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  Lake Wobegon

  Lake Wobegon Days

  by Garrison Keillor

  A collection of humorous stories which focus on the fictional American Midwestern town of Lake Wobegon. From the author of WOBEGON BOY, LEAVING HOME and WE ARE STILL MARRIED.
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  Wobegon Boy

  by Garrison Keillor

  John Tollefson, a son of Lake Wobegon, has moved East to manage a radio station at a college for academically challenged children of financially gifted parents in upstate New York. Having achieved this pleasant perch, John has a brilliant idea for a restaurant specializing in fresh sweet corn. And he falls in love with an historian named Alida Freeman, hard at work on a book about a nineteenth-century Norwegian... (more)
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  Flowers for Algernon

  by Daniel Keyes

  The story of a mentally disabled man who is given the opportunity to possibly increase his mental abilities through experimental procedures. Charlie's experimental quest for intelligence mirrors that of Algernon, an extraordinary lab mouse that received that procedure prior to Charlie. In poignant diary entries, Charlie tells how his life changes after the brain operation.
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  David Brin's Out of Time: Book 1

  Yanked!

  by Nancy Kress

  It's 2345. THE FUTURE NEEDS HEROES! They must reach back in time to find them. WHAT IF THEY COME FOR YOU? In 2345 there is no war, no pollution, no disease, no crime--but utopia has a price. . .
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  WLT

  A Radio Romance

  by Garrison Keillor

  An intimate look into the lives of the quirky staff of WLT--a friendly neighborhood radio station founded by floundering Minneapolis restaurant magnates--weaves together real-life trauma with radio-life drama. Reprint.
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  Grotesque

  by Natsuo Kirino

  Natsuo Kirino made a spectacular fiction debut on these shores with the publication of Edgar Award-nominated Out (“Daring and disturbing . . . Prepared to push the limits of this world . . . Remarkable”— Los Angeles Times ). Unanimously lauded for her unique, psychologically complex, darkly compelling vision and voice, she garnered a multitude of enthusiastic fans eager for more. In her riveting new novel ... (more)
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  The Sleepless Trilogy: Book 1

  Beggars in Spain

  by Nancy Kress

  Born in 2008, Leisha Camden is beautiful, extraordinarily intelligent . . . and one of an ever-growing number of human beings who have been genetically modified to never require sleep. Once she and "her kind" were considered interesting anomalies. Now they are outcasts -- victims of blind hatred, political repression and shocking mob violence meant to drive the "Sleepless" from human society . . . and,... (more)
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  The Sleepless Trilogy: Book 2

  Beggars and Choosers

  by Nancy Kress

  In a genetically altered future America that is overrun by beautiful and super-intelligent people, the entire planet faces destruction in the face of overpopulation and unemployment. Reprint.
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  The Sleepless Trilogy: Book 3

  Beggars Ride

  by Nancy Kress

  Nancy Kress, one of the leading writers of science fiction today, has written a number of provocative and award-winning stories and novels. But it is with the Beggars trilogy that she has reached the pinnacle of her success. Developed out of her Hugo and Nebula Award-winning novella, "Beggars in Spain," the trilogy was launched with Beggars in Spain (1993), also a Nebula nominee for best novel, and continued... (more)
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  Asphalt Nation

  How the Automobile Took Over America and How We Can Take It Back

  by Jane Holtz Kay

  Asphalt Nation is a powerful examination of how the automobile has ravaged America's cities and landscape over the past 100 years together with a compelling strategy for reversing our automobile dependency. Jane Holtz Kay provides a history of the rapid spread of the automobile and documents the huge subsidies commanded by the highway lobby, to the detriment of once-efficient forms of mass... (more)
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  Hellspark

  by Janet Kagan

  Murder, Mystery, and Interstellar Intrigue! Hugo Award winner Janet Kagan's Hellspark is now back in print! Lassti, a newly discovered planet, is the center of political intrigue. Recently, Oloitokitok, the planet survey team's physicist was found dead. Was he killed? If so, by who? One of his fellow surveyors? Or by one of the Sprookjes, the birdlike natives of Lassti? Are the Sprookjes intelligent? If so, then... (more)
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  Mirabile

  by Janet Kagan

  On the distant planet of Mirabile, a settlement of human colonists from Earth is jeopardized by genetic mutants of Earth plants and animals, and it is up to ecological troubleshooter Mama Jason to destroy the menacing mutants. Reprint.
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  The Myth of Repressed Memory

