Colors: The Story of Dyes and Pigments
By: François Delamare
4.03
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
From the painted caves at Lascaux, 40,000 years old, to the medieval cloth industry to today's comp…
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3.86
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Eight stories--longer and more emotionally complex than any Lahiri has yet written--that take us fr… read more
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2. Mauve: How One Man Invented a Color That Changed the World
By: Simon Garfield
4.25
Format: 159 pages, Paperback
In 1856 eighteen-year-old English chemist William Perkin accidentally discovered a way to mass-prod… read more
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3. Keep Moving: And Other Truths About Living Well Longer
By: Dick Van Dyke
3.79
Format: 223 pages,
Beloved Hollywood icon Dick Van Dyke will celebrate his 90th birthday in December 2015. He's an est… read more
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4. Where the Deer and the Antelope Play: The Pastoral Observations of One Ignorant American Who Loves to Walk Outside
By: Nick Offerman
3.71
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A humorous and rousing set of literal and figurative sojourns as well as a mission statement about … read more
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"...when you make art with confidence, then clumsiness doesn't play as clumsiness, but panache."-Nick Offerman, Where the Deer and the Antelope Play: The Pastoral Observations of One Ignorant American Who Loves to Walk Outside
"Break up your cycle. Get out of your rut. Find a way in your normal setting to "feel alive." One thing I'll do is get up early and see the sunrise from my yard, or for some bonus points, from my roof…"-Nick Offerman, Where the Deer and the Antelope Play: The Pastoral Observations of One Ignorant American Who Loves to Walk Outside
5. The Librarianist
By: Patrick deWitt
3.41
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling and award-winning author Patrick deWitt comes the story of Bob Comet, a man who ha… read more
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6. Contact
By: Carl Sagan
4.15
Format: 375 pages, Kindle Edition
Pulitzer Prize-winning author and astronomer Carl Sagan imagines the greatest adventure of all—the … read more
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"Our God Is Alive and Well. Sorry About Yours."-Carl Sagan, Contact
"Black holes collect problems faster than they collect matter."-Carl Sagan, Contact
"Why should God be so clear in the Bible and so obscure in the world?"-Carl Sagan, Contact
"For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love."-Carl Sagan, Contact
7. SPY×FAMILY 2
By: Tatsuya Endo
4.54
Format: 194 pages, Paperback
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8. Table for Two
By: Amor Towles
4.26
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of The Lincoln Highway, A Gentleman in Moscow, and Rules of Civility, a… read more
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"And though she couldn’t remember the exact reference and whether it was from mythology or the Bible, she knew instinctively as they approached the pier’s limit she mustn’t look back."-Amor Towles, Table for Two
"It is a funny aspect of life, thought Charlie, how a group of grown people can convince themselves to do something that none of them really want to do. They start by talking an idea into existence. O…"-Amor Towles, Table for Two
9. The Fraud
By: Zadie Smith
3.30
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
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"What possesses people? Unhappiness, always. Happiness is otherwise occupied. It has an object on which to focus. It has daisies, it has snowdrifts. Unhappiness opens up the void, which then requires …"-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
"I know this country well. Well enough to understand that justice takes time, and that the freedoms of a minority are rarely self-evident to the majority. What is perfectly selfevident to God is – unf…"-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
"God preserve me from novel-writing, thought Mrs Touchet. God preserve me from that tragic indulgence, that useless vanity, that blindness! In a cold dormitory, two hundred miles away, three heartbrok…"-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
10. Ten Steps to Nanette
By: Hannah Gadsby
4.47
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Multi-awardwinning Hannah Gadsby transformed comedy with her show Nanette, even as she declared tha… read more
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"Nanette is basically Eat Pray Love for autistic queer folk."-Hannah Gadsby, Ten Steps to Nanette
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11. In Ascension
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3.79
Format: 496 pages, Paperback
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"I questioned what else I had already missed so far, in my own life, simply through the limits of my character."-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension
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"I kind of love it. It's so macabre. The reason we haven't seen or heard from anything off-world is that reaching off-world status is a civilisational death knell. Life either gets stuck there or dest…"-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension
"The air was thick with teeming life, just as the oceans and the rivers were. A spoonful of seawater or a pinch of soil between your fingers held billions of living things. We were blind to this out o…"-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension
12. The Bandit Queens
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3.93
Format: 342 pages, Hardcover
Geeta's no-good husband disappeared five years ago. She didn't kill him, but everyone thinks she di… read more
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4.16
Format: 354 pages, Hardcover
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14. Colors: The Story of Dyes and Pigments
By: François Delamare
4.03
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
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