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Man in the Dark

Thu, 15 Jul 2010 23:24:23 PST

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Seventy-two-year-old August Brill is recovering from a car accident. Plagued by insomnia, he tries to push back thoughts of things he would prefer to forget - his wife's recent death and the horrific murder of his granddaughter's boyfriend, Titus - by telling himself stories. He imagines a parallel world in which America is not at war with Iraq but with itself. In this other America the twin towe ...

Invisible

Thu, 15 Jul 2010 23:21:23 PST

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Sinuously constructed in four interlocking parts, "Invisible" opens in New York City in the spring of 1967 when twenty-year-old Adam Walker, an aspiring poet and student at Columbia University meets the enigmatic Frenchman Rudolf Born, and his silent and seductive girlfriend Margot. Before long, Walker finds himself caught in a perverse triangle that leads to a sudden, shocking act of violence th ...

Travels in the Scriptorium

Tue, 23 Jan 2007 0:04:29 PST

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An old man sits in a room, with a single door and window, a bed, a desk and a chair. Each day he awakes with no memory, unsure of whether or not he is locked into the room. Attached to the few objects around him are one-word, hand-written, labels and on the desk is a series of vaguely familiar black-and-white photographs and four piles of paper. Then a middle-aged woman called Anna enters and tal ...

Foundation and Empire

Sun, 12 Nov 2006 12:45:44 PST

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Get the entire Foundation Series for $13.47.The Foundation novels of Isaac Asimov are one of the great masterworks of science fiction. Unsurpassed for their unique blend of nonstop action, daring ideas, and extensive world-building, they chronicle the struggle of a courageous group of men and women to preserve humanity's light against an inexorable tide of darkness and violence. Led by its found ...

The Tax Inspector

Sun, 12 Nov 2006 12:40:40 PST

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From Granny Catchprice, who runs her family business -- and her family -- with senility, cunning, and a handbag full of explosives to sixteen-year-old Benny, who dreams of transforming a failing automobile franchise into an empire -- and himself into an angel -- the Catchprices may be the most spectacularly contentious family since Dostoevsky's Karamozovs. But when a beautiful and very pregnant ...

Enemy Unseen

Sun, 12 Nov 2006 0:21:12 PST

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'Tis

Sun, 12 Nov 2006 0:20:29 PST

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THE LONG-AWAITED SEQUEL TO ANGELA'S ASHES 'The reader of this stunning memoir can only hope that Mr McCourt will set down the story of his subsequent adventures in America in another book. Angela's Ashes is so good it deserves a sequel.' MICHIKO KAKUTANI, New York Times Angela's Ashes was a publishing phenomenon. Frank McCourt's critically acclaimed, lyrical memoir of his Irish-American childho ...

Stag Hunt

Sun, 12 Nov 2006 0:20:04 PST

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Koba the Dread

Sat, 11 Nov 2006 17:02:04 PST

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Koba the Dread is the successor to Martin Amis's celebrated memoir, Experience. It is largely political (while remaining personal). It addresses itself to the central lacuna of twentieth-century thought: the indulgence of communism by intellectuals of the West. In between the personal beginning and the personal ending, Amis gives us perhaps the best one hundred pages ever written about Stalin: Ko ...

The Body Artist

Sat, 11 Nov 2006 16:59:55 PST

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The "Body Artist" opens with a breakfast scene in a rambling rented house somewhere on the New England coast. We meet Lauren Hartke, the Body Artist of the title, and her husband Rey Robles, a much older, thrice-married director. Through their delicate, intimate, half-complete thoughts and words DeLillo proves himself a stunningly unsentimental observer of marriage, and of the idiosyncrasies that ...

Therapy

Sat, 11 Nov 2006 16:58:23 PST

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Melbourne Architecture

Sat, 11 Nov 2006 16:55:39 PST

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Provides great insight into this gracious city.

True Tales of American Life

Sat, 11 Nov 2006 16:54:38 PST

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The Book of Illusions

Sat, 11 Nov 2006 16:52:47 PST

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After losing his wife and young sons in a plane crash, Vermont professor David Zimmer spends his waking hours mired in grief. Then, watching television one night, he stumbles upon a lost film by silent comedian Hector Mann, and remembers how to laugh...Mann was a comic genius, in trademark suit and fluttering black moustache. But one morning in 1929 he walked out of his house and was never heard ...

