Christopher's bookshelf: all en-US Sun, 27 Apr 2025 16:07:57 -0700 60 Christopher's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg <![CDATA[The Umbrella Academy, Vol. 2: Dallas]]> 6413286
? Chosen as BookExpo America's 2009 Hot Graphic Novel for Libraries and Teens!

? The first volume of The Umbrella Academy has sold over 45,000 copies!

? "It's the X-Men for cool people."¡ªGrant Morrison (All-Star Superman)

? 2009 Eisner Award nominations (The Umbrella Academy: Apocalypse Suite):
Gerard Way and Gabriel B¨¢: Best Graphic Album
Gabriel B¨¢: Best Cover Artist, Best Penciller/Inker
James Jean: Best Cover Artist
Dave Stewart: Best Coloring

? A New York Times bestseller!]]> 192 Gerard Way 159582345X Christopher 0 3.98 2009 The Umbrella Academy, Vol. 2: Dallas
author: Gerard Way
name: Christopher
average rating: 3.98
book published: 2009
rating: 0
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]]> Pet Sematary 33124137 This is an alternate Cover Edition for ASIN: B00K3NEE56. When the Creeds move into a beautiful old house in rural Maine, it all seems too good to be true: physician father, beautiful wife, charming little daughter, adorable infant son-and now an idyllic home. As a family, they've got it all...right down to the friendly car. But the nearby woods hide a blood-chilling truth-more terrifying than death itself-and hideously more powerful. The Creeds are going to learn that sometimes dead is better.]]> 580 Stephen King Christopher 0 4.21 1983 Pet Sematary
author: Stephen King
name: Christopher
average rating: 4.21
book published: 1983
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl]]> 152519 Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl remains among the few extant slave narratives written by a woman. This autobiographical account chronicles the remarkable odyssey of Harriet Jacobs (1813¨C1897) whose dauntless spirit and faith carried her from a life of servitude and degradation in North Carolina to liberty and reunion with her children in the North.

Written and published in 1861 after Jacobs' harrowing escape from a vile and predatory master, the memoir delivers a powerful and unflinching portrayal of the abuses and hypocrisy of the master-slave relationship. Jacobs writes frankly of the horrors she suffered as a slave, her eventual escape after several unsuccessful attempts, and her seven years in self-imposed exile, hiding in a coffin-like "garret" attached to her grandmother's porch.

A rare firsthand account of a courageous woman's determination and endurance, this inspirational story also represents a valuable historical record of the continuing battle for freedom and the preservation of family.]]> 176 Harriet Ann Jacobs 0486419312 Christopher 5 4.15 1861 Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
author: Harriet Ann Jacobs
name: Christopher
average rating: 4.15
book published: 1861
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory]]> 51714 First published in 1990, The Sexual Politics of Meat is a landmark text in the ongoing debates about animal rights. In the two decades since, the book has inspired controversy and heated debate.

Praise for The Sexual Politics of Meat:

CAROL J. ADAMS is the author of The Pornography of Meat (Continuum, 2004), and co-author of Beyond Animal Rights (Continuum, 2000), and The Bedside, Bathtub, and Armchair Companion to Jane Austen (Continuum, 2008). She has toured as a speaker throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe. More information can be found at her website:

]]> 272 Carol J. Adams 0826411843 Christopher 0 to-read 3.96 1990 The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory
author: Carol J. Adams
name: Christopher
average rating: 3.96
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]]> <![CDATA[The Umbrella Academy, Vol. 1: Apocalypse Suite]]> 2795053
These seven children form the Umbrella Academy, a dysfunctional family of superheroes with bizarre powers. Their first adventure at the age of ten pits them against an erratic and deadly Eiffel Tower, piloted by the fearsome zombie-robot Gustave Eiffel. Nearly a decade later, the team disbands, but when Hargreeves unexpectedly dies, these disgruntled siblings reunite just in time to save the world once again.

Collecting: The Umbrella Academy: Apocalypse Suite 1-6, as well as out-of-print short stories and an expanded sketchbook section featuring work by Gabriel B¨¢, James Jean, and Gerard Way]]> 184 Gerard Way Christopher 0 3.87 2007 The Umbrella Academy, Vol. 1: Apocalypse Suite
author: Gerard Way
name: Christopher
average rating: 3.87
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]]> Blood and Guts in High School 321950
In the Mexican city of Merida, ten-year-old Janey lives with Johnny--her "boyfriend, brother, sister, money, amusement, and father"--until he leaves her for another woman. Bereft, Janey travels to New York City, plunging into an underworld of gangs and prostitution. After escaping imprisonment, she flees to Tangiers where she meets Jean Genet, and they begin a torrid affair that will lead Janey to her demise.

Fantastical, sensual, and fearlessly radical, this hallucinatory collage is both a comic and tragic portrait of erotic awakening.]]> 165 Kathy Acker 080213193X Christopher 0 3.50 1984 Blood and Guts in High School
author: Kathy Acker
name: Christopher
average rating: 3.50
book published: 1984
rating: 0
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]]> Absolute Kingdom Come 93335

Set at the dawn of the 21st century in a world spinning inexorably out of control, Waid and Ross weave a tale of youth versus experience, tradition versus change, and what defines a hero. KINGDOM COME is a riveting story pitting the old guard - Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman and their peers -- against a new, uncompromising generation of heroes that declare war against each other to determine the future of the planet.



This Absolute Edition is a whopping 340-page slipcased hardcover featuring a new wraparound image by Ross. Also included is an extended character sketch section, a peek into Ross's own sketchbook, text pieces by Waid and Ross, annotations of the entire series, rare art (from magazines, trading cards, T-shirts, the novel and more), promotional images, a gallery of DC Direct Kingdom Come products, the evolution of a story page, and much more!

]]> 264 Mark Waid 1401207685 Christopher 4 4.43 1996 Absolute Kingdom Come
author: Mark Waid
name: Christopher
average rating: 4.43
book published: 1996
rating: 4
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]]> I Who Have Never Known Men 60811826 Deep underground, forty women live imprisoned in a cage. Watched over by guards, the women have no memory of how they got there, no notion of time, and only a vague recollection of their lives before.


As the burn of electric light merges day into night and numberless years pass, a young girl¡ªthe fortieth prisoner¡ªsits alone and outcast in the corner. Soon she will show herself to be the key to the others' escape and survival in the strange world that awaits them above ground.


Jacqueline Harpman was born in Etterbeek, Belgium, in 1929, and fled to Casablanca with her family during WWII. Informed by her background as a psychoanalyst and her youth in exile, I Who Have Never Known Men is a haunting, heartbreaking post-apocalyptic novel of female friendship and intimacy, and the lengths people will go to maintain their humanity in the face of devastation. Back in print for the first time since 1997, Harpman¡¯s modern classic is an important addition to the growing canon of feminist speculative literature.]]> 184 Jacqueline Harpman 1945492600 Christopher 0 4.11 1995 I Who Have Never Known Men
author: Jacqueline Harpman
name: Christopher
average rating: 4.11
book published: 1995
rating: 0
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]]> The Language of Letting Go 1579063 Melody Beattie 1574533746 Christopher 0 to-read 4.42 1990 The Language of Letting Go
author: Melody Beattie
name: Christopher
average rating: 4.42
book published: 1990
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Batman/Superman: Authority Special #1]]> 59526674 42 Phillip Kennedy Johnson Christopher 0 3.36 Batman/Superman: Authority Special #1
author: Phillip Kennedy Johnson
name: Christopher
average rating: 3.36
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]]> <![CDATA[DC Pride: The New Generation (DC Cultural Anthologies)]]> 62108969
¡ª Thirteen thrilling tales spotlighting LGBTQIA+ fan-favorites new and old including Superman (Jon Kent), Nubia, Kid Quick, Connor Hawke, Aquaman (Jackson Hyde), Green Lantern (Jo Mullein), Alysia Yeoh, the Ray, Harley Quinn, Poison Ivy, and Batwoman

¡ª Finding Batman, an autobiographical comic written by the late Kevin Conroy and drawn by J. Bone that details how Kevin's personal experiences from childhood to Hollywood ultimately informed his universally beloved performance as the iconic voice of Batman

¡ª All five parts of Tim Drake's coming-out story across Batman: Urban Legends #4-6, #10, and DC Pride: Tim Drake Special #1

¡ª An introduction by activist, actress, and real-life superhero Nicole Maines

¡ª Gorgeous art from across the complete DC Pride 2022 celebration!]]> 192 Meghan Fitzmartin 177951848X Christopher 0 4.11 DC Pride: The New Generation (DC Cultural Anthologies)
author: Meghan Fitzmartin
name: Christopher
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]]> <![CDATA[DC Pride 2023 #1 (DC Cultural Anthologies)]]> 146257386
Discover all these stories and many more in DC Pride 2023!?]]> 102 Grant Morrison Christopher 0 to-read 3.96 DC Pride 2023 #1 (DC Cultural Anthologies)
author: Grant Morrison
name: Christopher
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]]> <![CDATA[I Will Judge You by Your Bookshelf]]> 50159129
It¡¯s no secret, but we are judged by our bookshelves. We learn to read at an early age, and as we grow older we shed our beloved books for new ones. But some of us surround ourselves with books. We collect them, decorate with them, are inspired by them, and treat our books as sacred objects. In this lighthearted collection of one- and two-page comics, writer-artist Grant Snider explores bookishness in all its forms, and the love of writing and reading, building on the beloved literary comics featured on his website, Incidental Comics. I Will Judge You by Your Bookshelf is the perfect gift for bookworms of all ages.

