Chris

Chris will read any book for any reason. He's most interested in nonfiction, especially science and recent history. His favorite books tend to be about nature, community, and nonviolence.

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Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life By Lulu Miller Cover Image

Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life (Paperback)

By Lulu Miller
$17.99
ISBN: 9781501160349
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Published: Simon & Schuster - April 6th, 2021

A fantastic search for meaning framed around a complicated historical figure, Why Fish Don't Exist will appeal to anyone who's struggled to look for guidance in a universe that doesn't seem to have any.

Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir By Rebecca Solnit Cover Image

Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir (Paperback)

By Rebecca Solnit
$17.00
ISBN: 9780593083345
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Published: Penguin Books - March 9th, 2021

Recollections of My Nonexistence runs against the idea that one's personal narrative can be cut cleanly away from the rest of the world. This book reflects a way of being that we could all aspire to.

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Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: A novel By Gabrielle Zevin Cover Image

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: A novel (Hardcover)

By Gabrielle Zevin
$28.00
ISBN: 9780593321201
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Published: Knopf - July 5th, 2022

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow is the kind of book that will be studied as classic literature in the future. Gently written, emotionally devastating, and genuinely uplifting, it's a book everyone should read.

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers #1) By Becky Chambers Cover Image

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers #1) (Paperback)

By Becky Chambers
$19.99
ISBN: 9780062444134
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Published: Harper Voyager - July 5th, 2016

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet takes the promise of Star Trek to new limits!

Exhalation By Ted Chiang Cover Image

Exhalation (Paperback)

By Ted Chiang
$18.00
ISBN: 9781101972083
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Published: Vintage - June 30th, 2020
The Tea Dragon Society By K. O'Neill, K. O'Neill (Illustrator) Cover Image

The Tea Dragon Society (Paperback)

By K. O'Neill, K. O'Neill (Illustrator)
$9.99
ISBN: 9781620107379
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Published: Oni Press - June 16th, 2020
Space Struck By Paige Lewis Cover Image

Space Struck (Paperback)

By Paige Lewis
$16.95
ISBN: 9781946448446
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Published: Sarabande Books - October 8th, 2019
MS. MARVEL VOL. 1: NO NORMAL By G. Willow Wilson, Adrian Alphona (Illustrator), Sara Pichelli (Cover design or artwork by) Cover Image

MS. MARVEL VOL. 1: NO NORMAL (Paperback)

By G. Willow Wilson, Adrian Alphona (Illustrator), Sara Pichelli (Cover design or artwork by)
$15.99
ISBN: 9780785190219
Availability: Backordered
Published: Marvel Universe - October 14th, 2014
A Man Called Ove: A Novel By Fredrik Backman Cover Image

A Man Called Ove: A Novel (Paperback)

By Fredrik Backman
$17.99
ISBN: 9781476738024
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Published: Washington Square Press - May 5th, 2015
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity By David Graeber, David Wengrow Cover Image

The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (Hardcover)

By David Graeber, David Wengrow
$35.00
ISBN: 9780374157357
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Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux - November 9th, 2021
Twelve Years a Slave By Solomon Northup Cover Image

Twelve Years a Slave (Hardcover)

By Solomon Northup
$12.49
ISBN: 9781631680083
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Published: Graymalkin Media - April 1st, 2014
Front Desk (Front Desk #1) (Scholastic Gold) By Kelly Yang Cover Image

Front Desk (Front Desk #1) (Scholastic Gold) (Paperback)

By Kelly Yang
$8.99
ISBN: 9781338157826
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Published: Scholastic Press - June 25th, 2019
Orwell's Roses By Rebecca Solnit Cover Image

Orwell's Roses (Paperback)

By Rebecca Solnit
$18.00
ISBN: 9780593083376
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Published: Penguin Books - October 18th, 2022
It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War By Lynsey Addario Cover Image

It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War (Paperback)

By Lynsey Addario
$18.00
ISBN: 9780143128410
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Published: Penguin Books - November 8th, 2016
The Last Cuentista By Donna Barba Higuera Cover Image

The Last Cuentista (Hardcover)

By Donna Barba Higuera
$18.99
ISBN: 9781646140893
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Published: Levine Querido - October 12th, 2021
Elatsoe By Darcie Little Badger, Rovina Cai (Illustrator) Cover Image

Elatsoe (Hardcover)

By Darcie Little Badger, Rovina Cai (Illustrator)
$18.99
ISBN: 9781646140053
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Published: Levine Querido - August 25th, 2020
The Removed: A Novel By Brandon Hobson Cover Image

