The Universe Within
: Discovering the Common History of Rocks, Planets, and People
by Neil Shubin
Hardcover: Jan 2013
Paperback: Oct 2013
From one of our finest and most popular science writers comes the answer to a scientific mystery as big as the world itself: How are the events that formed our solar system billions of years ago embedded inside each of us?
A collection of moving stories about family, culture, and the seduction of memory. The tales of journeys and returns, of error, of loss and recovery, all resound with Divakaruni's unique understanding of the human spirit.
A novel of unsentimental charm, humor, and profound insight into the thoughts and feelings we all bury deep within our hearts, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry introduces Rachel Joyce as a wise - and utterly irresistible - storyteller.
The Unnamed
: A Novel
by Joshua Ferris
Hardcover: Jan 2010
Paperback: Sep 2010
What drives a man to stay in a marriage, in a job? What forces him away? Is love or conscience enough to overcome the darker, stronger urges of the natural world? The Unnamed is a deeply felt, luminous novel about modern life, ancient yearnings, and ...
The Unsettled
: A Novel
by Ayana Mathis
Hardcover: Sep 2023
Paperback: Jun 2024
From the best-selling author of The Twelve Tribes of Hattie, a searing multi-generational novel—set in the 1980s in racially and politically turbulent Philadelphia and in the tiny town of Bonaparte, Alabama—about a mother fighting for her...
The Unwanted
by Kien Nguyen
Hardcover: Mar 2001
Paperback: Apr 2002
The biography of an Amerasian child in Vietnam after the fall of Saigon. A wonderful book - highly recommended. "He writes with a voice of innocence that takes us into the heart and spirit of one person's undeserved and tragic childhood." USA ...
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