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A Novel
by Edward O. Wilson
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by Dan Fagin
Published Apr 2015
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by Mary Roach
Published Apr 2014
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by Barbara Kingsolver
Published Jun 2013
Read ReviewsFlight Behavior takes on one of the most contentious subjects of our time: climate change. With a deft and versatile empathy Kingsolver dissects the motives that drive denial and belief in a precarious world.
by Russell Banks
Published Jul 2012
Read ReviewsLost Memory of Skin is a provocative novel of spiritual and moral redemption from Russell Banks.
by Ian McEwan
Published Mar 2011
Read ReviewsMichael Beard is a Nobel prizewinning physicist whose best work is behind him, and whose fifth marriage is crumbling. However, an invitation to travel to New Mexico offers him a chance for him to extricate himself from his marital problems, reinvigorate his career, and save the world from environmental disaster. Can a man who has made a mess ...
by Barbara Kingsolver
Published Oct 2001
Read ReviewsWeaves together three stories of human love within a larger tapestry of lives inhabiting the forested mountains and struggling small farms of southern Appalachia.
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