The Removed: A Novel (Paperback)

By Brandon Hobson
$16.99
ISBN: 9780062997555
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Published: Ecco - October 5th, 2021
The Library Book By Susan Orlean Cover Image

The Library Book (Paperback)

By Susan Orlean
$17.99
ISBN: 9781476740195
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Published: Simon & Schuster - October 1st, 2019
The Sentence: A Novel By Louise Erdrich Cover Image

The Sentence: A Novel (Paperback)

By Louise Erdrich
$19.00
ISBN: 9780062671134
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Published: Harper Perennial - September 6th, 2022
Deadeye Dick: A Novel By Kurt Vonnegut Cover Image

Deadeye Dick: A Novel (Paperback)

By Kurt Vonnegut
$17.00
ISBN: 9780385334174
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Published: Dial Press Trade Paperback - May 11th, 1999
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America By Clint Smith Cover Image

How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America (Paperback)

By Clint Smith
$18.99
ISBN: 9780316492928
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Published: Little, Brown and Company - December 27th, 2022
Detransition, Baby: A Novel By Torrey Peters Cover Image

Detransition, Baby: A Novel (Paperback)

By Torrey Peters
$18.00
ISBN: 9780593133385
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Published: One World - October 5th, 2021
Axiom's End: A Novel (Noumena #1) By Lindsay Ellis Cover Image

Axiom's End: A Novel (Noumena #1) (Paperback)

By Lindsay Ellis
$19.00
ISBN: 9781250798138
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Published: St. Martin's Griffin - August 10th, 2021
Somebody's Daughter: A Memoir By Ashley C. Ford Cover Image

Somebody's Daughter: A Memoir (Paperback)

By Ashley C. Ford
$18.99
ISBN: 9781250203229
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Published: Flatiron Books: An Oprah Book - May 3rd, 2022
Praying with Jane Eyre: Reflections on Reading as a Sacred Practice By Vanessa Zoltan Cover Image

Praying with Jane Eyre: Reflections on Reading as a Sacred Practice (Paperback)

By Vanessa Zoltan
$17.00
ISBN: 9780593538494
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Published: TarcherPerigee - July 5th, 2022
Men Explain Things to Me By Rebecca Solnit Cover Image

Men Explain Things to Me (Paperback)

By Rebecca Solnit
$15.95
ISBN: 9781608464661
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Published: Haymarket Books - September 1st, 2015
Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain By Abby Norman Cover Image

Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain (Hardcover)

By Abby Norman
$27.00
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ISBN: 9781568585819
Published: Bold Type Books - March 6th, 2018
Without You, There Is No Us: Undercover Among the Sons of North Korea's Elite By Suki Kim Cover Image

Without You, There Is No Us: Undercover Among the Sons of North Korea's Elite (Paperback)

By Suki Kim
$17.00
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ISBN: 9780307720665
Published: Crown - October 13th, 2015
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory By David Graeber Cover Image

Bullshit Jobs: A Theory (Paperback)

By David Graeber
$18.99
ISBN: 9781501143335
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Published: Simon & Schuster - May 7th, 2019
Science Fictions: How Fraud, Bias, Negligence, and Hype Undermine the Search for Truth By Stuart Ritchie Cover Image

Science Fictions: How Fraud, Bias, Negligence, and Hype Undermine the Search for Truth (Paperback)

By Stuart Ritchie
$24.99
ISBN: 9781250841865
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Published: Metropolitan Books - December 7th, 2021
Whose Names Are Unknown By Sanora Babb, Lawrence R. Rodgers (Foreword by) Cover Image

Whose Names Are Unknown (Paperback)

By Sanora Babb, Lawrence R. Rodgers (Foreword by)
$21.95
ISBN: 9780806137124
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Published: University of Oklahoma Press - February 1st, 2006
Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism By Safiya Umoja Noble Cover Image

Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism (Paperback)

By Safiya Umoja Noble
$37.80
ISBN: 9781479837243
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Published: New York University Press - February 20th, 2018
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet By John Green Cover Image

The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet (Paperback)

By John Green
$18.00
ISBN: 9780525555247
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Published: Dutton - March 21st, 2023
Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain By David Eagleman Cover Image

Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain (Paperback)

By David Eagleman
$18.00
ISBN: 9780307949691
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Published: Vintage - May 11th, 2021
Bloodchild and Other Stories By Octavia E. Butler, Jesmyn Ward (Introduction by) Cover Image

