Plus The Hottest Books on Likewise This Week
 | | Hello there! Today we’re weathering climate catastrophes with unforgettable young characters and checking out the books that are trending this week on Likewise. Plus, what to read if you can’t get enough Wednesday Addams. |  | The Bookends |
| | | Fierce Girls Face Climate Catastrophe | | | In The Bookends, we pick an exciting new release and pair it with an older title readers will also love. This week: When the environmental destruction caused by climate change wrecks their homes, girls and their found families fight for survival. | | |
 | | The Light Pirate | | Destroyed by hurricanes and rising seas, Florida is abandoned by the United States, and Wanda, named after the storm that raged while she was born, survives thanks to an unlikely friendship. | |
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| |  | | After the Flood | | Myra and her younger daughter Pearl live aboard a boat after a colossal flood subsumes their Nebraska home. Despite their perilous circumstances, Myra is determined to reunite with her kidnapped older daughter. | |
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|  | Ask a Librarian |
| | I finished the Netflix show Wednesday, and I’m obsessed. Can you recommend something else with boarding school/dark academia vibes, independent women, and strange happenings? - Hannah | Hi, Hannah! I wanted basically to be Christina Ricci’s Wednesday Addams as a kid, so I’m loving the goth girl renaissance, and I have some fun suggestions for you!
Fine Print
A boarding school is made for mischief: light supervision and plenty of opportunities for sneaking around in the dark of the night. Authors from Ursula K. LeGuin to J.K. Rowling seized the storytelling potential of a magical academic setting.
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Like Wednesday, my picks for you feature independent heroines who feel like oddities even in the magical settings of the books. They combine mystery, magic, and plenty of spooky atmosphere. | | | | | |
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 | | Ninth House | | In this haunting read from the author of Six of Crows, a girl who can see ghosts is recruited to join a secret society at Yale. Bonus: the long awaited sequel, Hell Bent, comes out next month. | |
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|  | | A Deadly Education | | El is destined to be a dark sorceress—whether she likes it or not. But she has to survive Scholomance first, a school that is actively trying to murder its students. The final book in Naomi Novik’s dark academia series, The Golden Enclaves, came out in September. | |
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 | | Over My Dead Body | | A foundling witch risks her education to save a friend who goes missing from their school on the eve of Samhain, when the veil between the world of the living and the world of the dead is at its thinnest. | |
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| | | In case that’s not enough, check out this list with even more suggestions! | |
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| | Meet the Librarian
Emily Calkins has worked at public libraries across the US. Tell her what you’re looking for! | | |
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|  | Guess The Writer |
| - A short story by this writer published in The New Yorker inspired readers to cancel their subscriptions and send hate mail.
- An award named for her celebrates “outstanding achievement in the literature of psychological suspense, horror, and the dark fantastic.”
- Her 1959 novel The Haunting of Hill House has been adapted for screen three times, most recently as a Netflix series.
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| Critical Love
Publishers Weekly applauds Lipsyte’s “charming comic mystery,” which The New York Times calls “a slangy, brainy, expletive-laden, occasionally touching pleasure to read.” | |
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