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Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"From "a formidably gifted writer" (The New York Times Book Review), a book that asks: Is there life after the internet? As this urgent, genre-defying book opens, a woman who has recently been elevated to prominence for her social media posts travels around the world to meet her adoring fans. She is overwhelmed by navigating the new language and etiquette of what she terms "the portal," where she grapples with an unshakable conviction that a vast...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
339 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"A woman whose name shouldn't be Linda stands inside the locked front door of her apartment, listening. Footsteps: a neighbor, walking. Linda knows her neighbors only from names on lobby mailboxes and glances through the peephole, doesn't care to meet them, can't chance being known. She gives the footsteps enough time to reach the elevator. To press the button, to step in and begin their descent. Then she unlocks the door, exhales the breath she was...
Author
Publisher
Park Row Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
341 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
When Alex first began posting unscripted family moments and motivational messages online, she had no intention of becoming an influencer. Overnight it seemed she’d amassed a huge following, and her hobby became a full-time job—one that was impossible to manage without her sharp-as-a-tack personal assistant, AC. But all the good-will of her followers turns toxic when one controversial post goes viral in the worst possible way. Alex reaches out...
44) Grown ups
Author
Publisher
Scout Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
338 pages ; 24 cm
Description
Fleabag meets Conversations with Friends in this brutally honest, observant, original novel about a woman going through a breakup...but really having more of a breakdown. Jenny McLaine's life is falling apart. Her friendships are flagging. Her body has failed her. She's just lost her column at The Foof because she isn't the fierce voice new feminism needs. Her ex has gotten together with another woman. And worst of all: Jenny's mother is about to...
Author
Series
Modern love volume 3
Publisher
Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
414, 6 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"Beauty expert and influencer Jia Ahmed has her eye on the prize: conquering the internet today, the entire makeup industry tomorrow, and finally, finally proving herself to her big opinionated family. She has little time for love, and even less time for the men in her private messages--until the day a certain international superstar slides into her DMs, and she falls hard and fast. There's just one wrinkle: he has no idea who she is. The son of a...
46) Conviction
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
c2019.
Physical Desc
376 pages ; 25 cm
Description
The day Anna McDonald's quiet, respectable life explodes starts off like all the days before: packing up the kids for school, making breakfast, listening to yet another true-crime podcast. Then her husband comes downstairs with an announcement, and Anna is suddenly, shockingly alone. Reeling, desperate for distraction, Anna returns to the podcast. Other people's problems are much better than one's own-a sunken yacht, a murdered family, a hint of international...
47) A burning
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
293 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"After a fiery attack on a train leaves 104 people dead, the fates of three people become inextricably entangled. Jivan, a bright, striving woman from the slums looking for a way out of poverty, is wrongly accused of planning the attack because of a careless comment on Facebook. PT Sir, a slippery gym teacher from Jivan's former high school, has hitched his aspirations to a rising right wing party, and his own ascent becomes increasingly linked to...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
436 pages ; 24 cm
Description
Poppy and Annalise are driven mad by mums enjoying special privileges at work while they pick up the slack. Setting up a Facebook group to vent about smug mummies is just a healthy outlet - right? But as their new group's membership soars, the frustrated women start confronting mums in the real world. Cafes become battlegrounds, playgrounds become warzones and offices have never been more divided. A rivalry that was once harmless fun is about to spiral...
Author
Publisher
Harper Collins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
8 CDs (10 hrs.) ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Brandi Maxwell is living the dream as an intern at prestigious New York fashion house Simon Van Doren. Except "living the dream" looks more like scrubbing puke from couture dresses worn by hard-partying models and putting up with microaggressions from her white colleagues. Still, she can't help but fangirl over Simon's it-girl daughter, Taylor. Until one night, at a glamorous Van Doren party, when Brandi overhears something she shouldn't have, and...
50) Expelled
Author
Publisher
JIMMY Patterson Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
296 pages ; 24 cm
Description
Expelled over The Photo that was posted to his Twitter account, Will Foster, seventeen, is determined to find out who took the picture and why he and three other students were targeted.
