Berthoud Community Library District

Eleven thousand years from now, a lot has happened yet a lot is still very similar. Ariel is a boy in a remote village under a wizard's rule, and he is called to explore a world full of discoveries and challenges. But none of this happens before Ariel encounters an entity from an earlier civilization, a sentient, sensitive artificial intelligence with a special perspective on all of human history - who becomes both Ariel's greatest ally and our narrator....

"Years before the name Alex Murdaugh was splashed across every major media outlet in America, local South Carolina journalist Mandy Matney had an instinct that something wasn’t right in the Lowcountry. The powerful Murdaugh dynasty had dominated rural South Carolina for generations. No one dared to cross them. When Mandy and her reporting partner Liz Farrell looked closer at a fatal boat crash involving the storied family’s teenage son Paul,...