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Under the volcano by Malcolm Lowry
4 stars
It is the Day of the Dead. The fiesta in full swing. In the shadow of Popocatepeti ragged children beg …
Harry says: Harry's choice.
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Code Breaker by Walter Isaacson
4 stars
A scientific biography of Jennifer Doudna, a founder and co-developer of the CRISPR gene-editing mechanism, and an examination of what …
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3 stars
A lay community of thoroughly mixed-up people is encamped outside Imber Abbey, home of an enclosed order of nuns. A …
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The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel A. Van Der Kolk
4 stars
Trauma is a fact of life. Veterans and their families deal with the painful aftermath of combat; one in five …
Harry says: Carmen's choice.
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The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson
3 stars
The Ministry for the Future is a climate fiction ("cli-fi)" novel by American science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson published …
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What We Owe the Future by William MacAskill
4 stars
An Oxford philosopher makes the case for “longtermism” — that positively influencing the long-term future is a key moral priority …
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The Immortal King Rao by Vauhini Vara
4 stars
In an Indian village in the 1950s, a precocious child is born into a family of Dalit coconut farmers. King …
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5 stars
An epic account of the decades-long battle to control what has emerged as the world’s most critical resource—microchip technology—with the …
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A Gentleman in Moscow: A Novel by Amor Towles
4 stars
When, in 1922, thirty-year-old Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, he is sentenced to …
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Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
4 stars
Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled from polite society following an …
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