51) The cipher
Author
Series
Nina Guerrera volume 1
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
322 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
"FBI Special Agent Nina Guerrera escaped a serial killer's trap at sixteen. Years later, when she's jumped in a Virginia park, a video of the attack goes viral. Legions of new fans are not the only ones impressed with her fighting skills. The man who abducted her eleven years ago is watching. Determined to reclaim his lost prize, he commits a grisly murder designed to pull her into the investigation ... but his games are just beginning. And he's using...
Author
Series
Circle volume 2
Pub. Date
2021.
Formats
Description
Delaney Wells is an unlikely new hire at the Every. A former forest ranger and unwavering tech skeptic, she charms her way into an entry-level job with one goal in mind: to take down the company from within. With her compatriot, the not-at-all-ambitious Wes Makazian, they look for the Every's weaknesses, hoping to free humanity from all-encompassing surveillance and the emoji-driven infantilization of the species. But does anyone want what Delaney...
Author
Series
Absolutely remarkable thing novels volume 1
Pub. Date
[2018]
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Formats
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"In his much-anticipated debut novel, Hank Green--cocreator of Crash Course, Vlogbrothers, and SciShow--spins a sweeping, cinematic tale about a young woman who becomes an overnight celebrity before realizing she's part of something bigger, and stranger, than anyone could have possibly imagined. The Carls just appeared. Coming home from work at three a.m., twenty-three-year-old April May stumbles across a giant sculpture. Delighted by its appearance...
54) The rumor game
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
471 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
At Foxham Prep, a posh private school for Washington, D.C.'s elite, a rumor gains momentum as it collects followers on social media, pulling three girls into its path--Bryn, who wants to erase all memories of the mistake she made last summer; cheer captain Cora, who desperately wants to believe in her boyfriend's faithfulness; and shy Georgie, newly hot after a summer at fat camp and ready to reinvent herself--but who can stop a dangerous rumor once...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
138 pages ; 19 cm.
Description
To be a content moderator is to see humanity at its worst--but Kayleigh needs money. So she takes a job working for a social media platform whose name she isn't allowed to mention. Her task: review offensive videos and pictures, rants and conspiracy theories, and decide which need to be removed. It's grueling work. Kayleigh and her colleagues spend all day watching horrors and hate on their screens, evaluating them with the platform's ever-changing...
Author
Publisher
Scarlet Books
Pub. Date
c2022.
Physical Desc
356 pages ; 23 cm
Description
"Chloe Cates is missing. The 13-year-old star of the hit YouTube series, 'CC and Me,' has disappeared, and nobody knows where she's gone - least of all ruthless momager Jennifer Scarborough, who has spent much of her daughter's young life crafting a child celebrity persona that is finally beginning to pay off. And in Chloe's absence, the faux-fairytale world that supported that persona begins to fracture, revealing secrets capable of reducing the...
57) Averee
Author
Publisher
A Wave Blue World, Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
136 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Description
"One average girl's mission with her BFF through an unnerving world of near-future tech to take back control of their lives from an all-knowing social media app"--
Author
Publisher
Harper Teen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Tara just wants to be treated like any other girl at Ainsley Academy. That is, judged on her merits—not on her transness. But there’s no road map for being the first trans girl at an all-girls school. And when she tries to join the Sibyls, an old-fashioned Ainsley sisterhood complete with code names and special privileges, she’s thrust into the center of a larger argument about what girlhood means and whether the club should exist...
Author
Publisher
Wheeler Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
453 pages (large print) ; 22 cm.
Description
"It wasn't supposed to happen this way. When Eliza Hunt created The Hudson Valley Ladies' Bulletin Board fifteen years ago she was happily entrenched in her picture-perfect suburban life with her husband and twin preschoolers. Now, with an empty nest and a crippling case of agoraphobia, the once-fun hobby has become her lifeline. So when a rival parenting forum threatens the site's existence, she doesn't think twice before fabricating a salacious...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
328 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
"Iris Hagarty has just about had it with weddings. After witnessing one too many meltdowns over flower arrangements, she takes to the internet to vent about the trials and tribulations of being a bridesmaid to her usually reasonable friends-turned-bridezillas. She finds she is not alone, and soon becomes the moderator of a Facebook group full of other bridesmaids, eager to share their own horror stories. Enter Iris's own estranged sister Jasmine,...
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