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Salt Houses

Hala Alyan · Houghton Mifflin
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

From a dazzling new literary voice, a debut novel about a Palestinian family caught between present and past, between displacement and home On the eve of her daughter Alia's wedding, Salma reads the girl's future in a cup of coffee dregs. She sees an unsettled life for Alia and her children;...
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Aunt Dimity and the Widow's Curse

NANCY ATHERTON · VIKING
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

Nancy Atherton's twenty-second cozy mystery in the beloved, nationally bestselling Aunt Dimity series. It's early April in the small English village of Finch. Lori Shepherd's husband and sons are spending Easter break camping, and Lori is perfectly happy to be left at home with Bess, spared...
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Robert B. Parker's Little White Lies

ACE ATKINS · PUTNAM
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

Boston PI Spenser and right hand Hawk follow a con man's trail of smoke and mirrors in the latest entry of the iconic crime series. After conning everyone from the cable news shows to the local cops, it looks like the grifter's latest double cross may be his last. Connie Kelly thought...
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Beartown: A Novel

FREDRIK BACKMAN · ATRIA BOOKS
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

From the New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove, My Grandmother Asked Me To Tell You She's Sorry, and Britt-Marie Was Here, comes a poignant, charming novel about a forgotten town fractured by scandal, and the amateur hockey team that might just change everything.Winning...
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Proving Ground

Peter Blauner · Minotaur Books
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

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Price of Duty: A Novel

DALE BROWN · WILLIAM MORROW
Pages: 464
Format: Print book

The U.S. and its Western allies come under a diabolical Russian cyber warfare attack in this action-packed military techno-thriller from New York Times bestselling master Dale Brown.In a top-secret location deep in the Ural Mountains, Russian President Gennadiy Gryzlov has built his nation's...
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A Hiss Before Dying: A Mrs. Murphy Mystery

Rita Mae Brown · Bantam
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

Following Tail Gait and Tall Tail, the beloved Mrs. Murphy series continues with this contemporary mystery involving wild animal poaching, set against a historical narrative that takes place in America's post-revolutionary past.
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A Dog's Way Home

W BRUCE CAMERON · FORGE
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

From W. Bruce Cameron, the author of the New York Times and USA Today bestselling novel A Dog's Purpose, which is now a major motion picture!Lucas Ray is shocked when an adorable puppy jumps out of an abandoned building and into his arms. Though the apartment he shares with his mother,...
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Sycamore: A Novel

Bryn Chancellor · Harper
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

"Sycamore is an amazing showcase for Bryn Chancellor's great talent, the way she allows each of the various characters to shine on their own, but connects them with such subtlety that their light forms a constellation that maps out the grief, the regrets, and the strength of an entire...
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New Boy

TRACY CHEVALIER · HOGARTH PR
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

Arriving at his fifth school in as many years, diplomat's son Osei Kokote knows he needs an ally if he is to survive his first day - so he's lucky to hit it off with Dee, the most popular girl in school. But one student can't stand to witness this budding relationship: Ian decides...
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Miss Burma

CHARMAINE CRAIG · GROVE
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

A beautiful and poignant story of one family during the most violent and turbulent years of world history, Miss Burma is a powerful novel of love and war, colonialism and ethnicity, and the ties of blood. Miss Burma tells the story of modern-day Burma through the eyes of Benny and Khin,...
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Dragon Teeth

MICHAEL CRICHTON · HARPERCOLLINS
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

Michael Crichton, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Jurassic Park, returns to the world of paleontology in this recently discovered novel - a thrilling adventure set in the Wild West during the golden age of fossil hunting.The year is 1876. Warring Indian tribes still populate...
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Nighthawk

CLIVE CUSSLER · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 464
Format: Print book

NUMA crew leaders Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala must beat the clock to stop the world's most dazzling new technological advance from becoming mankind's last in this action-packed thriller from the #1 New York Times-bestselling grand master of adventure. When the most advanced aircraft ever...
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Shadow Man: A Novel

Alan Drew · Random House
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

What Dennis Lehane does for Boston, Alan Drew does for Southern California in this gritty thriller about an idyllic community rocked by a serial killer - and a dark secret.Detective Ben Wade has returned to his California hometown of Rancho Santa Elena for a quieter life. Suddenly the town,...
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The Reminders

VAL EMMICH · LITTLE
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

The Rosie Project meets Tell the Wolves I'm Home in this endearing debut about what happens when a girl who can't forget befriends a man who's desperate to remember. Grief-stricken over his partner's death, Gavin Winters sets fire to every physical reminder in the couple's...
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The Dinner Party: Stories

