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Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
38 ratingsA gargantuan, mind-altering tragi-comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America... -
Jules Verne: Seven Novels (Extraordinary Voyages, #1 & 3 & 4 & 6 & 7 & 11 & 12) by Jules Verne
14 ratingsWriting in France in the nineteenth century, Jules Verne was fascinated by adventure and exploration. Collecting:Five Weeks in a Balloon,Around the World in Eighty Days,A Journey to the Center of the Earth,From the Earth to the Moon,Round the Moon,Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea,The Mysterious Island...Categorized as:
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ಕರ್ವಾಲೋ [Karvalo] by K.P. Poornachandra Tejaswi
14 ratingsIn Karvalo, the protagonist is a well educated farmer, who is also the narrator of the story. In spite of his great interest in rural lifestyle, his unsuccessful agricultural work makes him consider ending his life as a farmer to move to the city.[citation needed] During this time he meets Karvalo, a middle aged scientist in search of a rare lizard... -
Five Great Novels (The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, Martian Time-Slip, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Ubik, A Scanner Darkly) by Philip K. Dick
14 ratingsAn omnibus volume of five of the best novels by 'the most consistently brilliant SF writer in the world' (John Brunner). Dick's tales of twisted perceptions and false realities have shaped modern SF and provided the inspiration for numerous blockbuster movies.'For everyone lost in the endlessly multiplicating realities of the modern world, remember: Philip K... -
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Unparalleled by D.S. Smith
18 ratingsWaking up in a strange house, with no memory of how or why he is there, Stuart Milton finds his life has changed beyond recognition. His pregnant wife is missing, but his only living relative, his brother, is incapable of substantiating his claim. Lost in a world of confusion that is spiralling out of his control, Stuart finds temporary salvation in a psychiatrist assigned to his case... -
There is Always a Tomorrow by Anna Belfrage
6 ratingsIt is 1692 and the Colony of Maryland is still adapting to the consequences of Coode’s Rebellion some years previously. Religious tolerance in the colony is now a thing of the past, but safe in their home, Alex and Matthew Graham have no reason to suspect they will become embroiled in the ongoing religious conflicts—until one of their sons betrays their friend Carlos Muñoz to the authorities...Categorized as:
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The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood, Valerie Martin
61 ratings(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)A gripping vision of our society radically overturned by a theocratic revolution, Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid's Tale has become one of the most powerful and most widely read novels of our time.Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, serving in the household of the enigmatic Commander and his bitter wife...Categorized as:
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The People: No Different Flesh by Zenna Henderson
10 ratingsA novel expanded from a short story (different from book 1 Pilgrimage which was a push of short stories connected by new material) of the alien PEOPLE and earthlings with gifts similar to those of the People -- who might be lost PEOPLE!The "People" stories inclulded in this book:No Different Flesh (1965)Deluge (1963)Angels Unawares (1966)Troubling of the Waters (1966)Return (1961)Shadow on the... -
The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe by Lily Tomlin
12 ratingsThis side-splitting yet dramatic tour-de-force features a dazzling parade of characters immediately familiar to the coast-to-coast Wagner/Tomlin fans. Enhanced with remarkable onstage photographs of Tomlin. 78 halftones... -
The Veldt by Ray Bradbury
20 ratingsThe advanced technology of a house first pleases then increasingly terrifies its occupants... -
The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Three: Nebula Winners 1965-1969 by Arthur C. Clarke, Robert Silverberg
6 ratingsThe Nebula Award Winners for Best Novella, Best Novelet, and Best Short Story for the years 1965 - 1969 inclusive... -
Star Wars: The Annotated Screenplays by Laurent Bouzereau
