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Diaspora

by Greg Egan ...

In 2975, the orphan Yatima is grown from a randomly mutated digital mind seed in the conceptory of Konishi polis. Yatima explores the Coalition of Polises, the network of computers where most life in the solar system now resides, and joins a friend, Inoshiro, to borrow an abandoned robot body and meet a thriving community of "fleshers" in the enclave of Atlanta.Twenty-one years later, news arrives ... Read more

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In 2975, the orphan Yatima is grown from a randomly mutated digital mind seed in the conceptory of Konishi polis. Yatima explores the Coalition of Polises, the network of computers where most life in the solar system now resides, and joins a friend, Inoshiro, to borrow an abandoned robot body and meet a thriving community of "fleshers" in the enclave of Atlanta.Twenty-one years later, news arrives
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Manhattan Beach

A Novel

by Jennifer Egan ...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A New York Times Notable Book • Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in FictionFrom the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of A Visit from the Goon Squad comes a sweeping World War II historical novel set in Depression-era New York, where a young woman’s courage transforms her life at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.Named One of the Best Books of the Year by NPR, ... Read more

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A New York Times Notable Book • Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in FictionFrom the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of A Visit from the Goon Squad comes a sweeping World War II historical novel set in Depression-era New York, where a young woman’s courage transforms her life at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.Named One of the Best Books of the Year by NPR,
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A Fever in the Heartland

The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

by Timothy Egan ...

**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A Washington Post Notable Work of Nonfiction • An NPR Best Book of the Year • A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year • A Chicago Review of Books Best Book of the Year • A New York Public Library Best Book of the Year • A Goodreads Choice Awards Finalist"With narrative elan, Egan gives us a riveting saga of how a predatory con man became one of the most powerful people ... Read more

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**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A Washington Post Notable Work of Nonfiction • An NPR Best Book of the Year • A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year • A Chicago Review of Books Best Book of the Year • A New York Public Library Best Book of the Year • A Goodreads Choice Awards Finalist"With narrative elan, Egan gives us a riveting saga of how a predatory con man became one of the most powerful people
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The Worst Hard Time

The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl

by Timothy Egan ...

In a tour de force of historical reportage, Timothy Egan’s National Book Award–winning story of the Dust Bowl rescues an iconic chapter of American history from the shadows.The dust storms that terrorized America’s High Plains during the Great Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since. Following a dozen families and their communities through the rise and fall of the region, Timothy ... Read more

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In a tour de force of historical reportage, Timothy Egan’s National Book Award–winning story of the Dust Bowl rescues an iconic chapter of American history from the shadows.The dust storms that terrorized America’s High Plains during the Great Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since. Following a dozen families and their communities through the rise and fall of the region, Timothy
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A Visit from the Goon Squad

Pulitzer Prize Winner

by Jennifer Egan ...

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE WINNER • With music pulsing on every page, this startling, exhilarating novel of self-destruction and redemption “features characters about whom you come to care deeply as you watch them doing things they shouldn't, acting gloriously, infuriatingly human” (The Chicago Tribune).One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of ... Read more

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PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE WINNER • With music pulsing on every page, this startling, exhilarating novel of self-destruction and redemption “features characters about whom you come to care deeply as you watch them doing things they shouldn't, acting gloriously, infuriatingly human” (The Chicago Tribune).One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of
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Permutation City

by Greg Egan ...

Paul Durham keeps making Copies of himself: software simulations of his own brain and body which can be run in virtual reality, albeit seventeen times more slowly than real time. He wants them to be his guinea pigs for a set of experiments about the nature of artificial intelligence, time, and causality, but they keep changing their mind and baling out on him, shutting themselves down.Maria Deluca ... Read more

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Paul Durham keeps making Copies of himself: software simulations of his own brain and body which can be run in virtual reality, albeit seventeen times more slowly than real time. He wants them to be his guinea pigs for a set of experiments about the nature of artificial intelligence, time, and causality, but they keep changing their mind and baling out on him, shutting themselves down.Maria Deluca
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On Living

by Kerry Egan ...

**"A poetic and philosophical and brave and uplifting meditation on how important it is to make peace and meaning of our lives while we still have them.” *–*Elizabeth Gilbert, bestselling author of Eat Pray Love"Illuminating, unflinching and ultimately inspiring... A book to treasure.” –People Magazine**A hospice chaplain passes on wisdom on giving meaning to life, from those taking leave of it.As ... Read more

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**"A poetic and philosophical and brave and uplifting meditation on how important it is to make peace and meaning of our lives while we still have them.” *–*Elizabeth Gilbert, bestselling author of Eat Pray Love"Illuminating, unflinching and ultimately inspiring... A book to treasure.” –People Magazine**A hospice chaplain passes on wisdom on giving meaning to life, from those taking leave of it.As
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The Death and Life of the Great Lakes

by Dan Egan ...

