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The last novel written by English author Virginia Woolf, telling of the undercurrents swirling behind the scenes of the annual pageant at Pointz Hall, especially among unhappy Isa Oliver, her handsome husband Giles, and Mrs. Manresa, a guest who is pursuing him.
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At their holiday home in Cornwall, a distant lighthouse holds a haunting attraction for the members of an Edwardian family as disillusionment, turmoil, and a world on the brink of war plague the family's relationships.
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In her most exuberant, most fanciful novel, Woolf has created a character liberated from the restraints of time and sex. Born in the Elizabethan Age to wealth and position, Orlando is a young nobleman at the beginning of the story-and a modern woman three centuries later. The source of a critically acclaimed 1993 feature film directed by Sally Potter.
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It's Christmas Eve, 1979, in Wichita, and Charlie Arglist, a crooked lawyer and strip-club owner, is drunkenly making the rounds before he blows town for good. Getting progressively drunker and deeper in trouble, Charlie needs to drop off a photograph of a local official in a compromising position and steal some drug money. Before it's all over, a lot of people are going to wind up dead.
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The virtual persona of a long-dead visionary entrepreneur threatens to incite a revolution from space that could topple Earth's powerful and repressive religious-technological dictatorship in this ingenious science fiction classic In the future, individual freedom is a thing of the past. North America is a police state controlled by the Avantist government, a despotic, techno-religious ruling order that promises an impending transcendence for the...
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After a perfect storm of events leaves Sam high, dry, and jobless, she has to head home to Harvest Cove to regroup. Growing up, she was the town misfit, and a brief high school romance that resulted in heartbreak made her realize she was never going to fit in. But now with the support of her mother and an unexpected circle of allies, Sam starts to wonder if she's misjudged the town all these years.
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God is dead, and Anthony Van Horne must tow the corpse to the Arctic (to preserve Him from sharks and decomposition). En route Van Horne must also contend with ecological guilt, a militant girlfriend, sabotage both natural and spiritual, and greedy hucksters of oil, condoms, and doubtful ideas. Winner of a 1995 World Fantasy Award.
8) Deceived
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A runaway spell is the most dangerous weapon of all. The sea may have been a harsh mistress, but Viktor longs for the challenges of wind and weather, for the sound of waves crashing over his hull. Turned by a Master Vampire, he hates what he's become, but there's no escape. Not from Ushuaia that's turned into a city of bones, or from the Vampire who rules him.
Ketha and eleven other Shifters traveled to Ushuaia to harness the power of an eclipse...
9) Red Gambit
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A merc with a mouth. A girl with one hell of a whacking stick. The plan? Find his suit. Save her brother. Even if they have to save the world doing it...Amidst harrowing famine and deadly aliens who hunt humans and turn them into scaly mutants, Jarek is having a pretty good day. He survived Earth's invasion, he still has his ship, and his prized exosuit and AI-companion are safe and sound. But when his weaponized suit is stolen, he'll stop at nothing...
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In Teaching to Transgress, Bell Hooks–writer, teacher, and insurgent black intellectual–writes about a new kind of education, educations as the practice of freedom. Teaching students to "transgress" against racial, sexual, and class boundaries in order to achieve the gift of freedom is, for hooks, the teacher's most important goal. Bell Hooks speaks to the heart of education today: how can we rethink teaching practices in the age of multiculturalism?...
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A runaway spell is the most dangerous weapon of all.
The sea is the only life Juan's ever known-not counting the decade he spent as a Vampire. Those years gave him a healthy aversion for anything supernatural, but he's a shifter now. It's way better than being one of the undead, but he still doesn't trust magic. Paired up with Aura to teach him, he falls and falls hard, but she spurns his advances.
A history professor before the cataclysm, Aura...
12) Hell to Pay
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That awkward moment when you saved the day but doomed the planet....
It all went off without a hitch.
Okay, so there were hitches. Lots of hitches. But Jarek got his exosuit back, and Rachel managed to -
Hey, wait a second....
You don't want to read a bunch of spoilers, do you? Suffice it to say, that stupid alien egg was not full of candy.
Now, [REDACTED] is in a coma, and our heroes have a tight-lipped raknoth telling them some fresh new hell...
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An elderly woman in early 22nd century Lagos is called in to help test the artificial intelligence built from her genius mother's mind, but all is not as it seems in the Nommo-award winning story, "The Regression Test".
Exiled from Earth for a crime of passion, a young man must learn to survive a barely habitable prison planet and come to peace with his past in "Polaris".
"Wednesday's Story", nominated for the 2018 Caine Prize, is at once a retelling...
14) Reaping Day
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AGAINST ALL ODDS, THEY'VE DONE IT. For the first time in history, human and raknoth stand united against the doom coming to swallow them all whole. Okay. On second thought, "united" is probably a strong word. Turns out, mutual fear of galaxy-conquering super monsters does not a steadfast alliance make. Especially not between the people of Earth and the very creatures who devastated it. So yeah. Problems. Especially when Galaxy-Conquering Super Monster...
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*contains sexual situations, strong language, violence, and depictions of abuse
This has all the hallmarks of CLASSIC AMERICANA: rural small town life, poverty, dark family problems, love, and friendship. author Paul Russell Parker III
An EMOTIONAL ROLLER-COASTER. author Nikki Landis
Locklyn Gaines isn't her mother, but the residents of her small southeastern Kentucky town don't care. Her mother's secrets are Lock's shame, and every time her drunk...
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The bloodless corporate coup of 2020 swept away every vestige of government, resulting in an ongoing struggle for dominance and survival of the fittest. The battle becomes more vicious day by day in the face of accelerating climate change, limited food supplies, and clean air only for the elite. Caught in the middle is Dr. Zoe Hidalaga, a MediCorp organ harvester, who has contracted a deadly retro virus that killed her husband and has resulted in...
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In this terrorizing sequel to The Organ Harvesters, the bloodless war of 2020 has destroyed all governments and left monster corporations in control globally, unhindered to waste the planet's natural resources, and to manipulate the world's population with iron-handed control. There's one last chance to save life on Planet Earth. Roaming at large under a death warrant, Dr. Zoe Hidalga leaves behind both her daughter and her lover, mystic Asher Wind...
18) Retribution
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The victory was hollow.
Too hard-fought. Too short-lived.
Now, scattered and hunted by the monstrous rakul, Rachel and Jarek must do everything they can to protect their friends and keep their brewing Enochian weapons safe long enough for one slim chance at turning the tides. But first, they have to find each other. And with no comm network to speak of and a squadron of galaxy-class killers on their tails, nothing is quite so simple.
Harvest has...
19) Fleet of Stars
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Far into the reaches of space, Anson Guthrie and a band of colonists have forged a new existence on Amaterasu not as physical beings but as downloaded consciousness watched over by the benevolent Life Mother. Yet as idyllic as their lives may be, back home on Earth the situation is growing grim.
Earth's inhabitants are now completely dependent-and so controlled-by an intelligent machine known as the Teramind. But the instinctual human desire to be...
20) Harvest of Stars
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The virtual persona of a long-dead visionary entrepreneur threatens to incite a revolution from space that could topple Earth's powerful and repressive religious-technological dictatorship in this ingenious science fiction classic.
In the future, individual freedom is a thing of the past. North America is a police state controlled by the Avantist government, a despotic, techno-religious ruling order that promises an impending transcendence for the...
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