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Contact

Mon, 19 Apr 2010 4:30:44 PST

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In December, 1999, a multinational team journeys out to the stars, to the most awesome encounter in human history. Who -- or what -- is out there?In Cosmos, Carl Sagan explained the universe. In Contact, he predicts its future -- and our own.

2061

Mon, 19 Apr 2010 4:30:09 PST

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Arthur C. Clark, creator of one of the world's best-loved science fiction tales, revisits the most famous future ever imagined in this NEW YORK TIMES bestseller, as two expeditions into space become inextricably tangled. Heywood Floyd, survivor of two previous encounters with the mysterious monloiths, must again confront Dave Bowman, HAL, and an alien race that has decided that Mankind is to play ...

3001, the Final Odyssey

Mon, 19 Apr 2010 4:29:32 PST

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One thousand years after the Jupiter mission to explore the mysterious Monolith had been destroyed, after Dave Bowman was transformed into the Star Child, Frank Poole drifted in space, frozen and forgotten, leaving the supercomputer HAL inoperable. But now Poole has returned to life, awakening in a world far different from the one he left behind--and just as the Monolith may be stirring once agai ...

2010

Mon, 19 Apr 2010 4:28:25 PST

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2001: A Space Odyssey shocked, amazed, and delighted millions in the late 1960s. An instant book and movie classic, its fame has grown over the years. Yet along with the almost universal acclaim, a host of questions has grown more insistent through the years, for example: who or what transformed Dave Bowman into the Star-Child? What alien purpose lay behind the monoliths on the Moon and out in sp ...

2001: A Space Odyssey

Mon, 19 Apr 2010 4:27:40 PST

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On the moon an enigma is uncovered. So great are the implications that, for the first time, men are sent out deep into the solar system. But before they can reach their destination, things begin to go wrong, horribly wrong...

The Catcher in the Rye

Mon, 19 Apr 2010 4:24:59 PST

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Des chrétiens et des maures

Fri, 9 Apr 2010 3:50:42 PST

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« Un matin, Le Petit a décrété : - Je veux mon papa. Il a repoussé son bol de chocolat et j'ai su, moi, Benjamin Malaussène, frère de famille, que Le Petit n'avalerait plus rien tant que je n'aurais pas retrouvé son vrai père. Or ce type était introuvable. Probablement mort, d'ailleurs. Après deux jours de jeûne Le Petit était si transparent qu'on pouvait lire au travers. Mais il repoussait t ...

Aux Fruits de la Passion

Fri, 9 Apr 2010 3:49:45 PST

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La tribu Malaussène et ses proches ont le regret de vous annoncer le mariage de Thérèse Malaussène avec le comte Marie-Colbert de Roberval, conseiller référendaire de première classe. Cet avis tient lieu d'invitation.

Messieurs les enfants

Fri, 9 Apr 2010 3:49:41 PST

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Monsieur Malaussène

Fri, 9 Apr 2010 3:49:38 PST

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- La suite! réclamaient les enfants. La suite! La suite! Ma suite à moi c'est l'autre petit moi-même qui prépare ma relève dans le giron de Julie. Comme une femme est belle en ces premiers mois où elle vous fait l'honneur d'être deux! Mais, Julie, crois-tu que ce soit raisonnable? Julie, le crois-tu? Franchement... hein? Et toi, petit con, penses-tu que ce soit le monde, la famille, l'époque o ...

La petite marchande de prose

Fri, 9 Apr 2010 3:49:37 PST

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«"L'amour, Malaussène, je vous propose l'amour !" L'amour? J'ai Julie, j'ai Louna, j'ai Thérèse, j'ai Clara, Verdun, le Petit et Jérémy. J'ai Julius et j'ai Belleville... "Entendons-nous bien, mon petit, je ne vous propose pas la botte; c'est l'amour avec un grand A que je vous offre: tout l'amour du monde !" Aussi incroyable que cela puisse paraître, j'ai accepté. J'ai eu tort.» Transformé ...

La fée carabine

Fri, 9 Apr 2010 3:49:33 PST

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"Si les vieilles dames se mettent à buter les jeunots, si les doyens du troisième âge se shootent comme des collégiens, si les commissaires divisionnaires enseignent le vol à la tire à leurs petits-enfants, et si on prétend que tout ça c'est ma faute, moi, je pose la question : où va-t-on?" Ainsi s'interroge Benjamin Malaussène, bouc émissaire professionnel, payé pour endosser nos erreurs à tou ...

