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Looking ahead to the book tournament presented by Field Notes in 2022, the following are the 68 most worth watching books in 2021.

This year's theme is "turbulence." Do we still need to explain?

This must be a turbulent year for book sales, and we are not just talking about the noise around the bucket hat. Multiple sources tell us that this year is a unique year. Last fall’s election and the outgoing president meant that many books were shelved or postponed; there was hardly enough room in popular culture to revolve around novels (especially those that did not attract attention and development deals by Witherspoons in the world) Novel) to build a buzz, some insiders told us that publishers don’t like epidemics/rebellions/social justice/etc. This helps explain why the shelves are crowded with big names this summer and fall.

Frankly speaking, if you are a novelist who has won a Pulitzer Prize or National Book Award before, and you haven't published this year, are you still breathing?

Today, we will release the long list of the 2022 Book Championship, which is our 18th time to reproduce this strange event provided by Field Notes. In a few weeks, we will release a shortlist of about 16 books that will be released in March. These titles will be selected from the 68 novels below.

For anyone unfamiliar with book tournaments, here is an explanation of how cookies crumble, and here is a brief history of memorable moments.

The following list is organized in alphabetical order, nothing more. Perhaps "turmoil" is the common theme of the works themselves, but this is not always the case. Our list is primarily a collection of books that we like and/or find fascinating (not always the same thing), or a collection of books that people we know and trust like and/or find fascinating. They are American and foreign, winners and losers, published by Big House and Little House. They are recommended by booksellers. They were sent to us by the editor, in both cases they were sent to us by the author himself. They were recommended by a publicist who worked in a place not named Brooklyn, and by a meme feed on Instagram. (A title slipped into our DM.) Basically, our books come from all over the world, and may be the same as yours. If we don't include your favorites of this year, we can only say it again: Hustle and bustle.

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These semi-related episodes are offensive, full of swear words, and cruelly funny. This is a revelatory spiral, entering the imperfect life of queer men, who desperately struggle with self-destructive impulses. As they tiptoed through the minefield of misfortunes full of romanticism and material stimulus--from the dirty warehouses and high-end bars of Oakland to the desolate farm town of Alabama--they struggled to survive in a black, bankruptcy Find a sense of belonging in a queer and excluded world. Nevertheless-or perhaps because of this-they still glow.

This set of stories seamlessly transitions between absurdity and tenderness, providing a broad depiction of the life of Cambodian Americans. When refugee children opened up a new path for themselves in California, they shouldered the burden of the Khmer Rouge genocide and struggled to deal with the complexities of race, sexual orientation, friendship, and family. A high school badminton coach and failed grocery store owner tried to relive his glorious years by defeating a rising star young player. Two drunk brothers attend the post-wedding party and make a plan to expose their sinister uncle's neglect of the bride and groom. There is a strange relationship between an older technology entrepreneur trying to launch the "Safe Space" app and a young teacher obsessed with beluga whales. In the final story, a 9-year-old child learns that his mother had survived a racist school shooting.

Miranda Fitch's life is a waking nightmare. The accident that ended her thriving acting career left her with intolerable chronic back pain, a failed marriage, and an increasing reliance on painkillers. Now, she is about to lose her job as a director of the university theater. Decided to stage Shakespeare's "Everything is Good", this drama that made her pay all the price, she faced a group of rebellious actors who wanted to play Macbeth. Miranda saw her chance of redemption slip through her fingers. At that time, she met three strange benefactors who had a creepy knowledge of Miranda’s past and a tempting promise for her future: one was where the show was going, and her rebellious student We got everything that was coming, and the invisible pain of suspicion that kept her from the spotlight is well known.

Jules' partner B recently died in a weird accident. Faced with the red tape of the hospital, the division and cruelty of B’s family, and the unimaginable emptiness of the center of their lives now, Jules and his new friend Theo embarked on a road trip, burying two-thirds of B’s ashes in their most frequented visits. The place belongs. Along the way, Katz delved into their relationship and their life stories-Jules' transition from an abandoned baby to the Florida foster care system, as well as B's artistic transformation, surrounded by like-minded people who helped them realize that they might be Think of it as a human being and not as a body.

The novelist Alice met Felix who worked in a warehouse and asked him if he would like to travel to Rome with her. In Dublin, her best friend Eileen is getting rid of the shadow of a breakup and flirting with Simon, the man she has known since childhood. Alice, Felix, Irene, and Simon are still young-but life is catching up to them. They yearn for each other, deceive each other, they get together, they separate. They have sex, they worry about sex, they worry about their friendship and the world they live in. Are they standing in the last brightly lit room before the darkness, witnessing something? Will they find a way to believe in the beautiful world?

