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"Anthony Burgess reads chapters of his novel A Clockwork Orange with hair-raising drive and energy. Although it is a fantasy set in an Orwellian future, this is anything but a bedtime story." -The New York Times Told by the central character, Alex, this brilliant, hilarious, and disturbing novel creates an alarming futuristic vision of violence, high technology, and authoritarianism.Anthony Burgess' 1963... (more)

The Plague

by Albert Camus

A haunting tale of human resilience in the face of unrelieved horror, Camus' novel about a bubonic plague ravaging the people of a North African coastal town is a classic of twentieth-century literature.

Songmaster

by Orson Scott Card

Kidnapped at an early age, the young singer Ansset has been raised in isolation at the mystical retreat called the Songhouse. His life has been filled with music, and having only songs for companions, he develops a voice that is unlike any heard before. Anssets voice is both a blessing and a curse, for the young Songbird can reflect all the hopes and fears his audience feels and, by magnifying their emotions, use... (more)

The Forgotten (Animorphs, No. 11) (Animorphs)

The Forgotten (Animorphs, No. 11) (Animorphs)

by K. A. Applegate

The Animorphs suddenly find themselves deep in a jungle, but they're not sure where or when.

Secret Museum of Mankind

by David Stiffler

6X9In, 576Pp, 1000+ Black & White Photos < Travel Four Continents and The < Islands of The Seas Through The Pages of < This Fascinating Book, Originally < Published Nearly A Century Ago. < Illustrated With Over A Thousand < Black-And-White Photos, The Secret < Museum of Mankind Offers A Glimpse Into < The Lives of Hundreds of Cultures of < Mankind In Nativve Dress, At Work and At... (more)

I Shall Destroy All the Civilized Planets: The Comics of Fletcher Hanks

I Shall Destroy All the Civilized Planets: The Comics of Fletcher Hanks

by Fletcher Hanks

A dizzying collection from the Ed Wood of comics. Welcome to the bizarre world of Fletcher Hanks, Super Wizard of the Inkwell. Fletcher Hanks worked for only a few years in the earliest days of the comic book industry (1939-1941). Because he worked in a gutter medium for second-rate publishers on third-rate characters, his work has been largely forgotten. But among aficionados he is legendary. At the time,... (more)

THE WHEELS OF TIMEFLORENCE L. BARCLAY

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A Clockwork Orange

by Anthony Burgess