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Starship Troopers

Mon, 6 May 2013 20:03:51 PST

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5,000 years in the future, mankind is threatened with extermination… This is the story of Starship Trooper Johnny Rico, from his idealistic enlistment in the infantry of the future, through his rigorous training to the command of his own platoon. His destiny is a galactic war of unlimited violence and destruction. Rico and his fellow troopers scour the metal-strewn emptiness of space to hunt d ...

Interventions

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 19:00:06 PST

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In what many perceive as a coldly relentless digital age, Pulitzer-prize winning author Richard Russo has teamed up with his daughter, artist Kate Russo, to present this tribute to the printed book. This handsome and inventive format—four individually bound volumes gathered in a slipcase—combines the previously unpublished novella “Intervention” with three shorter works, two of which have not bee ...

Of Men and Monsters

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 19:38:00 PST

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Giant, technologically superior aliens have conquered Earth, but humankind survives - even flourishes in a way. Men and women live, like mice, in burrows in the massive walls of the huge homes of the aliens, and scurry about under their feet, stealing from them. A complex social and religious order has evolved, with women preserving knowledge and working as healers, and men serving as warriors an ...

Lord of Light

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 20:26:01 PST

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Imagine a distant world where gods walk as men, but wield vast and hidden powers. Here they have made the stage on which they build a subtle pattern of alliance, love, and deadly enmity. Are they truly immortal? Who are these gods who rule the destiny of a teeming world? Their names include Brahma, Kali, Krishna and also he who was called Buddha, the Lord of Light, but who now prefers to be known ...

Dragon de feu

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 18:44:40 PST

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"Qu'est-ce que c'est au juste qu'un dragon?" demande le jeune dong-dong à son grand-père. Celui-ci lui explique que le dragon est un animal fabuleux, qui était assez mal vu en Occident au Moyen Âge, mais qu'on a toujours vénéré en Orient. En Chine, on a même une raison très précise de lui être reconnaissant et de la célébrer chaque année. "Voici laquelle... " Heureusement, il y aura toujours (en ...

Timescape

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 18:28:43 PST

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1962: A young Californian scientist finds his experiments spoiled by mysterious interference. Gradually his suspicions lead him to a shattering truth: scientists from the end of the century are using subatomic particles to send a message into the past, in the hope that history can be changed and a world-threatening catastrophe averted.

On Helwig Street

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 21:25:47 PST

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'"Whoever said beggars can't be choosers," my grandfather would remark when she was out of earshot, "never met your mother."' Jean Russo was a single mother in the 1950s, badly paid and living with her only son, Richard, in the upstairs apartment of her parents' home on Helwig Street in Gloversville, New York. When Richard left for University, Jean saw her chance to escape a dead-end town in sear ...

The Swarm

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 21:16:21 PST

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The Wind Through the Keyhole

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 19:01:09 PST

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Join Roland Deschain, gunslinger from Gilead that was, knight errant of a decayed civilization as he and his companions journey towards the distant Dark Tower. Leaving behind the Emerald City, they are confronted by a starkblast, an icy, terrifying storm that stops them in their tracks. Roland begins to spin a story... This is both a stand-alone novel for readers new to the world of the Dark Tow ...

The Halloween Tree

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 19:33:37 PST

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Illustrated in black-and-white. Now back in print is the stunning contemporary classic by American literary treasure Ray Bradbury, author of Fahrenheit 451 and The Martian Chronicles. Meet the mysterious Mr. Moonshroud, who leads eight boys on a journey back through the centuries to discover the real meaning of Halloween. Prose of exquisite beauty will send shivers of delight--and terror--throug ...

The Man Who Fell to Earth

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 0:04:02 PST

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On his first day on Earth, Thomas J. Newton walks into a small Kentucky town to sell a gold ring for $60. Yet this tall, unnaturally frail and strange man needs much more money than this to achieve his ultimate aims. By licensing the plans for unimaginably advanced technology he makes himself a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars – but in doing so becomes an object of fascination, and even ...

Roadside Picnic

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 17:48:11 PST

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Rue Ordener, rue Labat

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 17:39:32 PST

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Francia 1942. Nel racconto autobiografico di un'infanzia minacciata dall'antisemitismo, la tragedia antica e dolorosa di una bambina contesa tra due madri. "Di lui mi rimane solamente la penna. L'ho presa un giorno da una borsa in cui mia madre la conservava insieme ad altri ricordi di mio padre. Una penna come non se ne fanno più, e che bisognava caricare con l'inchiostro. L'ho usata per tutti ...

