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I Am Malala by Christina Yousafzai Lamb Malala, Malala Yousafzai, Christina Lamb

Talking to My Daughter about the Economy by Yanis Varoufakis

A colorful history of popular delusions by Robert E. Bartholomew

"This eclectic history of unusual crowd behavior describes a rich assortment of mass phenomena ranging from the amusing and quirky …

The Lord of the Rings (The Lord of the Rings, #1-3) by J. R. R. Tolkien

The Fellowship of the Ring is the first of three volumes of the epic novel The Lord of the Rings …

Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson

E-book extras: "Stephensonia/Cryptonomica": ONE: "Cryptonomicon Cypher-FAQ" (Neal addresses "Frequently Anticipated Questions" and other fascinating facts); TWO: "Mother Earth Motherboard" (Neal's …

And the Weak Suffer What They Must? by Yanis Varoufakis

The first circle by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Mother tongue by Bill Bryson

The Living Mountain by Nan Shepherd

The finest book ever written on nature and landscape in Britain: said a newspaper of this when it was first …

The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein

An introduction to "disaster capitalism" argues that the global free market has exploited crises, violence, and shock in the past …

White Noise by Don DeLillo

White Noise is the eighth novel by Don DeLillo, published by Viking Press in 1985. It won the U.S. National …

The Spectator Bird by Wallace Stegner

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach

A hilarious and witty look into the history of using cadavers for science, grave diggers, and options to consider about …

The Stasi Poetry Circle by Philip Oltermann

The extraordinary true story of the Stasi's poetry club: Stasiland and The Lives of Others crossed with Dead Poets Society.

Interview With the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles) by Anne Rice

This is the story of Louis, as told in his own words, of his journey through mortal and immortal life. …