Hello and welcome to Books Unbound, the podcast where we Unbind books to get to their hearts with your host, me Raylene, and...

Me. It's Ariel.

What's up?

I just heard, like, the second half of you talking, so it sounded very cool.

You're like, it's Ariel.

Hey.

So this week, we're doing another recommendations episode, and I don't know about you, but I have a lot of books.

I don't.

So maybe that's good, because it's- That is probably for the best. I feel like that's sort of what happened last week. I had way too many books and you just had one and so it evened out. Now we can do it opposite. Exactly. I was just going to say, I feel like this has happened in reverse a few times or you just somehow get like four books per recommendation. And it's like, oh, my God.

But yeah, no, I, some of them were just kind of tricky.

So I was like, you know what, I'm just going to go with a few options.

So, yeah, I mean, without further ado, let's jump right on in

because I have got lots of books to talk about.

So we'll start at the top here.

We got a recommendation request from Kaja and

they say they want a novel where the main character is a foreign-born immigrant currently

living in the US or Canada. Bonus point if they're a young adult and don't have family here.

Wow.

So yeah, I'm really curious to see what you picked for this one.

I mean, I didn't get the bonus points.

I'll say that right off the bat.

I picked two books.

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