¡°This playful, self-aware collection of strips and gags on the joys and frustrations of reading and writing is equal parts lighthearted and sincere . . . The panels range from gently clever to surprisingly profound to laugh-out-loud.¡± ¡ª Publishers Weekly

¡°A prescient book for these times.¡± ¡ª Newsarama]]> 128 Grant Snider 1419737112 Christopher 0 3.73 2020 I Will Judge You by Your Bookshelf
author: Grant Snider
name: Christopher
average rating: 3.73
book published: 2020
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]]> <![CDATA[Goodnight Punpun Omnibus, Vol. 6]]> 32918990 This is Punpun Onodera s coming-of-age story. His parents marriage is falling apart. His dad goes to jail and his mom goes to the hospital. He has to live with his loser uncle. He has a crush on a girl who lives in a weird cult. Punpun tries talking with God about his problems, but God is a jerk. Punpun keeps hoping things will get better, but they really, really don t.
Punpun has finally reunited with the love of his life, Aiko!
But she isn t as exciting and wonderful as he remembered.
And she doesn t make him exciting and wonderful.
In fact, he thinks they re both terribly banal.
And now they ve done something terrible....
Punpun, what do you do when there s no way out?"]]> 456 Inio Asano 1421586258 Christopher 0 to-read 4.52 2017 Goodnight Punpun Omnibus, Vol. 6
author: Inio Asano
name: Christopher
average rating: 4.52
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]]> <![CDATA[Goodnight Punpun Omnibus, Vol. 7]]> 32918991
This is Punpun Onodera s coming-of-age story. His parents marriage is falling apart. His dad goes to jail and his mom goes to the hospital. He has to live with his loser uncle. He has a crush on a girl who lives in a weird cult. Punpun tries talking with God about his problems, but God is a jerk. Punpun keeps hoping things will get better, but they really, really don't.

This is the end, Punpun.]]> 272 Inio Asano 1421586266 Christopher 0 to-read 4.52 2017 Goodnight Punpun Omnibus, Vol. 7
author: Inio Asano
name: Christopher
average rating: 4.52
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]]> <![CDATA[Goodnight Punpun Omnibus, Vol. 5]]> 31140470
This is Punpun Onodera¡¯s coming-of-age story. His parents¡¯ marriage is falling apart. His dad goes to jail and his mom goes to the hospital. He has to live with his loser uncle. He has a crush on a girl who lives in a weird cult. Punpun tries talking with God about his problems, but God is a jerk. Punpun keeps hoping things will get better, but they really, really »å´Ç²Ô¡¯³Ù.?

Punpun finally has a plan. But it gets shattered. He wants the world to shatter too. And it does. How can he live with himself? Maybe you just need to find a different life, Punpun.]]> 448 Inio Asano 142158624X Christopher 0 to-read 4.41 2009 Goodnight Punpun Omnibus, Vol. 5
author: Inio Asano
name: Christopher
average rating: 4.41
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]]> <![CDATA[Goodnight Punpun Omnibus, Vol. 4]]> 29499014
This is Punpun Onodera¡¯s coming-of-age story. His parents¡¯ marriage is falling apart. His dad goes to jail, and his mom goes to the hospital. He has to live with his loser uncle. He has a crush on a girl who lives in a weird cult. Punpun tries talking with God about his problems, but God is a jerk. Punpun keeps hoping things will get better, but they really, really don¡¯t.

Like most kids his age, Punpun is in high school. In fact, he made it into the best high school in town. He is such a good student. He studies so he doesn¡¯t have to think about his life. Maybe a meteor will crash into Earth and destroy everything.
A guy can wish, Punpun¡­]]> 456 Inio Asano 1421586231 Christopher 0 4.38 2017 Goodnight Punpun Omnibus, Vol. 4
author: Inio Asano
name: Christopher
average rating: 4.38
book published: 2017
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]]> <![CDATA[Goodnight Punpun Omnibus, Vol. 3]]> 27406763 440 Inio Asano 1421586223 Christopher 4 4.40 2016 Goodnight Punpun Omnibus, Vol. 3
author: Inio Asano
name: Christopher
average rating: 4.40
book published: 2016
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[The Flash by Geoff Johns, Book Three]]> 29790377
In 2000, writer Geoff Johns took over THE FLASH and redefined a comic book icon for a new generation. Now reexperience Johns¡¯ unforgettable five-year run in these stunning tales of Wally West, the Fastest Man Alive.

What starts as a fantastical journey featuring the Flash and Hawkman taking on the fairy tale horrors of the Brothers Grimm ends up with the fastest man alive racing through Iron Heights Prison as he tries to take down a rampaging Gorilla Grodd. And, in the epic storyline ¡°Blitz,¡± find out the secret history of the villainous Professor Zoom. All this plus Linda Park, The Flash¡¯s wife, has delivered startling news that has changed Wally West¡¯s life forever!

This third volume in THE FLASH BY GEOFF JOHNS series collects THE FLASH #189-200 featuring art by the veteran Flash art team of Scott Kolins and Doug Hazlewood.]]> 350 Geoff Johns 1401264980 Christopher 0 4.36 2016 The Flash by Geoff Johns, Book Three
author: Geoff Johns
name: Christopher
average rating: 4.36
book published: 2016
rating: 0
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]]> Human Furniture 27815035
IT'S ALL ABOUT PLAY. Cosplay, s&m play, you-name-it play. People working out their issues and fetishes, without judgement. In a powerful, private place.

HUMAN FURNITURE is Devora Gray's brilliant, raw, loving deep dive into what and who "The Perfect Woman" might be in this lonely, broken world. Part juicy memoir, part gleeful extrapolation, it's 100% biting and honest and compassionate in portraying the deep joy and pain so many men, women, and beyonders feel. Including Scarlett herself.

When they allow themselves to take it all the way.]]> 408 Devora Gray 1621052117 Christopher 0 to-read 4.67 Human Furniture
author: Devora Gray
name: Christopher
average rating: 4.67
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]]> <![CDATA[The Flash by Geoff Johns, Book Two]]> 26192678 416 Geoff Johns 1401261019 Christopher 0 4.05 2016 The Flash by Geoff Johns, Book Two
author: Geoff Johns
name: Christopher
average rating: 4.05
book published: 2016
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Self-Esteem and the End of the World]]> 195790883
Life is not a race. There are no winners and losers. Immeasurable people are doing better than you¡­immeasurably worse. You are statistically average.


For over ten years, cartoonist Luke Healy has invested all of his self-esteem into his career. But two years post publication of his last book, and suffering the blow of his twin-brother not finding him fit to act as best man, both Luke¡¯s career and self-esteem seem to have disintegrated.

Set against the backdrop of a dangerously changing global climate, with melting ice-caps and flooding cities, Self-Esteem and the End of the World spans two decades of tragicomic self-discovery. From self-help books to summiting Greek mountaintops, and workplace murder mysteries to a Hollywood revival of Luke¡¯s early work, we see our protagonist grappling with his identity as the world crumbles.

Quietly funny, smartly introspective, and grounded in deeply-felt familial highs and lows, Self-Esteem and the End of the World ponders what happens when the person you are isn¡¯t who you need to be, who you are when nobody¡¯s watching, and ultimately, Who can you possibly be at the end of the world?]]> 324 Luke Healy 1770467149 Christopher 0 to-read 3.57 2024 Self-Esteem and the End of the World
author: Luke Healy
name: Christopher
average rating: 3.57
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]]> <![CDATA[The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom]]> 6596 The Four Agreements, don Miguel Ruiz reveals the source of self-limiting beliefs that rob us of joy and create needless suffering. Based on ancient Toltec wisdom, the Four Agreements offer a powerful code of conduct that can rapidly transform our lives to a new experience of freedom, true happiness, and love. The Four Agreements are: Be Impeccable With Your Word, Don't Take Anything Personally, Don't Make Assumptions, Always Do Your Best.]]> 152 Miguel Ruiz 1878424505 Christopher 0 4.20 1997 The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
author: Miguel Ruiz
name: Christopher
average rating: 4.20
book published: 1997
rating: 0
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]]> Hell Followed With Us 57911600 Prepare to die. His kingdom is near.

Sixteen-year-old trans boy Benji is on the run from the cult that raised him¡ªthe fundamentalist sect that unleashed Armageddon and decimated the world¡¯s population. Desperately, he searches for a place where the cult can¡¯t get their hands on him, or more importantly, on the bioweapon they infected him with.

But when cornered by monsters born from the destruction, Benji is rescued by a group of teens from the local Acheson LGBTQ+ Center, affectionately known as the ALC. The ALC¡¯s leader, Nick, is gorgeous, autistic, and a deadly shot, and he knows Benji¡¯s darkest secret: the cult¡¯s bioweapon is mutating him into a monster deadly enough to wipe humanity from the earth once and for all.

Still, Nick offers Benji shelter among his ragtag group of queer teens, as long as Benji can control the monster and use its power to defend the ALC. Eager to belong, Benji accepts Nick¡¯s terms¡­until he discovers the ALC¡¯s mysterious leader has a hidden agenda, and more than a few secrets of his own.