Joshua Ferris · Little Brown and Company
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

The first collection of short stories from the critically acclaimed, prize winning author of To Rise Again at a Decent Hour. Few writers encapsulate the deeply felt yearnings, heartbreaking absurdity, and redemptive humor of life quite like Joshua Ferris. Full of the keenly observed, mordant...
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Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies: The Civil War

DAVID FISHER · HENRY HOLT
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

The newest installment in the New York Times #1 bestselling companion series to the Fox historical docudrama, Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies; The Civil War is a pulse-quickening account of the deadliest war in American historyFrom the birth of the Republican Party to the Confederacy's...
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Mockingbird Songs: My Friendship with Harper Lee

WAYNE FLYNT · HARPERCOLLINS
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

An indelible portrait of one of the most famous and beloved authors in the canon of American literature - a collection of letters between Harper Lee and one of her closest friends that reveals the famously private writer as never before, in her own words.The violent racism of the American...
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Same Beach, Next Year

DOROTHEA BENTON FRANK · WILLIAM MORROW
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

New York Times bestselling author Dorothea Benton Frank returns to her magical Lowcountry of South Carolina in this bewitching story of marriage, love, family, and friendship that is infused with her warm and engaging earthy humor and generous heart.One enchanted summer, two couples begin...
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Al Franken, Giant of the Senate

Al Franken · Twelve
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

From the #1 bestselling author - the story of an award-winning comedian who decided to run for office and then discovered why award-winning comedians tend not to do that. AL FRANKEN, GIANT OF THE SENATE is a book about an unlikely campaign that had an even more improbable ending: the closest...
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The Book of Summer: A Novel

MICHELLE GABLE · ST MARTIN'S Press
Pages: 416
Format: Print book

Physician Bess Codman has returned to her family's Nantucket compound, Cliff House, for the first time in four years. Her great-grandparents built Cliff House almost a century before, but due to erosion, the once-grand home will soon fall into the sea. Though she's purposefully...
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There Your Heart Lies: A Novel

Mary Gordon · Pantheon Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

From the award-winning, much loved writer: a deeply moving novel about an American woman's place during the Spanish Civil War, the lessons she took from it, and how her story will shape her granddaughter's path. Marian cut herself off from her conservative, wealthy Irish Catholic...
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The Chalk Pit

Elly Griffiths · Houghton Mifflin
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

In the ninth Ruth Galloway mystery, Ruth and Nelson investigate a string of murders and disappearances deep within the abandoned tunnels hidden far beneath the streets of Norwich. Norwich is riddled with old chalk-mining tunnels, but no one's sure exactly how many. When Ruth is called...
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Not a Sound

Heather Gudenkauf · Park Row
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

What one woman believes is her greatest weakness becomes her greatest asset in this latest crime chiller from New York Times bestselling author Heather GudenkaufWhen a tragic accident leaves nurse Amelia Winn deaf, she spirals into a depression that ultimately causes her to lose everything...
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Sticks and Bones

Carolyn Haines · Minotaur Books
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

Private investigator Sarah Booth Delaney and her friends are celebrating New Year's Eve at the party of the year, a smashing Winter White Garden party at the newly renovated King Cotton Boutique Hotel. It's a dazzling success ... until Frangelica "Sister" McFee walks through...
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Exit Strategy: A Nick Mason Novel

Steve Hamilton · Putnam
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

In the stunning follow-up to the New York Times bestseller The Second Life of Nick Mason, the remarkable hero fights to take back control from the crime lord who owns his life, as he races to complete a daring and dangerous new mission. . . . Nick Mason has been given a true mission impossible:...
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Into the Water

PAULA HAWKINS · RIVERHEAD BOOKS
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

The author of the #1 New York Times bestseller and global phenomenon The Girl on the Train returns with Into the Water, her addictive new novel of psychological suspense. With the same propulsion that captivated millions of readers around the world in her novel The Girl on the Train,...
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Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine: A Novel

Gail Honeyman · Pamela Dorman Books
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

Smart, warm, uplifting, the story of an out-of-the-ordinary heroine whose deadpan weirdness and unconscious wit make for an irresistible journey as she realizes the only way to survive is to open her heartMeet Eleanor Oliphant: She struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly...
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G-Man

Stephen Hunter · Blue Rider Press
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

From bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner Stephen Hunter, the latest episode in his Swagger familiy saga - replete with Hunter's wicked suspense, vivid gun fights, and historical truths.1934 was a pivotal year in the ongoing battle between the FBI and America's most famous outlaws--it...
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Talking to Animals: How You Can Understand Animals and They Can Understand You

Jon Katz · Atria Books
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

New York Times bestselling author Jon Katz offers us a deeper understanding of the inner and outer lives of animals and teaches us how we can more effectively communicate with them, made real by his own remarkable research and experiences with a wide array of creatures great and small.Eighty...
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Deadmen Walking

SHERRILYN KENYON · TOR
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

#1 New York Times bestselling author Sherrilyn Kenyon debuts a sweeping new epic saga sure to appeal to her millions of fans!Deadmen tell their tales . . . To catch evil, it takes evil. Enter Devyl Bane- an ancient dark warlord returned to the human realm as one of the most notorious...
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Since We Fell

DENNIS LEHANE · ECCO
Pages: 464
Format: Print book

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Woman No. 17: A Novel

EDAN LEPUCKI · HOGARTH
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

A sinister, sexy noir about art, motherhood, and the intensity of female friendships, set in the posh hills above Los Angeles, from the New York Times bestselling author of California High in the Hollywood Hills, writer Lady Daniels has decided to take a break from her husband. She's...
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White Fur: A Novel

Jardine Libaire · Hogarth
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

A stunning star-crossed love story set against the glitz and grit of 1980s New York City When Elise Perez meets Jamey Hyde on a desolate winter afternoon, fate implodes, and neither of their lives will ever be the same. Although they are next-door neighbors in New Haven, they come from...
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The Secret Partner: A Paul Madriani Novel

STEVE MARTINI · WILLIAM MORROW
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

Defending a medical researcher accused of murdering a colleague raises one of the most difficult ethical questions attorney Paul Madriani has ever faced: how far should science go to find a cure for our most life-threatening diseases?When medical researcher Michael Givens is charged with...
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Burntown: A Novel

Jennifer McMahon · Doubleday
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

The New York Times best-selling author of The Winter People and Promise Not to Tell returns with a riveting psychological thriller in which an unresolved murder haunts a family for generations, forcing one daughter into a life of hiding and concealed identity to escape a deadly threat....
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Chasing Space: An Astronaut's Story of Grit, Grace, and Second Chances

LELAND MELVIN · AMISTAD
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

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The Long Drop

Denise Mina · Little Brown and Company
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

A standalone psychological thriller from the acclaimed author of the Alex Morrow novels that exposes the dark hearts of the guilty...and the innocent.The "trial of the century" in 1950's Glasgow is over. Peter Manuel has been found guilty of a string of murders and is waiting...
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The Perfect Stranger

Megan Miranda · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

In the masterful follow-up to the runaway hit All the Missing Girls - a "fiendishly plotted thriller" (Publishers Weekly) - a journalist sets out to find a missing friend, a friend who may never have existed at all.Confronted by a restraining order and the threat of a lawsuit,...
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Men Without Women: Stories

Haruki Murakami · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

A dazzling new collection of short stories--the first major new work of fiction from the beloved, internationally acclaimed, Haruki Murakami since his #1 best-selling Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage. Across seven tales, Haruki Murakami brings his powers of observation...
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The Thirst: A Harry Hole Novel

JO NESBO · ALFRED A KNOPF
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

Harry Hole returns in the eleventh installment of the best-selling, electrifying crime fiction series that includes The Bat, The Snowman, and, most recently, Police.In Police--the last novel featuring Jo Nesbø's hard-bitten, maverick Oslo detective--a killer wreaking revenge on the police...
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Rise and Shine, Benedict Stone

Phaedra Patrick · Park Row Books
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

Phaedra Patrick's debut novel, The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper, was hailed as "poignant" and "utterly endearing." Now she returns with Rise and Shine, Benedict Stone, a gem of a novel about family, forgiveness and one man's second chance at happiness. Moonstone...
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16th Seduction

James Patterson · Little Brown and Company
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

Detective Lindsay Boxer faces a heart-stopping threat in the newest Women's Murder Club thriller.Fifteen months ago, Detective Lindsay Boxer's life was perfect--she had a beautiful child and a doting husband, Joe, who helped her catch a criminal who'd brazenly detonated a bomb in downtown...
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Democracy: Stories from the Long Road to Freedom

Condoleezza Rice · Twelve
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover

From the former Secretary of State and bestselling author - a sweeping, definitive look at the birth, life and struggle of global democracy. From the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union to the ongoing struggle for human rights in the Middle East, Condoleezza Rice has been...
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The Heirs: A Novel

SUSAN RIEGER · CROWN
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

The new novel from the critically-acclaimed author of The Divorce Papers, about a wealthy, pedigreed Manhattan family that comes undone after the death of their patriarch.
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Sidney Chambers and the Persistence of Love

James Runcie · Bloomsbury USA
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

The sixth book in the James Runcie's much-loved series, which has been adapted for Masterpiece's Grantchester starring James Norton, sees full-time priest, part-time detective Sidney Chambers plunged back into sleuthing when he discovers a body in a bluebell wood.It is May 1971...
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Trajectory: Stories

Richard Russo · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

Following the best-selling Everybody's Fool, a new collection of short fiction that demonstrates that Richard Russo--winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Empire Falls--is also a master of this genre. Russo's characters in these four expansive stories bear little similarity to the blue-collar...
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The Light We Lost

Jill Santopolo · G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

He was the first person to inspire her, to move her, to truly understand her. Was he meant to be the last? Lucy is faced with a life-altering choice. But before she can make her decision, she must start her story - their story - at the very beginning. Lucy and Gabe meet as seniors at Columbia...
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The Stars Are Fire: A novel

Anita Shreve · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

From the New York Times best-selling author of The Weight of Water and The Pilot's Wife (an Oprah's Book Club selection) : an exquisitely suspenseful new novel about an extraordinary young woman tested by a catastrophic event and its devastating aftermath--based on the true story of the largest...
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The Best of Adam Sharp

GRAEME SIMSION · ST MARTIN'S Press
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

From the #1 bestselling author of The Rosie Project and The Rosie Effect, an unforgettable new novel about lost love and second chancesOn the cusp of turning fifty, Adam Sharp likes his life. He s happy with his partner, Claire, he s the music expert at trivia night at the pub, he looks...
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Poetry and Power: John F. Kennedy's Vision for America

STEPHEN KENNEDY SMITH · HARPERCOLLINS
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

Published in commemoration of the centennial of President John F. Kennedy's birth, the definitive compendium of JFK's most important and brilliant speeches, accompanied by commentary and reflections by leading American and international figures - including President Barack Obama, Senator...
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Against All Odds: A Novel

Danielle Steel · Delacorte
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

Against All Odds is the wise, moving new novel from Danielle Steel, whose many #1 New York Times bestselling tales have made her one of America's favorite authors.
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Party Girls Die in Pearls: An Oxford Girl Mystery

PLUM SYKES · HARPERCOLLINS
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

The New York Times bestselling author of Bergdorf Blondes takes us back to the decadent 1980s in this comic murder mystery set in the tony world of Oxford University.It's 1985, and at Oxford University, Pimm's, punting, and ball gowns are de rigeur. Ursula Flowerbutton, a studious...
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Mother Land

Paul Theroux · Houghton Mifflin
Pages: 560
Format: Print book

A richly detailed, darkly hilarious novel of a family held together and torn apart by its narcissistic matriarch To those in her Cape Cod town, Mother is an exemplar of piety, frugality, and hard work. To her husband and seven children, she is the selfish, petty tyrant of Mother Land. She excels...
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House of Names: A Novel

Colm Toibin · Scribner
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

From the thrilling imagination of bestselling, award-winning Colm Tóibín comes a retelling of the story of Clytemnestra - spectacularly audacious, violent, vengeful, lustful, and instantly compelling - and her children."I have been acquainted with the smell of death." So begins...
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Beren and Lúthien

J R R TOLKIEN · HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARCOURT
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

The tale of Beren and Lúthien was, or became, an essential element in the evolution of The Silmarillion, the myths and legends of the First Age of the World conceived by J.R.R. Tolkien. Returning from France and the battle of the Somme at the end of 1916, he wrote the tale in the following...
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Testimony

Scott Turow · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover

In the bestselling tradition of Presumed Innocent--the 1987 debut novel that made him "one of the major writers in America" (NPR) --comes what may be Scott Turow's best thriller yet.Bill ten Boom has walked out on everything he thought was important to him: his career, his wife,...
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Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON · W W NORTON
Pages: 144
Format: Print book

The essential universe, from our most celebrated and beloved astrophysicist.What is the nature of space and time? How do we fit within the universe? How does the universe fit within us? There's no better guide through these mindexpanding questions than acclaimed astrophysicist and best-selling...
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