6 ratingsn all three full-length screenplays, presented with the secrets that led to their creation. Through hours of exclusive interviews with George Lucas and others involved in crafting the original trilogy, Laurent Bouzereau has uncovered the complex process through which life was breathed into the legendary Star Wars saga... -
Indian Paintbrush by John A. Heldt
6 ratingsArizona, December 1943. After surviving perilous six-month journeys to 1889 and 1918, the Carsons, five siblings from the present day, seek a respite in their home state. While Adam and Greg settle down with their Progressive Era brides, Natalie and Caitlin start romances with wartime aviators and Cody befriends a Japanese family in an internment camp...Categorized as:
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Μαύρο νερό by Μιχάλης Μακρόπουλος
8 ratingsΈνας πατέρας κι ο ανάπηρος γιος του, με όπλο την αγάπη που τρέφουν ο ένας για τον άλλο, παλεύουν να επιβιώσουν σ' ένα χωριό που ερημώνει, στα βουνά της Ηπείρου. Γύρω τους έχει συντελεστεί μια οικολογική καταστροφή· το νερό πλέον δεν πίνεται, τα ζώα και τα φυτά είναι δηλητηριασμένα.Ο αγώνας τους δίνεται με λόγο λιτό και ποιητικό στο Μαύρο νερό... -
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William Shakespeare's Get Thee Back to the Future! by Ian Doescher
8 ratingsIn the iconic film by Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale, teenaged Marty McFly travels back in time from the 1980s to the 1950s, changing the path of his parents’ destiny . . . as well as his own... -
Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
42 ratingsAlternate cover for this ISBN can be found hereIn Breakfast of Champions, one of Kurt Vonnegut’s most beloved characters, the aging writer Kilgore Trout, finds to his horror that a Midwest car dealer is taking his fiction as truth. What follows is murderously funny satire, as Vonnegut looks at war, sex, racism, success, politics, and pollution in America and reminds us how to see the truth... -
We of the Forsaken World... by Kiran Bhat
12 ratingsIn a distant corner of the globe, a man journeys to the birthplace of his mother, a tourist town destroyed by an industrial spill. In a nameless remote tribe, the chief’s second son is born, creating a scramble for succession as their jungles are being destroyed by loggers... -
Torture the Artist by Joey Goebel
14 ratingsVincent Spinetti is an archetypal tortured artist ? a sensitive young writer who falls victim to alienation, parental neglect, poverty, depression, alcoholism, illness, nervous breakdowns, and unrequited love... -
The Tragedy of Man: Dramatic Poem by Imre Madách
14 ratingsThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible... -
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind: The Shooting Script by Charlie Kaufman, Michel Gondry
14 ratingsIn this illuminating script book, Charlie Kaufman, the Academy Award®-nominated screenwriter of Being John Malkovich and Adaptation , shares the logistical challenges of writing Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind in a fascinating interview... -
The Aviator by Eugene Vodolazkin, Evgheni Vodolazkin
16 ratingsFrom award-winning author Eugene Vodolazkin comes this poignant story of memory, love, and loss spanning twentieth-century Russia.A man wakes up in a hospital bed, with no idea who he is or how he came to be there. The only information the doctor shares with his patient is his name: Innokenty Petrovich Platonov... -
Hope by Marc Levy
16 ratingsFor anyone who’s dreamed of immortality comes a twice-in-a-lifetime love story by Marc Levy, the phenomenal, internationally bestselling French author of P.S. from Paris and The Last of the Stanfields.In Massachusetts, neuroscience students Luke, Josh, and Hope have formed an unbreakable and unconditional friendship... -
I'm Fine, But You Appear to Be Sinking by Leyna Krow
6 ratingsIn I’m Fine, But You Appear to Be Sinking the strange and the mundane collide. These are stories of strange experiences set in familiar places, and of familiar experiences set in strange places. Many of the pieces in I’m Fine take place close to home, in suburban neighborhoods, or rural communities. The settings are conventional, yet something unexpected, or even magical, is occurring... -
Marjorie Prime by Jordan Harrison
6 ratings"A thought-provoking play about memory, its corruption and our insistence that technology help us outwit death."—The New York Times "It's the kind of experience that keeps unfolding in the mind long after the play is over... -
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Russian Stories/Русские Рассказы: A Dual-Language Book by Gleb Struve