Oltre il muro

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 17:32:35 PST

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Questi racconti furono pubblicati da Glauser in forma sparsa, su riviste, dal 1916 al 1938. Una distensione nel tempo che però è contraddetta da una compattezza sostanziale estrema: come se discendessero tutti da un unico progetto elaborato una volta per tutte, da un unico «discorso» (e chiunque conosca un poco l'opera di Glauser sa che, in questo autore svizzero tedesco vissuto un po' ovunque, l ...

The Fall of Hyperion

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 22:25:37 PST

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The universe is reaching a crisis point. The mysterious Time Tombs are opening and the Shrike that has risen from them may well control the fate of all mankind. The Als we created have turned against us to build the Ultimate Intelligence; God. The God of Machines. His genesis could mean annihilation of the entire human race.

Emphyrio

Tue, 12 Feb 2013 3:58:17 PST

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Far in the future, the craftsmen of the planet Halma create goods which, unknown to them, are the wonder of the galaxy. Their society is harshly regimented -- any use of machinery is punishable by death -- and its religion is unforgiving. When Amiante Tarvoke is executed for processing old documents with a camera, his son Ghyl rebels, and decides to bring down the system. But first he must interp ...

The Songs of Distant Earth

Mon, 11 Feb 2013 23:41:01 PST

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On Earth the Lords of the Last Days live with no need to care for the future. It is the wildest of times, and the saddest. The sun will go nova in the year 3620. Last to leave Earth is the spaceship Magellan carrying a million homeless - who witness the Atlantic boil dry, the pyramids disintegrate, the ice of Antarctica melt, the death of Earth. Then they sleep. Five hundred years later, the Ma ...

Greybeard

Sat, 26 Jan 2013 7:26:44 PST

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Since the 'Accident', when nuclear weapons were exploded in orbit, mankind has been sterile and no children have been born. Civilization has crumbled. In scattered enclaves, the old live as best they can while nature overwhelms the cities and roads. Algy Timberlane - Greybeard - and his wife, Martha, embark on a boat trip down the Thames to the sea, journeying through the strange new landscape, e ...

La ricerca della terra felice

Sun, 20 Jan 2013 5:01:34 PST

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Questa è la storia di Eliusha, cinque anni, che all'inizio della Seconda guerra mondiale si trasferisce con la sua famiglia dalla cittadina in cui vive nell'Unione Sovietica in una zona desolata del Kazakistan. Mentre suo padre raggiunge l'esercito russo per combattere contro i nazisti, Eliusha e la sua famiglia devono affrontare la nuova vita in un villaggio sperduto, dove gli abitanti hanno abi ...

Fenrìs

Sun, 20 Jan 2013 5:01:30 PST

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Otto giorni in una soffitta

Sun, 20 Jan 2013 4:56:41 PST

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La teleferica misteriosa

Sun, 20 Jan 2013 4:56:38 PST

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Monsieur Lambert

Thu, 3 Jan 2013 22:03:23 PST

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Monsieur Lambert is a gentle, and unmistakably French, graphic novel with text and pictures by one of the world's best-loved illustrators. Jean-Jacques Sempe offers a glimpse of the everyday lives and secret passions of the regulars in a small Parisian bistro. When Monsieur Lambert does not turn up for lunch at his usual time, the other regulars speculate that he must have met a woman. How else c ...

The Book of Skulls

Thu, 3 Jan 2013 22:02:51 PST

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Four students discover a manuscript, The Book of Skulls, which reveals the existence of a sect, now living in the Arizona desert, whose members can offer immortality to those who can complete its initiation rite. To their surprise, they discover that the sect exists, and is willing to accept them as acolytes. But for each group of four who enter the rite, two must die in order for the others to s ...

Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said

Thu, 3 Jan 2013 0:01:37 PST

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Jason Taverner is a Six, the product of top secret government experiments forty years earlier which produced a handful of unnaturally bright and beautiful people. He is also a TV star, the prime-time idol of millions... until, inexplicably, all record of him disappears from the data banks. Now he is a man with no identity, in a police state where everybody's records are monitored. Can he ever be ...

Ubik

Tue, 1 Jan 2013 22:34:17 PST

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Glen Runciter is dead. Or is he? Someone died in the explosion orchestrated by his business rivals, but even as his funeral is scheduled, his mourning employees are receiving bewildering messages from their boss. And the world around them is warping and regressing in ways which suggest that their own time is running out. If it hasn't already.

Ed the Happy Clown

Fri, 21 Dec 2012 20:13:49 PST

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In the late 1980s, the idiosyncratic Chester Brown (author of the muchlauded Paying for It and Louis Riel) began writing the cult classic comic book series Yummy Fur. Within its pages, he serialized the groundbreaking Ed the Happy Clown, revealing a macabre universe of parallel dimensions. Thanks to its wholly original yet disturbing story lines, Ed set the stage for Brown to become a world-renow ...