Astrobiologist Theo Byrne raised his unusual 9-year-old son Robin by himself after his wife's death, while searching for life in the entire universe. Robin is a warm and kind boy who spends hours carefully drawing pictures of endangered animals. He is also about to be expelled from the third grade for smashing his friend in the face. As his son gets more and more troubled, Theo hopes to keep him away from psychotropic drugs. He learned that an experimental neurofeedback treatment can enhance Robin's emotional control, which includes training the boy to understand the recording patterns of his mother's brain.

A year after the death of his beloved musician father, 13-year-old Benny Oh began to hear voices. The sound belongs to the things in his house—sneakers, broken Christmas decorations, a piece of withered lettuce. Although Benny could not understand what these words were saying, he could feel their emotional tone; some were pleasant, mild buzzing or cooing, but some were ironic, angry, and full of pain. When his mother Annabel had a hoarding problem, her voice became more noisy. At first, Benny tried to ignore them, but soon, the voice followed him out of the house, to the street and school, and finally drove him to seek refuge in the silence of a large public library, where the objects behaved well, knowing Speak in a low voice.

Someone is telling the life story of Charlie Barnes, but it doesn't seem to be going well. Often divorced, dissatisfied with life's compromises, living in a house he hates, this lifelong conspirator and eternal romantic wants to get rid of the status quo and enter the American dream. However, when the double disaster of the Great Depression and the cancer panic came to his predicament, his dreams further shrank, and the infinite past full of forks quickly shrank into a black spot. Then, despite all the difficulties, the change is correct: Charlie gets the second act. With the help of his story-telling son, he investigated the facts in his life and found his true mission in the most unexpected place—sacrifice in return for selflessness and love—and eventually became his son. Know who he can be.

Laila wanted to be a mother very much, but every previous pregnancy ended in heartbreak. This time must be different, so she turned to Melancons, an ancient and powerful Harlem family known for their caul, which is a precious layer of skin and the secret source of their healing power. When Laila's deal for a piece of cauliflower fell through, she was heartbroken, but when the child was stillborn, she was sad and angry. What she didn't know was that her niece Amara (an ambitious college student) would soon give birth to a baby in her home and send it to the Meilankang family to raise it. Hallow is special: she was born with a afterbirth, and their matriarch Maman predicted that this girl would restore family prosperity.

Freydis is a female warrior and the leader of a Viking expedition to the south. They met with local tribes, exchanged skills, were captured, and finally arrived in Panama. But no one finally knows what happened to them. More than 500 years later, Atahualpa, the last Inca emperor, arrived in Europe on a ship stolen from Columbus. He discovered a continent divided by religious and dynastic quarrels, the Spanish Inquisition, the Lutheran Reformation, capitalism, the miracle of the printing press, the endless belligerence between the ruling monarchs, and constant threats from the Turks. But most importantly, he found that the oppressed people were ready for the revolution. Fortunately, he recently had a best-selling book as a guide to power-Machiavelli's "Prince". The stage is set for Europe ruled by the Incas and Aztecs and for the great war that will change history forever.

Thirteen-year-old Anna lives within the formidable walls of Constantinople. An agitated and curious Anna learned to read. In this ancient city known as a library, she found a book that tells the story of Esson. He longed to become a bird and fly to the sky. A utopian paradise in China. Five hundred years later, in a library in Idaho, Zeno, in his eighties, learned Greek as a prisoner of war and rehearsed five in a play adapted from Ayton’s story. My child, this story has been preserved for centuries. Hidden between the bookshelves of the library is a bomb placed by Seymour, a troubled idealistic teenager. This is another siege. In the near future, on the starship Argos, Konstance is alone in a vault, copying the story of the dismissed Aethon, which her father told her.

This sympathizer, who did not want to be named, was re-educated in the hands of his former best friend Mann and tried to integrate into French culture. He was deeply traumatized. He found Paris both seductive and disturbing. When he met a group of left-wing intellectuals at a dinner hosted by "Auntie" in France and Vietnam, he found that his mind was stimulated, but his drug products also had customers. But the new life he is creating has dangers he did not foresee, whether it is the self-torture of drug addiction, the authoritarianism of a country locked in a colonial mentality, or how to reunite his two closest friends. The contradictory worldview puts them in a predicament and absolutely opposes it. If the sympathizer is to win, he will need all his wisdom, resourcefulness, and moral flexibility.

A child who is a little weird and likes flip phones, sneakers with a tendency to simulate and sideline hustle and bustle, the life boundary of Copeland Cane V and the leap of urban toxicity, an educational institution with intent to confuse, and a police state conglomerate that integrates with the media ——The highly acclaimed Rebellion Alert Department monitors and harasss his neighbors in the name of anti-terrorism. Although he and his family are facing deportation, but are recruited by a nearby private school, Copeland is doing his best to do the right thing for himself. However, the forces at work trapped him in a reality that killed his past and obscured his future.

