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	MADMAN: Love. War. Retail. by Nick Raven (Goodreads Author), A.L. Kessler (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Definity it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Man Eats Elephant: Or The Couch-To-Marathon Journey That Changed My Poor, Fat, Nerdy Life it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Abundance

by Ezra Klein

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Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future

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1984

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Outside of the horror genre, where author Erik Larson dabbled with DEVIL IN THE WHITE CITY, few pitches seem quite as terrifying as the story of an American ambassador stationed in Nazi Berlin in the years leading up to the German invasion of Poland. ...more
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Like millions of elder millennials, Patrick Stewart materialized in my life fully-formed as 24th century starship captain Jean-Luc Picard. In this role, we not only fell in love with a non-Kirkian vision of Star Trek leadership, but perhaps our first ...more
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“The Fading Colony”, the first of a pitched trilogy of books from new author Glen Watson, begs the question: how do you write a novel without understanding the inherent art of it? Reading more like a leadened transcription of an adventure than an enj ...more
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