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When it was originally published-first in Paris, then in America, and finally in England, where it was initially banned-Candy was greeted by controversy and overwhelming media attention. Criticized for its scandalous content, the book nonetheless sol... View details

“I’VE READ MANY BOOKS,” said Professor Mephesto, with an odd finality, wearily flattening his hands on the podium, addressing the seventy-six sophomores who sat in easy reverence, immortalizing his ev...
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This is a collection of bloodthirsty killers bringing together over 20 cases of 20th-century vampires - latter-day Draculas with an insatiable appetite for human blood.... View details

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A story of 4 troubled women: Sybil, sophisticated and beautiful - made men behave like animals; Judith: she thought she was the perfect wife, but her husband turned from her in disgust; Daphne, young and promiscuous; Dora who repressed a secret that ... View details

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Richard Brautigan was a literary idol of the 1960s and 1970s whose comic genius and iconoclastic vision of American life caught the imagination of young people everywhere. He came of age during the Haight-Ashbury period and has been called "the last ... View details

Around the base of the statue are four words facing the directions of this world, to the east WELCOME, to the west WELCOME, to the north WELCOME, to the south WELCOME. Just behind the statue are three...
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Firefly is a dream-like evocation of pre-war Cuba, replete with hurricanes, mystical cults and slave-markets. The story is the coming-of-age of a precocious and exuberant boy with an oversized head and underdeveloped sense of direction, who views the... View details

I find him like this, all of a shocking sudden, squatting on his clay chamber pot, the pale gray one with two handles, atop a dark green cistern in the shade of a royal poinciana collapsing from the w...
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The true story of a family destroyed by sexual violence.... View details

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When a class war erupts inside a luxurious apartment block, modern elevators become violent battlegrounds and cocktail parties degenerate into marauding attacks on “enemy” floors.

In this visionary tale, human society slips into violent reverse as on... View details

Later, as he sat on his balcony eating the dog, Dr Robert Laing reflected on the unusual events that had taken place within this huge apartment building during the previous three months. Now that ever...
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A wind sprang high in the west, like a wave of unreasonable happiness, and tore eastward across England, trailing with it the frosty scent of forests and the cold intoxication of the sea.

It a million holes and corners it refreshed a man like a flago... View details

A WIND SPRANG HIGH IN the west, like a wave of unreasonable happiness, and tore eastward across England, trailing with it the frosty scent of forests and the cold intoxication of the sea. In a million...
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NEW YORK CITY, the near future: Mitchell Zukor, a gifted young mathematician, is hired by a mysterious new financial consulting firm, FutureWorld. The business operates out of a cavernous office in the Empire State Building; Mitchell is employee numb... View details

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