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Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)

It is the world of the near future, and Offred is a Handmaid in the home of the Commander and …

Company Town by Madeline Ashby

"New Arcadia is a city-sized oil rig off the coast of the Canadian Maritimes, now owned by one very wealthy, …

Utopia or Bust: A Guide to the Present Crisis by Benjamin Kunkel

After the financial crash and the great recession, the media rediscovered Karl Marx, socialist theory, and the very idea that …

Bento's Sketchbook by John Berger

The Lives of Things by José Saramago

The Lives of Things is a short story collection by Portuguese novelist and Nobel-prize winner Jose Saramago. It was originally …

The celestial omnibus and other stories by Edward Morgan Forster

A small collection of short stories;
The Story of a Panic, The Other Side of the Hedge, The Celestial Omnibus, …

The Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon

Moon's extraordinary, Nebula Award-winning novel is the story of an autistic man who is offered the chance to be "cured" …

[CD] Thinking, Fast and Slow By Kahneman, Daniel by Daniel Kahneman

Kahneman introduces two modes of thought - system 1, fast and intuitive, and system 2, slow and reasoned - and …

The Other Wind (The Earthsea Cycle, Book 6) by Ursula K. Le Guin (Earthsea Cycle (6))

The Other Wind is a fantasy novel by the American author Ursula K. Le Guin, published by Harcourt in 2001. …

Tales from Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin (Earthsea Cycle, #5)

Tehanu by Ursula K. Le Guin

In this final episode of "The Earthsea Cycle", the widowed Tenar finds and nurses her aging friend, Sparrowhawk, a magician …

The Farthest Shore by Ursula K. Le Guin, Françoise Maillet, Michel Lee Landa (Earthsea Cycle, #3)

Book Three of Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea Cycle. Darkness threatens to overtake Earthsea: the world and its wizards are …

The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le Guin (Earthsea Cycle, #2)

The Tombs of Atuan is a fantasy novel by the American author Ursula K. Le Guin, first published in the …