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Ecology of the Planted Aquarium: A Practical Manual and Scientific Treatise for the Home Aquarist

Diana Walstad

4.7 on Amazon

4 HN comments

What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures

Malcolm Gladwell and Hachette Audio

4.5 on Amazon

4 HN comments

Reinventing Your Life: The Breakthrough Program to End Negative Behavior and Feel Great Again

Jeffrey E. Young , Janet S. Klosko , et al.

4.6 on Amazon

4 HN comments

Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

Merlin Sheldrake

4.8 on Amazon

4 HN comments

The Conversation: How Seeking and Speaking the Truth About Racism Can Radically Transform Individuals and Organizations

Robert Livingston

4.7 on Amazon

4 HN comments

The Upside of Stress: Why Stress Is Good for You, and How to Get Good at It

Kelly McGonigal

4.6 on Amazon

4 HN comments

Python Data Science Handbook: Essential Tools for Working with Data

Jake VanderPlas

4.6 on Amazon

4 HN comments

The House of the Scorpion

Nancy Farmer

4.6 on Amazon

4 HN comments

Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America

Annie Jacobsen and Hachette Audio

4.7 on Amazon

4 HN comments

Proofs: A Long-Form Mathematics Textbook (The Long-Form Math Textbook Series)

Jay Cummings

4.7 on Amazon

4 HN comments

UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go on the Record

Leslie Kean and John Podesta

4.5 on Amazon

3 HN comments

False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet

Bjorn Lomborg

4.6 on Amazon

3 HN comments

How To Brew: Everything You Need to Know to Brew Great Beer Every Time

John J. Palmer

4.8 on Amazon

3 HN comments

Thinking Mathematically: Integrating Arithmetic & Algebra in Elementary School

Thomas P Carpenter , Megan Loef Franke, et al.

4.7 on Amazon

3 HN comments

Data Science for Business: What You Need to Know about Data Mining and Data-Analytic Thinking

Foster Provost and Tom Fawcett

4.4 on Amazon

3 HN comments

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bschwindHNonJuly 13, 2017

I was reminded of The House of the Scorpion, which seems to have similar themes to Orphan Black.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_House_of_the_Scorpion

FistandantilusonAug 22, 2013

Using clones to extend one's life is a similar theme in the book The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_House_of_the_Scorpion

waterhouseonFeb 26, 2020

The book The House of the Scorpion has, as part of its premise, some ultra-rich drug lords who raise clones for organ replacements. (Seems like the right combination of rich and unscrupulous.) Most of those clones are injected with something to disable their brains at birth, with at least one exception.

DanBConJune 18, 2019

I enjoyed The House of the Scorpion https://www.amazon.co.uk/House-Scorpion-Nancy-Farmer-ebook/d...

You can find award winning books of different genre in the database of award winning children's books: http://www.dawcl.com/

You can browse through winners of the Carnegie Medal here: https://www.carnegiegreenaway.org.uk/archive.php

Weirdly they don't keep the short lists. :-/

EDIT: here are the shortlists for a few years. You can find them easily with google:

https://www.carnegiegreenaway.org.uk/press.php?release=pres_...

https://www.carnegiegreenaway.org.uk/press.php?release=pres_...

https://www.theguardian.com/childrens-books-site/2015/mar/17...

http://booksforkeeps.co.uk/childrens-books/news/2012-cilip-c...

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