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New Spring (The Wheel of Time, #0)

by Robert Jordan

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Unmasking for Life: The Autistic Person's Guide to Connecting, Loving, and Living Authentically

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by Megan Anna Neff

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Book cover for Bookshops & Bonedust (Legends & Lattes, #0)

Bookshops & Bonedust (Legends & Lattes, #0) by Travis Baldree

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“Orcs burn hot. You always want to sleep in an orc’s tent in winter. That’s just a fact.”

Elder Race

by Adrian Tchaikovsky

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The Answer Is No

by Fredrik Backman

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“There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.”
― Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species

tags: evolution, life

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“Will have been! A truly stratospheric verb.”
― John Varley, Demon

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“Such a lexicon of tactics.”
― John Varley, Demon

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“If we long for our planet to be important, there is something we can do about it. We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and by the depth of our answers.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

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