It is December 23, 1971, and severe weather is expected in Chicago. Russ Hildebrandt, the associate pastor of a liberal suburban church, is about to get rid of a marriage he finds boring—unless his wife Marion has a secret life of her own He will defeat him. Their eldest son Clem returned home from college with moral absolutism, and he took an action that would break his father's heart. Clem's sister Becky has long been the social queen of her high school class. She has quickly turned to counterculture, while their smart brother Perry has been selling drugs to seventh-grade students, determined to become a better person. The Hildebrandt family is seeking a kind of freedom, and everyone else threatens to complicate it.

Reese pieced together what transgender women of previous generations dreamed of: an ordinary, bourgeois and comfortable life. The only thing missing is a child. But then her girlfriend Amy (Amy) changed into Ames (Ames) and everything fell apart. Ames was not happy either. He thought that canceling the transition would make life easier, but this decision made him lose Rees-losing her meant losing his only family. Even if their relationship ended, he was eager to find a way back to her. When Katrina, Ames' boss and lover, revealed that she was pregnant with his child-and she was not sure whether to keep it-Ames wondered if this was the opportunity he had been waiting for. Can the three of them form some kind of unconventional family and raise children together?

After immigrating to Milwaukee, Wisconsin as part of the Soviet expats in 1991, Olga grew up and met a girl and fell in love, and began to believe that she could settle down. But a phone call from a bad man from her past allowed her to spend a haunted childhood in an apartment building in the Soviet Union: an unexplainable murder, a supernatural stray dog, and The mystery of her beloved brother Moses, he lost an eye and later disappeared. We were drawn into Olga's past because she was puzzled by the underground mafia in central and western Russia, tracking down a series of mathematical stabbings.

After being injured in an accident, the novelist Gerry Andersen was lying on a hospital bed in his apartment, completely dependent on two women he barely knew: his young assistant and a night nurse, and he questioned her abilities. But Gerry also began to question his abilities. As he walked in and out of dreamlike memories, he worried that he might lose control of reality, just like his mother who recently died of dementia. The most distressing thing is that he thinks he is troubled by strange phone calls, and a woman who claims to be a titular character in his popular novel "Dream Lover" swears that she will come to see him soon.

These short stories centered on transgender women seeking a stable adult life. They found the quiet truth in high prairie buildings and warehouses in New York, as well as in the cold winters of Canada and drizzling days in Oregon. In "Hazel and Christopher", two childhood friends become adults again after one of them is converted. In "The Perfect Place", a woman encounters an unwelcome problem while playing fetish with a man. In "I Can't Hear You Anymore," the narrator reviews past traumas and what might have happened when she recalled a tender moment with another transgender woman.

Evelyn Caldwell's husband Nathan has an affair with Evelyn Caldwell. Or, to be precise, use a copy of a gene clone. After a morning that started with confrontation and ended with Nathan's body bleeding on the kitchen floor, Caldwell's two wives will have to think quickly-before sharing everything, including sharing a cell.

The funny and acrimonious Edie Richter and her husband are moving from San Francisco to Perth, Australia. She left a sister and mother, and she still grieves for her father's recent death. Before moving, Edie and her husband were content if she was embarrassed socially-considering that she didn't like small talk. In Perth, Edie found herself in a very isolated but verdant corner of the world, but Edie had a secret: She did an incredible act that she could hardly admit to herself. In some ways, the scenery reflects her own complicated inner life, instead of escaping from her past, Edie is increasingly forced to face what she has done.

In 1618, in the small town of Leonberg, the illiterate widow Katharina was famous for her herbal remedies and her children’s success, including her eldest son, Johannes, who was famous The author of the laws of planetary motion. This is enough to make anyone jealous, and Catherine's going out and participating in everyone's affairs did not bring herself any benefit. So when the insane and unremarkable Ursula Reinbold accused Catherine of providing her with a bitter witchcraft drink that made her sick, Catherine ran into trouble. Her son must divert his attention from the music of the ball to the job of protecting his mother. Faced with the threat of economic collapse, torture and even execution, Catherine told her story to her friend and neighbor Simon, a reclusive widower threatened by her own secrets.

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After Swiv was temporarily expelled from school, her grandmother assigned her the task of writing a letter to her absent father. Swiv’s task for grandma is to write a letter to Gord, her unborn grandson, and Swiv’s siblings. "You are a little thing," grandma wrote to Gold, "but you have to learn to fight." The grandmother has been fighting all her life: from growing up in a strict religious community ruled by the hateful Will Braun , She fights against those who want to take away her happiness, independence and spirit; she works hard to protect her family, and works hard to reconcile her relatives when they choose to leave her. Swiv's mother is also fighting "on all fronts", as grandma said, "internal. Externally."

