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The Cemetery of Untold Stories

Literary icon Julia Alvarez returns with an inventive and emotional novel about storytelling itself that will be an instant classic.

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Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement

In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Angela Y. Davis illuminates the connections between struggles against state violence and oppression throu…

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Looking for the Hidden Folk: How Iceland's Elves Can Save the Earth

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God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

God Is Not Great makes the ultimate case against religion. In a series of acute readings of the major religious texts, Christopher Hitchens demonstrates the ways in which religion is man-made, dangero…

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One of the most dramatic stories of genetic discovery since James Watson's The Double Helix—a work whose scientific and cultural reverberations will be discussed for years to come.

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From the author of the acclaimed The Epigenetics Revolution ('A book that would have had Darwin swooning' - Guardian) comes another thrilling exploration of the cutting edge of human science. For deca…

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The Turn of the Screw is an 1898 horror novella by Henry James that first appeared in serial format in Collier's Weekly magazine (January 27 - April 16, 1898). In October 1898 it appeared in The Two M…

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The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World

Winner of the AAAS/Subaru Prize for Excellence in Science Books!

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Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America

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Although mammals and birds are widely regarded as the smartest creatures on earth, it has lately become clear that a very distant branch of the tree of life has also sprouted higher intelligence: the …

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