“The Last to Vanish”
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Fiction: “The Last to Vanish” by Megan Miranda
When a journalist investigating a string of unsolved disappearances goes missing, Abigail Lovett, the manager of The Passage Inn in the North Carolina mountain town of Cutter’s Pass, decides to investigate and discovers how little she knows about her coworkers, neighbors, and even those closest to her.
“Binge Times”
Nonfiction: “Binge Times: Inside Hollywood’s Furious Billion-Dollar Battle to Take Down Netflix” by Dade Hayes
“Binge Times” Examines the current efforts among media and tech companies such as Disney, Apple and Comcast to catch up to Netflix in the streaming video business with multi-billion-dollar investments in new arenas.
The first comprehensive account of the biggest wake-up call in the history of the entertainment business: the pivot to streaming. This book reveals the true costs of the vision quest as companies are turned inside-out and repeatedly redraw their org charts and strategic plans.
Youth: “Little Monarchs” by Jonathan Case
“Little Monarchs”
In the twenty-second century, a sun shift has made it impossible for mammals to survive in the daylight, and 10-year-old Elvie and her caretaker, Flora, are studying the migration route of monarch butterflies along what used to be the western coast of the United States, hoping that something in the butterflies’ wing scales can be used to protect people from the sun and save humanity from extinction.