Au bonheur des ogres

Fri, 9 Apr 2010 3:49:21 PST

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Côté famille, maman s'est tirée une fois de plus en m'abandonnant les mômes, et le Petit s'est mis à rêver d'ogres Noël. Côté cœur, tante Julia a été séduite par ma nature de bouc (de bouc émissaire). Côté boulot, la première bombe a explosé au rayon des jouets, cinq minutes après mon passage. La deuxième, quinze jours plus tard, au rayon des pulls, sous mes yeux. Comme j'étais là aussi pour l' ...

Un clone encombrant

Fri, 9 Apr 2010 3:40:32 PST

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Opération cay

Fri, 9 Apr 2010 3:40:29 PST

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Memory

Fri, 9 Apr 2010 3:40:24 PST

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Miles turns 30, and--though he isn't slowing down just yet--he is starting to lose interest in the game of Wall: the one where he tries to climb the wall, fails, gets up, and tries again. Having finally reached a point in his life where he can look back and realize that he has managed to prove his courage and competence, he can move on to bigger and better things. Depending on how you count ...

Miles Vorkosigan

Fri, 9 Apr 2010 3:40:21 PST

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La saga Vorkosigan : Immunité diplomatique

Fri, 9 Apr 2010 3:40:10 PST

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Translation of: Diplomatic immunity.

La danse du miroir

Fri, 9 Apr 2010 3:40:08 PST

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L'Esprit de l'anneau profane

Fri, 9 Apr 2010 3:40:06 PST

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L'apprentissage du guerrier

Fri, 9 Apr 2010 3:40:03 PST

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Titre original: The warrior's apprentice.

Komarr

Fri, 9 Apr 2010 3:39:59 PST

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Ekaterin

Fri, 9 Apr 2010 3:39:57 PST

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Cetaganda

Fri, 9 Apr 2010 3:39:53 PST

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Miles is stuck visiting Cetaganda with his doltish cousin Ivan, representing Barrayaran nobility at an Imperial funeral. Miles must have suspected that it wasn't going to be dull after the bogus docking instructions and the odd man who launched himself into their ship and started to pull a weapon on them. Three attacks and a mysterious murder later, Miles is juggling two emperors, two secret ...

Ethan d'Athos

Fri, 9 Apr 2010 3:39:51 PST

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Cordelia Vorkosigan

Fri, 9 Apr 2010 3:39:49 PST

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La Saga Vorkosigan

Fri, 9 Apr 2010 3:39:47 PST

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La citadelle hyponeros

Fri, 9 Apr 2010 3:37:24 PST

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Terra mater

Fri, 9 Apr 2010 3:36:39 PST

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L'Enjomineur

Fri, 9 Apr 2010 3:33:02 PST

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Abzalon

Fri, 9 Apr 2010 3:32:39 PST

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Wang. Tome I. Les Portes d'Occident

Fri, 9 Apr 2010 3:32:35 PST

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En l'an 2212, le monde est divisé en deux par le REM : une immense barrière électromagnétique. D'un côté, on trouve les pays occidentaux, à l'origine de la séparation et de l'autre, le reste du monde. À l'Est, les croisades successives, religieuses ou idéologiques, contre la science ont fait retomber ces pays dans un quasi Moyen Âge. Confort et nourriture sont des denrées rares. Hygiène et méde ...

Wang. 2, Les aigles d'Orient

Fri, 9 Apr 2010 3:32:29 PST

Les guerriers du silence

Fri, 9 Apr 2010 3:32:26 PST

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Le Fléau, tome 3 (de 3)

Wed, 7 Apr 2010 5:08:58 PST

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Quand Stu Redman, "sans doute l'homme le plus tranquille d'Arnette", voit arriver la chevrolet immatriculée dans le Nevada, il ne pense pas qu'elle porte en elle les germes de la fin du monde. Mais ses occupants sont infectés par un virus artificiel, létal à 94,4 %, échappé d'un laboratoire de recherche de l'armée. Stu, Frannie, Nick et d'autres voient le monde mourir autour d'eux, puis des rêve ...

