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21 Lessons for Understanding the 21st Century is a book that examines the great challenges and choices facing humanity in the 21st century.The author begins by emphasizing the importance of clarity in a world flooded with information. He says that everyone can take part in the debate on the future of humanity, but that it is not so easy. Billions of us are too busy surviving to focus on the issues of the future.The author goes on to explain that his...
2) Gallows Hill
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Salem, Massachusetts - 1692
Thomas is marked as an outcast the moment he steps off the ship from England. As a Quaker, he's outnumbered and distrusted by Salem's Puritans. And as an orphan without any useful skills, he has nowhere to live and no way to earn his keep. In a stroke of luck-perhaps good, perhaps not-he's taken in by the aged widow Prudence Blevins, who's rumored to be a witch.
Patience has tried all her life to be a good Puritan-obedient...
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What if your country is involved in an unjust war, and you've lost trust in your own government?
Billie Taylor is no stranger to risky situations, but when she attends a student protest at Columbia University with her college boyfriend, and the US is caught up in violent political upheaval, her mother decides to move the two of them to Canada. Furious at being dragged away from her beloved New York City to live in a backwater called Toronto, Billie...
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When your bestie is marrying a guy she barely knows, can you save her from the cult before it's too late?
Natalie is living proof that love is a scam.
She's traumatised by her parents' failed marriage and overwhelmed by her grandmother's expectations of good Lebanese girls - marriage, motherhood and exceptional tabouli-making skills.
When her best friend decides to get hitched to a guy in the motherland, Nat's not exactly thrilled by the mammoth...
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