**New York Times BestsellerWinner of the Los Angeles Times Book PrizeWinner of the J. Anthony Lukas Award"Nimbly splices together history, science, reporting and personal experiences into a taut and cautiously hopeful narrative.… Egan’s book is bursting with life (and yes, death)." —Robert Moor, New York Times Book Review**The Great Lakes—Erie, Huron, Michigan, Ontario, and Superior—hold 20 ... Read more

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**New York Times BestsellerWinner of the Los Angeles Times Book PrizeWinner of the J. Anthony Lukas Award"Nimbly splices together history, science, reporting and personal experiences into a taut and cautiously hopeful narrative.… Egan’s book is bursting with life (and yes, death)." —Robert Moor, New York Times Book Review**The Great Lakes—Erie, Huron, Michigan, Ontario, and Superior—hold 20
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The Big Burn

Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America

by Timothy Egan ...

National Book Award–winner Timothy Egan turns his historian's eye to the largest-ever forest fire in America and offers an epic, cautionary tale for our time.On the afternoon of August 20, 1910, a battering ram of wind moved through the drought-stricken national forests of Washington, Idaho, and Montana, whipping the hundreds of small blazes burning across the forest floor into a roaring inferno ... Read more

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National Book Award–winner Timothy Egan turns his historian's eye to the largest-ever forest fire in America and offers an epic, cautionary tale for our time.On the afternoon of August 20, 1910, a battering ram of wind moved through the drought-stricken national forests of Washington, Idaho, and Montana, whipping the hundreds of small blazes burning across the forest floor into a roaring inferno
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Axiomatic

by Greg Egan ...

Axiomatic is a collection of eighteen short stories:"The Infinite Assassin""The Hundred Light-Year Diary""Eugene""The Caress""Blood Sisters""Axiomatic""The Safe-Deposit Box""Seeing""A Kidnapping""Learning to Be Me""The Moat""The Walk""The Cutie""Into Darkness""Appropriate Love""The Moral Virologist""Closer""Unstable Orbits in the Space of Lies" ... Read more

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Axiomatic is a collection of eighteen short stories:"The Infinite Assassin""The Hundred Light-Year Diary""Eugene""The Caress""Blood Sisters""Axiomatic""The Safe-Deposit Box""Seeing""A Kidnapping""Learning to Be Me""The Moat""The Walk""The Cutie""Into Darkness""Appropriate Love""The Moral Virologist""Closer""Unstable Orbits in the Space of Lies"
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Quarantine

by Greg Egan ...

In 2034, the stars went out. An unknown agency surrounded the solar system with an impenetrable barrier, concealing the universe from humanity's gaze.In 2067, Nick Stavrianos is hired to investigate the disappearance of a mentally disabled woman, Laura Andrews, from the institution where she was being cared for. Aided by a skull full of neural modifications, he follows her trail to the Republic of ... Read more

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In 2034, the stars went out. An unknown agency surrounded the solar system with an impenetrable barrier, concealing the universe from humanity's gaze.In 2067, Nick Stavrianos is hired to investigate the disappearance of a mentally disabled woman, Laura Andrews, from the institution where she was being cared for. Aided by a skull full of neural modifications, he follows her trail to the Republic of
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The Candy House

A Novel

by Jennifer Egan ...

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERONE of the TOP 10 BOOKS OF THE YEAR by THE NEW YORK TIMES * ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY * SLATE* THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER *Also named one of the BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR by Vanity Fair, Time, NPR, The Guardian, Oprah Daily, Self, Vogue, The New Yorker, BBC, Vulture, and many more!OLIVIA WILDE to direct A24's TV adaptation of THE CAN... ... Read more

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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERONE of the TOP 10 BOOKS OF THE YEAR by THE NEW YORK TIMES * ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY * SLATE* THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER *Also named one of the BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR by Vanity Fair, Time, NPR, The Guardian, Oprah Daily, Self, Vogue, The New Yorker, BBC, Vulture, and many more!OLIVIA WILDE to direct A24's TV adaptation of THE CAN...
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