Two Cents Plain

Fri, 21 Dec 2012 20:05:18 PST

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Martin Lemelman's elegiac and bittersweet graphic memoir Two Cents Plain collects the memories and artifacts of the author's childhood in Brooklyn. The son of Holocaust survivors, Lemelman grew up in the back of his family's candy store in Brownsville during the 1950s and '60s, as the neighborhood, and much of the city, moved into a period of deep decline. In Two Cents Plain, Lemelman pieces toge ...

Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang

Fri, 21 Dec 2012 19:48:03 PST

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The Sumner family can read the signs: the droughts and floods, the blighted crops, the shortages, the rampant diseases and plagues, and, above all, the increasing sterility all point to one thing. Their isolated farm in the Appalachian Mountains gives them the ideal place to survive the coming breakdown, and their wealth and know-how gives them the means. Men and women must clone themselves for h ...

Bring the Jubilee

Fri, 21 Dec 2012 19:47:56 PST

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Trapped in 1877, a historian writes an account of an alternate history of America in which the South won the Civil War. Living in this alternate timeline, he was determined to change events at Gettysburg. When he's offered the chance to return to that fateful turning point his actions change history as he knows it, leaving him in an all too familiar past.

Ringworld

Thu, 20 Dec 2012 18:20:41 PST

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The artefact is a circular ribbon of matter six hundred million miles long and ninety million miles in radius. Pierson's puppeteers, the aliens who discovered it, are understandably wary of encountering the builders of such an immese structure and have assembled a team of two humans, a mad puppeteer and a kzin, a huge cat-like alien, to explore it. But a crash landing on the vast edifice forces t ...

Childhood's End

Thu, 20 Dec 2012 18:18:48 PST

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When the silent spacecraft arrived and took the light from the world, no one knew what to expect. But, although the Overlords kept themselves hidden from man, they had come to unite a warring world and to offer an end to poverty and crime. When they finally showed themselves it was a shock, but one that humankind could now cope with, and an era of peace, prosperity and endless leisure began. But ...

Make Room! Make Room!

Fri, 14 Dec 2012 21:14:13 PST

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A gangster is murdered during a blistering Manhattan heat wave. City cop Andy Rusch is under pressure to solve the crime and captivated by the victim's beautiful girlfriend. But it is difficult to catch a killer, let alone get the girl, in crazy streets crammed full of people. The planet's population has exploded. The 35 million inhabitants of New York City run their TVs off pedal power, riot for ...

Metro 2033

Thu, 13 Dec 2012 21:00:15 PST

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The year is 2033. The world has been reduced to rubble. Humanity is nearly extinct. The half-destroyed cities have become uninhabitable through radiation. Beyond their boundaries, they say, lie endless burned-out deserts and the remains of splintered forests. Survivors still remember the past greatness of humankind. But the last remains of civilisation have already become a distant memory, the st ...

Riddley Walker

Thu, 13 Dec 2012 20:16:35 PST

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Riddley Walker - orphaned, outcast and alone - journeys thorough a post-apocalyptic England, telling his tale in a language which reflects the decayed world around him. Set in a post-apocalyptic England, RIDDLEY WALKER tells the tale of one twelve year old boy and his journey through the ruins of civilisation. After the death of his father in an accident, Riddley must become a man. But his inq ...

The Doomsday Book

Wed, 12 Dec 2012 20:51:51 PST

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Winner of the Hugo & Nebula Awards 1993. When Kivrin Engle travels back through time to complete her doctoral thesis, due to an accident, she lands in the middle of the Black Plague of 1348. Meanwhile the Oxford she left behind is laid low by a mysterious strain of influenza and, with no one willing to risk arranging her rescue, time is running out..

Skeleton Crew

Wed, 12 Dec 2012 20:43:49 PST

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Hold tight. We are going into a number of dark places, but I think I know the way. Just don't let go of my arm ...Unrivalled master of suspense Stephen King takes the unsuspecting reader on a fantastic journey through the dark shadows of our innermost fears.Do the dead sing?In this bumper collection of chilling tales, which includes the brilliant story adapted into the acclaimed movie The Mist, w ...

Locke & Key, Vol. 1

Tue, 11 Dec 2012 23:30:08 PST

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Locke & Key tells of Keyhouse, an unlikely New England mansion, with fantastic doors that transform all who dare to walk through them, and home to a hate-filled and relentless creature that will not rest until it forces open the most terrible door of them all! Acclaimed suspense novelist and New York Times best-selling author Joe Hill (Heart-Shaped Box) creates an all-new story of dark fantasy an ...

The City and the Stars

Tue, 11 Dec 2012 22:11:13 PST

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Men had built cities before, but never such a city as Diaspar; for millennia its protective dome shutout the creeping decay and danger of the world outside. Once, it held powers that rules the stars. But then, as legend had it, The invaders came, driving humanity into this last refuge. It takes one man, A Unique to break through Diaspar's stifling inertia, to smash the legend and discover the ...

