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This Is Your Mind on Plants by Michael Pollan

Blackshirts and Reds by Michael Parenti

Blackshirts & Reds explores some of the big issues of our time: fascism, capitalism, communism, revolution, democracy, and ecology—terms often …

Rewiring Democracy by Bruce Schneier, Nathan E. Sanders

Al is changing democracy. We still get to decide how.

In this highly readable and advisedly optimistic book, Rewiring …

Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution by R.F. Kuang

Traduttore, traditore: An act of translation is always an act of betrayal. 1828. Robin Swift, orphaned by cholera in Canton, …

All Systems Red by Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)

"As a heartless killing machine, I was a complete failure."

In a corporate-dominated spacefaring future, planetary missions must be …

The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden

The God of the Woods by Liz Moore

When their thirteen-year-old daughter Barbara goes missing at summer camp, all eyes fall on the Van Laar family.

They're …

Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Joan Goodwin has been obsessed with the stars for as long as she can remember. Thoughtful and reserved, Joan is …

The End of Men by Christina Sweeney-Baird

Yellowface by R.F. Kuang, Rebecca F. Kuang

Authors Juniper Hayward and Athena Liu were supposed to be twin rising stars. But Athena is a literary darling while …

The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley

In the near future, a civil servant is offered the salary of her dreams and is, shortly afterward, told what …

The Maid by Nita Prose (Molly the Maid, #1)

The Girl with All the Gifts by M. R. Carey (The Girl with All the Gifts, #1)

Melanie is a very special girl. Dr. Caldwell calls her "our little genius."

Every morning, Melanie waits in her …

How to Be Perfect by Michael Schur