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  The Wizard Knight: Book 2

  The Wizard

  by Gene Wolfe

  Sir Able returns to Mythgathr on his steed Cloud, a great mare the color of her name. Able is filled with new knowledge of the ways of the seven-fold world and possessed of great magical secrets. His knighthood now beyond question, Able works to fulfill his vows to his king, his lover, his friends, his gods, and even his enemies. Able must set his world right, restoring the proper order among the denizens of all... (more)
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  My Idea of Fun

  by Will Self

  Blackly comic, comically erudite and perversely bloody." -- Boston Globe The story of a devilishly clever international financier/marketing wizard and his young apprentice, My Idea of Fun is both a frighteningly dark subterranean exploration of capitalism run rampant and a wickedly sharp, technically acute display of linguistic pyrotechnics that glows with pure white-hot brilliance. Ian Wharton is a very ordinary... (more)
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  Cock & Bull

  by Will Self

  "Cock: A Novelette" is the story of a woman who grows a fully functional penis. "Bull: A Farce" is the story of a man who acquires a vagina and all its companion parts. There are, however, complications. Cock & Bull, the book that introduced an enfant terrible of English letters to an American audience, has quickly become a classic of blistering satire.
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  Red Dwarf: Book 2

  Better Than Life

  by Grant Naylor

  When Holly, the Red Dwarf 's computer, suddenly goes dumb, David Lister, the holographic Arnold Rimmer, Cat, and Kryten, the cleaning robot, become trapped in a game called ""Better Than Life,"" and it is up to a talking Toaster to save them all.
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  Red Dwarf: Book 1

  Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers

  by Grant Naylor

  Awakening from a drunken spree in a London pub to find himself on one of Saturn's moons, Lister joins the Space Corps and boards the Red Dwarf, determined to return to Earth. Reprint.
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  The Music of the Spheres

  by Elizabeth Redfern

  England is at war with revolutionary France; the Republican Army has overrun the Continent and is now feared to be planning to attack these shores. The British Government is preparing a Royalist counter invasion of Brittany, but French spies jeopardize its efforts.In Kensington, a group of dissolute emigres are searching for a lost star they call Selene, which may reveal the hidden harmony of the solar... (more)
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  Learning the World

  a Scientific Romance

  by Ken Macleod

  Humanity has spread to every star within 500 light-years of its half-forgotten origin, coloring the sky with a haze of habitats. Societies rise and fall. Incautious experiments burn fast and fade. On the fringes, less modified humans get on with the job of settling a universe that has, so far, been empty of intelligent life. The ancient starship But the Sky, My Lady! The Sky! is entering orbit around a... (more)
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  Faster: The Acceleration of Just About Everything

  by James Gleick

  From the bestselling, National Book Award-nominated auhtor of Genius and Chaos , a bracing new work about the accelerating pace of change in today's world. Most of us suffer some degree of "hurry sickness." a malady that has launched us into the "epoch of the nanosecond," a need-everything-yesterday sphere dominated by cell phones, computers, faxes, and remote controls. Yet for all the hours, minutes, and even... (more)
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  Chalion: Book 2

  Paladin of Souls

  by Lois McMaster Bujold

  Follow Lois McMaster Bujold, one of the most honored authors in the field of fantasy and science fiction, to a land threatened by treacherous war and beset by demons -- as a royal dowager, released from the curse of madness and manipulated by an untrustworthy god, is plunged into a desperate struggle to preserve the endangered souls of a realm.
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  Songs of Enchantment

  by Ben Okri

  In this remarkable sequel to his Booker Prize-winning novel The Famished Road, Okri continues the story of the spirit-child who is a reluctant but keen observer of his family's turmoil and the political convulsions of a struggling new Africa. Through his shimmering consciousness and hallucinatory visions, the boy finds the strength to survive.
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  Earthsea

  The Earthsea Quartet

  A Wizard of Earthsea/The Tombs of Atuan/The Farthest Shore/Tehanu

  by Ursula K. Le Guin

  A superb four-part fantasy, comparable with the work of Tolkien and C.S. Lewis, the "Earthsea" books follow the fortunes of the wizard Ged from his childhood to an age where magic is giving way to evil. As a young dragonlord, Ged, whose use-name is Sparrowhawk, is sent to the island of Roke to learn the true way of magic. A natural magician, Ged becomes an Archmage and helps the High Priestess Tenar escape from... (more)
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  Prince of Nothing: Book 3

