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Justice by Michael J. Sandel

Michael Sandel offers a searching, lyrical exploration of the meaning of justice that considers familiar controversies such as affirmative action, …

Inferno by Dan Brown

In his international blockbusters The Da Vinci Code, Angels & Demons, and The Lost Symbol, Dan Brown masterfully fused history, …

Banking on It by Anne Boden

After a lengthy career at the top of some of Britain's leading banks Anne Boden had become disillusioned with the …

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

Narrated by Death, Markus Zusak's groundbreaking new novel is the story of Liesel Meminger, a young foster girl living outside …

Working in Public by Nadia Eghbal

An inside look at modern open source software development and its influence on our online social world.

Open source …

Children of Time (Children of Time, #1)

A race for survival among the stars... Humanity's last survivors escaped earth's ruins to find a new home. But when …

Permanent record by Edward Snowden, Esther Cruz Santaella

Edward Snowden, the man who risked everything to expose the US government’s system of mass surveillance, reveals for the first …

The Universe in a Nutshell by Stephen Hawking

Uncanny Valley by Anna Wiener

The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster

For Milo, everything’s a bore. When a tollbooth mysteriously appears in his room, he drives through only because he’s got …

Enemies of the People? by Joshua Rozenberg

Trade-off by Kevin Maney

Steal like an artist by Austin Kleon

When asked to talk to students at Broome Community College in upstate New York in the spring of 2011, Austin …

Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

While en route from Syria to Paris, in the middle of a freezing winter's night, the Orient Express is stopped …