Le Fléau, tome 2 (de 3)

Wed, 7 Apr 2010 5:08:18 PST

Le Fléau

Wed, 7 Apr 2010 5:07:04 PST

Vol de nuit

Wed, 7 Apr 2010 4:41:43 PST

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Ainsi les trois avions postaux de la Patagonie, du Chili et du Paraguay revenaient du sud, de l'ouest et du nord vers Buenos Aires. On y attendait leur chargement pour donner le départ, vers minuit, à l'avion d'Europe. Trois pilotes, chacun à l'arrière d'un capot lourd comme un chaland, perdus dans la nuit, méditaient leur vol, et, vers la ville inmense, descendraient lentement de leur ciel d'or ...

Hygiène de l'Assassin

Wed, 7 Apr 2010 4:41:13 PST

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Prétextat Tach, prix Nobel de littérature, n'a plus que deux mois à vivre. Des journalistes du monde entier sollicitent des interviews de l'écrivain que sa misanthropie tient reclus depuis des années. Quatre seulement vont le rencontrer, dont il se jouera selon une dialectique où la mauvaise foi et la logique se télescopent. La cinquième lui tiendra tête, il se prendra au jeu. Si ce roman est pre ...

Stupeur et tremblements

Wed, 7 Apr 2010 4:40:21 PST

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Le Petit Prince

Wed, 7 Apr 2010 4:39:48 PST

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Imaginez-vous perdu dans le désert, loin de tout lieu habité, et face à un petit garçon tout blond, surgi de nulle part. Si de surcroît ce petit garçon vous demande avec insistance de dessiner un mouton, vous voilà plus qu'étonné ! À partir de là, vous n'aurez plus qu'une seule interrogation : savoir d'où vient cet étrange petit bonhomme et connaître son histoire. S'ouvre alors un monde étrange e ...

From Dead to Worse

Tue, 6 Apr 2010 1:23:28 PST

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After the natural disaster of Hurricane Katrina, and the manmade horror of the explosion at the vampire summit, Sookie Stackhouse is safe but dazed, yearning for things to get back to normal. But her boyfriend Quinn is among the missing. And things are changing, whether the weres and vamps in her corner of Louisiana like it or not. In the ensuing battles, Sookie faces danger, death...and once mor ...

Pierre e Jean

Mon, 5 Apr 2010 20:59:38 PST

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La Peau de chagrin

Mon, 5 Apr 2010 20:59:16 PST

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Huis clos; Les mouches

Mon, 5 Apr 2010 20:58:21 PST

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Garcin, révolutionnaire lâche et mari cruel : douze balles dans la peau ; Inès, femme démoniaque qui rendra folle de douleur sa jeune amante : asphyxie par le gaz ; Estelle, coquette sans coeur qui noie son enfant adultérin : pneumonie fulgurante. Morts, tous les trois. Mais le plus dur reste à faire. Ils ne se connaissent pas, et pourtant, ils se retrouvent dans un hideux salon dont on ne part j ...

The Children of Men

Mon, 5 Apr 2010 17:54:01 PST

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Wikinomics

Mon, 5 Apr 2010 17:43:27 PST

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Travels with Herodotus

Mon, 5 Apr 2010 17:43:27 PST

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"Travels with Herodotus" records how Kapuscinski set out on his first forays - to India, China and Africa - with the great Greek historian constantly in his pocket. He sees Louis Armstrong in Khartoum, visits Dar-es-Salaam, arrives in Algiers in time for a coup when nothing seems to happen (but he sees the Mediterranean for the first time). At every encounter with a new culture, Kapuscinski plung ...

Saturn's Children

Mon, 5 Apr 2010 17:43:27 PST

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Freya Nakamachi-47 has some major existential issues. She's the perfect concubine, designed to please her human masters - hardwired to become aroused at the mere sight of a human male. There's just one problem: she came off the production line a year after the human species went extinct. Whatever else she may be, Freya Nakamachi-47 is gloriously obsolete. What's more, the rigid social hierarchy t ...

Watchmen

Mon, 5 Apr 2010 17:43:27 PST

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Ce qui mordait le ciel...

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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Mon, 5 Apr 2010 17:43:26 PST

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'I had sent my heroine straight down a rabbit-hole without the least idea what was to happen afterwards,' wrote Dodgson, describing how Alice was conjured up one 'golden afternoon' in 1862 to entertain his child-friend Alice Liddell. In the nonsensical Wonderland and the back-to-front Looking-Glass kingdom, order is turned upside-down: a baby turns into a pig; time is abandoned at a tea-party; an ...

