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  • Inside Scientology

    Inside Scientology

    The Story of America's Most Secretive Religion

    by Janet Reitman

    Scientology, created in 1954 by a prolific sci-fi writer named L. Ron Hubbard, claims to be the world’s fastest growing religion, with millions of members around the world and huge financial holdings. Its celebrity believers keep its profile high, and its teams of “volunteer ministers” offer aid at disaster sites such as Haiti and the World Trade Center. But Scientology is also a notably closed faith, harassing... (more)
  • Brave New World

    Brave New World

    by Aldous Huxley

    "Community, Identity, Stability" is the motto of Aldous Huxley's Utopian World State. Here everyone consumes daily grams of Soma, to fight depression. Babies are born in laboratories, and the most popular form of entertainment is a "Feelie," (a movie that stimulates the senses of sight, hearing, touch and tastes). Though there is no violence and everyone is provided for, Bernard Marx feels something is missing and... (more)
  • Catch-22

    Catch-22

    by Joseph Heller

    Catch-22 is set in the closing months of World War II, in an American bomber squadron on a small island off Italy. Its hero is a bombardier named Yossarian, who is frantic and furious because thousands of people he hasn't even met keep trying to kill him. (He has decided to live forever even if he has to die in the attempt.)His problem is Colonel Cathcart, who keeps raising the number of missions the men... (more)
  • Boot Camp

    Boot Camp

    by Todd Strasser

    Garrett's parents send him to Harmony Lake, a very expensive, exclusive, and private boot camp specializing in behavior modification for troubled teens. Behavior modification isn't what Garret believes he needs, but will he believe the same after months at Harmony Lake at the mercy of the "fathers" that govern his new "family"? Garret's intelligence and wit just might help him survive the "work" and the... (more)
  • Mind Programming

    Mind Programming

    From Persuasion and Brainwashing, to Self-Help and Practical Metaphysics

    by Eldon Taylor

    *Includes a FREE mind-training InnerTalk CD, which retails for $27.95*             It is the 21st century and we have experienced a technology explosion that has granted us a cornucopia of luxuries and opportunities. At this point, virtually anything seems possible. However, along with the positive developments are ominous collaborations designed to deprive us of an inherent birthright—the power of a free mind.... (more)
  • The Demon King
    Seven Realms: Book 1

    The Demon King

    by Cinda Williams Chima

    Times are hard in the mountain city of Fellsmarch. Reformed thief Han Alister will do almost anything to eke out a living for his family. The only thing of value he has is something he can't sell-the thick silver cuffs he's worn since birth. They're clearly magicked-as he grows, they grow, and he's never been able to get them off.One day Han and his clan friend, Dancer, confront three young wizards... (more)
  • 1Q84
    1Q84

    1Q84

    by Haruki Murakami

    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 —“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... (more)

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