Spaceport Earth: The Reinvention of Spaceflight
By: Joe Pappalardo
3.45
Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition
"For anyone obsessed with how spaceflight grew into what it is today, this book is a must-have." —P…
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1. Harbour Street (Vera Stanhope, #6)
By: Ann Cleeves
4.15
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Harbour Street is the sixth book in Ann Cleeves' crime novel series VERA - which is a major TV dete… read more
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"He was never very good at talking about feelings. He'd been on his own for so long that it was as if he'd had to learn a new language"-Ann Cleeves, Harbour Street (Vera Stanhope, #6)
2. The Caves of Steel (Robot, #1)
By: Isaac Asimov
4.19
Format: 206 pages, Mass Market Paperback
A millennium into the future two advancements have altered the course of human history: the coloni… read more
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"The troubles of modern life come from being divorced from nature."-Isaac Asimov, The Caves of Steel (Robot, #1)
"It symbolizes neither one nor the other, but a mixture of the two without priority"-Isaac Asimov, The Caves of Steel (Robot, #1)
"The first problem of living is to minimize friction with the crowds that surround you on all sides."-Isaac Asimov, The Caves of Steel (Robot, #1)
"Estamos constantemente al borde de lo incognoscible, e intentando entender lo que no puede ser entendido. Eso es lo que nos hambre hombres."-Isaac Asimov, The Caves of Steel (Robot, #1)
3. July 1914: Countdown to War
By: Sean McMeekin
3.68
Format: 205 pages, Hardcover
When a Serbian-backed assassin gunned down Archduke Franz Ferdinand in late June 1914, the world se… read more
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- nonfiction
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4. White Nights (Shetland Island, #2)
By: Ann Cleeves
3.76
Format: 6 pages,
The electrifying follow up to the award-winningRaven Black Raven Blackreceived crime fiction's high… read more
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5. Super Mario: How Nintendo Conquered America
By: Jeff Ryan
4.50
Format: 182 pages,
The story of Nintendo's rise and the beloved icon who made it possible. Nintendo has continually s… read more
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- nonfiction
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6. First Over There: The Attack on Cantigny, America's First Battle of World War I
By: Matthew J. Davenport
4.48
Format: 192 pages,
The riveting true story of America's first modern military battle, its first military victory durin… read more
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7. A Message to Garcia
By: Elbert Hubbard
4.13
Format: 334 pages,
This famous motivational magazine article became an international phenomenon in the early 20th Cent… read more
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8. The City and the Stars
By: Arthur C. Clarke
4.08
Format: 255 pages, Paperback
Clarke's masterful evocation of the far future of humanity, considered his finest novel. Men had… read more
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- space
"When the reality was depressing, men tried to console themselves with myth."-Arthur C. Clarke, The City and the Stars
"He was still prepared to go on collecting all that life could offer, like a chambered nautilus patiently adding new cells to its slowly expanding spiral."-Arthur C. Clarke, The City and the Stars
"Long ago the signalling had become no more than a meaningless ritual, now maintained by an animal which had forgotten to learn and a robot which had never known to forget."-Arthur C. Clarke, The City and the Stars
"Does it not seem strange to you, began Yarlan Zey, that though the skies are open to us, we have tried to bury ourselves in the Earth? It is the beginning of the sickness whose ending you have seen i…"-Arthur C. Clarke, The City and the Stars
9. James Moriarty, Consulting Criminal
By: Andy Weir
3.56
Format: 256 pages,
His razor-sharp intellect, uncanny powers of deduction, and knowledge of the criminal underground a… read more
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10. What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
By: Randall Munroe
4.14
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
Randall Munroe left NASA in 2005 to start up his hugely popular site XKCD 'a web comic of romance, … read more
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"A darkened Sun would liberate us from the parsnip threat."-Randall Munroe, What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
"So Yoda sounds like our best bet as an energy source. But with world electricity consumption pushing 2 terawatts, it would take a hundred million Yodas to meet our demands. All things considered, swi…"-Randall Munroe, What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
"But what about gender and sexual orientation? And culture? And language? We could keep using demographics to try to narrow things down further, but we would be drifting away from the idea of a random…"-Randall Munroe, What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
11. The Cyberiad
By: Stanisław Lem , Michael Kandel , Daniel Mróz
4.14
Format: None pages, Paperback
A brilliantly funny collection of stories for the next age, from the celebrated author of Solaris. … read more
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12. A Higher Call: An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-Torn Skies of World War II
By: Larry Alexander , Adam Makos
4.36
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
Four days before Christmas 1943, a badly damaged American bomber struggled to fly over wartime Germ… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"You fight by rules to keep your humanity"-Larry Alexander, A Higher Call: An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-Torn Skies of World War II
13. Making It So
By: Patrick Stewart
4.33
Format: 469 pages, Hardcover
The long-awaited memoir from iconic, beloved actor and living legend Sir Patrick Stewart! From h… read more
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- history
14. Damascus Station (Damascus Station #1)
By: David McCloskey
4.21
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
CIA case officer Sam Joseph is dispatched to Paris to recruit Syrian Palace official Mariam Haddad.… read more
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15. What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (What If?, #2)
By: Randall Munroe
4.37
Format: 354 pages, Hardcover
The #1 New York Times–bestselling author of What If? and How To provides his best answers yet to th… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- science
16. A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
By: Kelly Weinersmith
4.06
Format: 448 pages, ebook
Earth is not well. The promise of starting life anew somewhere far, far away—no climate change, no … read more
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- science
- history
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- space