Falling Angels

Thu, 6 Dec 2012 23:28:43 PST

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Ruby

Thu, 6 Dec 2012 16:37:38 PST

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Gorgeously illustrated with pictures so intricate they can occupy readers for hours, this is the story of Ruby, a beloved vintage car that once belonged to author Colin Thompson in real life. While flipping through the pages of the lavish interior, enjoy all the colorful details, but be sure to pay attention! There are clues to the six letters and numbers that make up Ruby's license plate number ...

Tuesday

Tue, 27 Nov 2012 22:22:21 PST

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A Caldecott classic celebrating twenty years in print. David Wiesner received the 1991 Caldecott Medal for Tuesday. In the years that followed, he went on to receive two more Caldecotts, and Tuesday went on to sell half a million copies in the United States and to be published in a dozen foreign countries. Now, with remarkable advances in the technology of color reproduction, the original artwork ...

Are You My Mother?

Tue, 27 Nov 2012 22:11:49 PST

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Alison Bechdel's Fun Home was a literary phenomenon: an intimate account of family secrets. While Fun Home explored the cartoonist's relationship with her father, a closeted homosexual, this new memoir is about her mother - a voracious reader, a music lover, a passionate amateur actor. Also a woman, unhappily married to a gay man, whose artistic aspirations simmered under the surface of Bechdel's ...

Hyperion

Fri, 23 Nov 2012 23:09:23 PST

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The universe of the Human Hegemony is under threat. Invasion by the warlike Ousters looms and the mysterious schemes of the secessionist AI TechnoCore bring chaos ever closer. On the eve of disaster, with the entire galaxy at war, seven pilgrims set forth on a final voyage to the legendary Time Tombs on Hyperion, home to the Shrike, a lethal creature, part god and part killing machine, whose pow ...

Seventh Son

Fri, 23 Nov 2012 22:19:24 PST

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American Library Association “Best Books for Young Adults” From the author of Ender’s Game, an unforgettable story about young Alvin Maker: the seventh son of a seventh son. Born into an alternative frontier America where life is hard and folk magic is real, Alvin is gifted with the power. He must learn to use his gift wisely. But dark forces are arrayed against Alvin, and only a young girl wit ...

The Death of Grass

Fri, 16 Nov 2012 22:40:24 PST

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A post-apocalyptic vision of the world pushed to the brink by famine, John Christopher's science fiction masterpiece The Death of Grass includes an introduction by Robert MacFarlane. At first the virus wiping out grass and crops is of little concern to John Custance. It has decimated Asia, causing mass starvation and riots, but Europe is safe and a counter-virus is expected any day. Except, it t ...

The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore

Sat, 10 Nov 2012 21:34:01 PST

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The book that inspired the Academy Award–winning short film. Everything in Morris Lessmore’s life, including his own story, is scattered to the winds.But the power of story will save the day. Stunningly brought to life by William Joyce, one of the preeminent creators in children’s literature, The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore is a modern masterpiece, showing that in today’s world ...

Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

Mon, 5 Nov 2012 2:11:27 PST

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In 1985 Jeanette Winterson's first novel, "Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit", was published. It was Jeanette's version of the story of a terraced house in Accrington, an adopted child, and the thwarted giantess Mrs Winterson. It was a cover story, a painful past written over and repainted. It was a story of survival. This book is that story's the silent twin. It is full of hurt and humour and a fie ...

Wonderstruck

Sat, 3 Nov 2012 18:31:52 PST

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Having lost his mother and his hearing in a short time, twelve-year-old Ben leaves his Minnesota home in 1977 to seek the father he never knew in New York City, and meets there Rose, who is also longing for something missing from her life. Ben's story is told in words; Rose's in pictures.

The Hare with Amber Eyes

Tue, 16 Oct 2012 18:56:18 PST

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At the heart of Edmund de Waal's strange and graceful family memoir, The Hare with Amber Eyes, is a one-of-a-kind inherited collection of ornamental Japanese carvings known as netsuke. The netsuke are tiny and tactile--they sit in the palm of your hand--and de Waal is drawn to them as "small, tough explosions of exactitude." He's also drawn to the story behind them, and for years he put aside his ...

Ender's Shadow

Tue, 2 Oct 2012 21:10:20 PST

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Returning to the time of Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow follows the incredible story of one of Ender Wiggin's fellow pupils at Battle School.

Night Shift

Tue, 2 Oct 2012 19:58:32 PST

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A collection of tales to invade and paralyse the mind as the safe light of day is infiltrated by the shadows of the night.As you read, the clutching fingers of terror brush lightly across the nape of the neck, reach round from behind to clutch and lock themselves, white-knuckled, around the throat. This is the horror of ordinary people and everyday objects that become strangely altered; a world w ...

