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The Sound of Stars

by Alechia Dow · 2020

Don’t miss this spectacular debut novel… Can a girl who risks her life for books and an alien who loves forbidden pop music work together to save humanity? This road trip is truly out of this world! A beautiful and thrilling… more

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Until I became a librarian, I didn't know I was a rebel.
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Music and books, they transport you. They make you feel in ways you didn’t know you could.
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life’s short, but it’s the longest thing you’ll ever do, so give more than you take and be kind.
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Music, stories, art...they’re a bridge between you and someone else...yeah, but also a bridge between the person you are one moment to the person you are the next.
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Some people were always valued, and some people never were. … We asked for equality and they thought we were asking for more.
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But they don’t know that rebels are made in the worst of circumstances, and even death can’t stop them. Us.
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Cast aside your fear and fight for your future. Fight for freedom.
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The world is a dark place, and bad things happen that we can’t control. People we love can disappoint us, hurt us and finding forgiveness is hard... but music is there. If it disappoints you, all you have to do is change the track.
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The is a dark place, and bad things happen that we can’t control. People we love can disappoint us, hurt us and finding forgiveness is hard... but music is there. If it disappoints you, all you have to do is change the track.
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But freedom might be better than survival.
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I'll do it, every time, if it means a story can change someone's outlook...
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The world still has a chance. What would it do with a second chance? What would I do? The answer surprises me. I’d fight for my own happiness, while fighting for change, too.
Books taught me that anything can happen when you fight for it...
If someone keep stripping away our things, rights, freedoms, then we’LP hold on to what we know.

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Don’t miss this spectacular debut novel… Can a girl who risks her life for books and an alien who loves forbidden pop music work together to save humanity? This road trip is truly out of this world! A beautiful and thrilling read for fans of Marie Lu and Veronica Roth.Two years ago, a misunderstanding between the leaders of Earth and the invading Ilori resulted in the deaths of one-third of the world’s population.Seventeen-year-old Janelle “Ellie” Baker survives in an Ilori-controlled center in New York City. With humans deemed dangerously volatile because of their initial reaction to the invasion, emotional expression can be grounds for execution. Music, art and books are illegal, but Ellie breaks the rules by keeping a secret library. When a book goes missing, Ellie is terrified that the Ilori will track it back to her and kill her.Born in a lab, M0Rr1S was raised to be emotionless. Wh

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First published
2020
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3.72 (5k ratings)

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