A furious, queer debut novel about embracing the monster within and unleashing its power against your oppressors.]]> 416 Andrew Joseph White 1682633241 Christopher 0 to-read 4.11 2022 Hell Followed With Us
author: Andrew Joseph White
name: Christopher
average rating: 4.11
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]]> Klara and the Sun 54120408
In Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro looks at our rapidly changing modern world through the eyes of an unforgettable narrator to explore a fundamental question: what does it mean to love?]]> 340 Kazuo Ishiguro 059331817X Christopher 0 3.71 2021 Klara and the Sun
author: Kazuo Ishiguro
name: Christopher
average rating: 3.71
book published: 2021
rating: 0
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]]> Never Let Me Go 6334 288 Kazuo Ishiguro 1400078776 Christopher 5 3.85 2005 Never Let Me Go
author: Kazuo Ishiguro
name: Christopher
average rating: 3.85
book published: 2005
rating: 5
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Oh my god. That was so very sad, bleak, and moving. One of the best books I've ever read, certainly will read more Ishiguro very soon. I'm bad at reviews. I wish I could have read this without knowing anything about the plot first. Damn, that was amazing.
]]> <![CDATA[The Flash by Geoff Johns, Book One]]> 25241782
When the Flash breaks through space and time to reach a parallel Earth, it mirrors our own¡ªexcept for one big there is no Speed Force. Disconnected from the energy source that powers all super-speedsters, this is a world where The Flash never existed, and has become deadly for anyone who wears a mask. Powerless and hunted by the law, the only way Wally West can survive and escape is to accept help from those he trusts the least¡ªhis own Rogues Gallery!

This first volume in THE FLASH BY GEOFF JOHNS series collects THE FLASH #164-176 and THE IRON HEIGHTS featuring art by Angel Unzueta, Scott Kolins and Ethan Van Sciver.]]> 448 Geoff Johns 1401258735 Christopher 0 3.85 2015 The Flash by Geoff Johns, Book One
author: Geoff Johns
name: Christopher
average rating: 3.85
book published: 2015
rating: 0
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]]> No Longer Human 194746 No Longer Human, this leading postwar Japanese writer's second novel, tells the poignant and fascinating story of a young man who is caught between the breakup of the traditions of a northern Japanese aristocratic family and the impact of Western ideas. In consequence, he feels himself "disqualified from being human" (a literal translation of the Japanese title).

Donald Keene, who translated this and Dazai's first novel, The Setting Sun, has said of the author's work: "His world ¡­ suggests Chekhov or possibly postwar France, ¡­ but there is a Japanese sensibility in the choice and presentation of the material. A Dazai novel is at once immediately intelligible in Western terms and quite unlike any Western book." His writing is in some ways reminiscent of Rimbaud, while he himself has often been called a forerunner of Yukio Mishima.

Cover painting by Noe Nojechowiz, from the collection of John and Barbara Duncan; design by Gertrude Huston]]> 176 Osamu Dazai Christopher 0 3.99 1948 No Longer Human
author: Osamu Dazai
name: Christopher
average rating: 3.99
book published: 1948
rating: 0
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]]> 1Q84 Book 1 (1Q84, #1) 6443834 ¤½¤·¤Æ2009Äê¡¢¡º1²Ï84¡»¤ÏÄæ¤Î·½Ïò¤«¤é1984Äê¤òÃ褤¤¿½ü¹ýȥСÕh¤Ç¤¢¤ë¡£
¤½¤³¤ËÃ褫¤ì¤Æ¤¤¤ë¤Î¤Ï¡¸¤³¤¦¤Ç¤¢¤Ã¤¿¤«¤â¤·¤ì¤Ê¤¤¡¹ÊÀ½ç¤Ê¤Î¤À¡£
˽¤¿¤Á¤¬Éú¤­¤Æ¤¤¤ëÏÖÔÚ¤¬¡¢¡¸¤½¤¦¤Ç¤Ï¤Ê¤«¤Ã¤¿¤«¤â¤·¤ì¤Ê¤¤¡¹ÊÀ½ç¤Ç¤¢¤ë¤Î¤È¡¢¤Á¤ç¤¦¤Éͬ¤¸¤è¤¦¤Ë¡£±Õ±Õ> 554 Haruki Murakami 4103534222 Christopher 0 to-read 4.02 2009 1Q84 Book 1 (1Q84, #1)
author: Haruki Murakami
name: Christopher
average rating: 4.02
book published: 2009
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]]> <![CDATA[Goodnight Punpun Omnibus, Vol. 2]]> 27406764 424 Inio Asano 1421586215 Christopher 0 4.32 2007 Goodnight Punpun Omnibus, Vol. 2
author: Inio Asano
name: Christopher
average rating: 4.32
book published: 2007
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Goodnight Punpun Omnibus, Vol. 1]]> 25986929
He wants to win a Nobel Prize and save the world.
He wants to go far away with his true love.
He wants to find some porn.

But Punpun¡¯s life is about to unravel¡­]]> 426 Inio Asano 1421586207 Christopher 0 4.27 2006 Goodnight Punpun Omnibus, Vol. 1
author: Inio Asano
name: Christopher
average rating: 4.27
book published: 2006
rating: 0
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]]> O Josephine 42123832 176 Jason 1683962109 Christopher 0 3.39 2019 O Josephine
author: Jason
name: Christopher
average rating: 3.39
book published: 2019
rating: 0
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]]> LaGuardia 42762071
There, she and Letme become part of a growing population of mostly African and shape-shifting alien immigrants, battling against interrogation, discrimination and travel bans, as they try to make it in a new land. But, as the birth of her child nears, Future begins to change. What dark secret is she hiding?

From the team behind Black Panther: Long Live the King #6 Nnedi Okorafor and illustrator Tana Ford (Silk, Duck!) this Hardcover collects the entire 4 issue miniseries of Laguardia.]]> 136 Nnedi Okorafor 1506710751 Christopher 0 3.91 2019 LaGuardia
author: Nnedi Okorafor
name: Christopher
average rating: 3.91
book published: 2019
rating: 0
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]]> Geisha, a Life 522534 "No woman in the three-hundred-year history of the karyukai has ever come forward in public to tell her story. We have been constrained by unwritten rules not to do so, by the robes of tradition and by the sanctity of our exclusive calling...But I feel it is time to speak out."

Celebrated as the most successful geisha of her generation, Mineko Iwasaki was only five years old when she left her parents' home for the world of the geisha. For the next twenty-five years, she would live a life filled with extraordinary professional demands and rich rewards. She would learn the formal customs and language of the geisha, and study the ancient arts of Japanese dance and music. She would enchant kings and princes, captains of industry, and titans of the entertainment world, some of whom would become her dearest friends. Through great pride and determination, she would be hailed as one of the most prized geishas in Japan's history, and one of the last great practitioners of this now fading art form.

In Geisha, a Life, Mineko Iwasaki tells her story, from her warm early childhood, to her intense yet privileged upbringing in the Iwasaki okiya (household), to her years as a renowned geisha, and finally, to her decision at the age of twenty-nine to retire and marry, a move that would mirror the demise of geisha culture. Mineko brings to life the beauty and wonder of Gion Kobu, a place that "existed in a world apart, a special realm whose mission and identity depended on preserving the time-honored traditions of the past." She illustrates how it coexisted within post-World War II Japan at a time when the country was undergoing its radical transformation from a post-feudal society to a modern one.

"There is much mystery and misunderstanding about what it means to be a geisha. I hope this story will help explain what it is really like and also serve as a record of this unique component of Japan's cultural history," writes Mineko Iwasaki. Geisha, a Life is the first of its kind, as it delicately unfolds the fabric of a geisha's development. Told with great wisdom and sensitivity, it is a true story of beauty and heroism, and of a time and culture rarely revealed to the Western world.]]> 297 Mineko Iwasaki 0743444299 Christopher 0 to-read 3.92 2002 Geisha, a Life
author: Mineko Iwasaki
name: Christopher
average rating: 3.92
book published: 2002
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[The Death of Superman 30th Anniversary Special #1]]> 63255512

]]> 87 Dan Jurgens Christopher 0 3.65 The Death of Superman 30th Anniversary Special #1
author: Dan Jurgens
name: Christopher
average rating: 3.65
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date added: 2024/06/30
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]]> Swamp Thing: Green Hell 59963038
The Earth is all but done. The last remnants of humanity cling to a mountaintop island lost in endless floodwater. The Parliaments of the Green, the Red, and the Rot all decide it¡¯s time to wipe the slate clean and start the cycle of life over again. And to do so, they¡¯ve united their powers to summon an avatar-one of the most horrific monsters to ever stalk the surface of this forsaken planet. Against a creature like that, there can be no fighting back¡­unless you have a soldier who understands the enemy. Someone who has used its tactics before. Someone like Alec Holland.

Of course, it would help if Alec Holland hadn¡¯t been dead for decades¡­

Jeff Lemire¡ªthe author of the smash hits Killer Smile and The The Deaths of Vic Sage , along with the graphic novel that inspired the television sensation Sweet Tooth¡ª returns to Black Label with one of the greatest artists in modern DC history, Doug Mahnke, in tow! Together they¡¯ll unleash a gory, gruesome eco-terror tale, where the fate of humanity rests in the hands of someone who isn¡¯t human at all!

