Sharon M. Peterson’s The Do-Over is hilarious, and don’t we all need hilarious?
Perci has an overbearing ex-beauty queen mother and a boyfriend who’s “meh” enough about her to dump her on live radio in exchange for a pair of concert tickets. Perci responds with a New Year’s Un-Resolution list: no dating, no trying to please her mother.
In The Do-Over, we join Perci on a rollicking ride from one New Year’s Eve to the next. It’s sweet and hilarious, and heartwarming all at once. If you don’t walk away from this book feeling like there’s hope for humanity, well, I guess it takes all types to make the world go round!
“Look, you’re a nice girl but I don’t think we should see each other anymore.” The voicemail ends and I freeze in the dentist’s chair as I realize… I’ve just been dumped on live radio.
It took the most humiliating break-up for me to see that my life is in serious need of a do-over. Cue my anti New Year’s resolutions that even I can’t fail at:
Stop dating. (Men are the worst.)
Stop trying to lose weight. (I’m never giving up chocolate.)
Stop working so hard. (Selling mortgages is not my dream career.)
Stop trying to live up to…
My sister-in-law recommended this book to me, and I fell headlong into its pages.
It took me deep into a world and culture I knew nothing about and made me feel like I’d lived there my whole life. And in the process, it opened my mind to see the problems faced by people in that world, the complexities and beauties of it all. It is the best kind of education in social justice.
A PRINTZ MEDAL WINNER! A MORRIS AWARD WINNER! AN AMERICAN INDIAN YOUTH LITERATURE AWARD YA HONOR BOOK!
A REESE WITHERSPOON x HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK CLUB YA PICK
An Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller
Soon to be adapted at Netflix for TV with President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama's production company, Higher Ground.
“One of this year's most buzzed about young adult novels.” ―Good Morning America
A TIME Magazine Best YA Book of All Time Selection Amazon's Best YA Book of 2021 So Far (June 2021) A 2021 Kids' Indie Next List Selection An Entertainment Weekly Most Anticipated Books of…
I’m not usually a thriller reader, because I figure my life is tense enough as it is!
But Tosca Lee’s premise was so arresting—the combination of escaping a cult + pandemic—it resonated so deeply with our times, I had to read it. I’m so glad I did.
Wynter struggles with the same questions I do, but the stakes were exponentially higher for her. So it had the advantage of affirming me while also reassuring me that really, my own life and times aren’t so bad!
In this frighteningly believable thriller from New York Times bestselling author Tosca Lee, an extinct disease re-emerges from the melting Alaskan permafrost to cause madness in its victims. For recent apocalyptic cult escapee Wynter Roth, it's the end she'd always been told was coming.
When Wynter Roth is turned out of New Earth, a self-contained doomsday cult on the American prairie, she emerges into a world poised on the brink of madness as a mysterious outbreak of rapid early onset dementia spreads across the nation.
As Wynter struggles to start over in a world she's been taught to regard as…
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