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2) Snow crash
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In a future America, people excel at only two things: writing software and delivering pizza in less than 30 minutes.
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In her portrait of Myra and in her excquisitely nuanced depiction of her marriage, Cather shows the evolution of a human spirit as it comes to bridle against the constraints of ordinary happiness and seek an otherworldly fulfillment. 'My Mortal Enemy' is a work whose drama and intensely moral imagination make it unforgettable.
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The Dunnes have set off on a ten day boat trip, a trip that hopefully will bring them closer together, despite the fact that the father, Stuart is staying behind on land. But only an hour into the trip they're already falling apart. The teenage daughter plans to drown herself, and the teenage boy is high on drugs. Ten-year-old Ernie is near catatonic. But their mother Anne, with the help of her brother-in-law Jeff, is insistent on pulling everyone...
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White brings with it dreams of respect, of wealth, of simply being treated as a human being. It's the one thing Walter will never be. But what if he could play white, the way so many others seem to do? Would it bring him privilege or simply deny the pain? The title story in this collection asks those questions, and then moves on to challenge notions of race, privilege, personal choice, and even life and death with equal vigor. From the spectrum spanning...
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Cotton Malone novels volume 2
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"Too bad former secret agent Cotton Malone knows how to unearth the lost contents of the Library of Alexandria; now his bookstore has been ransacked and his son kidnapped."--From source other than the Library of Congress
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2023.
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"For film buffs and literature lovers alike, this is an essential guide to 52 great reads, and the cinema classics they inspired"--
You loved the movie-- but have you read the book? Lopez looks at beloved screen adaptations, and the great reads that inspired them. Some diverge wildly from the original source materials, while others shift the point of view to create an entirely different experience within the same story. In exploring what makes these...
9) Spartan Gold
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Treasure hunters Sam and Remi Fargo are exploring the Great Pocomoke Swamp when they are shocked to discover a World War II German U-boat. Inside, they find a bottle from Napoleon's "lost cellar". And they set out to find the rest. But another connoisseur of sorts has been looking for the bottle they just found. He is a half-Russian, half-Persian millionaire who claims to be a descendant of Xerxes himself. And he wants his treasure back...
10) Hide
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Opening up a newspaper to discover that she is supposed to be dead, Annabelle Mary Granger finds herself trapped in the middle of a two-decades-old crime that leads her to homicide detective Bobby Dodge and a confrontation with two separate killers.
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2022.
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Gravity is about women: what we want, don't want, think we want but maybe don't; a lyrical and sometimes surreal tour through the psyches of female characters, slightly mad or bit too sane, stereotypes and image busters, that flies you away and brings you back to earth. It is a collection of seven stories and a novella about obsessed women: women consumed by revenge, women who can't get out of love triangles, women who are not even in their bodies...
13) The broker
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John Grisham delivers another legal thriller of unparalled suspense. With fourteen years left on a twenty-year sentence, notorious Washington power broker, Joel Blackman, receives a surprise pardon from a lame-duck president. He is smuggled out of the country on a military cargo plane, given a new identity, and tucked away in a small town in Italy. But Blackman has serious enemies from his past. As the CIA watches him closely, the question is not...
14) Hold Tight
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Just how far parents will go to protect their kids? When their son Adam is implicated in the death of his classmate, Tia and Mike Baye install a sophisticated spy program on Adam's computer, and within days are jolted by a message from an unknown correspondent.
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"The Beckoning World is set in the first quarter of the twentieth century, and follows Earl Dunham from the age of twelve to his early fifties. We meet him as a boy about to flee his abusive coal miner-father, for a life in the world, the beckoning world, which he's sure - and it's the only thing he's sure of -- will take him lyrically away from the one in which he's lived. And so, having fled, he traces the Midwest's bituminous seams, resuming the...
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"A must-have collection of the best short science fiction and speculative fiction of 2019, showcasing brilliant talent and examining the cultural moment we live in, compiled by award-winning editor Jonathan Strahan. With short works from some of the most lauded science fiction authors, as well as rising stars, this collection displays the top talent and the cutting-edge cultural moments that affect our lives, dreams, and stories. Authors include past...
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