![]() “This is the story about the brilliant tech entrepreneur Tony Shieh, best known as the CEO of, who sold his first company to Microsoft at the age of 24 and later embarked on using his riches to revitalize a portion of downtown Las Vegas. Who knew the help she found would be so helpful? Vektal is part of a dying race, there are too few females and too many males, as chief, this.” Katlin She volunteers to go find some sort of help. ![]() Vicious and visceral, Georgie becomes the leader of the other kidnapped girls when the ship crashes on an unknown planet. “This is absolutely the most fun I've had reading a romance in years! Ice Planet Barbarians flings you into the action as twenty two year old Georgie is kidnapped by aliens on a slave ship. If you like books that make you think about hard things, that shake up your complacency, preorder this one. Chain-Gang All Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah is a novel, but I found myself checking again and again to see what was factual and what was fiction, and much of the commentary on the prison system is based on fact. “Sometimes I read a book so profound, and yet so profoundly disturbing, that I don’t know whether to beg everyone to read it or caution them not to. In the past six months, I have left two novels of more than 500 pages unfinished, but I read this one to the very end.” Mamie ![]() Verghese draws, as he did in the other two books, on his vast knowledge of medicine, and exhibits his ability to delve deep into character and setting. Abraham Verghese has written a spellbinding novel set in a Christian community in India. “Seven decades (in book time!) and more than 700 pages later, I closed The Covenant of Water, the story of a family haunted by drownings. Nearly 2.913 billion fewer birds than in the early 1970s - not here to fly, chirp, gobble up insects, pollinate, reproduce, fill their vital role in nature's cycle. ![]() I closed the book and gazed out at my backyard bird feeder. Reading this brief, unflinching analysis in A Wing and a Prayer by Anders and Beverly Gyllenhaal stopped me cold. “One-third of the number of birds alive 50 years ago in North America are gone. “Poignant, relatable and perfectly scary.
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