6 ratingsTwelve superb tales by Chekhov, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Pushkin, Bunin, other masters. Excellent word-for-word English translations on facing pages. Also teaching and practice aids, Russian-English vocabulary, biographical/critical introductions to each selection, study questions, more. Especially helpful are the stress accents in the Russian text, usually found only in primers... -
Doctor Who: Dalek by Robert Shearman
6 ratings‘The entire Dalek race, wiped out in one second. I watched it happen. I made it happen!’ The Doctor and Rose arrive in an underground vault in Utah in the near future. The vault is filled with alien artefacts. Its billionaire owner, Henry van Statten, even has possession of a living alien creature, a mechanical monster in chains that he has named a Metaltron... -
Gleefully Macabre Tales by Jeff Strand
6 ratingsA short story collection from the author of DEAD CLOWN BARBECUE. Over 85,000 words' worth of insanity! Cemetery Dance Magazine says that "No author working today comes close to Jeff Strand's perfect mixture of comedy and terror... -
The Freezer by David Kersten
6 ratings1966 was a bad year for retired Army officer Jack Taggart. Still reeling from the loss of his wife and daughter, a visit to his doctor reveals the worst possible news: cancer. Going in for his first surgery, he is uncertain if he can, or even should, face the challenges ahead. When he wakes up to find over three hundred years have passed, an entirely new set of challenges lay before him... -
The Rocket Man by Ray Bradbury
6 ratingsA short story by Ray...Categorized as:
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Die Dritte Macht by William Voltz
8 ratingsErster Band des Zyklus "Die Dritte Macht"Enthaltene Original-Romane (Heftromane, #1-5):- "Unternehmen 'Stardust'"- "Die dritte Macht"- "Die strahlende Kuppel"- "Götterdämmerung"- "Atom-Alarm"Die politischen Machtblöcke der Erde drohen ihre Meinungsverschiedenheiten in einem alles vernichtenden Atomkrieg auszutragen... -
The Librarian: A First Contact Story by M.N. Arzu
8 ratingsFirst Contact has never been easy.Despite the rumors, the US Government has been able to deny First Contact with an alien race for decades, but with good reason: it hasn't happened yet.When a strange signal comes from an isolated area in the forests outside of Seattle, they find that First Contact is not going to happen with big ships and grand world-wide messages... -
Noughts & Crosses (Stage Version) by Dominic Cooke, Malorie Blackman
10 ratingsAdaptation of much-loved thriller about racism by award-winning children's author Malorie Blackman... -
We Live Inside You by Jeremy Robert Johnson
10 ratingsWe are within you, and we are growing. Watching. Waiting for your empires to fall. It won't be long now. We are the fear of death that drives you and the terrible hunger that reshapes you in its name. We are the vengeance born from senseless slaughter and the pulsing reptile desire that negates your consciousness... -
Lights Out by David Crawford
14 ratingsDownloaded from the internet over three million times, this exciting, action-packed, survival story is finally available in book form. Lights Out chronicles the challenges of Mark “Karate Man” Turner when the lights go out over most of the free world... -
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Memory Wall by Anthony Doerr
18 ratingsThis is a previously-published edition of ISBN 9781439182840.In the luminous and beautiful title story, winner of a 2010 National Magazine Award, a young boy in South Africa comes to possess an old woman's secret, a piece of the past with the power to redeem a life...Categorized as:
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Liberation Day: Stories by George Saunders
20 ratingsMacArthur genius and Booker Prize winner George Saunders returns with a collection of short stories that make sense of our increasingly troubled world, his first since the New York Times bestseller and National Book Award finalist Tenth of DecemberThe "best short story writer in English" (Time) is back with a masterful collection that explores ideas of power, ethics, and justice, and cuts to the... -
The Journey by John A. Heldt
12 ratingsSeattle, 2010. When her entrepreneur husband dies in an accident, Michelle Preston Richardson, 48, finds herself childless and directionless. She yearns for the simpler days of her youth, before she followed her high school sweetheart down a road that led to limitless riches but little fulfillment, and jumps at a chance to reconnect with her past at a class reunion...Categorized as:
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1636: The Viennese Waltz by Eric Flint, Gorg Huff
