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If the oceans were ink by Carla Power

The Last Kings of Shanghai: The Rival Jewish Dynasties That Helped Create Modern China by Jonathan Kaufman

Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

House of Islam by Ed Husain

ATTENTION by Joshua Cohen

The Gene by Dennis Boutsikaris, Siddhartha Mukherjee

Spanning the globe and several centuries, The Gene is the story of the quest to decipher the master-code that makes …

Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

From the author of Gods of Jade and Shadow comes this reimagining of the classic gothic suspense novel, a story …

Essentialism by Greg McKeown

Discusses a systematic discipline for discerning what is absolutely essential, then eliminating everything that is not, so you can make …

American primitive : poems by Mary Oliver

Hold Me Tight by Sue Johnson

Around the World in 80 Words by Paul Anthony Jones

The 99% Invisible City by Roman Mars, Kurt Kohlstedt

99% Invisible is a big-ideas podcast about small-seeming things, revealing stories baked into the buildings we inhabit, the streets we …

克拉拉与太阳 by Kazuo Ishiguro, 宋佥

克拉拉是一个专为陪伴儿童而设计的太阳能人工智能机器人（AF），具有极高的观察、推理与共情能力。她坐在商店展示橱窗里，注视着街头路人以及前来浏览橱窗的孩子们的一举一动。她始终期待着很快就会有人挑中她，不过，当这种永久改变境遇的可能性出现时，克拉拉却被提醒不要过分相信人类的诺言。

在《克拉拉与太阳》这部作品中，石黑一雄通过一位令人难忘的叙述者的视角，观察千变万化的现代社会，探索了一个根本性的问题：究竟什么是爱？

At Home by Bill Bryson

“Houses aren’t refuges from history. They are where history ends up.”

Bill Bryson and his family live in a …

Silent spring by Rachel Carson

This account of the effects of pesticides on the environment launched the environmental movement in America.