Project Hail Mary, Andy WeirA lone astronaut. An impossible mission. An ally he never imagined. Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last chance mission and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish. Except that right now, he doesn't know that. He can't even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it. All he knows is that he's been asleep for a very, very long time. And he's just been awakened to find himself

some of whom you knew

“A truly remarkable book

She is in unspecified trouble and needs his help

Before the man he's never met smiles down at him and says

EDUCATED is an account of the struggle for self-invention

”―from the Foreword by Stephen R

a motivational speaker and the first quadruple amputee to reach the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro without the aid of prosthetics—thanks to his “no excuses” attitude

charming tales

children everywhere sit a series of mysterious tests

A woman in a uniform is in the hallway

Clay comes home for Christmas vacation from his Eastern college and re-enters a landscape of limitless privilege and absolute moral entropy

These well-known and loved lines begin Dickens's most exciting novle