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Riot Baby
Tochi Onyebuchi - Tor.com
Format: Hardcover
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"Riot Baby bursts at the seams of story with so much fire, passion and power that in the end it turns what we call a narrative into something different altogether." -- Marlon JamesRooted in foundational loss and the hope that can live in anger, Riot Baby is both... |
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Dead Astronauts: A Novel
Jeff VanderMeer - MCD
Format: Hardcover
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Jeff VanderMeer's Dead Astronauts presents a City with no name of its own where, in the shadow of the all-powerful Company, lives human and otherwise converge in terrifying and miraculous ways. At stake: the fate of the future, the fate of Earth -- all the Earths.A messianic blue... |
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Nineteen Eighty-Four
George Orwell - Everyman's Library
Format: Hardcover
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One of the most celebrated classics of the twentieth century, Orwell's cautionary tale of a man trapped under the gaze of an authoritarian state feels more relevant now than ever before. Winston Smith, a member of the outer Party, spends his days rewriting history to fit the narrative that... |
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The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood - Nan A. Talese
Format: Hardcover
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Everything Handmaids wear is red: the colour of blood, which defines us. Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, where women are prohibited from holding jobs, reading, and forming friendships. She serves in the household of the Commander and his wife, and under the new social... |
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American War: A novel
OMAR EL AKKAD - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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"Powerful . . . As haunting a postapocalyptic universe as Cormac McCarthy [created] in The Road, and as devastating a look as the fallout that national events have on an American family as Philip Roth did in The Plot Against America. . . . Omar El Akkad's debut novel,... |
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Brave New World
Aldous Huxley - HarperCollins Publishers
Format: Hardcover(REV)
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What We're Reading Now"Aldous Huxley describes the zealous need for perfection in a totalitarian society. It is an allegorical forewarning of how the need for perfection and technology will eventually ruin lives if taken too far. Even in the forties, Aldous Huxley foresaw what... |
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Future Home of the Living God: A Novel
LOUISE ERDRICH - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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Louise Erdrich, the New York Times bestselling, National Book Award-winning author of LaRose and The Round House, paints a startling portrait of a young woman fighting for her life and her unborn child against oppressive forces that manifest in the wake of a cataclysmic event.The world... |
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Anthem
Ayn Rand - Dutton
Format: Print book
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He lived in the Dark Ages of the future. In a loveless world he dared to love the woman of his choice. In an age that had lost all trace of science and civilization, he had the courage to seek and find knowledge. But these were not the crimes for which he would be hunted. He was marked... |
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Station Eleven
Emily St John Mandel - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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Pub Date: 2014-09-09 Pages: 352 Language: English Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group An audacious. darkly glittering novel set in the eerie days of civilizations collapse. Station Eleven tells the spellbinding story of a Hollywood star. his would-be savior . and a nomadic group of actors... |
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The Road
Cormac McCarthy - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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A searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy's masterpiece.A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark.... |
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The Stand: The Complete and Uncut Edition
Stephen King - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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This is the way the world ends: with a nanosecond of computer error in a Defense Department laboratory and a million casual contacts that form the links in a chain letter of death.And here is the bleak new world of the day after: a world stripped of its institutions and emptied of 99 percent... |
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