Bloodchild and Other Stories (Hardcover)

By Octavia E. Butler, Jesmyn Ward (Introduction by)
$22.95
ISBN: 9781644212479
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Published: Seven Stories Press - December 6th, 2022
How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia: A Novel By Mohsin Hamid Cover Image

How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia: A Novel (Paperback)

By Mohsin Hamid
$17.00
ISBN: 9781594632334
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Published: Riverhead Books - March 4th, 2014
Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters By Annie Dillard Cover Image

Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters (Paperback)

By Annie Dillard
$15.99
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ISBN: 9780060915414
Published: Harper Perennial - October 15th, 2013
On Immunity: An Inoculation By Eula Biss Cover Image

On Immunity: An Inoculation (Paperback)

By Eula Biss
$16.00
ISBN: 9781555977207
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Published: Graywolf Press - September 15th, 2015
Wow, No Thank You.: Essays (Lambda Literary Award) By Samantha Irby Cover Image

Wow, No Thank You.: Essays (Lambda Literary Award) (Paperback)

By Samantha Irby
$17.00
ISBN: 9780525563488
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Published: Vintage - March 31st, 2020
Uncanny Valley: A Memoir By Anna Wiener Cover Image

Uncanny Valley: A Memoir (Paperback)

By Anna Wiener
$17.00
ISBN: 9781250785695
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Published: Picador - January 5th, 2021
Blonde Roots By Bernardine Evaristo Cover Image

Blonde Roots (Paperback)

By Bernardine Evaristo
$15.00
ISBN: 9781594484346
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Published: Riverhead Books - January 5th, 2010
Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science By Kim TallBear Cover Image

Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science (Paperback)

By Kim TallBear
$39.20
ISBN: 9780816665860
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Published: Univ Of Minnesota Press - September 1st, 2013
There There By Tommy Orange Cover Image

There There (Paperback)

By Tommy Orange
$17.00
ISBN: 9780525436140
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Published: Vintage - May 7th, 2019
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men By Caroline Criado Perez Cover Image

Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Paperback)

By Caroline Criado Perez
$18.00
ISBN: 9781419735219
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Published: Harry N. Abrams - March 2nd, 2021
A Natural History of Dragons: A Memoir by Lady Trent (The Lady Trent Memoirs #1) By Marie Brennan Cover Image

A Natural History of Dragons: A Memoir by Lady Trent (The Lady Trent Memoirs #1) (Paperback)

By Marie Brennan
$18.99
ISBN: 9780765375070
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Published: Tor Books - February 4th, 2014
The Poet X By Elizabeth Acevedo Cover Image

The Poet X (Paperback)

By Elizabeth Acevedo
$15.99
ISBN: 9780062662811
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Published: Quill Tree Books - April 7th, 2020
Bad Feminist: Essays By Roxane Gay Cover Image

Bad Feminist: Essays (Paperback)

By Roxane Gay
$17.99
ISBN: 9780062282712
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Published: Harper Perennial - August 5th, 2014
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl By Harriet Jacobs Cover Image

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Paperback)

By Harriet Jacobs
$5.00
ISBN: 9780486419312
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This special order item cannot be canceled or returned.
Published: Dover Publications - November 9th, 2001
This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America By Morgan Jerkins Cover Image

This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America (Paperback)

By Morgan Jerkins
$15.99
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ISBN: 9780062666154
Published: Harper Perennial - January 30th, 2018
Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference By Cordelia Fine Cover Image

Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference (Paperback)

By Cordelia Fine
$17.95
ISBN: 9780393340242
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - August 8th, 2011
The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick By Mallory O'Meara Cover Image

The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick (Hardcover)

By Mallory O'Meara
$26.99
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ISBN: 9781335937803
Published: Hanover Square Press - March 5th, 2019
Thanks A Thousand: A Gratitude Journey (TED Books) By A. J. Jacobs Cover Image

Thanks A Thousand: A Gratitude Journey (TED Books) (Hardcover)

By A. J. Jacobs
$16.99
ISBN: 9781501119927
Availability: Backordered
Published: Simon & Schuster/ TED - November 13th, 2018
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World By Tracy Kidder Cover Image

Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World (Paperback)

By Tracy Kidder
$18.00
ISBN: 9780812973013
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Published: Random House Trade Paperbacks - August 31st, 2004
Hag-Seed: William Shakespeare's The Tempest Retold: A Novel (Hogarth Shakespeare) By Margaret Atwood Cover Image

Hag-Seed: William Shakespeare's The Tempest Retold: A Novel (Hogarth Shakespeare) (Paperback)