In Defence of English Cooking

Mon, 5 Apr 2010 17:43:26 PST

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In May 2005 Penguin will publish 70 unique titles to celebrate the company's 70th birthday. The titles in the Pocket Penguins series are emblematic of the renowned breadth of quality of the Penguin list and will hark back to Penguin founder Allen Lane's vision of good books for all'. Not only was George Orwell one of the greatest writers and most important political thinkers of the twentieth cent ...

Resurrection

Mon, 5 Apr 2010 17:43:26 PST

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Serving on a jury at the trial of a prostitute arrested for murder, Prince Nekhlyudov is horrified to discover that the accused is a woman he had once loved, seduced and then abandoned when she was a young servant girl. Racked with guilt at realizing he was the cause of her ruin, he determines to appeal for her release or give up his own way of life and follow her. Conceived on an epic scale, "Re ...

Merde Happens

Mon, 5 Apr 2010 17:43:26 PST

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Paul West is in deep financial merde. His only way out of debt is to accept a decidedly dodgy job that involves him crossing the USA in a Mini, while pretending to be typically British. Adding to the crush in the car is Paul's French girlfriend, Alexa, and his American poet friend Jake whose main aim in life is to sleep with a woman from every country in the world. Preferably in the back of Paul' ...

Slam

Mon, 5 Apr 2010 17:43:26 PST

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Persepolis

Mon, 5 Apr 2010 17:43:26 PST

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Toute petite, Marjane voulait être prophète. Elle se disait qu'elle pourrait ainsi soigner le mal de genoux de sa grand-mère. En 1979, l'année de ses dix ans et de la révolution iranienne, elle a un peu oublié Dieu. Elle s'est mise à manifester dans le jardin de ses parents en criant "à bas le roi !". Là, elle s'imaginait plutôt en Che Guevara. Il faut dire qu'à l'époque, son livre préféré s'appe ...

Witches Abroad

Mon, 5 Apr 2010 17:43:25 PST

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The twelfth Discworld novel — It seemed an easy job . . . After all, how difficult could it be to make sure that a servant girl doesn’t marry a prince? But for the witches Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg and Magrat Garlick, travelling to the distant city of Genua, things are never that simple. Servant girls have to marry the prince. That’s what life is all about. You can’t fight a Happy Ending. ...

Eric

Mon, 5 Apr 2010 17:43:25 PST

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Discworld's only demonology hacker, Eric, is about to make life very difficult for the rest of Ankh-Morpork's denizens. This would-be Faust is very bad...at his work, that is. All he wants is to fulfill three little wishes:to live forever, to be master of the universe, and to have a stylin' hot babe. But Eric isn't even good at getting his own way. Instead of a powerful demon, he conjures, well, ...

Self

Mon, 5 Apr 2010 17:43:25 PST

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A modern-day Orlando -- edgy, funny and startlingly honest -- Self is the fictional autobiography of a young writer and traveller who finds his gender changed overnight.

Through the Looking Glass

Mon, 5 Apr 2010 17:43:25 PST

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I had sent my heroine straight down a rabbit-hole ...without the least idea what was to happen afterwards,' wrote Charles Dodgson, describing how Alice was conjured up one 'golden afternoon' in 1862 to entertain his child-friend Alice Liddell. His dream worlds of nonsensical Wonderland and the back-to-front Looking-Glass kingdom depict order turned upside-down: a baby turns into a pig; time is ab ...

Interesting Times

Mon, 5 Apr 2010 17:43:25 PST

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Hilarious stage adaptation of a best-selling Pratchett novel.

The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents

Mon, 5 Apr 2010 17:43:25 PST

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Winner of the 2001 Carnegie Medal One rat, popping up here and there, squeaking loudly, and taking a bath in the cream, could be a plague all by himself. After a few days of this, it was amazing how glad people were to see the kid with his magical rat pipe. And they were amazing when the rats followed hint out of town. They'd have been really amazed if they'd ever found out that the rats a ...

A Year in the Merde

Mon, 5 Apr 2010 17:43:25 PST

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Based on Stephen Clarke’s own experiences and with names changed to “avoid embarrassment, possible legal action, and to prevent the author’s legs being broken by someone in a Yves Saint Laurent suit,” A Year in the Merde provides perfect entertainment for Francophiles and Francophobes alike.

Why I Write

Mon, 5 Apr 2010 17:43:25 PST

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Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilizati ...