Oryx and Crake

Sat, 11 Nov 2006 16:41:30 PST

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Margaret Atwood's classic novel, THE HANDMAID'S TALE, is about the future. Now, in ORYX AND CRAKE, the future has changed. It's much worse. And we're well on the road to it now. The narrator of Margaret Atwood's riveting new novel is Snowman, self-named though not self-created. As the story begins, he's sleeping in a tree, wearing a dirty old bedsheet, mourning the loss of his beautiful and belov ...

Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood

Sat, 11 Nov 2006 16:40:23 PST

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Fruits

Sat, 11 Nov 2006 16:38:44 PST

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If you ever wondered where the catwalk got its claws, then the portraits gathered in photographer Shoichi Aokis book Fruits, from the streets of Harajuku in Tokyo, point the way to an extraordinarily imaginative and invariably stunning glut of mongrel fashion heists. A "best-of" from the fanzine of the same name, published for the first time outside Japan, Fruits keeps its style clean: front-on, ...

Vernon God Little

Sat, 11 Nov 2006 16:37:15 PST

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In the town jail of Martirio, Texas under the terrifying care of the dynastic Gurie family, and wearing only his New Jack trainers and underpants fifteen-year-old Vernon Little is in trouble. His friend has just blown away sixteen of his classmates before turning the gun on himself. And Vernon has become the focus of the whole town's need for vengeance, and the media's appetite for sensationa ...

Pattern Recognition

Sat, 11 Nov 2006 16:36:14 PST

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The first of William Gibson's usually futuristic novels to be set in the present, Pattern Recognition is a masterful snapshot of modern consumer culture and hipster esoterica. Set in London, Tokyo, and Moscow, Pattern Recognition takes the reader on a tour of a global village inhabited by power-hungry marketeers, industrial saboteurs, high-end hackers, Russian mob bosses, Internet fan-boys, techn ...

Star Trek Insurrection

Sat, 11 Nov 2006 16:34:31 PST

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Star Trek: The Next Generation® is the most popular, longest-running series in science fiction history. Now, after the spectacular worldwide success of Star Trek: First Contact©, Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the Starship Enterprise return to the big screen in a thrilling new adventure that captures all the fun and excitement of Star Trek at its best. Star Trek: Insurrection reunites ...

Collected Prose

Sat, 11 Nov 2006 16:33:07 PST

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An essential collection from one of the finest thinkers and stylists in contemporary letters. The celebrated author of The New York Trilogy, The Book of Illusions, and Oracle Night presents here a highly personal collection of essays, prefaces, true stories, autobiographical writings, and collaborations with artists, as well as occasional pieces written for magazines and newspapers, including The ...

Third and Indiana

Sat, 11 Nov 2006 16:31:15 PST

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Ofelia Santoro rides her bicycle through the decaying streets of Philadelphia, known as "The Badlands". She is looking for her 14-year-old son, Gabriel, who has disappeared. Meanwhile, Gabriel is on the streets, dealing coke, and at the mercy of Diablo, the most dangerous dealer of all.

Brooklyn Follies

Sat, 11 Nov 2006 16:29:23 PST

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My Story

Sat, 11 Nov 2006 16:20:02 PST

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A CHILD CALLED 'IT': Dave Pelzer's story is of a child beaten and starved by his emotionally unstable, alcoholic mother: a mother who played tortuous, unpredictable games that left one of her three sons nearly dead. No longer considered a son, or a boy, but an 'it', Dave had to learn how to play these games in order to survive. His bed was an old army cot in the basement and when he was allowed f ...

Unnatural Justice

Sat, 11 Nov 2006 16:19:22 PST

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Oz Blackstone is enjoying the success of his latest smash hit movie. But when blackmailers threaten Oz's father with a sleazy scam, the dream begins to turn to nightmare. And as Oz prepares to fight back, he knows he's being sucked into a vortex of evil.

The Babel Effect

Sat, 11 Nov 2006 16:18:05 PST

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'Daniel Hecht has created something quite original: the neuropathologic Gothic' - Jonathan Kellerman Global violence is escalating at a frightening pace - school shootings, drive-by shootings, hate crimes are on the increase, not to mention serial killings and mass murders, or homicides by juveniles. A culture of hate has been identified in populations across the world and the endgame can only be ...

