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<p text-align:="" justify;""="">Klara And The Sun</p>

<p text-align:="" justify;""="">NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • Once in a great while, a book comes along that changes our view of the world. This magnificent novel from the Nobel laureate and author of Never Let Me Go is “an intriguing take on how artificial intelligence might play a role in our futures ... a poignant meditation on love and loneliness” (The Associated Press). • A GOOD MORNING AMERICA Book Club Pick!</p>

<p text-align:="" justify;""="">“What stays with you in ‘Klara and the Sun’ is the haunting narrative voice—a genuinely innocent, egoless perspective on the strange behavior of humans obsessed and wounded by power, status and fear.” —Booker Prize committee</p>

<p text-align:="" justify;""="">Here is the story of Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, who, from her place in the store, watches carefully the behavior of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass on the street outside. She remains hopeful that a customer will soon choose her. Klara and the Sun is a thrilling book that offers a look at our changing world through the eyes of an unforgettable narrator, and one that explores the fundamental question: what does it mean to love?</p>

<p>THE ORIGINAL TEXT 'Shoot all the Bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a Mockingbird.' Atticus Finch gives this advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of this classic novel - a black man charged with attacking a white girl. Through the eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Lee explores the issues of race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s with compassion and humour. She also creates one of the great heroes of literature in their father, whose lone struggle for justice pricks the conscience of a town steeped in prejudice and hypocrisy.</p>

<p>National Bestseller</p>

<p>Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography</p>

<p>A&nbsp;New York Times&nbsp;Notable Book</p>

<p>Winner of the American Association for the Advancement of Science/Subaru&nbsp;Science Books &amp; Film&nbsp;Prize for Excellence in Science Books</p>

<p>Finalist for the&nbsp;PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award</p>

<p>One of the Best Books of the Year:&nbsp;The Washington Post, TIME.com, NPR,&nbsp;Slate,&nbsp;Entertainment Weekly,&nbsp;Newsday,&nbsp;Minneapolis Star Tribune, Kirkus Reviews

Geobiologist Hope Jahren has spent her life studying trees, flowers, seeds, and soil.&nbsp;Lab Girl&nbsp;is her revelatory treatise on plant life--but it is also a celebration of the lifelong curiosity, humility, and passion that drive every scientist. In these pages, Hope takes us back to her Minnesota childhood, where she spent hours in unfettered play in her father's college laboratory. She tells us how she found a sanctuary in science, learning to perform lab work "with both the heart and the hands." She introduces us to Bill, her brilliant, eccentric lab manager. And she extends the mantle of&nbsp;scientist&nbsp;to each one of her readers, inviting us to join her in observing and protecting our environment. Warm, luminous, compulsively readable,</p>