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The Sirens of Titan

The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut

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Winston has flown his craft into a chrono-synclastic infundibulum, and been converted into pure energy. Materializing only when his waveforms intercept a planet, he only gets home once every 59 days. But at least it's some consolation that he knows all that ever has been and all that ever will be.
 
The Confessions of Max Tivoli

The Confessions of Max Tivoli by Andrew Sean Greer

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"We are each the love of someone's life." So begins "The Confessions of Max Tivoli," a heartbreaking love story with a narrator like no other. Born with the physical appearance of an elderly man, Max grows older mentally like any child, but his body appears to age backwards, growing younger every year. And yet, his...
 
Black Man

Black Man by Richard Morgan

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One hundred years from now, and against all the odds, Earth has found a new stability; the political order has reached some sort of balance, and the new colony on Mars is growing. But the fraught years of the 21st century have left an uneasy legacy ...Genetically engineered alpha males, designed to fight the...
 
Miss Wyoming

Miss Wyoming by Douglas Coupland

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The brilliant new novel from the bestselling cult author of them all. Susan and John need to disappear -- Susan and John need to find each other. Meet Susan Colgate -- Miss Wyoming. Winner of a hundred teen pageants, child TV soap star, owner of a hideously pushy mother...and now reduced to small, brainless parts...
 
Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche

Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche by Alfred Birnbaum, Haruki Murakami, Philip Gabriel

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In spite of the perpetrators' intentions, the Tokyo gas attack left only twelve people dead, but thousands were injured and many suffered serious after-effects. The novelist Haruki Murakami interviews the victims to try and establish precisely what happened on the subway that day. He also interviews members and...
 
Espedair Street

Espedair Street by Iain Banks

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Daniel used to be a famous, not to say infamous, rock star. At 31 he has been both a brilliant failure and a dull success. He's made a lot of mistakes that paid off and a lot of smart moves he'll regret forever. Contemplating his life, he realizes he has only two problems: the past and the future.
 
Best of American Splendor

Best of American Splendor by Robert Crumb, Gary Dumm, Mark Zingarelli, Harvey Pekar

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From the author of "American Splendor" and "Our Movie Year" comes a new anthology of some of his best and most beloved works.
 
The Merchants' War

The Merchants' War by Charles Stross

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Miriam Beckstein is a young, hip, business journalist in Boston. She discovered in The Family Trade and The Hidden Family that her family came from an alternate reality, that she was very well-connected, and that her family was too much like the mafia for comfort. She found herself caught in a family trap in The...
 
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text

Naked Lunch: The Restored Text by William S. Burroughs

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The anarchic, phenomenally strong-selling classic from the godfather of the Beats, featuring for the first time the restored text, all the accompanying essays, and newly discovered material from the original manuscript. Revitalised with a cool new jacket and an anecdote packed P.S. section. WELCOME TO INTERZONE! ...
 
Summerland

Summerland by Michael Chabon

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An unforgettable novel from one of America's greatest living storytellers, 'Summerland' is about redemption and the true nature of heroism. Ethan, is a young hero on a quest though the strange world of American Faery. Since baseball is the favourite game of American fairies, or 'ferishers' as the North American...
 
Sister Carrie

Sister Carrie by Lee Clark Mitchell, Theodore Dreiser

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Dreiser's first novel, intertwining the story of a young woman seduced by the lure of the modern city with the story of a middle-aged man seduced by desire for Carrie herself, established a style and a realism which influenced many later writers.
 
Player Piano

Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut

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Vonnegut's spins the chilling tale of engineer Paul Proteus, who must find a way to live in a world dominated by a supercomputer and run completely by machines. "From the Paperback edition."
 
Streams of Silver

Streams of Silver by R. A. Salvatore

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Bruenor, Drizzt, Wulfgar and Regis acquire a map and set off for Bruenor's birthplace, Mithril Hall. They fight roaming bands of orcs, trolls and barbarians on the way. Inside the fortress, the heroes overcome monsters and dwarves, but Bruenor dies while saving his friends from an evil dragon.
 
Market Forces

Market Forces by Richard Morgan

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What do you buy and sell when the global markets reach saturation point? The markets themselves. Thirty years from now the big players in global capitalism have moved on from commodities. The big money is in conflict investment. The corporations keep a careful watch on the wars of liberation and revolution that...
 
The Clan Corporate

The Clan Corporate by Charles Stross

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In "The Family Trade" and "The Hidden Family", Miriam got in touch with her roots. Now those roots have begun to strangle her. A young business journalist from Boston, Miriam discovered that her family comes from a parallel timeline, that she is very well-connected, and that her family is way too much like the...
 
All Families are Psychotic

All Families are Psychotic by Douglas Coupland

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Janet is an elegant American woman in her sixties whose daughter, Sarah, is the star of the latest Nasa shuttle mission. Janet has three children in all: Sarah, Wade, and Bryan; and a greying ex-husband, Ted. At least, that's the family at a glance; a healthy example of the all-American average. But look again and...
 
Halfling's Gem

Halfling's Gem by R. A. Salvatore

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The third volume in the Icewind Dale Trilogy. Having escaped the clutches of Entreri, the assassin, Regis, comes to terms with himself. Meanwhile, Wulfgar and Drizzt foil Pasha Pook's plans and the Ten-Towns dwarves decide whether to reclaim Mithril Hall.
 
The Lone Drow

The Lone Drow by R. A. Salvatore

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Prague

Prague by Arthur Phillips

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A group of American expats en route to adventure, inspiration, or perhaps even history in the making in exotic Prague, somehow get sidetracked and settle instead for the enigmatic and enlightening city of Budapest. Arriving in Hungary's capital, to pursue his elusive brother, journalist John Price finds himself...
 
Last Picture Show

Last Picture Show by Mcmurtry LARRY

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Set in Thalia, a small and dusty Texas town, during the 1950s. For a gang of frustrated teenagers life revolves around pickup trucks, the pool hall and Thalia's one and only picture house. From the author of "Texasville" and "Lonesome Dove", which won the Pulitzer Prize.
 
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