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Milk!: a 10,000-year food fracas by Mark Kurlansky

According to the Greek creation myth, we are so much spilt milk; a splatter of the goddess Hera's breast milk …

The Library Book by Susan Orlean

On the morning of April 28, 1986, a fire alarm sounded in the Los Angeles Public Library. The fire was …

His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik (Temeraire, #1)

His Majesty's Dragon, published in the UK as Temeraire, is the first novel in the Temeraire alternate history/fantasy series by …

Saturn's Children (Freyaverse #1) by Charles Stross

Sometime in the twenty-third century, humanity went extinct—leaving only androids behind. Freya Nakamichi 47 is a femmebot, one of the …

Agency by William Gibson, BA, William F. Gibson

Future of Another Timeline by Annalee Newitz (duplicate), Annalee Newitz

Mudlark: In Search of London's Past Along the River Thames by Lara Maiklem

Rule of the Bone by Russell Banks

This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone

Two time-traveling agents from warring futures, working their way through the past, begin to exchange letters—and fall in love in …

The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins

After she and a dozen other children found them being raised by "Father," a cruel man with mysterious powers, Carolyn …

Blackfish City by Sam J. Miller, Sam J. Miller

A mysterious woman arrives in the floating Arctic city of Qaanaaq, in a future where rising seas have caused dramatic …

Cocaine Blues (Phryne Fisher Mysteries) by Kerry Greenwood (Phryne Fisher Mysteries, #1)

Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World by Mark Miodownik

Abaddon's Gate by James S.A. Corey

Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey (The Expanse, #1)

Humanity has colonized the solar system—Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt and beyond—but the stars are still out of our …