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Firebreak by Nicole Kornher-Stace

One young woman faces down an all-powerful corporation in this all-too-near future science fiction debut that reads like a refreshing …

Small Favor by Jim Butcher (The Dresden Files, #10)

The new novel in the New York Times bestselling Dresden Files series.No one's tried to kill Harry Dresden for almost …

Into the wild by Jon Krakauer

In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north …

The art of gathering by Priya Parker

"A bold new approach to how we gather that will transform the ways we spend our time together--at work, at …

The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi

Jamie’s dream was to hit the big time at a New York tech start-up. Jamie’s reality was a humiliating lay-off, …

Jesus and John Wayne by Kristin Kobes Du Mez

A scholar of American Christianity presents a seventy-five-year history of evangelicalism that identifies the forces that have turned Donald Trump …

2034: A Novel of the Next World War by Elliot Ackerman, James Stavridis

A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers (Monk and Robot, #1)

It’s been centuries since the robots of Panga gained self-awareness and laid down their tools; centuries since they wandered, en …

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

I loved Jonah's Gourd Vine -- thought some of her short stories very fine -- and feel that this measures …

Magpie murders by Anthony Horowitz

Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz

The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut

The Sirens of Titan is an outrageous romp through space, time, and morality. The richest, most depraved man on Earth, …

Wielding a Red Sword by Piers Anthony (Incarnations of Immortality #4)

Mym was a dutiful son, but his father the Rajah interfered in his love life once too often. Rather than …

Lock In by John Scalzi (Lock In, #1)

Not too long from today, a new, highly contagious virus makes its way across the globe. Most who get sick …

The idea factory by Jon Gernter

A interesting history of Bell Labs from its rise to its fall. The author traces the innovators and innovations produced …