The Day of the Triffids

Tue, 2 Oct 2012 19:23:28 PST

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When Bill Masen wakes up blindfolded in hospital there is a bitter irony in his situation. Carefully removing his bandages, he realizes that he is the only person who can see: everyone else, doctors and patients alike, have been blinded by a meteor shower. Now, with civilization in chaos, the triffids - huge, venomous, large-rooted plants able to 'walk', feeding on human flesh - can have their da ...

Earth Abides

Tue, 2 Oct 2012 19:09:40 PST

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In this profound ecological fable, a mysterious plague has destroyed the vast majority of the human race. Isherwood Williams, one of the few survivors, returns from a wilderness field trip to discover that civilization has vanished during his absence. Eventually he returns to San Francisco and encounters a female survivor who becomes his wife. Around them and their children a small community d ...

Mockingbird

Tue, 2 Oct 2012 19:09:33 PST

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The future is a grim place in which the declining human population wanders, drugged and lulled by electronic bliss. It's a world without art, reading and children, a world where people would rather burn themselves alive than endure. Even Spofforth, the most perfect machine ever created, cannot bear it and seeks only that which he cannot have - to cease to be. But there is hope for the future in t ...

Time and Again

Tue, 2 Oct 2012 19:05:56 PST

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Si Morley is marking time: he's bored with his job as a commercial artist, and his social life doesn't seem to be going anywhere. So when he's approached by an affable ex-football star and told that he's just what the government is looking for to be part of a top secret project, he doesn't hesitate for long. And one night he steps out of his twentieth-century New York apartment back into the wint ...

Something Wicked This Way Comes

Tue, 2 Oct 2012 18:41:58 PST

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It's the week before Hallowe'en, and Cooger and Dark's Pandemonium Shadow Show has come to Green Town, Illinois. The siren song of the calliope entices all with promises of youth regained and dreams fulfilled ...And as two boys trembling on the brink of manhood set out to explore the mysteries of the dark carnival's smoke, mazes and mirrors, they will also discover the true price of innermost wis ...

Fahrenheit 451

Tue, 2 Oct 2012 18:40:43 PST

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The hauntingly prophetic classic novel set in a not-too-distant future where books are burned by a special task force of firemen. Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to burn books, which are forbidden, being the source of all discord and unhappiness. Even so, Montag is unhappy; there is discord in his marriage. Are books hidden in his house? The Mechanical Hound of the Fire Department, armed with ...

Farewell Summer

Tue, 2 Oct 2012 18:40:18 PST

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A poignant and brilliant sequel to Dandelion Wine from the author of Fahrenheit 451 In Green Town Illinois, Douglas Spaulding is in the midst of a small civil war with the old pitted against the young in this, the second book in Bradbury's semi-fictionalised account of his childhood. As the school board's figure of authority Mr Calvin C. Quartermain attempts to outwit the boys at every turn, thei ...

Dandelion Wine

Tue, 2 Oct 2012 18:39:22 PST

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An endearing classic of childhood memories of an idyllic midwestern summer from the celebrated author of 'Farenheit 451'. "He stood at the open window in the dark, took a deep breath and exhaled. The street lights, like candles on a black cake, went out. He exhaled again and again and the stars began to vanish. Douglas smiled. He pointed a finger. There, and there. Now over here, and here! Yellow ...

Harvey Pekar's Cleveland

Mon, 1 Oct 2012 22:40:08 PST

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A lifelong Cleveland resident, Harvey Pekar (1939-2010) pioneered autobiographical comics, mining the mundane for magic since 1976 in his ongoing American Splendor series. Harvey Pekar's Cleveland is sadly one of his last, but happily one of his most definitive graphic novels. It combines classic American Splendor-ous autobiographical anecdotes with key moments and characters in the city's histor ...

Free Fall

Thu, 30 Aug 2012 21:44:43 PST

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When he falls asleep with a book in his arms, a young boy dreams an amazing dream-about dragons, about castles, and about an unchartered, faraway land. And you can come along.

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol. 3, Chapter 2

Tue, 28 Aug 2012 21:00:17 PST

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Famous Monsters of Filmland #202

Mon, 27 Aug 2012 18:58:27 PST

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Contains "The Killer", a short story written by Stephen King in mid-1960s.

The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes

Thu, 26 Jul 2012 3:17:08 PST

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This collection contains an omnibus edition of "Yukon Ho!" and "Weirdos from Another Planet" as well as the first published edition of a new Calvin and Hobbes colour cartoon story.

The Polar Express

Mon, 23 Jul 2012 22:46:50 PST

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Winner of the Caldecott Medal Late on Christmas Eve, after the town has gone to sleep, a boy boards a mysterious train that waits for him: the Polar Express, bound for the North Pole.