Oracle Night

Sat, 11 Nov 2006 16:16:41 PST

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C

Sat, 11 Nov 2006 16:15:28 PST

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For programmers interested in programming in C++ and the future of C. This fourth edition of the bestselling C reference covers two important developments: the ISO C Amendment 1 (1994), which specifies new facilities for writing portable, international programs in C; and a discussion of how to write C programs that are compatible with C++.

The C Programming Language

Sat, 11 Nov 2006 16:14:43 PST

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An indisputably classic computing text, Kernighan and Ritchie's The C Programming Language, 2nd Edition, is the standard reference for learning and using ANSI C. Written by the co-inventors of C, this concise tutorial has a well-deserved reputation for clarity and precision as it defines one of the most successful programming languages of all time. It's an essential reference, which will be usefu ...

Smoke - Blue in the Face

Sat, 11 Nov 2006 16:12:13 PST

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The Cold Six Thousand

Sat, 11 Nov 2006 16:11:14 PST

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Hand to Mouth

Sat, 11 Nov 2006 15:55:59 PST

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This is the story of a young writer's struggle to stay afloat. Paul Auster's memoir is essentially about money - and what it means not to have it. From one odd job to the next, from one failed scheme to another, he investigates his own stubborn compulsion to make art, and in the process shares with readers of this book a series of adventures and encounters. The book ends with three of the longest ...

Mao II

Sat, 11 Nov 2006 15:52:48 PST

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Bill Gray, a famous, reclusive novelist, emerges from his isolation when he becomes the key figure in an event staged to force the release of a poet hostage in Beirut. Mao II explores a world in which the novelist's power to influence the inner life of a culture now belongs to bomb-makers and gunmen.

Midnight's Children

Sat, 11 Nov 2006 15:51:48 PST

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Born at the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, at the precise moment of India’s independence, the infant Saleem Sinai is celebrated in the press and welcomed by Prime Minister Nehru himself. But this coincidence of birth has consequences Saleem is not prepared for: telepathic powers that connect him with 1,000 other “midnight’s children” – all born in the initial hour of India’s independence ...

The Alchemist

Sat, 11 Nov 2006 15:50:22 PST

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Detailing the family disasters that hit a small boy growing up in London in the 1980s, the author's descriptions of Billy Gunn's world take on a troubled dimension through the introduction of J.T.Archer, an ominous money-making dentist who plays many roles, alternately malign and benign.

The Red Notebook

Sat, 11 Nov 2006 15:49:09 PST

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A collection of interviews and essays in which the American writer Paul Auster reflects on the need to break down the boundary between living and writing, and on the use of certain genre conventions to penetrate matters of memory and identity.

Life of Pi

Sat, 11 Nov 2006 15:47:28 PST

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Winner of the 2002 Man Booker Prize for Fiction Pi Patel is an unusual boy. The son of a zookeeper, he has an encyclopedic knowledge of animal behavior, a fervent love of stories, and practices not only his native Hinduism, but also Christianity and Islam. When Pi is sixteen, his family emigrates from India to North America aboard a Japanese cargo ship, along with their zoo animals bound for ne ...

City of Glass

Sat, 11 Nov 2006 15:44:48 PST

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In the expert hands of David Mazzuchelli (Batman), Paul Karasik (Raw) and Art Spiegelman (Maus), Auster's spin on the detective story has been given a unique and unexpected new life.

Lulu on the Bridge Screenplay

Sat, 11 Nov 2006 15:41:51 PST

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The author of the hit films "Smoke" and "Blue in the Face" makes his directorial debut with a bittersweet romance.

The Russian Debutante's Handbook

Sat, 11 Nov 2006 15:40:15 PST

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The Russian Debutante's Handbook is infused with energy and wit and a brilliant use of language. Hilarious, extravagant, yet uncannily true to life, it follows the adventures of Vladimir, a young Russian-American immigrant, whose capitalist dreams and desires for a girlfriend lead him off the straight and narrow and into uncharted territory. Taking us from the dreary confines of New York City' ...

