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Brown’s world-building is on point, creating a Mars that feels objectively bleak and lived in, and very much a believable potential future.

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Charles Dickens’ motivations for writing the novella were deeply personal, profoundly empathetic, and undeniably practical.

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Constables were given power to examine the contents of ovens and to confiscate dishes deemed festive…

The Zombie Survival Guide is a comprehensive, tongue-in-cheek manual.

The stakes are high and the action is non-stop in this story—before you know it you’ll be a hundred pages in!

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