Non saremo noi

Mon, 23 Jul 2012 22:23:40 PST

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Philip K. Dick è tra i più celebrati narratori di fantascienza U.S. sia per i suoi romanzi sia, e forse anche di più, per le sue short-stories. Questa prestigiosa antologia di suoi racconti rari e introvabili (tutti inediti in Italia tranne due, pubblicati molti anni fa) è stata curata da Mark Hurst in collaborazione con lo stesso Dick, che vi ha premesso una mordente introduzione e aggiunto sp ...

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol. 3, Chapter 1

Thu, 19 Jul 2012 5:39:25 PST

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The third volume detailing the exploits of Miss Wilhelmina Murray and her extraordinary colleagues, Century is a 216-page epic spanning almost 100 years. Chapter one is set against the backdrop of London in 1910, 12 years after the failed Martian invasion and nine years since England put a man on the moon. With Halley's Comet passing overhead, the nation prepares for the coronation of King George ...

Tra amici

Thu, 19 Jul 2012 2:59:43 PST

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Con poche pennellate precise, Amos Oz ricrea il microcosmo di un kibbutz israeliano negli anni cinquanta. Dal giardiniere timido e solitario che ha la passione di dare brutte notizie alla donna lasciata dal marito per un'altra che le vive praticamente accanto; dal mite elettricista che, con sbigottita discrezione, non riesce a capacitarsi dell'amore della figlia diciottenne per il suo insegnante ...

All the Rage

Mon, 16 Jul 2012 7:37:04 PST

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Here are the latest, greatest, and last of the daily and Sunday strips; banned comics that have never been seen before, with Aaron McGruder’s commentary on them; and interviews and profiles of the man behind the rage. All the Rage is a must for any true Boondocks fan.

The Vicar of Nibbleswicke

Mon, 16 Jul 2012 7:22:40 PST

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The Reverend Lee is suffering from a rare and acutely embarrasing condition: Back-to-Front Dyslexia. It affects only his speech, and he doesn´t realize he´s doing it, but the parishioners of Nibbleswicke are shocked and confused by his seemingly outrageous comments. At last a cure is found and the mild-mannered vicar can resume normal service. Or at least as normal as is possible for a man who mu ...

The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me

Mon, 16 Jul 2012 7:20:28 PST

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Billy's biggest wish is to turn a weird old wooden house into a wonderful sweet shop. But then he finds a giraffe, a pelly and a monkey living inside - they're the Ladderless Window Cleaners! Who need ladders when you've got a giraffe? They become best friends and when they meet the richest man in all England, there's a chance Billy's scrumptious-galumptious dream just might come true...

Alan Moore's The Courtyard

Wed, 4 Jul 2012 7:17:33 PST

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The most celebrated writer in the industry, Alan Moore, teams up with brilliant artist Jacen Burrows, to unleash this timeless tale of Lovecraftian psychological horror. FBI man Aldo Sax has an amazing service record with the FBI. His legendary skills at piecing together the most baffling of cases has gotten him assigned to what may be his most confusing case yet. Several murders - no, more like ...

Daytripper

Sun, 1 Jul 2012 2:13:00 PST

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Daytripper follows the life of one man, Bras de Olivias Dominguez. Every chapter features an important period in Bras’ life in exotic Brazil, and each story ends the same way: with his death. And then, the following story starts up at a different point in his life, oblivious to his death in the previous issue – and then also ends with him dying again. In every chapter, Bras dies at different mome ...

Bone: Rose

Sat, 30 Jun 2012 20:14:39 PST

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Prequel to the epic Bone saga. When a terrifying dragon attacks the small towns of the Northern Valley, Princess Rose must defeat the bloodthirsty beast, who is possessed by the evil Lord of the Locusts. While Rose faces the danger with honor, her elder sister, Princess Briar, follows a more sinister path.

Farò i miracoli

Sat, 30 Jun 2012 20:11:54 PST

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"Mi ripetevano tutti le stesse domande: che mestiere farai quando diventi grande? Finché stamattina finalmente, un bel mestiere mi è venuto in mente..." Chi, da bambino, non si è mai lasciato trascinare dalla fantasia, sognando il suo avvenire? Chi non ha mai pronunciato queste parole, o altre simili: "Io farò la maestra", "io sarò pompiere"... Il bambino che ci presenta Susie Morgenstern, dal ca ...

Bambert's Book of Missing Stories

Fri, 29 Jun 2012 6:33:30 PST

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Bambert lives alone in his attic home. He feels out of place in the world and finds solace in the characters he creates in his stories. One day, he decides to send his eleven stories out into the world, to find their own (true) setting. He attaches them to paper balloons and sends them out on a windy night. The eleventh story is blank. Bambert hopes it will write itself. Gradually the stories ret ...

