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ELECTRIFYING, WICKEDLY SATIRICAL dystopian novel is a powerful fable for our time—incarcerated women pitted against each other in gladiatorial battles by a for-profit prison chain try to find their common humanity. Strong and necessary. SOLID A

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/714055/chain-gang-all-stars-by-nana-kwame-adjei-brenyah/

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WILD, HILARIOUS TAKES on US history and literature from the incomparable Alexandra Petri. John and Abigail Adams sexting? The Federalist Papers as a paperback thriller? Yes, please! A MINUS

https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324006435

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AN ELUSIVE, UNSETTLING VISION of a future where the lines between human and humanoid has blurred, but in which bureaucracy continues to thrive, even in space. Witty, true, sometimes terrifying. B PLUS

https://www.ndbooks.com/book/the-employees/#buying-options

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I have an affinity for gravitational disaffinty!

Ralph Rotten's THE DAY GRAVITY BECAME IRRELEVANT is a crazy adventure, with twin rogue genius scientists, a sharp Latina Federal agent, Billionaire Koch-style brothers, and a hapless Trumpian-style President and his band of unhappy sycophants. It's a riot, and I think you would enjoy it.
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Two women capture snapshots of The Queen Mary levitating above the sea, while a police helicopter monitors its strsnge floating movements. What in the world is keeping it aloft?!? You will have to read the story to find out.