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The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

After the grisly murder of his entire family, a toddler wanders into a graveyard where the ghosts and other supernatural …

Who Owns the Future? by Jaron Lanier

Jaron Lanier is the father of virtual reality and one of the world’s most brilliant thinkers. Who Owns the Future? …

The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon

For sixty years, Jews have prospered in the Federal District of Sitka, a "temporary" safe haven created in the wake …

The End of Everything by Katie Mack

A Short Account of the History of Mathematics by W. W. Rouse Ball

Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama

Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance (1995) is a memoir by Barack Obama that explores the …

Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng (No)

In Shaker Heights, a placid, progressive suburb of Cleveland, everything is planned – from the layout of the winding roads, …

Children of God by Mary Doria Russell, Mary Doria Russell (The Sparrow, #2)

The only member of the original mission to the planet Rakhat to return to Earth, Father Emilio Sandoz has barely …

Pompeii by Robert Harris

When the aqueduct that brings fresh water to thousands of people around the bay of Naples fails, Roman engineer Marius …

Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

Fanny Price is born to a poor family, but is sent to her mother's rich relations to be brought up …

Essays of E. B. White by E.B. White

The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell (The Sparrow, #1)

In 2019, humanity finally finds proof of extraterrestrial life when a listening post in Puerto Rico picks up exquisite singing …

How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi

Ibram X. Kendi's concept of antiracism reenergizes and reshapes the conversation about racial justice in America--but even more fundamentally, points …

The women in black by Madeleine St John

Education of an Idealist by Samantha Power