Collects Swamp Green Hell #1-3.]]> Jeff Lemire Christopher 5 3.74 Swamp Thing: Green Hell
author: Jeff Lemire
name: Christopher
average rating: 3.74
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rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[The Absolute Authority, Vol. 1]]> 546879 320 Warren Ellis 1563898829 Christopher 0 4.37 2002 The Absolute Authority, Vol. 1
author: Warren Ellis
name: Christopher
average rating: 4.37
book published: 2002
rating: 0
read at: 2024/05/23
date added: 2024/06/11
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]]> <![CDATA[The Authority, Vol. 2: Under New Management]]> 43747 192 Warren Ellis 1563897563 Christopher 4 4.15 2000 The Authority, Vol. 2: Under New Management
author: Warren Ellis
name: Christopher
average rating: 4.15
book published: 2000
rating: 4
read at: 2024/06/06
date added: 2024/06/11
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Enjoyed this more than Ellis' initial run. Frank Quitely's work is always superb. Interesting and weird stories that i could actually follow
]]> Superman Smashes the Klan 38452936 The year is 1946, and the Lee family has moved from Chinatown to Downtown Metropolis. While Dr. Lee is eager to begin his new position at the Metropolis Health Department, his two kids, Roberta and Tommy, are more excited about being closer to the famous superhero Superman!

Tommy adjusts quickly to the fast pace of their new neighborhood, befriending Jimmy Olsen and joining the club baseball team, while his younger sister Roberta feels out of place when she fails to fit in with the neighborhood kids. She's awkward, quiet, and self-conscious of how she looks different from the kids around her, so she sticks to watching people instead of talking to them.

While the Lees try to adjust to their new lives, an evil is stirring in Metropolis: the Ku Klux Klan. The Klan targets the Lee family, beginning a string of terrorist attacks. They kidnap Tommy, attack the Daily Planet, and even threaten the local YMCA. But with the help of Roberta's keen skills of observation, Superman is able to fight the Klan's terror, while exposing those in power who support them--and Roberta and Superman learn to embrace their own unique features that set them apart.
From multi-award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Gene Luen Yang comes an exciting middle grade tale featuring Superman.]]> 240 Gene Luen Yang 1401298419 Christopher 5 This was clever and metatextual in a completely subtle, meaningful way.
Classic Superman story brought back to our attention.]]> 4.50 2020 Superman Smashes the Klan
author: Gene Luen Yang
name: Christopher
average rating: 4.50
book published: 2020
rating: 5
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Great comic, and I especially loved the Afterword.
This was clever and metatextual in a completely subtle, meaningful way.
Classic Superman story brought back to our attention.
]]> <![CDATA[DC Pride 2021 #1 (DC Cultural Anthologies)]]> 58027714
The DC Pride creative teams, and the characters they¡¯re developing stories for, are:
- Batwoman (Kate Kane) by James Tynion IV & Trung Le Nguyen
- Poison Ivy & Harley Quinn by Mariko Tamaki & Amy Reeder
- Midnighter by Steve Orlando & Stephen Byrne
- Flash of Earth-11 (Jess Chambers) by Danny Lore & Lisa Sterle
- Green Lantern (Alan Scott) & Obsidian by Sam Johns & Klaus Janson
- Aqualad (Jackson Hyde) by Andrew Wheeler & Luciano Vecchio
- Dreamer by Nicole Maines & Rachael Stott
- Renee Montoya by Vita Ayala and Skylar Patridge
- Pied Piper by Sina Grace, Ro Stein & Ted Brandt

Additionally, DC Pride #1 will include full-page profiles of DCTV¡¯s LGBTQIA+ characters and the actors who play them, and fans of The CW¡¯s Supergirl will be thrilled to see the first comic book appearance of Dreamer, a trans woman superhero, in a story written by actor Nicole Maines, who plays Nia Nal/Dreamer on Supergirl.

Rounding out the DC Pride anthology is a forward by Marc Andreyko (Love is Love), single-page pin-ups by artists Kris Anka, Sophie Campbell, Mildred Louis, Travis Moore, Nick Robles and Kevin Wada, with more surprises to come!]]> 84 Andrew Wheeler Christopher 0 4.02 DC Pride 2021 #1 (DC Cultural Anthologies)
author: Andrew Wheeler
name: Christopher
average rating: 4.02
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]]> <![CDATA[The DC Book of Pride: A Celebration of DC's LGBTQIA+ Characters]]> 74888646 Celebrate Pride with DC's LGBTQIA+ Super Heroes.

Written and curated by DC expert Jadzia Axelrod, The DC Book of Pride profiles more than 50 LGBTQIA+ characters in detail, including Harley Quinn, Superman, Nubia, Robin, Batwoman, Aqualad, Dreamer, Green Lantern, and many more. Discover their fascinating origins, amazing superpowers, and key storylines. This title is an indispensable and celebratory companion to the DC Pride comic books.

With stunning comic book artwork and an exclusive cover artwork by renowned DC comics illustrator Paulina Ganucheau, this book is a perfect addition to the collection of any DC fan.

All DC characters and elements ? & ? DC Comics. (s23)]]> 130 D.K. Publishing 0241641276 Christopher 0 to-read 4.27 2023 The DC Book of Pride: A Celebration of DC's LGBTQIA+ Characters
author: D.K. Publishing
name: Christopher
average rating: 4.27
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]]> <![CDATA[Tales from the Dark Multiverse]]> 51810543 DC has delivered some of the most influential and ground-breaking stories in comic's history with titles such as The Killing Joke, Identity Crisis, The Death of Superman and much more. Now after the events of Dark Knights: Metal, a gateway into the Dark Multiverse has opened and its stories revealed.

Featuring top talent authors and artist, Tales from the DC Dark Multiverse is going beyond the Multiverse and diving deep into the dark with new timelines and altering the defining moments in DC history. What are the consequences if The Joker's aim had hit James Gordon instead of Barbara? What would the DC Universe look like?

Tales from the DC Dark Multiverse is a hard cover format collecting alternating stories of the DC Universe, reprinting DC Dark Multiverse Batman: Knightfall #1, DC Dark Multiverse Death of Superman #1, DC Dark Multiverse Blackest Night #1, DC Dark Multiverse Infinite Crisis #1, DC Dark Multiverse Teen Titans: The Judas Contract #1, Batman #497, Superman #75, Blackest Night #1, Infinite Crisis #1, and Tales of the Teen Titans Annual #3.]]> 448 Scott Snyder 1779501374 Christopher 5 3.60 2020 Tales from the Dark Multiverse
author: Scott Snyder
name: Christopher
average rating: 3.60
book published: 2020
rating: 5
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Love the concept. Dark reimaginings of the most famous DC stories from the dark multiverse. A second multiverse. There is a dark version of infinite crisis, death of superman, knightfall, flashpoint etc. Very cool and well written.
]]> Superman: Space Age 61908786 Uniting the critically acclaimed writer Mark Russell (One-Star Squadron and The Flintstones) and Eisner-winner Mike Allred (Silver Surfer and Bowie: Stardust, Rayguns & Moonage Daydreams) for the first time, this series promises fans an unforgettable journey through U.S. history and culture starring Superman.

Meet Clark Kent, a young reporter who just learned that the world will soon come to an end (Crisis on Infinite Earths) and there is nothing he can do to save it. Sounds like a job for his alter ego...Superman!
After years of standing idle, the young man from Krypton defies the wishes of his fathers to come out to the world as the first superhero of the Space Age. As each decade passes and each new danger emerges, he wonders if this is the one that will kill him and everyone he loves. Superman realizes that even good intentions are not without their backlash as the world around him transforms into a place as determined to destroy itself as he is to save it.

Collects Superman: Space Age #1-3!]]> 264 Mark Russell 1779518471 Christopher 5 I said out loud "this is beautiful" and thought i might even like this more than All-Star Superman, the comic that made me fall in love with Superman. The ending was strange and not quite what i want from a Superman story, but that's cool and interesting and it definitely makes sense for the story and themes presented here.
The artwork from the Allreds is really excellent and unique and striking and fits the era and story very well. Easy five stars.]]> 4.17 2023 Superman: Space Age
author: Mark Russell
name: Christopher
average rating: 4.17
book published: 2023
rating: 5
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Brilliant read. I love the different philosophies of heroism presented, the emotional core of Clark Kent and his relationships with Lois and his Dad, and the scope of the story, which was surprising to me as it starts out as an origin story.
I said out loud "this is beautiful" and thought i might even like this more than All-Star Superman, the comic that made me fall in love with Superman. The ending was strange and not quite what i want from a Superman story, but that's cool and interesting and it definitely makes sense for the story and themes presented here.
The artwork from the Allreds is really excellent and unique and striking and fits the era and story very well. Easy five stars.
]]> Unsouled (Cradle, #1) 30558257
Lindon is Unsouled, forbidden to learn the sacred arts of his clan.

When faced with a looming fate he cannot ignore, he must defy his family's rules...and forge his own Path.]]> 294 Will Wight Christopher 0 to-read 4.16 2016 Unsouled (Cradle, #1)
author: Will Wight
name: Christopher
average rating: 4.16
book published: 2016
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]]> Between Two Fires 13543121
Is it delirium or is it faith? She believes she has seen the angels of God. She believes the righteous dead speak to her in dreams. And now she has convinced the faithless Thomas to shepherd her across a depraved landscape to Avignon. There, she tells Thomas, she will fulfill her mission to confront the evil that has devastated the earth, and to restore to this betrayed, murderous knight the nobility and hope of salvation he long abandoned.