The House That Groaned

Thu, 28 Jun 2012 21:48:17 PST

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141 Rottin Road 'A cosy, one-bedroom apartment on the first floor of a charming Victorian conversion. Newly decorated and with a separate kitchen and reception room. Located just a bus ride away from a wide range of shops, restaurants and bars.' Welcome to The House that Groaned and the six lonely inhabitants of its separate flats, characters so at odds with themselves and their bodies that the ...

Crime and Punishment

Thu, 28 Jun 2012 19:37:41 PST

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For a century "Crime and Punishment" has been unchallenged as the most searching exploration of the labyrinthine passages of the guilty mind. Raskolnikov, whose very soul is exposed under the pitiless scrutiny of Dostoevsky's insight, has become a symbol for the kind of man who can conceive and execute a brutal murder, but whose tormented conscience relentlessly demands of him confession and puni ...

The Castle

Wed, 27 Jun 2012 23:21:57 PST

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The world of Kafka, as already revealed in "The Trial", is one in which the individual struggles against ubiquitous, elusive, and anonymous powers determining and yet simultaneously opposing his every step. Kafka defines each situation very clearly, but at the same time an atmosphere of fearful uncertainty grows out of the weirdly illogical sequence of simple events. The tale of the arrival of a ...

How to Be an Alien

Wed, 27 Jun 2012 23:07:07 PST

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George Mikes says, 'the English have no soul; they have the understatement instead'. But they do have a sense of humour - they provide it by buying over three hundred thousand copies of a book that took them quietly and completely apart, a book that really took the Mikes out of them.

Searching for Dragons

Wed, 27 Jun 2012 23:04:18 PST

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Cimorene, the princess who refuses to be proper, meets her match in the not-quite-kingly Mendanbar. With the aid of a broken-down magic carpet and a leaky magical sword, the two tackle a series of dragon-nappings.

Surprise! Surprise!

Wed, 27 Jun 2012 22:35:25 PST

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The End of each and every devastatingly cleaver tale included in this all-star crime fest is as startlingly unexpected as it is brilliantly conceived. And with Agatha Christie calling the crimes- Harley Quin, Hercule Poirot, Mr. Parker Pyne and Miss Marple catching the criminals- the end of each story simply leads to the strikingly unusal beginning of the next.

My Gal Sunday

Wed, 27 Jun 2012 22:35:17 PST

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Fresh from her smashing success with the Alvirah and Willy stories of The Lottery Winner, the Queen of Suspense has gone straight to the top to create an extraordinary new sleuthing couple - Henry and Sunday, a dashing ex-president and his young congresswoman bride. Henry Parker Britland IV is wealthy, worldly and still youthful - and enjoying and early retirement. His new wife, Sunday, as clever ...

Ripley's Game

Wed, 27 Jun 2012 7:23:01 PST

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Tom Ripley detested murder. Unless it was absolutely necessary. If possible, he preferred someone else to do the dirty work. In this case, someone with no criminal record, who would commit 'two simple murders' for a very generous fee.

Peyton Place

Tue, 26 Jun 2012 20:22:55 PST

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Bone: Tall Tales

Sun, 24 Jun 2012 7:25:24 PST

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Long before the Bone cousins were ever lost in the uncharted desert on the outskirts of the Valley, Big Johnson Bone, the discoverer of the Rolling Bone River, founded Boneville. But little is known of the mighty explorer's adventures before he started his famous trading post. So when Smiley Bone sits down with a group of young campers to retell the legendary stories of Boneville's origin and its ...

Cape Fear

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 6:31:14 PST

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After fourteen years he suddenly appeared from nowhere, his mind filled with insane malice. He was tanned and as though as hickory. He smoked cheap cigars and smiled, and at first he did nothing wrong... What is to be done when your family is stunned with fear, when the police are powerless to act, when money cannot buy safety? Do you become the law? And even - as a last resort - executioners?

Cats Prowl at Night

Thu, 21 Jun 2012 23:41:20 PST

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By Erle Stanley Gardener under the pseudonym of A.A. Fair. A beautiful girl spells death - sudden death - as silent as a cat that slinks in the night... When the cat's away... everyone knows what happens. But when the men are away... Women, says Bertha Cool, are like cats. They prowl in the night, claws sharp, teeth bared. They play dangerous games. Like murder.

The Snobs

Thu, 21 Jun 2012 19:07:06 PST

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Contents: The Snobs; The First Year of My Life; The Fortune-Teller; Christmas Fugue ; The Executor. Muriel Spark has won nearly every literary award possible and has been published by Penguin for over forty years. Her unique blend of realism, compelling storytelling and black humour continues to enchant and intrigue fans worldwide. Taken from The Complete Short Stories, these tales are classic S ...