Opal is a very independent young musician. Before the word appeared, he was African punk. When the aspiring singer/songwriter Neville Charles met her, she accepted his offer to make music together. In New York City in the early 1970s, a rival band signed with her brand waved the Confederate flag at a promotional concert. Decades later, when Opal was considering reuniting with Nev in 2016, a music journalist seized the opportunity to explore that moment. Opal’s bold protests and the ensuing violence triggered a series of incidents that were fatal. To remind people, to women who dare to tell the truth, especially black women.

Welcome to Maple Street, a picturesque area in the suburbs of Long Island. But when the Wilde family moved in, they triggered what the neighbors feared the most. Papa Allor is a rock star. Mother Getty has a strong Brooklyn accent. They don't match Maple Street's view of itself. Although Rhea Schroeder, the queen bee on Maple Street, initially welcomed Getty and her family, the relationship deteriorated. As tensions intensified, a sinkhole appeared in a nearby park and Rhea's daughter Shirley fell into it. The search for Shirley brought shocking accusations to Wilders. Suddenly, a mother's opposition to another mother in the court of public opinion can only end in blood.

Gao Aijun was fascinated when he saw an amazingly beautiful woman Xia Hongmei on the way back to his hometown after completing his military service. The two concealed their relationship from their spouses and devoted themselves to the struggle to bring revolution to their backwater village. They write brochures day and night, organize work teams, and participate in rallies. Encouraged by the party, the couple dug a real "love tunnel" between their homes. Below the village, their revolutionary enthusiasm and sexual enthusiasm reached a boiling point. But when their passionate relationship was finally discovered, their dream of having a better future together began to shatter. Will their great revolutionary energy save their skin, or will they fall victim to the revolution that is devouring the country?

For customers and neighbors on 125th Street, Ray Carney is an honest furniture salesman who has created a decent life for his family. Still, cash is very tight, so if his cousin Freddie occasionally drops off a strange ring or necklace, Ray won't ask where it came from. Then Freddie got into trouble with a staff member who planned to rob the Theresa Hotel and volunteered to provide fencing services for Ray. However, the robbery did not proceed as planned, so an internal battle between the fighter Lei and the liar Lei began. When Ray manages this dual life, he begins to see who really holds the initiative in Harlem. Can Ray avoid being killed, save his cousin, and earn a big score for him, while maintaining his reputation as the preferred source of all your high-quality home furnishing needs?

An African-American writer started an off-road book trip to promote his best-selling novel. The novel also tells the story of Soot, a young black boy who recently lived in a rural town, and The Kid, who might be an imaginary child. The person who appeared in front of the author on his tour. Throughout the book, the tragic story of the police shooting is always played over and over in the news. Who was killed? Who is the child? Will the author end his book journey, and what kind of world will he leave behind?

This is a new retelling of 9/11, full of enlightenment and insight. As Al Qaeda continues to grow in power and continue to make world-changing attacks, it will shock readers into the world of Al Qaeda. It has penetrated into the secret realm of American intelligence. It has its own plan to try to use what is about to happen as a means to realize its own national security holy grail. We all know how it ended, but as life meets and events unfold, we begin to understand that 9/11 is neither the beginning nor the end. Everyone’s behavior has a reason, and the individual is really important—and, In fact, history can be created in one fell swoop.

These short stories are sharp and sharp, lively and ominous, scabs, bruises, and scars. Many works are set in Southern California, telling the story of a teenage girl after the death of her beloved father, and record the encounters of her sister and mother with men of all ages, and the girl’s best friend Ace Perranza's bud attracts. In and out of school, participating in wrestling and softball, going to church with her hysterical complex family, dominating boys in arm wrestling, she struggles to cope with her rapidly developing queer and emerging body, becoming wary of clarity instead of hoping for it.

Here, when my father finds out that he owns a concrete mixer, we will see the enthusiasm of a family. When he tried to modernize all aspects of their lives, when his sister was flooded with concrete, disaster happened.

Thalia was imprisoned in a teenage correctional facility in a forest mountain area in Colombia after committing an act of impulsive sexual violence. She desperately needs to return to her home in Bogotá, where her father and the ticket to the United States are waiting. If she missed the flight, she might also miss the opportunity to reunite with her family. How this family occupied two different countries became the focus. We saw Thalia’s parents Mauro and Elena falling in love against the backdrop of the civil war. We saw them leave Bogotá with their eldest son Karina to seek safety and opportunities in the United States. We saw two other children, Nando and Talia, born in the United States. We have witnessed the decisions and indecision that led to Mauro's deportation and the fragmentation of her family-they have been bearing these costs ever since.

An interpreter came to The Hague to escape from New York and work in the International Court of Justice. As a woman with multiple languages ​​and identities, she is looking for a place that can eventually be called home. She is caught in a brewing personal drama: her lover Adriaan separates from his wife, but is still entangled in his marriage. Her friend Jana witnessed a seemingly random act of violence, and as she became friends with the victim's sister, the interpreter became more and more obsessed with this crime. When she was asked to translate for a former president accused of war crimes, she was embroiled in an explosive political controversy. She was quickly pushed to the edge of the cliff, threatening her with betrayal and heartbreak, forcing her to decide what she wanted.

