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Hani and Ishu's Guide to Fake Dating

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  Hani and Ishu’s Guide to Fake Dating Hani and Ishu’s Guide to Fake Dating is about two girls Hani and Ishu who start fake dating for their own personal reasons. Humaira, or Hani, recently came out as bisexual to her friends and they think she’s lying. To prove to her friends that she is truly bisexual and not just looking for attention, she lies to them about dating Ishu. Ishita, or Ishu, is trying to become class-president to one-up her older sister, Nik. Nik just strayed from the only path acceptable to their parents of becoming a doctor, to get married and do what she actually wants to in life and Ishu sees this as an opportunity to win her parents approval even more. In order to become president, she has to be well-liked by her peers and in order to do so, she starts dating charismatic, friendly Ishu. Both of them start this “relationship” quite formally at first, because it is all for their own personal gain but as they become more comfortable, they start to really care about

Spy School Project X : What Went Wrong

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Spy School Project X  : What Went Wrong  Cover of Spy School Project X Spy School: Project X , is the 10th installment in the Spy School series by Stuart Gibbs. The plot revolves around Murray Hill, the nemesis of the main character, Ben Ripley, who is a spy-in-training. Murray, seeking revenge against Ripley, starts to post lies about Ben on the internet under the name Agent X, who is known as a mysterious top-level agent at the CIA. Murray accuses Ben of being at the center of a conspiracy, along with a bounty of $20 million on Ben’s head to try and get him killed. And to make things worse, readers online believe these lies that Murray has spread, as crazy as they seem. Additionally, they add on to the lies, constructing even more bizarre situations. Murray only said that Ben was trying to overthrow the government, but other conspiracy theorists have blown the story out of proportion, saying things like he is an alien lizard. Ben has to try to find Murray and get him to clear his nam

A List of Cages

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(Sorry for the blurry book picture) A List of Cages by Robin Roe, is quite frankly, for anyone out there looking for a quick but splendid read. The spotlight is interchanging on two terribly misunderstood main characters, Adam and Julian, who try to navigate their journey of the older-brother to younger-brother dynamic while also being threatened, interrogated, held hostage and at gunpoint. Julian’s parents had died quite early on, and due to his connection to Adam he was able to be adopted by his mom. Unfortunately, Russell, Julian’s uncle and your usual relative-we-all-hate, swoops in and declares that he has the right to take care of Julian through blood, then proceeds to abuse him. As Adam slowly figures out the truth and even more slowly figures out how to deal with it, Russell is getting increasingly more violent as a result of Julian rebelling against him more. These giant stars of violent potential orbit each other, until— crash, boom, bang, sneeze, they hit each other and ex