Tremor of Intent

Thu, 21 Jun 2012 1:22:52 PST

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A brilliantly funny spy novel from the author of the ground-breaking A Clockwork Orange. Denis Hillier is an aging British agent based in Yugoslavia. His old school friend Roper has defected to the USSR to become one of the evil empire's great scientific minds. Hillier must bring Roper back to England or risk losing his fat retirement bonus. As thoughtful as it is funny, this morality tale of a ...

The Thin Man

Thu, 21 Jun 2012 0:26:01 PST

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Retirement suited Nick just fine. He had a pretty wife called Nora and a taste for good scotch. All it took was a little persuasion, like four bullets, a blonde, the cops, and a junked-up hoodlum in his bedroom before Nick Charles, former trans-American detective agency ace, was back in business!

Requiem for a Ruler of Worlds

Thu, 21 Jun 2012 0:04:07 PST

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Mankind was beginning its third leap into the Galaxy, but Old Earth had so long kept to herself that her people were unable to travel safely among the rough-and-tumble cultures that had evolved on distant worlds. That annoyed Earth's rulers, for Hobart Floyt--a minor Terran bureaucrat-- had been left a mysterious inheritance by the deceased ruler of a small but wealthy interstellar empire. Earth ...

Jour de silence à Tanger

Wed, 20 Jun 2012 21:32:43 PST

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C'est une de ces mauvaises journées à Tanger, journée de vent et de solitude. Dans sa chambre aux murs fissurés, tâchés d'humidité, dans sa grande maison aux nombreuses pièces inoccupées où, patriarche irascible, il a longtemps régné, le vieil homme s'ennuie. Le temps qui passe, les enfants ingrats, l'épouse mal soumise, les amis absents ou morts, les médicaments imbéciles qu'il jette à la poubel ...

Le vetrine illuminate

Wed, 20 Jun 2012 19:49:56 PST

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Jo (il protagonista di "Un sacchetto di biglie") terminata la guerra torna nella sua Parigi, riprende la vita normale di adolescente, con la scuola, gli amici, i giochi di sempre. Ma ora è di moda l'America, e il giovane Jo ne è affascinato. Non fa per lui il negozio di barbiere che era del padre, non gli interessa il diploma, vuole solo il meglio: le donne più belle, la ricchezza, le favolose va ...

Hiero's Journey

Wed, 20 Jun 2012 7:32:58 PST

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A Frederik Pohl selection. In a holocaust world of strange beasts and savage men, he rode forth. As fantastic a chronicle as Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. Per Hiero Desteen. Priest. Telepath. Trained killer. He rode out on a perilous quest into a world at the end of time - inhabited by shadowy forces, sudden terrors, violent death... by weird mutated beasts man had no name for... by the Leemu ...

Losing Battles

Mon, 18 Jun 2012 20:44:35 PST

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On the hot, dry first Sunday of August, three generations of Granny Vaughn's descendants gather at her home in the little town of Banner, Mississippi, to celebrate her 90th birthday. The celebrations take only two days, but many members of the family are great storytellers, and when they get together, the temptation is irresistible - a device that enable Eudora Welty to take readers back into the ...

The Turn of the Screw and Daisy Miller

Sat, 16 Jun 2012 23:00:31 PST

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For lucidity and compactness of style, James's short novels, or novelles, are shining examples of his genius. Few other writings of the century have so captured the American imagination. When Daisy Miller, the tale of the girl from Schenectady, first appeared in 1878, it was an extraordinary success. James had discovered nothing less than "the American girl"--free spirited, flirtatious, an inn ...

Il giardino del tempo

Sat, 16 Jun 2012 4:27:11 PST

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Tutto il tempo del mondo, Arthur C. Clarke. Valle Stretta, R.A. Lafferty. Al di là del lutto, Peter Tate. Soluzione impossibile, Gordon R. Dickson. Errata corrige, Fredric Brown. Vacanze sulla Terra, Thomas Disch. Luce di altri giorni, Bob Shaw. Destinazione Verna, Jack Finney. Il contastorielle, Isaac Asimov. Il magazzino dei mondi, Robert Sheckley. Il giardino del tempo, J.G. Ballard. Appendice ...

Le sabbie di Marte

Sat, 16 Jun 2012 2:29:44 PST

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Tit.Orig.: The Sands of Mars, 1951 Questo romanzo, che inaugura la collana di Urania nel 1952, pone esplicitamente il problema del rapporto fra fantasia e realtà scientifica. "Se la scienza dimostra, per esempio, che su Marte la vita non esiste, sono ancora leggibili le avventure marziane escogitate da scrittori pieni d'immaginazione?" Nel 1952 il primo Sputnik era ancora di là da venire, e ...