A three-part novel written by three interrelated characters. The first part, "Hidden Variables" by María Celina Igarzábal, is narrated by Bruno Seguer. Seguer is also the author of the second part "Contar desde zero" ("Contar desde zero"), of which Evelynne Harrington, the author of the third part, is the central figure. Finally, Harrington is the author of "Uncertainty" ("La incertidumbre"), whose protagonist is the dying Igazabal. Each of these three parts revolves around an octagonal room that alternates between the tomb of the jaguar, the center of the torture center, and the center of the abandoned house where the adultery incident is hidden.

This is the story of Clara. She is a man-made friend who is super-observant. From the location in the store, she carefully observes the behavior of people who come in and browse and people who pass by outside on the street. She still hopes that clients will choose her soon. (As the winners of Camp ToB 2021, Clara and the Suns automatically won seats in the 2022 Book Championship.)

In a city where the summer sun is suffocating and the sweet life is overdone, Leo Gazarra spends time in a drunken haze, between a run-down hotel and the home of a well-educated wealthy friend Shuttle back and forth, without them he might starve to death. At 30 years old, he is still wandering: between occupations that are meaningless to him, between short-lived and worn-out relationships. Everyone he knew wanted to graduate, get married, and get rich-but he didn't. He has no ambitions. Instead of working hard, succumb to the sweet alienation of the Eternal City? Rome, sometimes cruel and indifferent mistress, sometimes sweet and noble. You can't give up halfway to her, either she is the love of your life, or you have to leave her.

Libertie Sampson, who grew up in a free black community in Brooklyn during the reconstruction era, knows very well that her purposeful mother, a practicing physician, has a common vision for their future: Liberie will go to medical school to practice with her. But Libertie prefers music to science. She is suffocated by her mother's choice and yearns for other things. And she was constantly reminded that unlike her light-skinned mother, Liberty would not be considered white. When a young man from Haiti proposed to Libertie and promised that she would be equal to him on the island, she accepted, only to find that she was still subordinate to him and all men. When she tried to analyze what freedom meant for black women, Liberty wondered where she might find it.

Fred Daniels was a black man who was taken away by the police after a brutal double murder and tortured until he admitted that he had not committed a crime. After signing the confession, he fled the detention center and escaped into the city's sewer system.

The 17-year-old Marie de France, who was expelled from the court by Eleanor of Aquitaine, was considered too rude and rude for marriage or court life. She was sent to England to become the new convent of a poor monastery. At first, Mary was surprised by the severity of her new life. She constantly replaced her passionate desire for family, motherland and youth with new things: loyalty to her sisters and faith in her sacred vision. Mary is the last of many female warriors and crusaders, and she is determined to chart a bold new line for the women she now leads and protects. But in a world that changes and corrodes in terrible ways, a world that can never be reconciled with her existence, is the sheer power of Mary's vision strong enough?

The failed novelist Thomas Quinn has been writing short stories and audio scripts for other people's roles. Bills are piled up like a mountain, dirty dishes are piled up in the sink, and the whole world seems to be rushing toward the collapse of entropy. Then he received a voice mail from his father. He has been dead for seven years. The relationship between Thomas and Stanley Quinn, a world-famous writer and absent father, is always unstable, especially because Stanley always seems to prefer his mysterious assistant and protégé Andrew Black to him. Own son. However, after Black published his first book, Cupid's Engine, which sold more than one million copies, he disappeared completely. Now something strange happened to Thomas, and he couldn't help wondering whether Black was pulling a gap in his world behind the scenes.

Rachel is 24 years old, a fallen Jew, and her religious beliefs limit calorie intake. During the day, she worked as a subordinate at a talent management agency in Los Angeles, maintaining the illusion of being in control through compulsive food rituals. At night, she has nowhere to pedal on the elliptical machine. Rachel was content to continue to survive—until her therapist encouraged her to receive a 90-day communication detoxification from her mother, who raised her in accordance with the calorie counting tradition. In the early days of detoxification, Rachel met Miriam, a young Orthodox Jewish woman who worked in her favorite frozen yogurt shop and planned to feed her. Rachel was suddenly attracted by Miriam-her sundae and her body, her beliefs and her family-as the two got closer and closer, Rachel began a period with mirrors, mysticism, motherhood, Milk and honey marked the journey.

Ella is an astrophysicist, struggling with her doctoral thesis in the "now country", but she comes from the "past country", and in her memory, both personal and political tragedies have brought her A heavy burden. Consumed by the writer's obstacles, she finds that she hopes to be sick, which will provide time for writing, perhaps an excuse for her lack of progress. Then she began to have mysterious symptoms that doctors could not diagnose. As Ella's anxiety intensified, she began to exert a strong gravitational force in the past, and other family members began to pay attention to: widowed father, stepmother, twins, and eldest son. Each of them has their own experience of disease and violence, which ultimately connects them and exposes their atomized system.