10 ratingsAfter carving a free state for itself in war-torn 17th century Europe, citizens of the modern town of Grantville, West Virginia contend with aristocratic forces determined to keep their grip on power whatever it takes.When Grantville, West Virginia was transported back to the year 1631 --in the middle of the Thirty Years' War, no less -- many things happened. Many opportunities arose... -
Days Between Stations by Steve Erickson
10 ratingsIn a world of cataclysm and unraveled time, a young woman's face, a misbegotten childhood in a Parisian brothel, and the fragment of a lost movie masterpiece are the only clues in a man's search for his past... -
ಯಾನ [Yaana] by S.L. Bhyrappa, ಎಸ್.ಎಲ್. ಭೈರಪ್ಪ
10 ratingsIt's a story of two astronauts (a man and a woman) travelling in a starship to Proxima Centauri, the closest star to the earth which is around 4-6 light years away. The journey takes several decades. The novel focuses on scientific problems and human relationships... -
The Mirror by John A. Heldt
8 ratingsOn September 11, 2020, Ginny and Katie Smith celebrate their nineteenth birthday at a country fair near Seattle. Ignoring the warnings of a fortune-teller, they enter a house of mirrors and exit in May 1964. Armed with the knowledge they need to return to their time, they try to make the most of what they believe will be a four-month vacation... -
Blackout by Meredith McCardle
8 ratingsSeventeen-year-old Amanda Obermann (code name: Iris) has more on her mind than usual. As a member of a covert government organization called the Annum Guard, which travels through time to keep history on track, Iris has been getting some particularly stressful assignments. Plus, Jane Bonner, the Guard’s iron-fisted new leader, seems determined to make life as hard as possible...Categorized as:
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Dark Reflections by Samuel R. Delany
6 ratingsArnold Hawley, a gay, African–American poet, has lived in NYC for most of his life. Dark Reflections traces Hawley's life in three sections — in reverse order. Part one: Hawley, at 50 years old, wins the an award for his sixth book of poems. Part two explores Hawley's unhappy marriage, while the final section recalls his college days... -
Minor Angels by Antoine Volodine
6 ratingsFrom Antoine Volodine comes a deeply disturbing and darkly hilarious novel whose full meaning, its author asserts, will be found not in the book’s pages but in the dreams people will have after reading it. In Minor Angels Volodine depicts a postcataclysmic world in which the forces of capitalism have begun to reestablish themselves... -
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The Crying of Ross 128 by David Allan Hamilton
6 ratingsThe year is 2085...America has splintered into various independent republics after a brutal civil war. Against this backdrop, space exploration is on the cusp of new technological breakthroughs. Jim Atteberry, a mid-30s English professor at City College in San Francisco, spends his free time listening for alien signals on the amateur radio astronomy bands... -
Far Rainbow / The Second Invasion from Mars by Arkady Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky
6 ratingsTwo Soviet science fiction novels by the Strugatsky brothers. Introduction by Theodore Sturgeon... -
The Pages of Time by Damian Knight
6 ratingsWhen sixteen-year-old Sam Rayner moves abroad with his family, he is forced to leave behind everyone and everything he holds dear. As he struggles to settle in his new surroundings, Sam thinks his situation cannot get any worse, however a shocking terrorist attack turns his world on its head...Categorized as:
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EVER by Blake Butler
6 ratingsFiction. Within the psychic architecture that is EVER, Blake Butler explores the way bodies swell and contract, going from skin to house and back again. And the way houses too shrink to fit us first like clothing and then like skin and then tighter still. The result is a strange, visionary ontological dismemberment that takes you well beyond what you'd ever expect--Brian Evenson... -
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The Worlds of Robert A. Heinlein by Robert A. Heinlein
12 ratingsThe Worlds of Robert A. Heinlein is a collection of science fiction short stories by Robert A. Heinlein published in 1966.It includes an introduction entitled "Pandora's Box" that describes some of the difficulties in making predictions about the near future...
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