By Margaret Atwood
$17.00
ISBN: 9780804141314
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Published: Hogarth - May 16th, 2017
Where Am I Now?: True Stories of Girlhood and Accidental Fame By Mara Wilson Cover Image

Where Am I Now?: True Stories of Girlhood and Accidental Fame (Paperback)

By Mara Wilson
$18.00
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ISBN: 9780143128229
Published: Penguin Books - September 13th, 2016
She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity By Carl Zimmer Cover Image

She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity (Paperback)

By Carl Zimmer
$22.00
ISBN: 9781101984611
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Published: Dutton - June 4th, 2019
I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban By Malala Yousafzai, Christina Lamb (With) Cover Image

I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (Paperback)

By Malala Yousafzai, Christina Lamb (With)
$19.99
ISBN: 9780316322423
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Published: Back Bay Books - June 2nd, 2015
A Field Guide to Getting Lost By Rebecca Solnit Cover Image

A Field Guide to Getting Lost (Paperback)

By Rebecca Solnit
$18.00
ISBN: 9780143037248
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Published: Penguin Books - June 27th, 2006
Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That'll Improve and/or Ruin Everything By Kelly Weinersmith, Zach Weinersmith Cover Image

Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That'll Improve and/or Ruin Everything (Paperback)

By Kelly Weinersmith, Zach Weinersmith
$18.00
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ISBN: 9780399563843
Published: Penguin Books - June 4th, 2019
Space Opera (Space Opera, The #1) By Catherynne M. Valente Cover Image

Space Opera (Space Opera, The #1) (Paperback)

By Catherynne M. Valente
$17.99
ISBN: 9781481497503
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Published: Gallery / Saga Press - December 18th, 2018
Regarding the Pain of Others By Susan Sontag Cover Image

Regarding the Pain of Others (Paperback)

By Susan Sontag
$17.00
ISBN: 9780312422196
Availability: Backordered
Published: Picador - February 1st, 2004
A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There By Aldo Leopold, Barbara Kingsolver (Introduction by) Cover Image

A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There (Paperback)

By Aldo Leopold, Barbara Kingsolver (Introduction by)
$17.99
ISBN: 9780197500262
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Published: Oxford University Press, USA - May 1st, 2020
Waiting to Be Heard: A Memoir By Amanda Knox Cover Image

Waiting to Be Heard: A Memoir (Paperback)

By Amanda Knox
$15.99
ISBN: 9780062217219
Availability: Backordered
Published: Harper Paperbacks - June 9th, 2015
Binti By Nnedi Okorafor Cover Image

Binti (Paperback)

By Nnedi Okorafor
$10.99
ISBN: 9780765385253
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Published: Tordotcom - September 22nd, 2015
We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria By Wendy Pearlman Cover Image

We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria (Paperback)

By Wendy Pearlman
$16.99
ISBN: 9780062654441
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Published: Custom House - August 7th, 2018
Bare-Faced Messiah: The True Story of L. Ron Hubbard By Russell Miller Cover Image

Bare-Faced Messiah: The True Story of L. Ron Hubbard (Paperback)

By Russell Miller
$19.95
ISBN: 9781909269361
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Published: Silvertail Books - January 7th, 2016
You Are an Artist: Assignments to Spark Creation By Sarah Urist Green Cover Image

You Are an Artist: Assignments to Spark Creation (Hardcover)

By Sarah Urist Green
$26.00
ISBN: 9780143134091
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Published: Penguin Books - April 14th, 2020
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals By Oliver Burkeman Cover Image

Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals (Paperback)

By Oliver Burkeman
$18.00
ISBN: 9781250849359
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Published: Picador - June 27th, 2023
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Yolk By Mary H. K. Choi Cover Image

Yolk (Paperback)

By Mary H. K. Choi
$12.99
ISBN: 9781534446014
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Published: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers - March 1st, 2022
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A City on Mars: Can we settle space, should we settle space, and have we really thought this through? By Kelly Weinersmith, Zach Weinersmith Cover Image

A City on Mars: Can we settle space, should we settle space, and have we really thought this through? (Hardcover)

By Kelly Weinersmith, Zach Weinersmith
$32.00
ISBN: 9781984881724
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Published: Penguin Press - November 7th, 2023
As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow By Zoulfa Katouh Cover Image

As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow (Hardcover)

By Zoulfa Katouh
$18.99
ISBN: 9780316351379
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Published: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers - September 13th, 2022