An ambitious mother put her artistic career on hold and stayed at home to take care of her newborn son, but this experience did not match her imagination. Two years later, she found a thick patch of hair on the back of her neck. In the mirror, her canine teeth suddenly looked sharper than she remembered. Her husband went on business five days a week and casually dispelled her fear in the remote hotel room. As the mother's symptoms got worse, her impulse to give in to the new dog reached its peak, and she tried to keep the secret of her replacement dog identity. While seeking a cure in the library, she discovered the mysterious academic masterpiece "Magic Women Field Guide: Mythical Ethnography" that became her bible, and met a group of mothers who participated in a multi-level marketing plan. They may also be more important than them. .

A woman who has recently gained fame for posting on social media travels the world to meet with fans she admires. She was overwhelmed by the new language and etiquette of her so-called "gateway", where she firmly believed that there are now a large number of voices dominating her thoughts. "Are we in hell?" the portal guy asked himself. "Will we continue to do this until we die?" Suddenly, two text messages from her mother interrupted the quarrel: "Something happened" and "How long will you be here?" With real life and its risks and portals increasing The absurd antics are in conflict, and the world that this lady faces seems to contain both a lot of evidence proving kindness, compassion, and justice in the universe, as well as a lot of evidence proving the opposite.

Lucy Barton described her complicated and tender relationship with William, who was her first husband and a long-term, intermittent friend and confidant. Recalling their college days, experiencing the birth of their daughter, the painful dissolution of their marriage, and the lives they established with other people, Straut woven a portrait of a decades-long partnership. The subtleties of People are breathtaking.

The 26-year-old editorial assistant, Nella Rogers, is tired of being the only black employee of Wagner Books. Fed up with isolation and micro-attack, when Hazel, who was born and raised in Harlem, started working in the cubicle next to her, she was thrilled. However, they are just beginning to compare natural hair care solutions, when a series of uncomfortable events promoted Hazel to the office darling, and Nella was left behind. Then the notes began to appear on Nella's desk: LEAVE WAGNER. now. It's hard to believe that Hazel is behind this hostile information. But as Nella began to feel uneasy and obsessed with the insidious forces at work, she soon realized that there were more dangers besides her career.

It is March 2020, and a disaster is unfolding. A group of friends and friends of friends gathered in the country house waiting for the pandemic. In the next six months, new friendships and romances will prevail, while old betrayals will emerge, forcing each character to reassess the people they love and the most important things. The unlikely characters include: a Russian-born novelist; his Russian-born wife of a psychiatrist; their precocious child obsessed with K-pop; a struggling Indian-American writer; a very successful Korean-American app A program developer; a global playboy with three passports; a flamethrower of a young essayist from Carolina; and a movie star, an actor whose arrival broke the balance of the chosen family .

On the day of the wedding, 17-year-old Ada looked good; she loved her husband, she liked to be an apprentice to her mother, and she was a respected midwife. But after one year of marriage without pregnancy, in a small town where infertile women are often hanged as witches, her survival depends on abandoning everything she knows. She joined the infamous Hole in the Wall Gang, a group of outlaws led by missionaries turned robbers, known as children. Kid is charming, grand and fickle, determined to create a safe haven for abandoned women. But in order to make this dream a reality, the gang planned a dangerous plan that might kill them all. Ada must decide if she is willing to risk her life for the new future of all of them.

Anthropologist Sophia Shepard was studying the impact of tourism on cultural sites in a remote national monument on the Utah-Arizona border when she encountered two petty criminals. The Ashdown brothers were hired to steal maps from a "collector" of Native American artifacts, but their incompetence has brought their presence to the attention of the local sheriff. Their employer, a former lobbyist, was looking for lucrative monument land that might soon open to energy exploration, and he sent a repairman to clean up their mess. Suddenly, Sophia must test her theory in the real world, and the risk is higher than she thought.

Somewhere far away-or maybe nearby-there is an archipelago called Popico. A place of stunning beauty and incurable pranks, fate and mystery, it is also a place that needs to be changed. Xavier Redchoose is the macaenus of his generation, anointed by the gods, to give every inhabitant a perfect meal at the right time. Fennel, his long-lost lover, is moving towards her healing power. The governor’s daughter Santina has not yet joined her circle, but her corrupt father asks Macanus to feast on her wedding. At the same time, graffiti information from unknown sources raises some difficult questions. A storm is brewing.

