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Enter the GoodReads giveaway for Hard Times by Jeff Boyd. Buddy Mack finds himself caught between two clashing worlds. As an English teacher at a South Side Chicago high school known for its football team but struggling in nearly every other way, he works hard to spark his students' love of literature. Among them, he’s especially focused on three boys who constantly push his limits yet show real potential: Zeke, the star athlete; Truth, the charming talker; and Dontell, the student he believes has the brightest future. At home, his wife, Chrissy, a successful corporate lawyer, wants to move to a larger house on the North Side and start a family, but Buddy feels conflicted about what that change would mean. The only person he feels he can confide in is Chrissy’s younger brother, Curtis, a Chicago cop whose corruption complicates everything even further.
Enter the GoodReads giveaway for The Ship of Theseus by Garry Harper. Just as Pablo pursues perfection in his art, the novel itself will continue to evolve, refine, and reinvent over time. Every few months, a new free update will replace the previous one. Plotlines may shift, characters may appear or disappear, and the structure may be reshaped and experimented with. Each version stands on its own, yet together they form a living work that gradually transforms into something far removed from where it began. Once the book updates, there’s no returning to earlier versions, no archive, and no print edition. If you’re satisfied, you can keep the latest version and consider the story complete. But if you want to see what comes next, you can continue forward. The choice is yours.
Enter the GoodReads giveaway for Dark Current Rising by Ashley Farley. Detective Lane Sutherlin returns to Tidewell, Virginia, not because she wants to, but because her childhood best friend, Addie, has disappeared without a trace. The small waterfront town she once called home now feels heavy with memories and unresolved tension. Her father, once a respected judge, is slipping deeper into dementia, and old conflicts with her brother resurface the moment she arrives. As Lane investigates Addie’s life, she uncovers far more than she expected: an abusive marriage, quiet betrayals, and influential men intent on protecting their own interests. Each clue pulls her deeper into the world of Tidewell’s polished elite and the corruption hidden beneath their perfect surfaces. Before long, Lane realizes Addie may not have been the only one in danger.
Enter the GoodReads giveaway for Uplift by Jessica Mann. When humans threaten her high mountain wilderness, a bold young bird must rally others to work together to protect their shared home. Born in a spruce tree among a proud clan of Clark’s Nutcrackers, Columbina and her brothers spend long winter nights listening to the elders’ ancient stories and summer days gathering the precious pine seeds their survival depends on. But Columbina’s sharp mind and restless curiosity lead her to question the clan’s long‑held traditions. She forms unlikely friendships with birds and animals beyond her own kind and learns about the Tall Ones, dangerous beings from the south who bring destruction wherever they go. While her family refuses to see the truth, Columbina becomes increasingly aware of the growing threat.
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Enter the GoodReads giveaway for Body of Work by E. L. Wilk. In this chilling, critically acclaimed thriller, Wilk blurs the boundaries between medical science, morality, and the human soul. At its core lies a deeply personal question: what does it mean to own a body, and what happens when that body becomes a commodity?
Body of Work is a fast-paced medical thriller set at the crossroads of innovation, exploitation, and humanity. At the center is Olivia, a devoted mother of twins whose sharp mind and generous heart conceal old wounds. Life on her quiet family farm feels worlds away from the high-tech, high-stakes realm of cutting-edge medicine. But everything changes when she crosses paths with Haloderm, a powerful biomedical company claiming to revolutionize surgery, organ preservation, and even long-distance space medicine. Drawn into Haloderm’s orbit, Olivia soon discovers a web of secrets that stretches far beyond her rural life.
Haloderm presents itself as a force for good, developing robotic surgical systems that could save lives across the globe and beyond. Yet behind closed doors, it wages a shadow war against the “ghouls”, profiteers who traffic in human skin and organs. In this world, bodies are currency, and ethics are negotiable.