As hell unleashes its wrath, and as the true nature of the girl is revealed, Thomas will find himself on a macabre battleground of angels and demons, saints, and the risen dead, and in the midst of a desperate struggle for nothing less than the soul of man.]]> 432 Christopher Buehlman 1937007863 Christopher 0 currently-reading 4.20 2012 Between Two Fires
author: Christopher Buehlman
name: Christopher
average rating: 4.20
book published: 2012
rating: 0
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]]> Rick Grimes 2000 61092454
Rick Grimes was a small-town police officer. Then the world fell to the walking dead. But the dead were only the start... and a new tale of alien horror begins here.

Superstar writer Robert Kirkman (INVINCIBLE, FIRE POWER) and superstar artist Ryan Ottley (INVINCIBLE, Amazing Spider-Man) present the wildest WALKING DEAD story ever. This hardcover collects the entire RICK GRIMES 2000 story originally serialized in the pages of SKYBOUND X.

SUPERHEROES, HORROR]]> 64 Robert Kirkman 153432223X Christopher 0 2.97 2022 Rick Grimes 2000
author: Robert Kirkman
name: Christopher
average rating: 2.97
book published: 2022
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Tales from the Dark Multiverse II]]> 56037879 The gateway into the Dark Multiverse has been opened...what stories will come out?

The twisted timelines that showed the Dark Multiverse and all the devastating danger that it contains are collected in TALES FROM THE DARK MULTIVERSE II. What dark realities exist within the realms of the Dark Multiverse? Follow Batman, Wonder Woman, and the Justice League as our heroes through these crumbling and shattered worlds!

Collects Wonder Woman #8; Batman #608; Flashpoint #1; Dark Nights: Metal #1; Dollar Comics: Crisis on Infinite Earths #1; Tales from the Dark Multiverse: Batman: Hush #1; Tales from the Dark Multiverse: Flashpoint #1; Tales from the Dark Multiverse: Wonder Woman: War of the Gods #1; Tales from the Dark Multiverse: Crisis on Infinite Earths #1; Tales from the Dark Multiverse: Dark Nights Metal #1.]]> 408 Phillip Kennedy Johnson 1779510071 Christopher 5 3.25 2021 Tales from the Dark Multiverse II
author: Phillip Kennedy Johnson
name: Christopher
average rating: 3.25
book published: 2021
rating: 5
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]]> Superman and The Authority 57902624 136 Grant Morrison 1779513615 Christopher 0 3.29 2021 Superman and The Authority
author: Grant Morrison
name: Christopher
average rating: 3.29
book published: 2021
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Pantheon: The True Story of the Egyptian Deities]]> 23622037 179 Hamish Steele Christopher 5 Fantastic 4.31 2014 Pantheon: The True Story of the Egyptian Deities
author: Hamish Steele
name: Christopher
average rating: 4.31
book published: 2014
rating: 5
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Fantastic
]]> The Signature of All Things 17465453 A glorious, sweeping novel of desire, ambition, and the thirst for knowledge, from the # 1 New York Times bestselling author of Eat, Pray, Love and Committed.

In The Signature of All Things, Elizabeth Gilbert returns to fiction, inserting her inimitable voice into an enthralling story of love, adventure and discovery. Spanning much of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the novel follows the fortunes of the extraordinary Whittaker family as led by the enterprising Henry Whittaker¡ªa poor-born Englishman who makes a great fortune in the South American quinine trade, eventually becoming the richest man in Philadelphia. Born in 1800, Henry's brilliant daughter, Alma (who inherits both her father's money and his mind), ultimately becomes a botanist of considerable gifts herself. As Alma's research takes her deeper into the mysteries of evolution, she falls in love with a man named Ambrose Pike who makes incomparable paintings of orchids and who draws her in the exact opposite direction ¡ª into the realm of the spiritual, the divine, and the magical. Alma is a clear-minded scientist; Ambrose a utopian artist ¡ª but what unites this unlikely couple is a desperate need to understand the workings of this world and the mechanisms behind all life.

Exquisitely researched and told at a galloping pace, The Signature of All Things soars across the globe¡ªfrom London to Peru to Philadelphia to Tahiti to Amsterdam, and beyond. Along the way, the story is peopled with unforgettable characters: missionaries, abolitionists, adventurers, astronomers, sea captains, geniuses, and the quite mad. But most memorable of all, it is the story of Alma Whittaker, who ¡ª born in the Age of Enlightenment, but living well into the Industrial Revolution ¡ª bears witness to that extraordinary moment in human history when all the old assumptions about science, religion, commerce, and class were exploding into dangerous new ideas. Written in the bold, questing spirit of that singular time, Gilbert's wise, deep, and spellbinding tale is certain to capture the hearts and minds of readers.]]> 512 Elizabeth Gilbert 0670024856 Christopher 0 to-read 3.84 2013 The Signature of All Things
author: Elizabeth Gilbert
name: Christopher
average rating: 3.84
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]]> <![CDATA[Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear]]> 24453082 Big Magic cracks open a world of wonder and joy.]]> 276 Elizabeth Gilbert 1594634718 Christopher 0 3.95 2015 Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
author: Elizabeth Gilbert
name: Christopher
average rating: 3.95
book published: 2015
rating: 0
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]]> Superman: Emperor Joker 195272259
Now collected in stunning deluxe hardcover¡ªan unforgettable, twisted story, originally presented in SUPERMAN #160-161, ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN #582-583, MAN OF STEEL #104-105, ACTION COMICS #769-770 and EMPEROR JOKER #1. In this tale of a reality gone wrong, Superman must struggle against The Joker, Emperor of the universe!]]> 272 Jeph Loeb 1779525702 Christopher 3 3.58 Superman: Emperor Joker
author: Jeph Loeb
name: Christopher
average rating: 3.58
book published:
rating: 3
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]]> The Slob 55989293
All is going well until she arrives at the steps of a house she wished she never had. The steps of an evil that brings back the ghastly memories she so desperately tried to wash away.

Nothing will prepare you for the nastiness, disorder and uncleansable horror brought forth by... The Slob.]]> 146 Aron Beauregard Christopher 0 3.31 2019 The Slob
author: Aron Beauregard
name: Christopher
average rating: 3.31
book published: 2019
rating: 0
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date added: 2024/05/01
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]]> Son of the Slob 58650545 Like father, like Son?

Vera Harlow is a survivor. After a chance encounter led to her being held captive in a disgusting house of horrors, she fought tooth and nail to escape the clutches of a man known only as The Slob. But while she may have fled the disastrous situation, the details of her struggle are now carved into her flesh and soul.

Vera¡¯s son is the product of utter depravity. Harold, the sinister seed left by the man who took everything from her, continues to blossom in nauseating fashion. His features and habits are stomach-churning, vividly familiar, and becoming more disturbing by the day. Determined to coax out the bright side of her child that she sees an occasional glimpse of, Vera strives for normalcy. But will the faint light she¡¯s chasing shine through the darkness or will she be left cleaning up another gruesome mess?]]> 220 Aron Beauregard Christopher 0 3.69 2021 Son of the Slob
author: Aron Beauregard
name: Christopher
average rating: 3.69
book published: 2021
rating: 0
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]]> Cows 815760
Cows is the long-awaited reissue of Matthew Stokoe's critically acclaimed debut novel.]]> 192 Matthew Stokoe 1840680059 Christopher 0 2.75 1998 Cows
author: Matthew Stokoe
name: Christopher
average rating: 2.75
book published: 1998
rating: 0
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date added: 2024/04/09
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]]> Almanac of the Dead 52385
In its extraordinary range of character and culture, Almanac of the Dead is fiction on the grand scale. The acclaimed author of Ceremony has undertaken a weaving of ideas and lives, fate and history, passion and conquest in an attempt to re-create the moral history of the Americas, told from the point of view of the conquered, not the conquerors.]]> 763 Leslie Marmon Silko 0140173196 Christopher 0 to-read 3.96 1991 Almanac of the Dead
author: Leslie Marmon Silko
name: Christopher
average rating: 3.96
book published: 1991
rating: 0
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]]> Blindness 2526 No food, no water, no government, no obligation, no order.

Discover a chillingly powerful and prescient dystopian vision from one of Europe's greatest writers.

A driver waiting at the traffic lights goes blind. An ophthalmologist tries to diagnose his distinctive white blindness, but is affected before he can read the textbooks.
It becomes a contagion, spreading throughout the city. Trying to stem the epidemic, the authorities herd the afflicted into a mental asylum where the wards are terrorised by blind thugs. And when fire destroys the asylum, the inmates burst forth and the last links with a supposedly civilised society are snapped.

This is not anarchy, this is blindness.

¡®Saramago repeatedly undertakes to unite the pressing demands of the present with an unfolding vision of the future. This is his most apocalyptic, and most optimistic, version of that project yet¡¯ Independent]]> 326 Jos¨¦ Saramago Christopher 0 to-read 4.04 1995 Blindness
author: Jos¨¦ Saramago
name: Christopher
average rating: 4.04
book published: 1995
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Morigu: The Desecration (Morigu, #1)]]> 1696083 324 Mark C. Perry 0445203005 Christopher 4 4.38 1986 Morigu: The Desecration (Morigu, #1)
author: Mark C. Perry
name: Christopher
average rating: 4.38
book published: 1986
rating: 4
read at: 2024/04/03
date added: 2024/04/03
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]]> Superman: American Alien 26152411 224 Max Landis 1401262562 Christopher 2 4.19 2015 Superman: American Alien
author: Max Landis
name: Christopher
average rating: 4.19
book published: 2015
rating: 2
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date added: 2024/04/03
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Started good, but some very weird ideas for a Superman origin story. Ultimately, not my thing.
]]> <![CDATA[Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited]]> 5479 Brave New World, originally published in 1932, presents Aldous Huxley's vision of the future--of a world utterly transformed. Through the most efficient scientific and psychological engineering, people are genetically designed to be passive and therefore consistently useful to the ruling class. This powerful work of speculative fiction sheds a blazing critical light on the present and is considered to be Aldous Huxley's most enduring masterpiece.

