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"In this romantic comedy, a physics professor--after getting passed over for tenure and having her life completely upended--decides to throw caution to the wind and live by her horoscope predictions for a year"-- Provided by publisher.

"Discovered by Dr. Dahlia Black, the mysterious Pulse was sent by a highly intelligent intergalactic species that called themselves the Ascendants. It soon becomes clear this alien race isn't just interested in communication--they are capable of rewriting human DNA, in an astonishing process they call the Elevation. Five years after the Pulse, acclaimed journalist Keith Thomas sets out to make sense of the event that altered the world. Thomas travels...

"Thomas Hart and Grace Macaulay have lived all their lives in the small Essex town of Aldleigh. Though separated in age by three decades, the pair are kindred spirits--torn between their commitment to religion and their desire to explore the world beyond their small Baptist community. It is two romantic relationships that will rend their friendship, and in the wake of this rupture, Thomas develops an obsession with a vanished nineteenth-century astronomer...

With admission to The Program, an elite interdisciplinary graduate cohort at the forefront of astronomy and technology, Rosa's dreams are finally within reach. Her research into the cosmos follows in the footsteps of her astronomer father's revolutionary work in Bantu geometries and Indigenous astronomies. A bona fide genius, he transformed the scientific landscape by fusing the best of Western and Indigenous scientific thought. Yet since his death...

1962. Professor of astronomy Elizabeth (Ellie) Spencer receives a mysterious package with a novel written by her first love, Jack Bennett. As she reads the novel--about a young man and woman who fall madly in love--she realizes it is their story. But hidden in the tales of the couple star-gazing and stealing kisses is a detail that has her questioning everything. Then her aunt's sudden death sends her on a journey for the truth and the chance to rewrite...