Rendezvous with Rama -- Arthur C. Clarke, Paperback House & Home this brilliant reference offers clear

this brilliant reference offers clear explanations of every character and locale

Evelyn sets out to save Dorothy from her terrible circumstances

Sittenfeld's stories peel back layer after layer of our inner lives

but this is still my favorite

Rendezvous with Rama -- Arthur C. Clarke, Paperback House & Home this brilliant reference offers clearAstronauts explore an alien spacecraft hurtling toward the sun in this Hugo and Nebula Award winning novel "a stone cold classic" of hard sci fi (The Guardian). An enormous cylindrical object has entered Earth's solar system on a collision course with the sun. A team of astronauts are sent to explore the mysterious craft, which the denizens of the solar system name Rama. What they find is astonishing evidence of a civilization far more advanced than