1984
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The year 1984 has come and gone...on. This 'chilling, absorbing, satirical, momentous, prophetic & terrifying' novel of the human political condition - a blueprint for nightmare - remains indelibly the memoryhole into which political humanity sinks, sentence by sentence. First published in 1949. With a Selected Bibliography. 226p.
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A Clockwork Orange
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A vicious fifteen-year-old droog is the central character of this 1963 classic. In Anthony Burgess's nightmare fable of the future, where the criminals take over after dark, the story is told by the central character Alex, who talks in a brutual invented slang that brilliantly and chillingly renders his and his friends' social pathology. This edition includes the controversial last chapter not published in the first edition and Burgess's introduction 'A Clockwork Orange Resucked.' 192p.
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A Tree Grows In Brooklyn
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First published in 1943. The classic, poignant & deeply understanding coming-of-age story of the young, sensitive, and idealistic Francie Nolan. Through her eyes, readers are transported into the ghetto life of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, circa 1902-1919. She is the fictional stand-in for the author, who grew up in the Williamsburg slums. The civilization of author Smith's Williamsburg exists in very few living memories, but is forever made indelible through the vivid portrayal presented in her novel. 'A book in which, no matter our backgrounds, we recognize ourselves.' - Anna Quindlen. 493p.
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Cloud Atlas
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David Mitchell combines flat-out adventure, a Nabokovian love of puzzles, a keen eye for character, and a taste for mind-bending philisophical and scientific speculation in the tradition of Umberto Eco and Philip K. Dick. 509p.
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Freedom
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An Oprah’s Book Club 2010 Selection and #1 National bestseller. In his first novel since The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen gives readers an epic of contemporary love and marriage. The novel comically and tragically captures the temptations and burdens of liberty: the thrills of teenage lust, the shaken compromises of middle age, the wages of suburban sprawl., the heavy weight of empire. In charting the mistakes and joys of Patty and Walter Berlund as they struggle to learn how to live in an ever more confusing world, Jonathan Franzen produces an indelible and deeply moving portrait of our all-too contemporary time. 597p. Kindle Price: $9.99
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Just Kids
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JUST KIDS starts out as a love story and ends up on Elegy Row. Serving as a Baudelarian salute to New York City during the late sixties and seventies and to its rich and poor, its hustlers and hellions, it makes for a true fable, a portrait of two young artists, Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe, ascending the halcyon daze to fame. Smith's penchant for immortalizing herself this side of the graveyard dog, lets all the struggle and morphing genius connect for a rhythmic ride through that singular time and space. Smith plants herself at the epicenter of a time when the worlds of poetry, rock and roll, art, and sexual politics were colliding and exploding. In this milieu, fueled by their mutual dreams and drives, Smith/Mapplethorpe would prod and provide for one another during the hungry years. And starring the Hotel Chelsea. With b&w photos. A New York Times Bestseller.
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Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
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The Facebook CEO and "Fortune" top-ranked businesswoman shares provocative, anecdotal advice for women that urges them to take risks and seek new challenges in order to find work that they can love and engage in passionately.
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Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk : A Modest Bestiary
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David Sedaris's unique blend of hilarity and heart powers this new illustrated collection of animal-themed tales. Though the characters may not be human, the situations in these stories bear (ha!) an uncanny resemblance to the insanity of everyday life. As usual, outrageously funny. Illus., 36 2-color. 112p. Kindle Price: $9.99 David Sedaris's unique blend of hilarity and heart powers this new illustrated collection of animal-themed tales. Though the characters may not be human, the situations in these stories bear (ha!) an uncanny resemblance to the insanity of everyday life. As usual, outrageously funny. Illus., 36 2-color. 112p. Kindle Price: $9.99
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Tenth of December: Stories
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A collection of stories by the author of Pastoralia includes "Home," a wryly whimsical account of a soldier's return from war; "Victory Lap," a tale about an inventive abduction attempt; and the title story, in which a suicidal cancer patient saves the life of a young misfit.
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
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National Book Critics Circle Award Winner, for Fiction. Oscar is a sweet but disastrously overweight ghetto nerd who - from the New Jersey home he shares with his old world mother and rebellious sister - dreams of becoming the Dominican J.R.R. Tolkien and, most of all, finding love. But Oscar may never get what he wants. Blame the fuku - a curse that has haunted Oscar's family for generations, following them on their epic journey from Santo Domingo to the United States. An astonishing vision of the contemporary American experience and, the endless human capacity to perserve - and risk it all - in the name of love. 368p.
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The Catcher In the Rye
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This coming-of-age novel broke the sound barrier for its generation, and for generations of readers since its first publication. Holden Caulfield's quest for identity resonates with a heartfelt and imaginative authenticity that remains peerless. 214p.
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower
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Stephen Chbosky captures adolescent angst, confusion, and joy as Charlie reveals his innermost thoughts while trying to discover who he is and who he is to become. 213p. (Ages: 13 & up).
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The Virgin Suicides
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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Middlesex. First published in 1993, The Virgin Suicides is set in a quiet suburb of Detroit, where the five Lisbon sisters - beautiful, eccentric and obsessively watched by the neighborhood boys - commit suicide one by one over the course of a single year. As the boys observe them from afar, transfixed, they piece together the mystery of the family's fatal melancholy, in this hypnotic and unforgettable novel of adolescent love, disquiet, and death. 243p.
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