As Olivia becomes more deeply entangled in Haloderm’s work, the stakes turn personal. Her identities as mother, wife, and survivor collide with forces determined to claim her body, her autonomy, and her family’s future. Back on the farm, surrounded by the rhythms of rural life, she fights to hold onto normalcy while confronting a reality where science and morality no longer align.
At its heart, Body of Work is not only a warning about unchecked innovation but also a story of resilience and love. What do we owe the people we love? How do we protect them when the body itself becomes a battleground? And when corporations and traffickers alike see flesh as profit, who decides what a life is worth?
Blending chilling real-world medical research with speculative possibility, Wilk delivers a story that is both intimate and universal. Olivia’s struggle, set against the stark contrast of a humble farm and the sterile world of biotechnology, becomes a testament to the endurance of love in the face of exploitation. Thrilling, poignant, and profoundly human, Body of Work leaves readers questioning the future of medicine, the cost of progress, and the lengths we go to protect those we love.
Enter the GoodReads giveaway for The Phantom Beast by K.G. Broas. Something is off in Watsonville. The nights feel uneasy, the sky presses in too close, and Jake keeps seeing things that shouldn’t be there. After his best friend survives a fall no one should walk away from, the line between dreaming and waking starts to dissolve, pulling Jake into a hidden world beneath his quiet town. As friendships strain, memories warp, and strange new powers rise, he’s forced to choose between the safety of what he’s always known and the perilous truth of what’s really happening.
Enter the GoodReads giveaway for Mass Mothering by Sarah Bruni. A. is an amateur translator trying to survive alone in a harsh, late‑capitalist city. Still reeling from medical trauma and drowning in debt, she pays her bills by caring for a young boy who isn’t, and never could be, hers. At night, she escapes to the dance floor, searching for fleeting connection, where she meets N., a man as numb as she is and occasionally her companion.
Among N.’s few belongings, A. finds a slim book about a remote town where boys vanish without explanation. Field Notes records the voices of mothers who gather to grieve their missing sons, a collective lament that captivates A. with its raw power, resilience, and shared care. When a near‑assault jolts her out of her drifting life, she travels to the town where Field Notes originated, hoping to find its author and the truth behind his story. Instead, her search uncovers the remnants of a murdered poet, a mysterious woman whose life and legacy will entwine with A.’s in unexpected, transformative ways.
Enter the GoodReads giveaway for Abundance by Ezra Klein. The story of the twenty‑first century so far is a story of rising costs and chronic shortages. Years of underbuilding have produced a nationwide housing crisis. Cuts to immigration have left the country short on workers. Offshoring manufacturing has created a scarcity of essential components like computer chips. And despite decades of warnings about climate change, we still haven’t constructed the clean‑energy infrastructure the moment demands. The crisis we’re facing now has been decades in the making, because we simply haven’t built enough.
Abundance argues that today’s problems aren’t the fault of past villains but the unintended consequences of past solutions. Policies created to address the environmental challenges of the 1970s now block the dense cities and renewable‑energy projects needed to confront the ecological challenges of the 2020s. Laws meant to ensure careful government decision‑making in areas like education and healthcare have instead made it nearly impossible for the government to act decisively at all. Over time, our ability to identify problems has sharpened, even as our capacity to solve them has steadily eroded.
Enter the GoodReads giveaway for This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub. Known for her warmth, wit, and sharp insight, Straub reimagines the classic time‑travel tale as an unexpected love story between a daughter and her father. On the night before her 40th birthday, Alice feels… fine. Her job is decent, her apartment suits her, her independence feels solid, and she treasures her best friend. Still, with her father’s health failing, she can’t shake the sense that something in her life is incomplete.
Then she wakes up in 1996, on her 16th birthday. The shock of being back in her teenage body is nothing compared to seeing her father again, vibrant and full of life in his forties. With this new vantage point on both her past and her present, Alice begins to see old moments in a different light. And as she moves between who she was and who she’s become, she’s forced to consider what, if anything, she would change if given the chance.