The non-fiction work Brave New World Revisited, published in 1958, is a fascinating work in which Huxley uses his tremendous knowledge of human relations to compare the modern-day world with his prophetic fantasy envisioned in Brave New World, including the threats to humanity, such as over-population, propaganda, and chemical persuasion.]]> 340 Aldous Huxley 0060776099 Christopher 0 4.17 1958 Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited
author: Aldous Huxley
name: Christopher
average rating: 4.17
book published: 1958
rating: 0
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]]> The Slave Factory 13420948
This story, in 12 brief chapters, focuses on the intersection of lives at one slave factory, Porto de Maria. Diego, its boss, is jaded. Matthew, its resident priest, has a terrible secret that drove him to Africa. Bowlu, his slave, struggles to find recompense for what he¡¯s lost. William, the ageing captain of a visiting slaving ship, commands a divided crew, worries about interdiction at sea, and has come to Porto de Maria to determine his future. When these lives cross on the eve of the American Civil War, none of them will remain the same.

From Martian Lit. More info at ]]> 60 Julian Darius 146995673X Christopher 0 to-read 4.06 2012 The Slave Factory
author: Julian Darius
name: Christopher
average rating: 4.06
book published: 2012
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Preacher, Volume 1: Gone to Texas]]> 95431 Alternate Cover Edition

One of the most celebrated comics titles of the late 1990s, PREACHER is a modern American epic of life, death, love and redemption also packed with sex, booze, blood and bullets - not to mention angels, demons, God, vampires and deviants of all stripes.

At first glance, the Reverend Jesse Custer doesn't look like anyone special-just another small-town minister slowly losing his flock and his faith. But he's about to come face-to-face with proof that God does indeed exist. Merging with a bizarre spiritual force called Genesis, Jesse now possesses the power of "the Word," an ability to make people do whatever he utters. He begins a violent and riotous journey across the country in search of answers from the elusive deity.

Collects: Preacher #1¨C7]]> 336 Garth Ennis Christopher 0 4.16 1995 Preacher, Volume 1: Gone to Texas
author: Garth Ennis
name: Christopher
average rating: 4.16
book published: 1995
rating: 0
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]]> The Man in the High Castle 216363
This harrowing, Hugo Award-winning novel is the work that established Philip K. Dick as an innovator in science fiction while breaking the barrier between science fiction and the serious novel of ideas. In it Dick offers a haunting vision of history as a nightmare from which it may just be possible to wake.]]> 259 Philip K. Dick 0679740678 Christopher 0 to-read 3.64 1962 The Man in the High Castle
author: Philip K. Dick
name: Christopher
average rating: 3.64
book published: 1962
rating: 0
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]]> The Old Man and the Sea 2165 Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found here

This short novel, already a modern classic, is the superbly told, tragic story of a Cuban fisherman in the Gulf Stream and the giant Marlin he kills and loses¡ªspecifically referred to in the citation accompanying the author's Nobel Prize for literature in 1954.]]> 96 Ernest Hemingway 0684830493 Christopher 0 3.81 1952 The Old Man and the Sea
author: Ernest Hemingway
name: Christopher
average rating: 3.81
book published: 1952
rating: 0
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]]> 1Q84 (1Q84, #1-3) 10357575 The year is 1984 and the city is Tokyo.

A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driver¡¯s enigmatic suggestion and begins to notice puzzling discrepancies in the world around her. She has entered, she realizes, a parallel existence, which she calls 1Q84 ¡ª¡°Q is for ¡®question mark.¡¯ A world that bears a question.¡± Meanwhile, an aspiring writer named Tengo takes on a suspect ghostwriting project. He becomes so wrapped up with the work and its unusual author that, soon, his previously placid life begins to come unraveled.

As Aomame¡¯s and Tengo¡¯s narratives converge over the course of this single year, we learn of the profound and tangled connections that bind them ever closer: a beautiful, dyslexic teenage girl with a unique vision; a mysterious religious cult that instigated a shoot-out with the metropolitan police; a reclusive, wealthy dowager who runs a shelter for abused women; a hideously ugly private investigator; a mild-mannered yet ruthlessly efficient bodyguard; and a peculiarly insistent television-fee collector.

A love story, a mystery, a fantasy, a novel of self-discovery, a dystopia to rival George Orwell¡¯s ¡ª 1Q84 is Haruki Murakami¡¯s most ambitious undertaking yet: an instant best seller in his native Japan, and a tremendous feat of imagination from one of our most revered contemporary writers.]]> 944 Haruki Murakami 0307593312 Christopher 0 to-read 3.94 2009 1Q84 (1Q84, #1-3)
author: Haruki Murakami
name: Christopher
average rating: 3.94
book published: 2009
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[The Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials, #3)]]> 18122
But how can he go looking for Lord Asriel when Lyra is gone? Only with her help can he fathom the myriad plots and intrigues that beset him.

The two great powers of the many worlds are lining up for war, and Will must find Lyra, for together they are on their way to battle, an inevitable journey that will even take them to the world of the dead...]]> 465 Philip Pullman 0440238153 Christopher 0 4.11 2000 The Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials, #3)
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]]> The Brothers Karamazov 4934
This award-winning translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky remains true to the verbal inventiveness of Dostoevsky¡¯s prose, preserving the multiple voices, the humor, and the surprising modernity of the original. It is an achievement worthy of Dostoevsky¡¯s last and greatest novel.]]> 796 Fyodor Dostoevsky 0374528373 Christopher 0 to-read 4.36 1880 The Brothers Karamazov
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name: Christopher
average rating: 4.36
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]]> Stranger in a Strange Land 350 NAME: Valentine Michael Smith
ANCESTRY: Human
ORIGIN: Mars

Valentine Michael Smith is a human being raised on Mars, newly returned to Earth. Among his people for the first time, he struggles to understand the social mores and prejudices of human nature that are so alien to him, while teaching them his own fundamental beliefs in grokking, watersharing, and love.]]> 525 Robert A. Heinlein Christopher 2 3.93 1961 Stranger in a Strange Land
author: Robert A. Heinlein
name: Christopher
average rating: 3.93
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rating: 2
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]]> Ham on Rye 38501 288 Charles Bukowski 006117758X Christopher 0 4.17 1982 Ham on Rye
author: Charles Bukowski
name: Christopher
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]]> Tales of Ordinary Madness 38503 Exceptional stories that came pounding out of Bukowski's violent and depraved life. Horrible and holy, you cannot read them and ever come away the same again.

With Bukowski, the votes are still coming in. There seems to be no middle ground¡ªpeople seem either to love him or hate him. Tales of his own life and doings are as wild and weird as the very stories he writes. In a sense, Bukowski was a legend in his time: a madman, a recluse, a lover; tender, vicious; never the same.

From prostitutes to classical music, Bukowski ingeniously mixes high and low culture in his "tales of ordinary madness." These stories are humorous and haunting, angry yet tender portrayals of life in the underbelly of Los Angeles.]]> 238 Charles Bukowski 0872861554 Christopher 0 to-read 4.01 1983 Tales of Ordinary Madness
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name: Christopher
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]]> Invisible Man 16981 Invisible Man is one of those rare novels that have changed the shape of American literature. For not only does Ralph Ellison's nightmare journey across the racial divide tell unparalleled truths about the nature of bigotry and its effects on the minds of both victims and perpetrators, it gives us an entirely new model of what a novel can be.

As he journeys from the Deep South to the streets and basements of Harlem, from a horrifying "battle royal" where black men are reduced to fighting animals, to a Communist rally where they are elevated to the status of trophies, Ralph Ellison's nameless protagonist ushers readers into a parallel universe that throws our own into harsh and even hilarious relief. Suspenseful and sardonic, narrated in a voice that takes in the symphonic range of the American language, black and white, Invisible Man is one of the most audacious and dazzling novels of our century.]]> 581 Ralph Ellison Christopher 4 3.91 1952 Invisible Man
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name: Christopher
average rating: 3.91
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]]> Breakfast of Champions 4980 Alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here

In Breakfast of Champions, one of Kurt Vonnegut¡¯s most beloved characters, the aging writer Kilgore Trout, finds to his horror that a Midwest car dealer is taking his fiction as truth. What follows is murderously funny satire, as Vonnegut looks at war, sex, racism, success, politics, and pollution in America and reminds us how to see the truth.]]> 303 Kurt Vonnegut Jr. 0385334206 Christopher 0 4.08 1973 Breakfast of Champions
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]]> Horns 6587879
At first Ig thought the horns were a hallucination, the product of a mind damaged by rage and grief. He had spent the last year in a lonely, private purgatory, following the death of his beloved, Merrin Williams, who was raped and murdered under inexplicable circumstances. A mental breakdown would have been the most natural thing in the world. But there was nothing natural about the horns, which were all too real.

Once the righteous Ig had enjoyed the life of the blessed: born into privilege, the second son of a renowned musician and younger brother of a rising late-night TV star, he had security, wealth, and a place in his community. Ig had it all, and more¡ªhe had Merrin and a love founded on shared daydreams, mutual daring, and unlikely midsummer magic.

