Evolution's Workshop: God & Science on the Galápagos Islands
By: Edward J. Larson
3.70
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
More than any other place on Earth, the Galapagos Islands are the workshop of evolution. Isolated a…
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1. The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time
By: Jonathan Weiner
4.23
Format: 166 pages, Paperback
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize Winner of the Los Angeles TimesBook Prize On a desert island in the he… read more
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2. Death at La Fenice (Commissario Brunetti, #1)
By: Donna Leon
3.44
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
There is little violent crime in Venice, a serenely beautiful floating city of mystery and magic, h… read more
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3. The Sellout
By: Paul Beatty
4.17
Format: None pages, Hardcover
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4. Children of Time
By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
3.82
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A race for survival among the stars... Humanity's last survivors escaped earth's ruins to find a ne… read more
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5. The Galápagos: A Natural History
By: Henry Nicholls
4.33
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Charles Darwin called it "a little world within itself." Sailors referred to it as "Las Encantadas"… read more
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6. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
By: Salman Rushdie
4.10
Format: 209 pages, Hardcover
From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply pers… read more
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"Waiting is thinking, and to think deeply is, very often, to change one’s mind."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"I don’t usually think of my books as prophecies. I’ve had some trouble with prophets in my life, and I’m not applying for the job."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
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"An intimacy of strangers. That's a phrase I've sometimes used to express the joyful thing that happens in the act of reading, that happy union of the interior lives of author and reader."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
7. French Braid
By: Anne Tyler
3.64
Format: 244 pages, Hardcover
From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning author--a funny, joyful, brilliantly perceptive journey dee… read more
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8. Poverty, by America
By: Matthew Desmond
4.27
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
Reimagining the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in Ameri… read more
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"To live and strive in modern America is to participate in a series of morally fraught systems. If a family’s entire financial livelihood depends on the value of its home, it’s not hard to understand …"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
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9. Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
By: James Nestor
4.15
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
No matter what you eat, how much you exercise, how skinny or young or wise you are, none of it matt… read more
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10. Solito
By: Javier Zamora
4.48
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A young poet tells the story of his harrowing migration from El Salvador to the United States at th… read more
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11. Evolution's Workshop: God & Science on the Galápagos Islands
By: Edward J. Larson
3.70
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
More than any other place on Earth, the Galapagos Islands are the workshop of evolution. Isolated a… read more
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