Moon Palace

Sat, 11 Nov 2006 15:39:17 PST

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A contemporary novel which tells the story of Marco Stanley Fogg - orphan, child of the 1960s - spanning three generations. The narrative moves from the early years of this century to the first lunar landings, from Manhattan to the landscape of the American West.

No

Sat, 11 Nov 2006 15:37:32 PST

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This is a book about not belonging, and its consequences, personal and social. About a young man who feels that society and politics have failed him. From his prison cell, Lucky recounts the events of his life. He is a young, poor, drug-using, petty criminal. As an outsider, one of the questions he poses is what is it that he stands...

Oscar and Lucinda

Sat, 11 Nov 2006 15:36:00 PST

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Academy Award nominee Ralph Fiennes who stars in the epic romance Oscar and Lucinda, masterfully reads Peter Carey's Booker Prize-winning novel. This sweeping, irrepressibly inventive novel, is a romance of the sort that could only take place in 19th-century Australia. For only on that sprawling continent, a haven for misfits of both the animal and human kingdoms, could a nervous Anglican ...

e=mc2

Sat, 11 Nov 2006 15:35:18 PST

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'By the end of the astonishing "E=mc2", a dedicated reader will have achieved, if only by osmosis, an understanding of Einstein's theory of relativity and feel quite at ease dining with Nobel Prize winners. It's a lucid, even thrilling study: the very best kind of science journalism. I didn't know I could know so much.' - Fay Weldon, Books of the Year, "Washington Post". In 1905, Albert Einstein ...

Idoru

Sat, 11 Nov 2006 15:34:04 PST

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Set in futuristic Tokyo, rebuilt after an earthquake, this is the story of a rock star who decides to marry a non-existent, virtual reality girl; the bemused American security consultant who has been sent to take care of him; and a teenage fan. This novel is a witty futuristic thriller. "Fast,witty and lovingly painted" - "GUARDIAN." "Confirms Gibson as a realist writer for the post-Net generatio ...

In the Country of Last Things

Sat, 11 Nov 2006 15:31:43 PST

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In this novel Paul Auster offers a haunting picture of a devastated world - a futuristic world - but one which may be seen to shadow our own. Auster's other work includes "The New York Trilogy" and "Hand to Mouth", and the screenplays "Smoke" and "Blue in the Face".

Underworld

Sat, 11 Nov 2006 15:30:42 PST

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Opens at the Shea Stadium at the World Series Game of 1951, where the ball is caught by a young, black man in the crowd, and continues to change hands throughout the book. The various recipients of the ball tell the story of post-war US history giving a panorama of America from the 50s to the 90s.

Neuromancer

Sat, 11 Nov 2006 15:29:37 PST

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The Matrix: a world within a world, a graphic representation of the databanks of every computer in the human system; a consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate users in the Sprawl alone. And by Case, computer cowboy, until his nervous system is grievously maimed by a client he double-crossed. Japanese experts in nerve splicing and microbionics have left him broke and c ...

The Collected Short Stories of Roald Dahl

Sat, 11 Nov 2006 15:28:03 PST

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This is a complete collection of the superb short stories which have appeared in: "Over To You", "Kiss Kiss", "Someone Like You", "Switch Bitch" and eight further stories: "The Umberella man"; "Mr Botibol"; "Vengeance in Mine inc"; "The Butler"; "Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life"; "The Bookseller"; and, "The Hitchhiker, The Surgeon".

The Ground Beneath Her Feet

Sat, 11 Nov 2006 15:27:13 PST

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Vina Apsara, a famous and much-loved singer, is caught up in a devastating earthquake and never seen again. This is her story, and that of Ormus Cama, the lover who finds, loses, seeks and again finds her, over and over, throughout his own extraordinary life in music. Set in the inspiring, vain, fabulous world of rock'n'roll, this is the story of a love that stretches across continents, across Vi ...

Why I Want to be King of Australia

Sat, 11 Nov 2006 15:25:39 PST

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White Noise

Sat, 11 Nov 2006 15:24:46 PST

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Something is amiss in a small college town in Middle America. Something subliminal, something omnipresent, something hard to put your finger on. For example, teachers and students at the grade school are falling mysteriously ill. J.A.K. Gladney, world-renowned as the living center, the absolute font, of Hitler Studies in North America in the mid-1980s, describes the malaise affecting his town in ...

