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Set in the near future, this hopeful story of survival and resilience follows Wanda—a luminous child born out of a devastating hurricane—as she navigates a rapidly changing world: A “symphony of beauty and heartbreak” (Associated Press).A Good Morning America Book Club pick · #1 Indie Next pick · LibraryReads pick · Book of the Month Club selection ·  Marie Claire #ReadWithMC book club selection · 2022 NPR “Book We Love” · New York Times Edito...

From the author of Good Morning, Midnight comes a hopeful, sweeping story of survival and resilience spanning one extraordinary woman's lifetime as she navigates the uncertainty, brutality, and arresting beauty of a rapidly changing world. Florida as we know it is slipping away. As devastating weather patterns and rising sea levels wreak gradual havoc on the state's infrastructure, a powerful hurricane approaches a small town on the southeaste...

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Augustine ha dedicato la sua esistenza allo studio delle stelle. Non ha mai avuto una famiglia, né un vero amore, ha invece sempre avuto il suo telescopio, lassù, in un osservatorio astronomico nell'Artico. Così, quando scatta un allarme e gli altri scienziati vengono richiamati a casa, lui rifiuta di seguirli: è vecchio, non ha nessuno cui tornare, e ha scorte sufficienti per il tempo che gli resta. Poi le comunicazioni con l'esterno si inter...

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What the PCT is to Cheryl Strayed, the open road is to Brooks-Dalton."-Cosmopolitan A powerful memoir about a young woman whose passion for motorcycles leads her down a road all her own.At twenty-one-years-old, Lily Brooks-Dalton is feeling lost, returning to New England after three and a half years traveling overseas, she finds herself unsettled, unattached, and without the drive to move forward. When a friend mentions buying a motorcycle, Br...

Augustine, a brilliant, ageing scientist, is consumed by the stars. For years he has scanned theuniverse, trying to quantify infinity, to look back at the beginning of time itself. When news of a catastrophic event arrives at the remote research centre in the Arctic circle where he works and the researchers are evacuated, he insists on staying behind. But shortly after the last airlift departs, Augustine discovers a mysterious child - Iris. As...

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