Miguel S.
Main Floor Staff
The written word really inspires Miguel’s paintings and, as a result, he has the longest reading list ever! Among his favorite writers are visionaries like Octavia E. Butler (Wild Seed, Mind of My Mind), Christopher Pike (The Blind Mirror, Thirst) and Clive Barker (Hellbound Heart). Mainly, he looks for books where vampires, werewolves, plagues and catastrophes of the human soul horrify lovable characters for pages on end. Good times!
Would you like other recommendations? Email me at staff+miguel@strandbooks.com
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The Hunger Games
Katniss Everdeen steps in for her young sister to compete in the Hunger Games, a kill or be killed competition that the ruling Capitol forces on the young people of the nation. Katniss is unintentionally likable, strong and smart. You will find yourself cheering and screaming at the pages when the bow and arrow are in her very capable hands. Get the two sequels Catching Fire and Mockingjay!
Bloodchild and Other Stories
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Named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and now supplemented with new stories, this volume is author Octavia E. Butler’s only collection of shorter work and features the Hugo and Nebula award-winning stories “Bloodchild” and “Speech Sounds.” These works of the imagination are parables of the contemporary world. Butler proves constant in her vigil, an unblinking pessimist hoping to be proven wrong, and one of contemporary literature’s strongest voices. Seven stories and two essays. 214p.
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Portable Grindhouse: The Lost Art of the VHS Box, Vol.1.
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This package reprints some of the most louche, decadent, minimo-pervo artwork to ever grace a VHS box, featuring such movies as From Beyond, Penitentiary II, Beast of the Yellow Night, Cop Killer, Bay of Blood, Escape from Death Row, and Cocaine Wars. A feast for exploitation cognoscenti, The Lost Art of the VHS is a portable grindhouse. Readers will be agog at the plethora of supertrash movie titles. and then move on to rediscoverthe anarchic box designs. Throughout, editor and cultural …
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Combining exquisite aerial photography and detailed street atlas, this spectacular book provides a state-of-the-art perspective. The breadth of area covered is phenomenal: all five boroughs as well as several New York and New Jersey suburbs. Both photography and cartography share the same standard grid system, to facilitate quick cross-reference between the two elements (every street in the area shown is indexed for both types of maps). 'Map accurate,' each of the photographs has been geo…
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The Book of Imaginary Beings
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Borges's whimsical compendium of more than a hundred of 'the strange creatures conceived through history by the human imagination.' Imbued with the author's characteristic wit anderudition, this unique contribution to fantasy literature ranges widely across the world's mythologies and literatures to bring together in one delightful encyclopedia the fantastical inventions, ranging from the Kabbalah through Kafka. Notes. B&W illus. 236p.
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Salem's Lot
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Published a year after his stunning debut novel 'Carrie,' 'Salem's Lot' is a rich and finely crafted tale of a mundane New England town under siege by the forces of darkness. Both a homage to Bram Stoker's classic 'Dracula' and an allegory of American post-Vietnam society. 458p.
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Black Hole
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Suburban Seattle in the mid-1970s: A strange plague has descended upon the area's teenagers, manifesting itself in unpredictable ways, from the hideously grotesque to the almost undetectable. Enter the minds of a group of brilliantly realized characters - some who have the disease, some who don't, and some who will. And through them, experience the savagery, the petty cruelty, the anxiety, the ennui, and the desperate desire for escape that mark the nature of all teenage alienation. And t…
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Maus I: A Survivor's Tale : My Father Bleeds History
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The electrifying comic book that traces the odyssey of the author's father from prosperous Polish businessman to victim of the Holocaust. Hailed on its original publication in 1986 as one of the most gripping accounts of Nazi horror ever produced. Illus. 159p. Pap.
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The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century
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The founder of STRATTFOR - the preemiment private intelligence and forecasting firm - focuses on what he knows best: the future. Positing that civilization is at the dawn of a new era, George Friedman offers a lucid, highly readable forecast of the changes to anticipate around the world during the 21st century, all based on his own thorough analysis and research. For example, the U.S.-Jihadist war will be replaced by a new cold war with Russia; China's roleas a world power will diminish; …
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Beloved
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Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, Morrison's spellbinding novel transforms history into a story on a biblical scale as well as a lullaby. Sethe, the protagonist, was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. There are too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things occurred. Her new home is haunted by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved. …
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The Captain's Verses: The Love Poems
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Neruda, a Nobel Prize for Literature laureate, finished writing The Captain's Verse in 1952 while in exile on the island of Capri - the paradisal setting for the blockbuster film Il Postimo (The Postman). Surrounded by sun, sea, and Capri's natural splendors, Neruda addressed these poems to his lover Matilde Urrutia before they were married, but didn't publish them publicly until 1963. This complete, bilingual edition has become a classic for love-struck readers around the world - passion…
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