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Mercury
The first and fastest planet! Mercury is the planet closest to the Sun. It is a rocky body with a thin atmosphere and no moons. Due to the practically non-existent atmosphere, Mercury is also heavily cratered. Mercury's orbit is the most eccentric out of all the planets, meaning its orbit is the most least like a circle. A year on Mercury is 88 Earth days, but a single day on Mercury is 116 Earth days! The Sun's gravity latches on to small little Mercury and makes the days super long. Sometimes Mercury goes into retrograde, an optical illusion that makes the planet appear that it's moving backwards in its orbit. This is just cased by the fact that both Earth and Mercury are both moving, and at different speeds.

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The Wild Robot by Peter Brown

The Wild Robot

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Peter Brown

4 hours, 23 minutes • audio • 2016

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Die Ladenhüterin

Sayaka Murata

145 pages • paperback • 2016

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Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk

Fight Club

Chuck Palahniuk

218 pages • paperback • 1996

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The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

The Importance of Being Earnest

Oscar Wilde

67 pages • paperback • 1895

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Peter Darling by Austin Chant

Peter Darling

Austin Chant

204 pages • paperback • 2017

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Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells

Rogue Protocol

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Martha Wells

150 pages • digital • 2018

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The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century by Olga Ravn

The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century

Olga Ravn

136 pages • paperback • 2018

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We Had to Remove This Post by Hanna Bervoets

We Had to Remove This Post

Hanna Bervoets

144 pages • hardcover • 2021

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The Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante

The Days of Abandonment

Elena Ferrante

188 pages • paperback • 2002

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Amal Unbound by Aisha Saeed

Amal Unbound

Aisha Saeed

240 pages • hardcover • 2018

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