student and a grizzled New Scotland Yard detective into a web of crime and suspense...

      Lost Lad London, Vol. 1
      3.9
    • In investigating the strange "glitches" happening all over the town, Minato and Akira reach the center of a large forest, thought to be the source of the mysterious phenomenon. There, they witness a strange scene right before their eyes. Trees floating in midair...huge wild animals...and strange figures in gas masks. Where has Hirata been carried off to? And what is the truth behind the existence of the other world...?

      Glitch, Vol. 3
      3.8
    • "Sylvestri Yarrow is drawn into a squabble between two of the Republic's most powerful families over a patch of space on the frontier. Tangled up in familial politics is the last place Syl wants to be, but the promise of a big payoff is enough to keep her interested ... Meanwhile, Jedi Knight Vernestra Rwoh and her Padawan Imri Cantaros arrive at the capital along with Jedi Master Cohmac Vitus and his Padawan, Reath Silas--and are asked to assist with the property dispute on the frontier. But why? What is so important about an empty patch of space? The answer will lead Vernestra to a new understanding of her abilities, and take Syl back to the past ... and to truths that will finally come out of the shadows."-- Provided by publisher

      Star Wars The High Republic: Out of the Shadows
      3.8