What Kind of Creatures Are We? by Noam Chomsky
★★☆☆☆ Noam Chomsky is a venerated linguist and cognitive scientist, a Professor Emeritus at MIT, and one of the most revered intellectuals alive today. He is the author of more than 100 books in...
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A Clue to the Exit by Edward St. Aubyn
★★☆☆☆ Originally published in 2000 in the United Kingdom, the 2015 US edition of Edward St. Aubyn’s A Clue to the Exit will do little more than sate curious readers. St. Aubyn’s five Patrick...
Nora Bonesteel’s Christmas Past: A Ballad Novella by Sharyn McCrumb
★★★★☆ Sharyn McCrumb may be known best for her “Ballad Novels” set in the mountains of western North Carolina and Eastern Tennessee, and her magnificent St. Dale, a Chaucerian tribute to the late Dale...
The Big Green Tent by Ludmila Ulitskaya
★★★★★ Ludmila Ulitskaya’s The Big Green Tent is an essential new addition to the two-hundred-year-old Russian literary canon and may be the best novel about 20th-century Russia since Boris Pasternak’s 1957 classic Doctor Zhivago....
House of the Rising Sun by James Lee Burke
★★★★★ “There is a house in New Orleans / They call the Rising Sun / And it’s been the ruin of many a poor boy / And, God, I know I’m one.” – The...
The Relic Master by Christopher Buckley
★★★★☆ Dismas, Swiss ex-mercenary turned monk turned connoisseur of holy items, is beholden to two patrons: Frederick the Wise of Saxony, protector of Martin Luther, whose collections of relics is rivaled only by the...
The Living Bird from The Cornell Lab of Ornithology
This year, the Cornell Lab of Ornithology celebrated 100 years of connecting people to birds with this incredible guide to birds of North America. Comprised of more than 250 photos from photographer Gerrit Vyn...
The Evolution of Everything: How New Ideas Emerge by Matt Ridley
★★★☆☆ The Evolution of Everything begins with an intriguing idea – that the conversational use of “evolve” is accurate. Darwin’s evolution, Matt Ridley says, is like the special relativity of evolution, but that the...
Beatlebone by Kevin Barry
★★★☆☆ Imagine. It’s 1978, and John Lennon has left New York, left Yoko Ono and their young son Sean (to whom Lennon has been playing stay-at-home dad), and split for Ireland, “in its drizzle...