Merde Actually

Mon, 5 Apr 2010 17:43:25 PST

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A year after arriving in France, Englishman Paul West is still struggling with some fundamental questions: What is the best way to scare a gendarme? Why are there no health warnings on French nudist beaches? And is it really polite to sleep with your boss' mistress? Paul opens his English tea room, and mutates (temporarily) into a Parisian waiter; samples the pleasures of typically French hotel-r ...

The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios

Mon, 5 Apr 2010 17:43:25 PST

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Here are four unforgettable stories by the author of Life of Pi. Written earlier in Martel's career, these tales display that startling mix of dazzle and depth that have made Yann Martel an international phenomenon. Inventive in form and timeless in content, each story is moving and thought-provoking. A Canadian university student visiting Washington, D.C., experiences the Vietnam War through ...

Le nom de la rose

Mon, 5 Apr 2010 17:43:25 PST

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Johnny Mnemonic

Mon, 5 Apr 2010 17:43:25 PST

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Johnny is a courier. He carries data, uploaded into his brain through a jack implanted in his skull. And so Johnny's troubles begin. The data is stolen, and to get it back the owners have hired the Yakuza who intend to get hold of Johnny. But all they really need is his cryogenically frozen head.

Reaper Man

Mon, 5 Apr 2010 17:43:24 PST

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They say there are only two things you can count on ... But that was before DEATH started pondering the existential. Of course, the last thing anyone needs is a squeamish Grim Reaper and soon his Discworld bosses have sent him off with best wishes and a well-earned gold watch. Now DEATH is having the time of his life, finding greener pastures where he can put his scythe to a whole new use. But ...

Small Gods

Mon, 5 Apr 2010 17:43:24 PST

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Discworld is an extragavanza--among much else, it has billions of gods. "They swarm as thick as herring roe," writes Terry Pratchett in Small Gods, the 13th book in the series. Where there are gods galore, there are priests, high and low, and ... there are novices. Brutha is a novice with little chance to become a priest--thinking does not come easily to him, although believing does. But it i ...

Wyrd Sisters

Mon, 5 Apr 2010 17:43:24 PST

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Terry's Pratchett's profoundly irrelevetn novels, are consistent number one bestsellers in England, where they have catapulted him into the highest echelons of parody next to Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, and Carl Hiaasen. Meet Granny Weatherwx, the most highly regarded non-leader a coven of non-social witches could ever have. Generally, these loners don't get involved in anything, m ...

The Color of Magic

Mon, 5 Apr 2010 17:43:24 PST

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Terry Pratchett's profoundly irreverent novels are consistent number one bestsellers in England, where they have garnered him a revered position in the halls of parody next to Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, and Carl Hiaasen. The Color of Magic is Terry Pratchett's maiden voyage through the now-legendary land of Discworld. This is where it all begins--with the tourist Twoflower and his ...

Guards! Guards!

Mon, 5 Apr 2010 17:43:24 PST

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Here there be dragons . . . and the denizens of Ankh-Morpork wish one huge firebreather would return from whence it came. Long believed extinct, a superb specimen of draco nobilis ("noble dragon" for those who don't understand italics) has appeared in Discworld's greatest city. Not only does this unwelcome visitor have a nasty habit of charbroiling everything in its path, in rather short order it ...

Mort

Mon, 5 Apr 2010 17:43:24 PST

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Terry Pratchett's profoundly irreverent novels are consistent number one bestseller in England, where they have catapulted him into the highest echelons of parody next to Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, and Carl Hiaasen. In this Discworld installment, Death comes to Mort with an offer he can't refuse -- especially since being, well, dead isn't compulsory. As Death's apprentice, he'll h ...

Moving Pictures

Mon, 5 Apr 2010 17:43:24 PST

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Discworld's pesky alchemists are up to their old tricks again. This time, they've discovered how to get gold from silver -- the silver screen that is. Hearing the siren call of Holy Wood is one Victor Tugelbend, a would-be wizard turned extra. He can't sing, he can't dance, but he can handle a sword (sort of), and now he wants to be a star. So does Theda Withel, an ambitious ingénue from a little ...

The Light Fantastic

Mon, 5 Apr 2010 17:43:24 PST

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Terry Pratchett's profoundly irreverent novels are consistent number one bestsellers in England, where they have garnered him a revered position in the halls of parody next to Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, and Carl Hiaasen. In The Light Fantastic only one individual can save the world from a disastrous collision. Unfortunately, the hero happens to be the singularly inept wizard Rince ...

