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Oryx and Crake
Margaret Atwood
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"As the story opens, the narrator, who calls himself Snowman, is sleeping in a tree, wearing a dirty old bedsheet, mourning the loss of his beautiful and beloved Oryx and his best friend Crake, and slowly starving to death. In a world in which science-based corporations have recently taken mankind on an uncontrolled genetic-engineering ride, he now ...
2003; 376 p.; isbn:0385503857 More Information |
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A box of matches : a novel
Nicholson Baker
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A box of matches is the record of an untumultuous month in the life of Emmett, a forty-five-year-old editor of medical textbooks. Emmett has a wife and children, a cat, and a duck, and he wants to know what life is about. Every day he gets up before dawn, makes a cup of coffee in the dark, lights a fire with one wooden match, and thinks. What Emmett ...
2003; 178 p.; isbn:0375706038 More Information |
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Seize the day
Saul Bellow ; with an introduction by Cynthia Ozick
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GBF Discussion; Guide online Introduction by Cynthia Ozick.
1996; 118 p.; isbn:0140189378 More Information |
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Middlesex
Jeffrey Eugenides
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Calliope's friendship with a classmate and her sense of identity are compromised by the adolescent discovery that she is a hermaphrodite, a situation with roots in her grandparent's desperate struggle for survival in the 1920s.
2002; 529 p.; isbn:0374199698 More Information |
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Everything is illuminated : a novel
Jonathan Safran Foer
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With only a yellowing photograph in hand, a young man -- also named Jonathan Safran Foer -- sets out to find the woman who may or may not have saved his grandfather from the Nazis. Accompanied by an old man haunted by memories of the war; an amorous dog named Sammy Davis, Junior, Junior; and the unforgettable Alex, a young Ukrainian translator who speaks ...
2002; 276 p.; isbn:0618173870 More Information |
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Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse ; translated by Hilda Rosner
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Classic novel that has inspired generations of seekers. Blending Eastern mysticism and psychoanalysis, Hesse presents a strikingly original view of man and culture and the arduous process of self-discovery, reconciliation, harmony, and peace.
1951; 122 p.; isbn:0811202925 More Information |
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Brave new world : & Brave new world revisited
Aldous Huxley ; with a foreword by the author ; introduction by Martin Green
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The astonishing novel Brave New World, originally published in 1932, presents Aldous Huxley's vision of the future -- of a world utterly transformed. Through the most efficient scientific and psychological engineering, people are genetically designed to be passive and therefore consistently useful to the ruling class. This powerful work of speculative ...
1965; 97 p.; isbn:0060901012 More Information |
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Brave new world
Aldous Huxley
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The astonishing novel Brave New World, originally published in 1932, presents Aldous Huxley's vision of the future -- of a world utterly transformed. Through the most efficient scientific and psychological engineering, people are genetically designed to be passive and therefore consistently useful to the ruling class. This powerful work of speculative ...
1946; 176 p.; isbn:0899664237 More Information |
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Never let me go
Kazuo Ishiguro.
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From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day and When We Were Orphans, comes an unforgettable edge-of-your-seat mystery that is at once heartbreakingly tender and morally courageous about what it means to be human. Hailsham seems like a pleasant English boarding school, far from the influences of the city. Its students are well tended ...
2005; 288 p.; isbn:1400043395 More Information |
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The portrait of a lady
Henry James
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One of the great heroines of American literature, Isabel Archer, journeys to Europe in order to, as Henry James writes in his 1908 Preface, "affront her destiny." James began "The Portrait of a Lady" without a plot or subject, only the slim but provocative notion of a young woman taking control of her fate. The result is a richly imagined study of ...
1996; 580 p.; isbn:0670871397 More Information |
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One flew over the cuckoo's nest
Ken Kesey ; text and criticism edited by John Clark Pratt
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1996; 652 p.; isbn:0140236015 More Information |
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