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1491 by Charles C. Mann Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu Can You Forgive Her? by Anthony Trollope Feed by M.T. Anderson The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope Phineas Finn by Anthony Trollope Refuge by Terry Tempest Williams The Art of Travel by Alain de Botton The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson A Storm of Swords by George R.R. Martin Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
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Orbital by Samantha Harvey
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This thing that harbours we humans who polish the ever-larger lenses of our telescopes that tell us how ever-smaller we are. And we stand there gaping. And in time we come to see that not only are we on the sidelines of the universe but ...more
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