But Merrin's death damned all that. The only suspect in the crime, Ig was never charged or tried. And he was never cleared. In the court of public opinion in Gideon, New Hampshire, Ig is and always will be guilty because his rich and connected parents pulled strings to make the investigation go away. Nothing Ig can do, nothing he can say, matters. Everyone, it seems, including God, has abandoned him. Everyone, that is, but the devil inside. . . .]]> 370 Joe Hill 0061147958 Christopher 0 3.94 2009 Horns
author: Joe Hill
name: Christopher
average rating: 3.94
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]]> On the Road 70401 307 Jack Kerouac 0140042598 Christopher 0 3.63 1957 On the Road
author: Jack Kerouac
name: Christopher
average rating: 3.63
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]]> <![CDATA[The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell]]> 5128 The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell , both of which became essential for the counterculture during the 1960s and influenced a generation's perception of life.]]> 187 Aldous Huxley 0060595183 Christopher 0 to-read 3.95 1956 The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell
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name: Christopher
average rating: 3.95
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]]> <![CDATA[Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close]]> 4588
The key belonged to his father, he's sure of that. But which of New York's 162 million locks does it open?

So begins a quest that takes Oskar - inventor, letter-writer and amateur detective - across New York's five boroughs and into the jumbled lives of friends, relatives, and complete strangers. He gets heavy boots, he gives himself little bruises and he inches ever nearer to the heart of a family mystery that stretches back fifty years. But will it take him any closer to, or further from, his lost father?]]> 326 Jonathan Safran Foer 0618711651 Christopher 0 to-read 3.98 2005 Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
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name: Christopher
average rating: 3.98
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]]> The Fall 11991
The Fall (French: La Chute) is a philosophical novel by Albert Camus. First published in 1956, it is his last complete work of fiction. The Fall explores themes of innocence, imprisonment, non-existence, and truth. In a eulogy to Albert Camus, existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre described the novel as "perhaps the most beautiful and the least understood" of Camus' books.]]> 147 Albert Camus 0679720227 Christopher 0 to-read 4.07 1956 The Fall
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name: Christopher
average rating: 4.07
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]]> Island 5130 Island, his last novel, Huxley transports us to a Pacific island where, for 120 years, an ideal society has flourished. Inevitably, this island of bliss attracts the envy and enmity of the surrounding world. A conspiracy is underway to take over Pala, and events begin to move when an agent of the conspirators, a newspaperman named Faranby, is shipwrecked there. What Faranby doesn't expect is how his time with the people of Pala will revolutionize all his values and¡ªto his amazement¡ªgive him hope.]]> 354 Aldous Huxley 0060085495 Christopher 0 3.87 1962 Island
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name: Christopher
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]]> Tender Is the Flesh 49090884
His wife has left him, his father is sinking into dementia, and Marcos tries not to think too hard about how he makes a living. After all, it happened so quickly. First, it was reported that an infectious virus has made all animal meat poisonous to humans. Then governments initiated the ¡°Transition.¡± Now, eating human meat¡ª¡°special meat¡±¡ªis legal. Marcos tries to stick to numbers, consignments, processing.

Then one day he¡¯s given a a live specimen of the finest quality. Though he¡¯s aware that any form of personal contact is forbidden on pain of death, little by little he starts to treat her like a human being. And soon, he becomes tortured by what has been lost¡ªand what might still be saved.]]> 209 Agustina Bazterrica 1982150920 Christopher 5 3.75 2017 Tender Is the Flesh
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name: Christopher
average rating: 3.75
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rating: 5
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]]> Survivor 36236123 Fight Club comes this wickedly incisive second novel, a mesmerizing, unnerving, and hilarious vision of cult and post-cult life.

Tender Branson¡ªlast surviving member of the so-called Creedish Death Cult¡ªis dictating his life story into the flight recorder of Flight 2039, cruising on autopilot at 39,000 feet somewhere over the Pacific Ocean. He is all alone in the airplane, which will crash shortly into the vast Australian outback. Before it does, he will unfold the tale of his journey from an obedient Creedish child and humble domestic servant to an ultra-buffed, steroid- and collagen-packed media messiah, author of a best-selling autobiography, Saved from Salvation, and the even better selling Book of Very Common Prayer (The Prayer to Delay Orgasm, The Prayer to Prevent Hair Loss, The Prayer to Silence Car Alarms). He'll reveal the truth of his tortured romance with the elusive and prescient Fertility Hollis, share his insight that "the only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage," and deny responsibility for the Tender Branson Sensitive Materials Sanitary Landfill, a 20,000-acre repository for the nation's outdated pornography. Among other matters both bizarre and trenchant.

Not since Kurt Vonnegut's Mother Night and Jerzy Kosinski's Being There has there been as dark and telling a satire on the wages of fame and the bedrock lunacy of the modern world. Unpredictable, compelling, and unforgettable, Survivor is Chuck Palahniuk at his deadpan peak; and it cements his place as one of the most original writers in fiction today.]]> 304 Chuck Palahniuk 0393355934 Christopher 0 3.93 1999 Survivor
author: Chuck Palahniuk
name: Christopher
average rating: 3.93
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]]> Ubik 22590
Esta mordaz comedia metaf¨ªsica de muerte y salvaci¨®n (que podr¨¢ llevar un c¨®modo envase) es un tour de force de amenaza paranoica y comedia absurda, en la cual los muertos ofrecen consejos comerciales, compran su siguiente reencarnaci¨®n y corren el riesgo continuo de volver a morir.]]> 288 Philip K. Dick 8498000831 Christopher 0 4.11 1969 Ubik
author: Philip K. Dick
name: Christopher
average rating: 4.11
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]]> Death of a Salesman 12898 'For a salesman, there is no rock bottom to life. He don't put a bolt to a nut, he don't tell you the law or give you medicine. He's a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine.'

Willy Loman has been a salesman for 34 years. At 60, he is cast aside, his usefulness now exhausted. With no future to dream about he must face the crushing disappointments of his past. He takes one final brave action, but is he heroic at last?, or a self-deluding fool?]]> 144 Arthur Miller 0435233076 Christopher 0 3.57 1949 Death of a Salesman
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name: Christopher
average rating: 3.57
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]]> Macbeth 8852
This shocking tragedy - a violent caution to those seeking power for its own sake - is, to this day, one of Shakespeare¡¯s most popular and influential masterpieces.]]> 249 William Shakespeare 0743477103 Christopher 0 3.90 Macbeth
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]]> The Lottery 6219656
¡°The Lottery¡± stands out as one of the most famous short stories in American literary history. Originally published in The New Yorker, the author immediately began receiving letters from readers who demanded an explanation of the story¡¯s meaning. ¡°The Lottery¡± has been adapted for stage, television, radio and film.
]]> 30 Shirley Jackson 1563127873 Christopher 0 4.08 1948 The Lottery
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name: Christopher
average rating: 4.08
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]]> The Turn of the Screw 12948
A very young woman's first job: governess for two weirdly beautiful, strangely distant, oddly silent children, Miles and Flora, at a forlorn estate... An estate haunted by a beckoning evil. Half-seen figures who glare from dark towers and dusty windows- silent, foul phantoms who, day by day, night by night, come closer, ever closer. With growing horror, the helpless governess realizes the fiendish creatures want the children, seeking to corrupt their bodies, possess their minds, own their souls. But worse-much worse- the governess discovers that Miles and Flora have no terror of the lurking evil. For they want the walking dead as badly as the dead want them.

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I remember the whole beginning as a succession of flights and drops, a little seesaw of the right throbs and the wrong. After rising, in town, to meet his appeal, I had at all events a couple of very bad days - found myself doubtful again, felt indeed sure I had made a mistake. In this state of mind I spent the long hours of bumping, swinging coach that carried me to the stopping place at which I was to be met by a vehicle from the house.]]> 121 Henry James 0140620613 Christopher 0 3.42 1898 The Turn of the Screw
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]]> The Crucible 17250
Written in 1953, The Crucible is a mirror Miller uses to reflect the anti-communist hysteria inspired by Senator Joseph McCarthy's "witch-hunts" in the United States. Within the text itself, Miller contemplates the parallels, writing, "Political opposition... is given an inhumane overlay, which then justifies the abrogation of all normally applied customs of civilized behavior. A political policy is equated with moral right, and opposition to it with diabolical malevolence."

WIth an introduction by Christopher Bigsby.
(back cover)]]> 143 Arthur Miller 0142437336 Christopher 0 3.60 1953 The Crucible
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name: Christopher
average rating: 3.60
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]]> Where the Wild Things Are 19543 38 Maurice Sendak 0099408392 Christopher 0 4.25 1963 Where the Wild Things Are
author: Maurice Sendak
name: Christopher
average rating: 4.25
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]]> <![CDATA[I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream]]> 415459 I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream contains seven stories with copyrights ranging from 1958 through 1967. This edition contains the original introduction by Theodore Sturgeon and the original foreword by Harlan Ellison, along with a brief update comment by Ellison that was added in the 1983 edition. Among Ellison's more famous stories, two consistently noted as among his very best ever are the title story and the volume's concluding one, Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes.

Since Ellison himself strongly resists categorization of his work, we won't call them science fiction, or SF, or speculative fiction or horror or anything else except compelling reading experiences that are sui generis. They could only have been written by Harlan Ellison and they are incomparably original.