  False Memories and Allegations of Sexual Abuse

  by Elizabeth Loftus, Katherine Ketcham

  According to many clinical psychologists, when the mind is forced to endure a horrifying experience, it has the ability to bury the entire memory of it so deeply within the unconscious that it can only be recalled in the form of a flashback triggered by a sight, a smell, or a sound. Indeed, therapists and lawyers have created an industry based on treating and litigating the cases of people who suddenly claim to... (more)
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  Best of C. M. Kornbluth

  by Frederik Pohl, C. M. Kornbluth

  1st paperback edition of 1976 Science Fiction Book Club hardcover original. 1977 Locus Poll Award, Best Author Collection (Place: 11). Introduction by Frederik Pohl. Contents: "The Little Black Bag," 1950 Retro Hugo Award; "The Marching Morons," Science Fiction Hall of Fame (SF Writers of America); "The Only Thing We Learn," "The Adventurer," "The Luckiest Man in Denv," "The Silly Season," "The Remorseful,"... (more)
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  The Probability Trilogy: Book 1

  Probability Moon

  by Nancy Kress

  Humankind has expanded out into interstellar space using star gates-technological remnants left behind by an ancient, long-vanished race. But the technology comes with a price. Among the stars, humanity encountered the Fallers, a strange alien race bent on nothing short of genocide. It's all-out war, and humanity is losing. In this fragile situation, a new planet is discovered, inhabited by a pre-industrial race... (more)
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  Crossfire: Book 1

  Crossfire

  by Nancy Kress

  Caught in the Crossfire A human colony settles on a distant planet, a colony formed by Jake Holman-- a man trying to escape a dark past. But as this diverse group of thousands comes to terms with their new lives on a new world, they make a startling discovery: primitive humanoid aliens. There are only a few isolated villages, and the evidence seems to indicate they aren't native to the planet--despite the... (more)
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  Crossfire: Book 2

  Crucible

  by Nancy Kress

  Nancy Kress made her reputation in the early 90s with her multiple award-winning novella, "Beggars in Spain," which became the basis for her extremely successful Beggars Trilogy (comprising Beggars in Spain , Beggars and Choosers , and Beggars Ride ). Since then she has written over a dozen novels, including the well-received Probability Trilogy , culminating in Probability Space , which garnered her the John... (more)
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  The Probability Trilogy: Book 3

  Probability Space

  by Nancy Kress

  Nancy Kress cemented her reputation in SF with the publication of her multiple-award–winning novella, “Beggars in Spain,” which became the basis for her extremely successful Beggars Trilogy (comprising Beggars in Spain , Beggars and Choosers , and Beggars Ride ). And now she brings us Probability Space , the conclusion of the trilogy that began with Probability Moon and then Probability Sun , which is... (more)
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  Black Oxen

  by Elizabeth Knox

  In the year 2022 and in pursuit of her beautiful and not-quite-human father, Carme Risk enters “narrative therapy.” Propelled by her memories and her father’s journal, which take her from the Edenic island of her childhood to arevolutionary Latin American nation to life in northern California, Risk moves through worlds of romantic intrigue, machete murders, occult freedom fighters, and surrealist bacchanals. A... (more)
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  The Probability Trilogy: Book 2

  Probability Sun

  by Nancy Kress

  Salvation or Annihilation? A strange artifact has been discovered on a distant planet, an artifact that may be the key to humanity's salvation. For we at war with the Fallers, an alien race bent on nothing short of genocide, and this is a war we are losing. The artifact is not only a powerful weapon, but possibly the rosetta stone to a lost superscience . . . a superscience that the Fallers may have already... (more)