Troubled by the unfulfilled promise, the Swat family lost contact after the death of their matriarch. Drifting, the lives of the three brothers are separated in the unknown waters of South Africa; Anton, the golden boy who hates the unrealized potential of his life; Astrid, her beauty is her strength; and the youngest, Amor , His life was shaped by a vague sense of guilt. For more than 30 years, reunited through four funerals, this shrinking family reflects the atmosphere of this country-a resentment, rebirth, and finally hope.

Isaiah belongs to Samuel, and Samuel belongs to Isaiah. This was the case from the beginning, and it was the same until the end. In the barn, they took care of the animals and each other, turning the empty shed into a refuge for mankind. In a world ruled by evil masters, this is a source of intimacy and hope. But when an older man—a companion of slaves—trying to gain favor by preaching the master’s gospel on the plantation, the enslaved people began to turn to themselves. The love between Isaiah and Samuel, once so simple, is now regarded as guilty, posing a clear danger to the harmony of the plantation.

A lady invited a famous artist to visit the remote coastal area where she lived, believing that his vision would penetrate the mysteries of her life and scenery. His provocative existence provides a framework for studying the fate of women and the privileges of men, the geometric structure of interpersonal relationships, and the struggle of moral life in the intersecting space of our internal and external worlds.

From November 2019 to November 2020, a small independent bookstore in Minneapolis was plagued by the most annoying customers in the store. Flora died on All Souls' Day, but she would never leave the store. Tukey got a job selling books after years of imprisonment. She survived reading "with the attention of killing". She must solve this haunting mystery while trying to understand Minneapolis. All that happened during the sorrowful year was reckoned with shock, isolation and anger.

Gerald, a middle-level employee of a public relations firm based in New York, has been uploaded to the company's internal Slack channel-at least his awareness. His colleagues believe that using the new work-from-home policy is a well-designed gimmick, but now that Gerrard’s work efficiency has reached its peak, his boss is happy to let him work in... wherever he is. Facing the looming abyss of the invisible life of the Internet, Gerrard summoned his colleague Pradeep to help him escape and find out what happened to his body. But the longer Gerrard stays in the void, the more charming and absurd his reality is.

In these stories of the working class in Los Angeles, a teenage girl is involved in a gang war, and a pastor loses her faith and gets into trouble. These characters live on dangerous fault lines, but the connection between them is unshakable.

Lucien moved to Los Angeles to be with his grandmother because she was using the new drug Memoroxin for experimental treatment of Alzheimer's disease. As an emerging photographer, he is also escaping from the sudden death of his mother, a famous artist whose legacy haunts him. Sophie just took the lead in the upcoming La Sylphide performance by the Los Angeles Ballet. She still works as a waitress at Chateau Marmont during off-hours and has witnessed the entertaining use of Memoroxin (or Mem) by Hollywood elites. When Lucien and Sophie met at the center, the center was founded by an ambitious but contradictory doctor to treat patients who abuse Mem, but they don’t remember how they got there—and why they did. Inexplicably attracted to each other. Is it attractive, or something they can't remember from "before"?

East Coast novelist Patrick Hamlin came to Hollywood with a simple goal: to oversee the production of a film adapted from one of his books, to prevent star Cassidy Carter’s destructive behavior from derailing the production, and to make this profession The final effort of recovery into this success will dazzle his wife and daughter when they return home. But California is not what he imagined: drought, wildfires, and corporate corruption are everywhere, and the company behind a mysterious new brand of synthetic water seems to be the root of all this. Patrick and Cassidy partnered-after she reluctantly worked as a driver for a few weeks-the two of them investigated the dark cracks in the sun-scorched city, where they found that disaster was like order. Until the last moment.

In ancient Sumer, there was only a layer of tulle separating the living from the dead. When a mysterious crack tears the earth apart, the lives of Ziz, her mother Meshara, and her father Temen are all disrupted. Temen was fascinated by the mystery, he caught a crow to guide him, he followed a path to the underworld, where he hoped to get wisdom from his dead father. However, he soon discovered that ancestors did not always provide the answers we needed. In his absence, a terrible accident occurred on their farm—Mesala and Ziz were forced to flee. Although their landlords and devotees of religious nation-states are cruel and ruthless, they have no friends and are lonely. They must find a way to survive. Will women revel in their new friendship or seek freedom elsewhere?

Today is Zinnia Gray's 21st birthday. This is a special day because it is her last birthday. When she was young, an industrial accident caused Zinnia to suffer from a rare disease. Little is known about her illness, but for Zinnia, the main fact is that no one can live to be 22 years old. Her best friend plans to make Zin's last birthday special through a complete Sleeping Beauty experience, including a tower and a spinning wheel. But when Zinnia pierced her finger, she found that she was thrown into another world, another sleeping beauty, also eager to escape her fate.