Guerrillas

Sat, 11 Nov 2006 15:23:18 PST

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Set on a troubled Caribbean island - where Asians, Africans, Americans and former British colonials co-exist in a state of suppressed hysteria - "Guerrillas" is a novel of colonialism and revolution. A white man arrives with his mistress, an English woman influenced by fantasies of native power and sexuality, unaware of the consequences of her actions. Together with a leader of the "revolution", ...

Company Man

Sat, 11 Nov 2006 15:22:11 PST

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This work tells the story of the evolution of the social phenomenon of the 20th century - company man. The business corporation has become not only the engine of economic power, but the dominant community in much of the industrial world. Its executives have become enclosed in their own hierarchies and bureaucracies which have dominated their careers and their families' lives. The book shows how t ...

The New York Trilogy

Sat, 11 Nov 2006 15:21:05 PST

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Paul Auster's signature work, The New York Trilogy, consists of three interlocking novels: City of Glass, Ghosts, and The Locked Roomhaunting and mysterious tales that move at the breathless pace of a thriller.

Ikons

Sat, 11 Nov 2006 15:20:14 PST

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THE MAVROMATIS FAMILY WAS DRAWN TO AUSTRALIA FROM GREECE BY THE LURE OF THE OPPORTUNITY TO 'MAKE GOOD' - THE UNIVERSAL MIGRANT DREAM. BUT THIRTY YEARS AND THREE GENERATIONS LATER, THESE EARLY HOPES HAVE BEEN DASHED. YIAYIA, THE GRANDMOTHER, WITH CHRISTOS AND ELEFTHERIA, FEEL BETRAYED, THAT THEY LISTENED TO FALSE PROMISES. THEY LEFT THEIR OWN CULTURE, BUT HAVEN'T RECEIVED THE MATERIAL REWARDS. THE ...

Telling Tales

Sat, 11 Nov 2006 15:18:59 PST

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Along with making music, the art of storytelling is the oldest form of enchantment as entertainment. The twenty-one stories in this anthology are written in different 'voices' - vividly individual styles - and all have come together to bring the joy of reading to whoever takes up this remarkable collection. All twenty-one writers have given their stories without any fee or royalty. The publishers ...

Mr. Vertigo

Sat, 11 Nov 2006 15:18:04 PST

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Walt is an orphan from the mid-West who is set on the road to stardom by the dark and mesmerizing figure of Master Yehudi. When the Master takes little Walt back to the mysterious house on the great plains, he initiates the tutorial process that will culminate in Walt's learning to fly.

The Music of Chance

Sat, 11 Nov 2006 15:16:58 PST

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Nashe comes into an inheritance and decides to pursue a life of freedom. He meets Pozzi, a gambler, who exerts a terrible fascination over him, and together they take a desperate gamble. By the author of "The New York Trilogy", "Moon Palace" and "The Invention of Solitude".

Fury

Sat, 11 Nov 2006 15:14:38 PST

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From one of the world's truly great writers, Fury is a wickedly brilliant and pitch-black comedy about a middle-aged professor who finds himself in New York City in the summer of 2000. Not since the Bombay of Midnight's Children have a time and place been so intensely and accurately captured in a novel. Fury opens on a New York living at breakneck speed in an age of unprecedented decadence. Malik ...

Timbuktu

Sat, 11 Nov 2006 15:13:47 PST

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Meet Mr Bones, the canine sidekick and confidant of Willy G. Christmas, the brilliant, troubled and altogether original poet-saint from Brooklyn. Like Don Quixote and Sancho Panza before them, they sally forth on a last great adventure...

My Life as a Fake

Sat, 11 Nov 2006 15:12:56 PST

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In Melbourne in the late 1940s, a young conservative poet named Christopher Chubb decides to teach his country a lesson about pretension and authenticity. But over the ensuing years, his audacious act of literary ventriloquism takes on a much darker resonance.

New Hope

Sat, 11 Nov 2006 15:11:13 PST

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"'I want to come with you to Alderaan,' Luke said, resolved. 'I want to become a Jedi like my father.'" This marks the start of Luke Skywalker's involvement with the Rebellion in George Lucas's grand narrative of good versus evil, Star Wars. You know the story, you've seen the film--but this chunky little book is a real gem. Star Wars fans of all ages will enjoy both the fine abridgment and Bran ...

