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rclayton finished reading The Dogs of Riga by Henning Mankell

The Dogs of Riga by Henning Mankell

Una fría mañana de febrero llega un bote salvavidas a la costa sueca arrastrado por la corriente. Dentro encuentran los …

rclayton finished reading Carbon: The Book of Life by Paul Hawken

Carbon: The Book of Life (Hardcover, 2025, Viking)

Carbon: The Book of Life by Paul Hawken

A little bit about carbon, a lot about how non-Indigenous, non-natural humans have screwed up the world, and something about …

rclayton finished reading Angel in the Marketplace by Ellen Wayland-Smith

Angel in the Marketplace (EBook, 2020, University of Chicago Press)

Angel in the Marketplace by Ellen Wayland-Smith

"Ellen Wayland-Smith's ambitious and revealing book is in one sense a biography of Jean Wade Rindlaub, a major yet little-known …

rclayton finished reading American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld

American Wife (Hardcover, 2008, Random House)

American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld

A kind, bookish only child born in the 1940s, Alice Lindgren has no idea that she will one day end …

rclayton finished reading Neuroplasticity by Moheb Costandi

Neuroplasticity by Moheb Costandi

How nervous systems went from stable networks of congealed wires to seething masses of protean fibers reacting to events.

rclayton finished reading Vera, or Faith by Gary Shteyngart

Vera, or Faith (Paperback, 2025, Random House Large Print)

Vera, or Faith by Gary Shteyngart

An on-the-spectrum child pursues her history while trying to save her disintegrating family in a tightening-up country.

rclayton finished reading All the Devils Are Here by Joe Nocera

All the Devils Are Here (2010, Penguin Books, Limited)

All the Devils Are Here by Joe Nocera, Bethany McLean

How U.S. finance, manufacturing and government showed their entire ass while evolving toward the 2008 global economic crisis.

rclayton finished reading Washington, D.C. by Gore Vidal

Washington, D.C. (Hardcover, 1999, Modern Library)

Washington, D.C. by Gore Vidal

A study of power and change in Washington, D.C. during the middle of the twentieth century.

rclayton finished reading Sex on the Kitchen Table by Norman C. Ellstrand

Sex on the Kitchen Table (Hardcover, University of Chicago Press)

Sex on the Kitchen Table by Norman C. Ellstrand

An introduction to the biological facilities and strategies of plant reproduction using examples drawn from agricultural crops.

rclayton finished reading Memories of the Ford administration by John Updike

Memories of the Ford administration (1993, Penguin)

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A fading historian documents his eclipse in the guise of a remembrance of the Ford …

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