A lady who did not want to be named checked into a hotel in a mysterious area called Subdivision. In addition to a hand-drawn map and vague memories of her painful past, the narrator ventures out to find a new starting point for work, apartment, and life. Accompanied by an exceptionally confident digital assistant, Cylvia, the narrator is taken deeper into an increasingly strange, surreal, and threatening world, and through a series of dark comedy encounters. She showed herself. The love-broken truck driver... the mysterious child... the alert crow. A mysterious birthday party. Confusing physics experiments in abandoned office buildings where some disasters have occurred. Through all this, the narrator is seduced and manipulated by Baker Mono, a demon that can transform and brings obvious and terrible danger.

When a pair of detectives came to Chaney, a rural town in Mississippi, to investigate a series of brutal murders, they encountered resistance from the local sheriff, his deputy, coroner, and a series of racist white townspeople. The murder case presents a mystery because at every crime scene there is a second body: the body of a person similar to Emmet Thiel. Detectives suspected that these were retaliatory killings, but soon discovered that similar murders were taking place across the country. Really strange things are happening. As the corpses piled up, detectives sought answers from a local radical doctor, who had been recording every lynching in the country for many years and uncovering a history of unwillingness to be buried.

The Russian chemist Professor Kalitin is obsessed with developing a poison that is absolutely deadly, undetectable and untraceable, but has no antidote. But Kalitin feels guilty for the countless deaths caused by his Faust contract to create the ultimate venom. When the Soviet Union collapsed, the chemist rebelled and gained a new identity in Western Europe. After another Russian was poisoned by Kalitin, his disguise was exposed and he was involved in the investigation of the death by Western agents. Two special forces killers were sent to shut him up-using poison that he couldn't detect.

After the 2016 election, Samantha Raymond’s life began to fall apart: her mother was sick, her teenage daughter was getting more and more alienated, and the 52-year-old found herself staring at the “middle”-three points The moment of extreme sobriety between three o'clock. At four o'clock in the morning, women of a certain age suddenly found themselves thinking about motherhood, death, and under these circumstances, the state of the country we are disintegrating. When she fell in love with a beautiful dilapidated house in the Syracuse ghetto, she bought it on a whim and escaped from suburban life—and her family—because she was trying to be a wife, a mother, and A daughter, in a divided country.

Eliza Bright dreams of becoming an elite video game programmer at Fancy Dog Games, she is the first woman to reach such a high position-some people want to make sure she is the last. When Eliza’s report of workplace harassment was quickly dismissed, she was forced to tell her grievances to a reporter who trumpeted her story on the Internet. She was fired and searched for human flesh and became a clarion call for women all over the world. But she also angered the beast made up of online male gamers-their unreliable choir told our story. Soon, Eliza became the focus of the gaming community, threatened and stalked because they monitored her every move online and in New York City.

Teenage Eulabee and her charming good friend Maria Fabiola own the streets of Sea Cliff, their foggy San Francisco waterfront community. They know the ins and outs of houses and beaches, hidden corners of sea cliffs and quirky characters—and the fashionable girls’ school they attended. Their lives are unharmed, walking by the sea in the afternoon and staying overnight on weekends. Then everything changed. One morning, Yurabi and Maria Fabiola had a disagreement about what they did or didn't see on their way to school, which led to a split in their friendship. After the rupture is the sudden disappearance of Maria Fabiola-a potential kidnapping shakes the quiet community and may reveal the self-evident truth.

A fictitious examination of the lives of scientists and thinkers in real life, their discoveries have led to moral consequences beyond their imagination. Fritz Haber, Alexander Grothendieck, Werner Heisenberg, Irvin Schrödinger-these are all outstanding people who have entered a difficult life to see how they solve the deepest existing problems. They have unparalleled genius, alienate friends and lovers, fall into isolation and madness. Some of their discoveries have made human life better; others have paved the way for chaos and unimaginable pain. The lines are never clear.

Our narrator, a woman who questioned her place in the world, wavered between stagnation and movement, between the need to belong and the refusal to establish lasting connections. The city she calls home is like a companion and interlocutor: walking through the streets around her home, in parks, squares, museums, shops, and cafes, she feels less lonely. We followed her to the swimming pool she often went to, and the train station leading to her mother, who fell into her own solitude after her husband died young. Appearing on this woman's path are colleagues who make her feel uncomfortable, casual acquaintances, and "he", a shadow that both comforts her and makes her uneasy. Until one day at sea, submerged and replenished by the important heat of the sun, her opinion will suddenly change.

Almost every afternoon, the girl in the purple skirt sits on the same park bench, where local children play games, trying to get her attention. Without her knowing, she was being watched by the woman in the yellow cardigan. The girl in the purple skirt is single, lives in a small apartment, and lacks money—just like the girl in the yellow shirt is lured to be a housekeeper in a hotel, she is also a housekeeper. Soon, the woman in the purple skirt had a relationship with the boss, and everyone's eyes were on her. But no one knows or cares about women in yellow shirts. This is the difference between her and the woman in the purple skirt.

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