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"For now, if leaving Earth is humanity leaving the cradle, well, humanity is going straight to its neighbor's basement."-Kelly Weinersmith, A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
"The Moon isn't just sort of a gray Sahara without air. Its surface is made of jagged, electrically charged microscopic glass and stone, which clings to pressure suits and landing vehicles. Nor is Mar…"-Kelly Weinersmith, A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
17. Diddly Squat: A Year on the Farm (Diddly Squat, #1)
By: Jeremy Clarkson
4.15
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Welcome to Jeremy's farm. It's an idyllic spot, offering picturesque views across the Cotswolds, bu… read more
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18. Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
By: Michael Lewis
3.80
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the #1 best-selling author of The Big Short and Flash Boys, the story of FTX’s spectacular col… read more
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19. Critical Mass (Delta-v, #2)
By: Daniel Suarez
4.19
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
In New York Times bestselling author Daniel Suarez's latest space-tech thriller, a group of pioneer… read more
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- space
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">> "is this cup half empty or half full, Mr. Tighe?" << "It's completely full if you include the air" —James Tighe"-Daniel Suarez, Critical Mass (Delta-v, #2)
20. Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement from Cubits to Quantum Constants
By: James Vincent
3.86
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
From the cubit to the kilogram, the humble inch to the speed of light, measurement is a powerful to… read more
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21. Travel by Bullet (The Dispatcher, #3)
By: John Scalzi
4.02
Format: 3 pages, Audible Audio
The Audible and New York Times best-selling "Dispatcher" series returns with a brand-new mystery, p… read more
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22. Only Say Good Things: Surviving Playboy and Finding Myself
By: Crystal Hefner
3.73
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A raw and unflinching look at the objectification and misogyny of the Playboy mansion, a woman’s st… read more
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23. Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
By: Adam Higginbotham
4.60
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
The definitive, dramatic, minute-by-minute story of the Challenger disaster based on new archival r… read more
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"When asked what he was thinking about when preparing for launch abroad his Mercury-Redstone rocket, Alan Shepard, the first American in space, had infamously replied, "The fact that every part of thi…"-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
"At the foot of the ladder, he [Gene Cernan Apollo 17] delivered the short speech he had memorized for the occasion. "Is like to just say what I believe history will record: That America's challenge o…"-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
24. The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
By: Walter Isaacson
4.29
Format: 536 pages, Hardcover
When Jennifer Doudna was in sixth grade, she came home one day to find that her dad had left a pape… read more
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"The beauty of nature and the joy that comes from unstructured human engagement is a powerful combination."-Walter Isaacson, The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
"Does empathy depend on believing that but for the grace of God, or the randomness of the natural lottery, we could have been born with a different set of endowments?"-Walter Isaacson, The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
"She felt at home in the lab. It was a quiet temple for individual persistence and contemplation. She could be creative and independent as she pursued a path toward her own discoveries."-Walter Isaacson, The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
25. The Marriage Pact
By: Michelle Richmond
3.60
Format: 423 pages, Kindle Edition
Newlyweds Alice and Jake are a picture-perfect couple. Alice, once a singer in a well-known rock ba… read more
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"The longer something remains a priority, he said, the more it becomes second nature, hardwired in our minds and actions."-Michelle Richmond, The Marriage Pact
"I hate chitchat, small talk, getting to know people in that fake way that guarantees you'll know less about them at the end of the conversation than you did at the beginning."-Michelle Richmond, The Marriage Pact
"I expected marriage to be a door that we went through. Like a new house, you step into it, expecting it to be an unchanging space to inhabit. But, of course, I was wrong. Marriage is a living, changi…"-Michelle Richmond, The Marriage Pact
"I've thought far more about marriage in recent months than I ever did before. What is the marriage contract? The general assumption we have about marriage is that it involves two people building a li…"-Michelle Richmond, The Marriage Pact
26. Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative
By: Jennifer Burns
4.26
Format: 592 pages, Hardcover
The first full biography of America's most renowned economist. Milton Friedman was, alongside J… read more
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27. The Western Front: A History of the Great War, 1914-1918
By: Nick Lloyd
4.30
Format: 640 pages, Hardcover
A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARA TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR'A tour de force of scholarship, analysi… read more
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28. When the Heavens Went on Sale: The Misfits and Geniuses Racing to Put Space Within Reach
By: Ashlee Vance
4.26
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
An Instant New York Times Bestseller A momentous look at the private companies building a revolu… read more
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29. The Exponential Age: How Accelerating Technology is Transforming Business, Politics and Society
By: Azeem Azhar
4.00
Format: 403 pages, Kindle Edition
*2021 Financial Times Best Book of the Year* A bold exploration and call-to-arms over the wideni… read more
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30. Spaceport Earth: The Reinvention of Spaceflight
By: Joe Pappalardo
3.45
Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition
"For anyone obsessed with how spaceflight grew into what it is today, this book is a must-have." —P… read more
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31. American Covenant: How the Constitution Unified Our Nation―and Could Again
By: Yuval Levin
4.31
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A top conservative scholar reveals the Constitution’s remarkable power to repair our broken civic c… read more
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