  The Thousandfold Thought

  by R. Scott Bakker

  The Darkness That Comes Before, R. Scott Bakker's magnificent debut, drew thunderous acclaim from reviewers and fellow fantasy authors. Readers were invited into a darkly threatening, thrillingly imaginative universe as fully realized as that of any in modern fantasy and introduced to one of the genre's great characters: the powerful warrior-philosopher Anasûrimbor Kelhus, on whom the fate of a violently... (more)
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  Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism

  by Marina Warner

  Joan has a unique role in Western imagination--she is one of the few true female heroes. Marina Warner uses her superb historical and literary skills to move beyond conventional biography and to capture the essence of Joan of Arc, both as she lived in her own time and as she has "grown" in the human imagination over the five centuries since her death. She has examined the court documents from Joan of... (more)
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  Legend of Ethshar: Book 8

  Ithanalin's Restoration

  by Lawrence Watt-Evans

  When Magic Goes Awry . . . What is an aspiring apprentice wizard to do when she finds her mentor and master frozen in his tracks by mysterious magics? Kilisha of Eastgate, a promising young student of wizardry in the city of Ethshar of the Rocks, still has much to learn before she can assume the robes of a journeyman enchanter. But when her teacher, the venerable Ithanalin the Wise, is overcome by a peculiar... (more)
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  The Obsidian Chronicles: Book 3

  Dragon Venom

  by Lawrence Watt-Evans

  After many years of peace in the Lands of Men, there came Dragon Weather : a wave of incredible heat, oppressive humidity, dark angry clouds . . . and dragons. Dragons with no remorse, no sympathy, no use for humans; dragons who destroyed an entire village and everyone in it. Everyone, that is, except the young boy Arlian. Orphaned and alone, Arlian was captured by looters and sold as a mining slave. He finally... (more)
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  The Obsidian Chronicles: Book 2

  The Dragon Society

  by Lawrence Watt-Evans

  One Man Must Stand Against the Dragon Menace! It all began with Dragon Weather : a wave of incredible heat, oppressive humidity, dark angry clouds . . . and dragons. Dragons with no remorse, no sympathy, no use for humans; dragons who destroyed an entire village and everyone in it. Everyone, that is, except the young boy, Arlian. Orphaned and alone, Arlian was captured by looters and sold as a mining slave.... (more)
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  Java Performance Tuning (2nd Edition)

  by Jack Shirazi

  Java Peformance Tuning , 2nd edition provides a comprehensive and indispensable guide to eliminating all types of performance problems. Using many real-life examples to work through the tuning process in detail, JPT shows how tricks such as minimizing object creation and replacing strings with arrays can really pay off in improving your code's performance. Tuning J2EE applications bears many similarities to... (more)
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  Legends: Book 2

  Legends II

  New Short Novels by the Masters of Modern Fantasy

  by Robert Silverberg

  Fantasy fans, rejoice! Seven years after writer and editor Robert Silverberg made publishing history with Legends , his acclaimed anthology of original short novels by some of the greatest writers in fantasy fiction, the long-awaited second volume is here. Legends II picks up where its illustrious predecessor left off. All of the bestselling writers represented in Legends II return to the special universe of... (more)
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  Fourlands: Book 2

  No Present Like Time

  by Steph Swainston

  The incredible follow-up to Steph Swainston's acclaimed first novel, The Year of Our War, No Present Like Time is a superb work of literary fantasy. God is still on vacation, the Emperor still leads the war against the insects, and his cadre of immortals is still quarreling among themselves. But a new land has been discovered, one that holds the secrets of centuries, and one of their own, now exiled,... (more)
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  Fourlands: Book 1

  The Year of Our War

  by Steph Swainston

  Unique among his fellow immortals and mortal folk alike, Jant Comet can fly. His talent is a gift and a curse that has earned him a place in the Castle Circle as Messenger to the Emperor San -- soaring high and free above the bloody battlefields of his world, carrying word back to his master of progress and regress in the ever-escalating conflict between man and the awful armies of giant, flesh-devouring insects. ... (more)