CONTENTS
"I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream"
"Big Sam Was My Friend"
"Eyes of Dust"
"World of the Myth"
"Lonelyache"
"Delusion for Dragonslayer"
"Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes"]]> 134 Harlan Ellison 0441363954 Christopher 0 3.93 1967 I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream
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name: Christopher
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]]> Cat¡¯s Cradle 135479 Told with deadpan humour and bitter irony, Kurt Vonnegut's cult tale of global destruction preys on our deepest fears of witnessing Armageddon and, worse still, surviving it ...

Dr Felix Hoenikker, one of the founding 'fathers' of the atomic bomb, has left a deadly legacy to the world. For he's the inventor of 'ice-nine', a lethal chemical capable of freezing the entire planet. The search for its whereabouts leads to Hoenikker's three ecentric children, to a crazed dictator in the Caribbean, to madness. Felix Hoenikker's Death Wish comes true when his last, fatal gift to humankind brings about the end, that for all of us, is nigh...]]> 306 Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Christopher 0 4.17 1963 Cat¡¯s Cradle
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name: Christopher
average rating: 4.17
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]]> To Kill a Mockingbird 2657 "Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird."

A lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's classic novel - a black man charged with the rape of a white girl. Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with exuberant humour the irrationality of adult attitudes to race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s. The conscience of a town steeped in prejudice, violence and hypocrisy is pricked by the stamina of one man's struggle for justice. But the weight of history will only tolerate so much.

"To Kill A Mockingbird" became both an instant bestseller and a critical success when it was first published in 1960. It went on to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1961 and was later made into an Academy Award-winning film.]]> 323 Harper Lee 0060935464 Christopher 0 to-read 4.25 1960 To Kill a Mockingbird
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]]> Choke 29059 Victor Mancini, a medical-school dropout, is an antihero for our deranged times.

Needing to pay elder care for his mother, Victor has devised an ingenious scam: he pretends to choke on pieces of food while dining in upscale restaurants. He then allows himself to be ¡°saved¡± by fellow patrons who, feeling responsible for Victor¡¯s life, go on to send checks to support him.

When he¡¯s not pulling this stunt, Victor cruises sexual addiction recovery workshops for action, visits his addled mom, and spends his days working at a colonial theme park.

His creator, Chuck Palahniuk, renowned author of classics like Fight Club, is the visionary we need and the satirist we deserve.]]> 293 Chuck Palahniuk 0385720920 Christopher 0 3.71 2001 Choke
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average rating: 3.71
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]]> The Complete Maus 15195
The Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus tells the story of Vladek Spiegelman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler¡¯s Europe, and his son, a cartoonist coming to terms with his father¡¯s story. Maus approaches the unspeakable through the diminutive. Its form, the cartoon (the Nazis are cats, the Jews mice), shocks us out of any lingering sense of familiarity and succeeds in ¡°drawing us closer to the bleak heart of the Holocaust¡± (The New York Times).

Maus is a haunting tale within a tale. Vladek¡¯s harrowing story of survival is woven into the author¡¯s account of his tortured relationship with his aging father. Against the backdrop of guilt brought by survival, they stage a normal life of small arguments and unhappy visits. This astonishing retelling of our century¡¯s grisliest news is a story of survival, not only of Vladek but of the children who survive even the survivors. Maus studies the bloody pawprints of history and tracks its meaning for all of us.]]> 296 Art Spiegelman 0141014083 Christopher 0 4.57 1980 The Complete Maus
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name: Christopher
average rating: 4.57
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]]> The Bell Jar 6514 294 Sylvia Plath 0571268862 Christopher 0 4.05 1963 The Bell Jar
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]]> <![CDATA[Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1)]]> 46756 Oryx and Crake is at once an unforgettable love story and a compelling vision of the future. Snowman, known as Jimmy before mankind was overwhelmed by a plague, is struggling to survive in a world where he may be the last human, and mourning the loss of his best friend, Crake, and the beautiful and elusive Oryx whom they both loved. In search of answers, Snowman embarks on a journey¨Cwith the help of the green-eyed Children of Crake¨Cthrough the lush wilderness that was so recently a great city, until powerful corporations took mankind on an uncontrolled genetic engineering ride. Margaret Atwood projects us into a near future that is both all too familiar and beyond our imagining.]]> 389 Margaret Atwood Christopher 0 4.01 2003 Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1)
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]]> Invisible Monsters 36236125
Enter Brandy Alexander, Queen Supreme, one operation away from being a real woman, who will teach her that reinventing yourself means erasing your past and making up something better, and that salvation hides in the last place you'll ever want to look.

The narrator must exact revenge upon Evie, her best friend and fellow model; kidnap Manus, her two-timing ex-boyfriend; and hit the road with Brandy in search of a brand-new past, present and future.]]> 304 Chuck Palahniuk 0393355950 Christopher 0 4.02 1999 Invisible Monsters
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average rating: 4.02
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]]> <![CDATA[Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird]]> 62919399 A collection of nineteen dark, wildly imaginative short stories from the author of the award-winning TikTok sensation Tender Is the Flesh.

From celebrated author Agustina Bazterrica, this collection of nineteen brutal, darkly funny short stories takes into our deepest fears and through our most disturbing fantasies. Through stories about violence, alienation, and dystopia, Bazterrica¡¯s vision of the human experience emerges in complex, unexpected ways¡ªoften unsettling, sometimes thrilling, and always profound. In ¡°Roberto,¡± a girl claims to have a rabbit between her legs. A woman¡¯s neighbor jumps to his death in ¡°A Light, Swift, and Monstrous Sound,¡± and in ¡°Candy Pink,¡± a woman fails to contend with a difficult breakup in five easy steps.

Written in Bazterrica¡¯s signature clever, vivid style, these stories question love, friendship, family relationships, and unspeakable desires.]]> 154 Agustina Bazterrica 1668012669 Christopher 0 to-read 3.11 2020 Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird
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]]> Haunted 22288
The stories are told by people who have all answered an ad headlined 'Artists Retreat: Abandon your life for three months'. They are led to believe that here they will leave behind all the distractions of 'real life' that are keeping them from creating the masterpiece that is in them.

But 'here' turns out to be a cavernous and ornate old theater where they are utterly isolated from the outside world - and where heat and power and, most importantly, food are in increasingly short supply. And the more desperate the circumstances become, the more desperate the stories they tell - and the more devious their machinations to make themselves the hero of the inevitable play/movie/non-fiction blockbuster that will certainly be made from their plight.]]> 419 Chuck Palahniuk 1400032822 Christopher 0 3.60 2005 Haunted
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]]> <![CDATA[A Child Called "It" (Dave Pelzer, #1)]]> 60748 Also see: Alternate Cover Editions for this ISBN [ACE]
ACE #1

This book chronicles the unforgettable account of one of the most severe child abuse cases in California history. It is the story of Dave Pelzer, who was brutally beaten and starved by his emotionally unstable, alcoholic mother: a mother who played tortuous, unpredictable games¡ªgames that left him nearly dead. He had to learn how to play his mother's games in order to survive because she no longer considered him a son, but a slave; and no longer a boy, but an "it." Dave's bed was an old army cot in the basement, and his clothes were torn and raunchy. When his mother allowed him the luxury of food, it was nothing more than spoiled scraps that even the dogs refused to eat. The outside world knew nothing of his living nightmare. He had nothing or no one to turn to, but his dreams kept him alive¡ªdreams of someone taking care of him, loving him and calling him their son.]]> 184 Dave Pelzer Christopher 0 4.14 1995 A Child Called "It" (Dave Pelzer, #1)
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average rating: 4.14
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]]> <![CDATA[Courage: The Joy of Living Dangerously]]> 96999
The book begins with an in-depth exploration of the meaning of courage and how it is expressed in the everyday life of the individual. Unlike books that focus on heroic acts of courage in exceptional circumstances, the focus here is on developing the inner courage that enables us to lead authentic and fulfilling lives on a day-to-day basis. This is the courage to change when change is needed, the courage to stand up for our own truth, even against the opinions of others, and the courage to embrace the unknown in spite of our fears-in our relationships, in our careers, or in the ongoing journey of understanding who we are and why we are here.

Courage also features a number of meditation techniques specifically designed by Osho to help people deal with their fears.]]> 193 Osho 0312205171 Christopher 5 4.16 1977 Courage: The Joy of Living Dangerously
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name: Christopher
average rating: 4.16
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]]> <![CDATA[The Hitchhiker¡¯s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)]]> 11
Together this dynamic pair begin a journey through space aided by quotes from The Hitchhiker's Guide ("A towel is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have") and a galaxy-full of fellow travelers: Zaphod Beeblebrox--the two-headed, three-armed ex-hippie and totally out-to-lunch president of the galaxy; Trillian, Zaphod's girlfriend (formally Tricia McMillan), whom Arthur tried to pick up at a cocktail party once upon a time zone; Marvin, a paranoid, brilliant, and chronically depressed robot; Veet Voojagig, a former graduate student who is obsessed with the disappearance of all the ballpoint pens he bought over the years.

Where are these pens? Why are we born? Why do we die? Why do we spend so much time between wearing digital watches? For all the answers stick your thumb to the stars. And don't forget to bring a towel!]]> 216 Douglas Adams Christopher 5 4.21 1979 The Hitchhiker¡¯s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
author: Douglas Adams
name: Christopher
average rating: 4.21
book published: 1979
rating: 5
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