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She Walked Out of Prison into a Desert. What Happens Next Will Stay With You. (opens the original)
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Axandra Woolencroft has just served seven years in Esmeralda Women’s Penitentiary, an AI-run desert prison in what used to be the Phoenix suburbs. The Colorado River no longer reaches this far south. The golf courses shut down years ago. The suburb is ruins. The prison is staffed by three humans and a fleet of robots named Mary who roll meals to cell doors three times a day and record every calorie consumed.On her last night, Ax skips dessert to avoid the sedative mixed into the sugar. She wants
You Are Not Bad at Economics. Nobody Ever Explained It Properly. (opens the original)
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In the autumn of 2008, Dr Nikki Finlay and her husband were paying three mortgages simultaneously.They were upside down on two of them. Their 401(k)s had just lost half their value when the stock market crashed in October. They were paying university fees for two sons at Georgia Tech and Georgia Southern. They had planned a twenty-fifth anniversary trip to Hawaii and quietly replaced it with a short Caribbean cruise instead.Nikki was also, at the time, a university economics lecturer. She knew,
Read This Book Before Anyone Else: ARC Readers Wanted for a Book Every Horse Person Needs Right Now (opens the original)
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Here is something most people do not know about their favourite books.Before the book existed in its published form, a small group of readers got to read it first. They were not reviewers for newspapers or literary journals. They were ordinary readers, people who cared about the subject, who agreed to read an advance copy and share their honest thoughts on Amazon or Goodreads around publication day.They are called ARC readers. ARC stands for Advance Review Copy. And being one is genuinely one of
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