The Satanic Verses

Sat, 11 Nov 2006 15:05:34 PST

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Just before dawn one winter's morning, a hijacked jetliner explodes above the English Channel. Through the falling debris, two figures, Gibreel Farishta, the biggest star in India, and Saladin Chamcha, an expatriate returning from his first visit to Bombay in fifteen years, plummet from the sky, washing up on the snow-covered sands of an English beach, and proceed through a series of metamorphos ...

Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina

Sat, 11 Nov 2006 14:58:34 PST

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Sixteen stories from the most infamous cantina in the universe...by some of today's leading writers of science fiction. In a far corner of the universe, on the small desert planet of Tatooine, there is a dark, nic-i-tain-filled cantina where you can down your favorite intoxicant while listening to the best jazz riffs in the universe. But beware your fellow denizens of this pangalactic watering ...

Search for Spock

Sat, 11 Nov 2006 14:56:56 PST

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Wrath of Khan

Sat, 11 Nov 2006 14:55:32 PST

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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator

Sat, 11 Nov 2006 14:51:40 PST

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Star Trek 1

Sat, 11 Nov 2006 14:47:05 PST

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Star Trek, Generations

Sat, 11 Nov 2006 14:44:58 PST

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The Rest of the Robots

Sat, 11 Nov 2006 14:41:06 PST

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ROBOT TONY is the first robot designed to perform domestic duties by the U S Robots and Mechanical Men Corporation. Is it Tony's fault that the lady of the house where he's field-tested falls in love with him? ROBOT AL was intended for shipment to a mining outfit on the moon. Instead, he's loose in the mountains of Virginia...building from scraps of junk his very own, very dangerous disintegrato ...

Don Quixote

Sat, 11 Nov 2006 14:39:02 PST

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Cervantes' tale of the deranged gentleman who turns knight-errant, tilts at windmills and battles with sheep in the service of the lady of his dreams, Dulcinea del Toboso, has fascinated generations of readers, and inspired other creative artists such as Flaubert, Picasso and Richard Strauss. The tall, thin knight and his short, fat squire, Sancho Panza, have found their way into films, cartoons ...

True History of the Kelly Gang

Sat, 11 Nov 2006 14:26:58 PST

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Harvey Keitel

Sat, 11 Nov 2006 14:10:36 PST

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Harvey Keitel has made his menacing presence felt in some of the greatest cult movies ever, from Scorsese's "Taxi Driver" and "Mean Streets" to Tarantino's "Reservoir Dogs" and "Pulp Fiction". The godfather of independent film makers, Keitel has a record for supporting star directors of the future, from Scorsese (his first acting job was in Scorsese's film school thesis film), through Ridley Scot ...

Debtors' Planet

Sat, 11 Nov 2006 14:10:36 PST

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When a Vulcan space probe reports that the Ferengi are advancing the people of the planet Megara from a primitive agricultural state to a technological society, Picard and the Enterprise are ordered to transport a Federation ambassador to free Megaraor has an agenda of his own.

The Complete Robot

Sat, 11 Nov 2006 14:10:21 PST

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THE COMPLETE ROBOT is the definitive anthology of Asimov's stunning visions of a robotic future... In these stories, Isaac Asimov creates the Three Laws of Robotics and ushers in the Robot Age: when Earth is ruled by master-machines and when robots are more human than mankind. As well as TN-3 (Tony), AL-76 and other robots, the stories feature the staff of U.S. Robots and Mechanical Men Inc., a ...

Leviathan

Sat, 11 Nov 2006 14:10:21 PST

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The explosion at the start of this book ends the life of its hero, Benjamin Sachs, and brings two FBI agents to the home of one of Sachs's oldest friends, the writer Peter Aaron. What follows is Aaron's story, an investigation of another man's life.

Here There Be Dragons

Sat, 11 Nov 2006 14:10:21 PST

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When Captain Picard and the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise investigate a human-inhabited planet hidden in the center of an immense stellar cloud, they discover a world lifted right out of the Earth's Middle Ages. Embroiled in intrigue and murder, the away team faces destruction at the hands of dragon-hunters.

Where Do We Go from Here? Book 2

Sat, 11 Nov 2006 14:10:07 PST

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