The Resisters
By: Gish Jen
3.59
Format: 322 pages, Kindle Edition
The moving story of one family struggling to maintain their humanity in circumstances that threaten…
Want to Read $ 13.99"...even if we returned to the dirt and the wind and the rain like the plants and the animals, we had a bigness in us. Something beyond algorithms and beyond Upgrades-- something we were proud to call human. Or so it seemed to me."-Gish Jen, The Resisters
"...even if we returned to the dirt and the wind and the rain like the plants and the animals, we had a bigness in us. Something beyond algorithms and beyond Upgrades-- something we were proud to call human. Or so it seemed to me."-Gish Jen, The Resisters
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1. The View From Flyover Country: Essays by Sarah Kendzior
By: Sarah Kendzior
4.11
Format: 165 pages, Kindle Edition
In this collection of essays, St. Louis journalist Sarah Kendzior tackles issues including labor ex… read more
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"Gentrifiers focus on aesthetics, not people. Because people, to them, are aesthetics."-Sarah Kendzior, The View From Flyover Country: Essays by Sarah Kendzior
"In one of the wealthiest countries in the world, privation should not come with the job description, and survival should not be an aspiration."-Sarah Kendzior, The View From Flyover Country: Essays by Sarah Kendzior
"Americans should not fear riots. They should fear apathy. They should fear acquiescence. They should not fear each other. But it is understandable, now, that they do."-Sarah Kendzior, The View From Flyover Country: Essays by Sarah Kendzior
"People not only fall through the cracks, they live in the cracks as a full-time occupation. The view from the cracks is a lot clearer than the view from above. When you look down on people, they stop…"-Sarah Kendzior, The View From Flyover Country: Essays by Sarah Kendzior
2. The Birds of Opulence
By: Crystal Wilkinson
3.70
Format: 168 pages, Hardcover
From the critically acclaimed, award-winning author of Blackberries, Blackberriesand Water Streetco… read more
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3. Underground Airlines
By: Ben H. Winters
3.63
Format: None pages, Paperback
A young black man calling himself Victor has struck a bargain with federal law enforcement, working… read more
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- science fiction
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4. Stone Junction
By: Thomas Pynchon , Jim Dodge
3.77
Format: None pages, Paperback
Introitus lapidis, que arranca con el derechazo propinado en la mandibula a una monja, es una odise… read more
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5. Ammonite
By: Nicola Griffith
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Change or die. These are the only options available on the planet Jeep. Centuries earlier, a deadly… read more
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6. Future Home of the Living God
By: Louise Erdrich
3.60
Format: 269 pages, Hardcover
Louise Erdrich paints a startling portrait of a young woman fighting for her life and her unborn ch… read more
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"She has decided to appear to nobody but the feckless."-Louise Erdrich, Future Home of the Living God
"I’d been a snowflake. Without my specialness, I melted,"-Louise Erdrich, Future Home of the Living God
"Where will you be my darling, the last time it snows on earth?"-Louise Erdrich, Future Home of the Living God
"I want to see the story. More than anything, I am frustrated by the fact that I’ll never know how things turn out."-Louise Erdrich, Future Home of the Living God
7. Your Heart Is a Muscle the Size of a Fist
By: Sunil Yapa
4.58
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The Flamethrowers meets Let the Great World Spin in this debut novel set amid the heated conflict o… read more
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8. 3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool
By: James Kaplan
4.35
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the definitive biography of Frank Sinatra, the story of how jazz arrived at the … read more
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9. The Bezzle (Martin Hench #2)
By: Cory Doctorow
4.13
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestseller Cory Doctorow's The Bezzle is a high stakes thriller where the lives of t… read more
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10. I Cheerfully Refuse
By: Leif Enger
4.03
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Set in a not-too-distant America, I Cheerfully Refuse is the tale of Rainy, an aspiring musician se… read more
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"Those thieves and lovers and wandering poets- what big lives they had! I began watching everyone I met for secret greatness."-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse
"I think the sea has no in-between: you get either rage and wayward lightning and schizoid frenzy or such freehanded beauty that time contract or turns in on itself leaving you forgetful and no more n…"-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse
"One shelf became two. Then a wall. Then eight-foot rolling racks from a shut library in Hayward, Wisconsin. Maudie suggested changing the shop name to reflect its inventory. Bread and Books. Loaves a…"-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse
"Much as I wanted to think of Lark in someplace better, I knew from a thousand conversations that she never worried abut that place. Maybe it was real and full of saints and poets, or maybe it was poe…"-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse
11. Some New Kind of Kick: A Memoir
By: Kid Congo Powers
4.29
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
An intimate, coming-of-age memoir by legendary guitarist Kid Congo Powers, detailing his experience… read more
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12. The Body Scout
By: Lincoln Michel
3.63
Format: 291 pages, Kindle Edition
Kobo has some problems. His cybernetics are a decade out of date, he's got a pair of twin sister lo… read more
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- baseball
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"...People had been predicting the death of the city for years. Would that finally drive all the people out of this sinking island? I imagined office buildings filled with screeches instead of confere…"-Lincoln Michel, The Body Scout
13. A Beginning at the End
By: Mike Chen
3.51
Format: 394 pages, Hardcover
How do you start over after the end of the world? Six years after a global pandemic wiped out mo… read more
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"See, relations are people with the same blood. But family, that's different. Family is about who gives you hope, who gets involved. And earns the right for forgiveness. Or at least starts down the pa…"-Mike Chen, A Beginning at the End
"As a community, we still emphasized the importance of familial ties but finally understood that the definition of family wasn't about blood or even who or what you'd lost. It was about what gave you …"-Mike Chen, A Beginning at the End
14. The Third Hotel
By: Laura van den Berg
3.22
Format: 212 pages, Hardcover
In Havana, Cuba, a widow tries to come to terms with her husband’s death―and the truth about their … read more
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"She did not know how to grieve in the context of her life."-Laura van den Berg, The Third Hotel
"What exactly were the rights of the dying? Were they really so boundless?"-Laura van den Berg, The Third Hotel
"It was brutal, the mortality contract. It came for everyone and no one was prepared."-Laura van den Berg, The Third Hotel
"There were three sides to a marriage: public and private and who-fucking-knows, one lived and one performed and one a thundering mystery."-Laura van den Berg, The Third Hotel
15. Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science
By: Benjamin Breen
3.90
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A bold and brilliant revisionist take on the history of psychedelics in the twentieth century, ill… read more
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16. The Ten Percent Thief
By: Lavanya Lakshminarayan
3.81
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A bold, bitingly satirical near-future mosaic novel about a city run along 'meritocratic' lines, th… read more
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17. The Resisters
By: Gish Jen
3.59
Format: 322 pages, Kindle Edition
The moving story of one family struggling to maintain their humanity in circumstances that threaten… read more
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"...even if we returned to the dirt and the wind and the rain like the plants and the animals, we had a bigness in us. Something beyond algorithms and beyond Upgrades-- something we were proud to call…"-Gish Jen, The Resisters
18. Universal Love
By: Alexander Weinstein
4.00
Format: 225 pages, Hardcover
A hypnotic collection of speculative fiction about compassion, love, and human resilience in the te… read more
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19. Likes
By: Sarah Shun-lien Bynum
3.63
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A New York Public Library Best Book for Adults (2020) A Buzz Book of Fall at Publishers Lunch A … read more
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20. The Last Cruise
By: Kate Christensen
3.27
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A riveting high-seas adventure that combines Christensen’s signature wit, irony, and humanity to cr… read more
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21. Zero Bomb
By: M.T. Hill
3.11
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
The near future. Following the death of his daughter Martha, Remi flees the north of England for Lo… read more
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