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Wicked





Years before Dorothy and her dog crash-land, another little girl makes her presence known in Oz. This girl, Elphaba, is born with emerald-green skinā€”no easy burden in a land as mean and poor as Oz, where superstition and magic are not strong enough to explain or overcome the natural disasters of flood and famine. But Elphaba's Oz is no utopia. Get Wicked on Libby. 



Nickel Boys





A Pulitzer prize winning novel. When Elwood Curtis, a black boy growing up in 1960s Tallahassee, is unfairly sentenced to a juvenile reformatory called the Nickel Academy, he finds himself trapped in a grotesque chamber of horrors. Elwoodā€™s only salvation is his friendship with fellow ā€œdelinquentā€ Turner, which deepens despite Turnerā€™s conviction that Elwood is hopelessly naive, that the world is crooked, and that the only way to survive is to scheme and avoid trouble. Get Nickel Boys on Libby. 



Dune





The Dune Saga begins on the desert planet Arrakis with the story of the boy Paul Atreidesā€”who would become known as Muadā€™Dibā€”and of a great familyā€™s ambition to bring to fruition humankindā€™s most ancient and unattainable dream....Get the Dune Trilogy on Libby. 



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