Equal Rites

Mon, 5 Apr 2010 17:43:24 PST

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The last thing the wizard Drum Billet did before Death laid a bony hand on his shoulder, was to pass on his staff of power to the eighth son of an eighth son. Unfortunately for his colleagues in the chauvinistic (not to say misogynistic) world of magic, he failed to check on the new-born baby's sex...

Sourcery

Mon, 5 Apr 2010 17:43:24 PST

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There was an eighth son of an eighth son. He was, quite naturally, a wizard. And there it should have ended. However (for reasons we'd better not go into), he had seven sons. And then he had an eighth son...a wizard squared...a source of magic...a Sourcerer. SOURCERY SEES THE RETURN OF RINCEWIND AND THE LUGGAGE AS THE DISCWORLD FACES ITS GREATEST-AND FUNNIEST-CHALLENGE YET.

Pyramids

Mon, 5 Apr 2010 17:43:24 PST

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Unlike most teenaged boys, Teppic isn't chasing girls and working at the mall. Instead he's just inherited the throne of the desert kingdom of Djelibeybi -- a job that's come a bit earlier than he expected (a turn of fate his recently departed father wasn't too happy about either).It's bad enough being new on the job, but Teppic hasn't a clue as to what a pharaoh is supposed to do. After all, he' ...

Feet of Clay

Mon, 5 Apr 2010 17:43:23 PST

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In Feet of Clay, Terry Pratchett continues the fantasy adventures on Discworld--where anything goes. Anything but murder, that is. Commander Vimes of the Watch must investigate a puzzling series of deaths, with help from various trolls and dwarfs. Pratchett's humour and excellent writing skills draw the reader effortlessly into his zany world. Feet of Clay is 19th in the series. --Blaise Selby

The Man in the High Castle

Mon, 5 Apr 2010 17:43:23 PST

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It's America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. the few Jews who still survive hide under assumed names. In San Francisco the I Ching is as common as the Yellow Pages. All because some 20 years earlier the United States lost a war--and is now occupied jointly by Nazi Germany and Japan. This harrowing, Hugo Award-winning novel is the work that established Philip K. Dick as an innovator in sc ...

Foundation's Edge

Mon, 5 Apr 2010 17:43:23 PST

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At last, the costly and bitter war between the two Foundations had come to an end. The scientists of the First Foundation had proved victorious; and now they retum to Hari Seldon's long-established plan to build a new Empire that the Second Foundation is not destroyed after all-and that its still-defiant survivors are preparing their revenge. Now the two exiled citizens of the Foundation-a renega ...

Good Omens

Mon, 5 Apr 2010 17:43:23 PST

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According to the Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter--the world's only totally reliable guide to the future--the world will end on a Saturday. Next Saturday, in fact. Just after tea...

Ubik

Mon, 5 Apr 2010 17:43:23 PST

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Philip K. Dick's searing metaphysical comedy of death and salvation is a tour de force of panoramic menace and unfettered slapstick, in which the departed give business advice, shop for their next incarnation, and run the continual risk of dying yet again.

Men at Arms

Mon, 5 Apr 2010 17:43:23 PST

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A Young Dwarf's Dream Corporal Carrot has been promoted! He's now in charge of the new recruits guarding Ankh-Morpork, Discworld's greatest city, from Barbarian Tribes, Miscellaneous Marauders, unlicensed Thieves, and such. It's a big job, particularly for an adopted dwarf. But an even bigger job awaits. An ancient document has just revealed that Ankh-Morpork, ruled for decades by Disorganized cr ...

Soul Music

Mon, 5 Apr 2010 17:43:23 PST

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When her dear old Granddad -- the Grim Reaper himself -- goes missing, Susan takes over the family business. The progeny of Death's adopted daughter and his apprentice, she shows real talent for the trade. That is until a little string in her heart goes "twang." With a head full of dreams and a pocketful of lint, Imp the Bard lands in Ankh-Morpork, yearning to become a rock star. Determined to de ...

Foundation and Earth

Mon, 5 Apr 2010 17:43:22 PST

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The epic story of the Foundation is one of the great classics of science fiction by the Grand Master of the genre. Isaac Asimov's legendary saga, winner of the Hugo Award for Best All-Time Novel Series, has enthralled generations of readers - and continues to amaze. All records of Earth have been removed systematically from the libraries of Foundation worlds. Now Councilman Golan Trevize and Prof ...

