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ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR An unsettling masterpiece of the imagination, using fictional eyewitness accounts to tell the story of how climate change will impact us all. “The best science-fiction nonfiction novel I’ve ever read.” —Jonathan Lethem, New York Times...

When a Marine officer returned from Afghanistan only to find himself jobless and drowning in debt, he made a desperate decision that would lead him to Southeast Asia where he became the leader of American business in one of the world's most dangerous countries. Finding Our Voice chronicles Adam Castillo's extraordinary journey from unemployed veteran to crisis leadership in Myanmar during a military coup, mass violence, and economic collapse. As diplomats fled, Castillo stayed, dodging bullets while evacuating employees and transforming a dying chamber of commerce into a thriving community.

From legendary science-fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson comes a vision of climate change unlike any ever imagined. Told entirely through fictional eye-witness accounts, The Ministry for the Future is a masterpiece of the imagination, the story of how climate change will affect us all over the decades to come. Its setting is not a desolate, post-apocalyptic world, but a future that is almost upon us - and in which we might just overcome the extraordinary challenges we face.