Jesse D.
Rare Book Room Staff
In his free time, Jesse writes fiction, mostly noir and science fiction. Some of his favorite books are The Borrowers, The Lathe of Heaven, Last Night in Twisted River, The Gunslinger and Horseman Pass By.
Would you like other recommendations? Email me at staff+jesse@strandbooks.com
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Dune
This Science Fiction classic helped redefine its genre, expanding beyond a story based on technology to one following the possibilities of politics, heredity, ecology and theology. Set millennia in the future, Paul Atreides must battle his environment, society, his family’s sworn enemy, the Harkonnens, and ultimately his own fate to survive on the harsh desert planet known as Dune.
Dune
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Winner of the HUGO and NEBULA Awards. This classic sci-fi novel tells the epic story of the planet Arrakis, its Atreides rulers and their mortal enemies the Harkonnens. DUNE is hands down the most acclaimed science fiction novel of the 20th century. Herbert continued its themes in five unsurpassable sequels. With a Glossary. 605p.
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The Borrowers
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Miniature people who live in an old country house by borrowing things from the humans are forced to emigrate from their home under the clock. 180p. (Ages: 8 & up).
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Last Night In Twisted River
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In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, a twelve-year-old boy mistakes the local constable's girlfriend for a bear. Both the twelve-year-old and his father become fugitives, pursued by the constable. Their lone protector is a fiercely libertarian logger, once a river driver, who befriends them. Spanning five decades, John Irving's twelfth novel depicts the recent half-century in the United States as a world 'where lethal hatreds were genera…
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Ex Machina: The Deluxe Edition Book One Volume 1
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Collects the first tales of Ex Machina, the story of civil engineer Mitchell Hundred, who becomes America's first living, breathing super-hero after a strange accident gives him the power to communicate with machines.
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