The Caves of Steel

Mon, 5 Apr 2010 17:43:22 PST

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A millennium into the future two advancements have altered the course of human history: the colonization of the galaxy and the creation of the positronic brain. Isaac Asimov's Robot novels chronicle the unlikely partnership between a New York City detective and a humanoid robot who must learn to work together. Like most people left behind on an over-populated Earth, New York City police detect ...

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Mon, 5 Apr 2010 17:43:22 PST

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"The most consistently brilliant science fiction writer in the world." --John Brunner THE INSPIRATION FOR BLADERUNNER. . . Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? was published in 1968. Grim and foreboding, even today it is a masterpiece ahead of its time. By 2021, the World War had killed millions, driving entire species into extinction and sending mankind off-planet. Those who remained covete ...

Forward the Foundation

Mon, 5 Apr 2010 17:43:22 PST

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A stunning testament to his creative genius. Forward The Foundation is a the saga's dramatic climax -- the story Asimov fans have been waiting for. An exciting tale of danger, intrigue, and suspense, Forward The Foundation brings to vivid life Asimov's best loved characters: hero Hari Seldon, who struggles to perfect his revolutionary theory of psychohistory to ensure the survival of humanity; Cl ...

Prelude to Foundation

Mon, 5 Apr 2010 17:43:22 PST

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It is the year 12,020 G.E. and Emperor Cleon I sits uneasily on the Imperial throne of Trantor. Here in the great multidomed capital of the Galactic Empire, forty billion people have created a civilization of unimaginable technological and cultural complexity. Yet Cleon knows there are those who would see him fall - those whom he would destroy if only he could read the future. Hari Seldon has c ...

Second Foundation

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Isaac Asimov's Foundation novels are one of the great masterworks of science fiction. As unsurpassed blend of nonstop action, daring ideas, and extensive world-building, they chronicle the struggle of a courageous group of men and women dedicated to preserving humanity's light in a galaxy plunged into a nightmare of ignorance and violence thirty thousand years long. After years of struggle, the ...

Spook Country

Mon, 5 Apr 2010 17:43:22 PST

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Mon, 5 Apr 2010 17:43:22 PST

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Is a loved one missing some body parts? Are blondes becoming extinct? Is everyone at your dinner table of the same species? Humans and chimpanzees differ in only 400 genes; is that why a chimp fetus resembles a human being? And should that worry us? There's a new genetic cure for drug addiction--is it worse than the disease? We live in a time of momentous scientific leaps, a time when it's pos ...

1984

Mon, 5 Apr 2010 17:43:21 PST

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The year 1984 is finally upon us, and George Orwell's prophetic, nightmare vision in 1984 of the world we were becoming is timelier than ever. 1984 is still the great modern classic of "Negative Utopia" - a startling original and powerful novel that creates and imaginary world that is completely convincing from the first sentence to the last four words. "Seldom has a books provided a greater wea ...

Pattern Recognition

Mon, 5 Apr 2010 17:43:21 PST

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Cayce Pollard (pronounced 'case") is a legend in the field of market research, paid handsomely to recognize cultural and social patterns that corporations can turn into cash. Google her and you find 'coolhunter," and you may see it suggested that she is a 'sensitive" of some kind, a dowserin the world of global marketing. The truth, according to her friends, is that her sensitivity is closer to a ...

Idoru

Mon, 5 Apr 2010 17:43:21 PST

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The New York Times bestselling author takes readers to 21st-century Tokyo after the millennial quake--where something violently new is about to erupt...

The Fellowship of the Ring

Mon, 5 Apr 2010 17:43:21 PST

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Frodo Baggins knew the Ringwraiths were searching for him--and the Ring of Power he bore that would enable Sauran to destroy all that was good in Middle-earth. Now it was up to Frodo and his faithful servant Sam to carry the Ring to where it could be detroyed--in the very center of Sauron's dark kingdom.

Foundation

Mon, 5 Apr 2010 17:43:21 PST

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For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying. But only Hari Sheldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory, can see into the future--to a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and warfare that will last thirty thousand years. To preserve knowledge and save mankind, Seldon gathers the best minds in the Empire--both scientists and scholars--and bri ...