"Eve Mann arrives in Ideal, Georgia, in 1972 looking for answers about the mother who died giving her life. A mother named Mercy. A mother who for all of Eve’s twenty-two years has been a mystery and a quest. Eve’s search for her mother, and the father she never knew, is a mission to discover her identity, her name, her people, and her home. Eve’s questions and longing launch a multigenerational story that sprawls back to the turn of the twentieth...

Imagine our cinematic world — let alone a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away — without Harrison Ford. We wouldn’t have Han Solo, Indiana Jones, Rick Deckard, Jack Ryan (twice), President James Marshall, and a host of other indelible characters, all imbued with Ford’s effortless ability to transform himself into a heightened form of everyman. Away from the screen, Ford is a father, a husband, a pilot, and an environmental crusader,

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After the environment collapses, humanity lives in a sealed, luxury shopping mall a thousand miles across. It might seem like a paradise, but the Executives, Mallworld's greedy oligarchs, subjugate the people through overwork, overconsumption, and bloody spectacles. In this book that explores political theory through a fictional dystopian world, Mallworld, Incorporated tries to answer the question: "How can we build a better world when society shapes...

Math is perfect; people are not. The year is 2100 and the chaos of the early Internet era is long behind us. Mathematical proof ensures that neural implants can't be hacked, and the Board of Reality Overseers blocks false information from spreading. When undergraduate Sergei Kraev, who dreams of becoming a professor, is accepted into a prestigious graduate program in computer science, he is thrilled, and throws himself into his assigned research project-one...