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The net delusion The net delusion E. Morozov,Eduardo G. Murillo,Evgeny Morozov In this spirited book, journalist and social commentator Evgeny Morozov shows that by falling for the supposedly democratizing nature of the Internet, Western do-gooders may have missed how it also e… OL15415061W
Mr. Penumbra's 24-hour bookstore Mr. Penumbra's 24-hour bookstore Robin Sloan The Great Recession has shuffled Clay Jannon away from life as a San Francisco web-design drone and into the aisles of Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, but after a few days on the job, Clay discover… OL16585786W
The Innovators The Innovators Walter Isaacson Following his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, The Innovators is Walter Isaacson’s revealing story of the people who created the computer and the Internet. It is destined to be the standard histo… OL17074268W
Between the World and Me Between the World and Me Ta-Nehisi Coates Between the World and Me is a 2015 nonfiction book written by American author Ta-Nehisi Coates and published by Spiegel & Grau. It is written as a letter to the author's teenage son about the feeling… OL17201654W
Sing, Unburied, Sing Sing, Unburied, Sing Jesmyn Ward **A SEARING AND PROFOUND SOUTHERN ODYSSEY BY NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER JESMYN WARD** In Jesmyn Ward's first novel since her National Book Award-winning *Salvage the Bones*, this singular American… OL17826879W
These Truths These Truths Jill Lepore "In the most ambitious one-volume American history in decades, award-winning historian ... Jill Lepore offers a magisterial account of the origins and rise of a divided nation, an urgently needed rec… OL18201116W
Fun Home Fun Home Alison Bechdel A fresh and brilliantly told memoir from a cult favorite comic artist, marked by gothic twists, a family funeral home, sexual angst, and great books. This breakout book by Alison Bechdel is a dark… OL1835957W
The Giver The Giver Lois Lowry At the age of twelve, Jonas, a young boy from a seemingly utopian, futuristic world, is singled out to receive special training from The Giver, who alone holds the memories of the true joys and pain … OL1846076W
Stalin Stalin Stephen Kotkin "A magnificent new biography that revolutionizes our understanding of Stalin and his world. It has the quality of myth: a poor cobbler's son, a seminarian from an oppressed outer province of the Russ… OL19990022W
All About Love All About Love Bell Hooks O que é o amor, afinal? Será esta uma pergunta tão subjetiva, tão opaca? Para bell hooks, quando pulverizamos seu significado, ficamos cada vez mais distantes de entendê-lo. Neste livro, primeiro vol… OL31111W
A Sand County Almanac A Sand County Almanac Aldo Leopold First published in 1949 and praised in The New York Times Book Review as a trenchant book, full of vigor and bite, A Sand County Almanac combines some of the finest nature writing since Thoreau with … OL3528858W
White Teeth White Teeth Ana María de la Fuente Suárez,Zadie Smith,Jenny Sterlin One of the most talked about fictional debuts of recent years, WHITE TEETH is a funny, generous, big-hearted novel, adored by critics and readers alike. Dealing - among many other things - with frien… OL481143W
Cloud Atlas Cloud Atlas David Mitchell From David Mitchell, the Booker Prize nominee, award-winning writer and one of the featured authors in Granta’s “Best of Young British Novelists 2003” issue, comes his highly anticipated third novel,… OL482454W
The Reluctant Fundamentalist (Readers Circle (Center Point)) The Reluctant Fundamentalist (Readers Circle (Center Point)) Mohsin Hamid,Satya Bhabha The novel takes place during the course of a single evening in an outdoor Lahore cafe. OL489097W
A Mercy A Mercy Toni Morrison,Jordi Fibla Feito A powerful tragedy distilled into a jewel of a masterpiece by the Nobel Prize--winning author of Beloved and, almost like a prelude to that story, set two centuries earlier.In the 1680s the slave tra… OL50560W
Making Globalization Work Making Globalization Work Joseph E. Stiglitz [This book] focuses on policies that truly work, offering fresh new thinking about the questions that shape the globalization debate, including a plan to restructure a global financial system made u… OL624781W