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  Heaven Looks a Lot Like the Mall

  by Wendy Mass

  When 16-year-old Tessa suffers a shocking accident in gym class, she finds herself in heaven (or what she thinks is heaven), which happens to bear a striking resemblance to her hometown mall. In the tradition of It's a Wonderful Life and The Christmas Carol , Tessa starts reliving her life up until that moment. She sees some things she'd rather forget, learns some things about herself she'd rather not know,... (more)
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  The Bridge

  by Iain Banks

  In The Bridge , master storyteller and weaver of worlds, Iain Banks creates a mysterious structure that leads from nowhere to nowhere. Everyone lives on the Bridge, including a man named Orr, devoid of personality or memory, and haunted by dreams of war. Banks' engaging blend of the cutting-edge hypothetical and blistering reality collide in The Bridge . The Bridge is like none other: A multi-layered society... (more)
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  Blinding Light

  by Paul Theroux

  Blinding Light is a slyly satirical novel of manners and mind expansion. Slade Steadman, a writer who has lost his chops, sets out for the Ecuadorian jungle with his ex-girlfriend in search of inspiration and a rare hallucinogen. The drug, once found, heightens both his powers of perception and his libido, but it also leaves him with an unfortunate side effect: periodic blindness. Unable to resist the insights... (more)
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  The Doors of Perception

  by Aldous Huxley

  This exploratory essay about Aldous Huxley's experience with mescaline, the active principal of peyote, sparked a generation of drug experimentation, and it continues to challenge beliefs about the drugs condoned and forbidden in our society. This classic work is complete and unabridged, with an insightful reading by Rudolf Schirmer, a long-time friend of Huxley. 2 cassettes.
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  The Quickening Maze

  by Adam Foulds

  In 1837, after years of struggling with alcoholism and depression, the great nature poet John Clare finds himself in High Beach—a mental institution located in Epping Forest on the outskirts of London. It is not long before another famed writer, the young Alfred Tennyson, moves nearby and grows entwined in the catastrophic schemes of the hospital’s owner, the peculiar, charismatic Dr. Matthew Allen, as well as... (more)
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  The Exorcist: Book 2

  Legion

  by William Peter Blatty

  "A caliber of writing and story-telling that stands up to any championed classic."--Rick Mofina, author of A Perfect Grave "Ten times better than The Exorcist... The suspense is breathtaking, and the ideas dark, deadly and fascinating."-- Cleveland Plain Dealer "Heartbeat-skipping horror. Read Legion only on a sunny day." --Cosmopolitan Magazine "I devoured Legion in one terrified... (more)
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  The Tapestry of Odette

  by Nika Engel

  The story of Odette, a schizophrenic girl caught between a cold reality in an abusive foster home and a bizarre set of fantasies where she is considered a god by her creations. But the intentions of the inhabitants of her psyche, divided into two warring factions, are even less clear than those of the people she encounters in her real world of school and never-ending therapy, which is ruled by her charismatic and... (more)
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  Last Dance of the Lochkray

  by Brian M.H. Goodwin

  We Are Being Hunted. Forgotten in time, lost to legend, the Lochkray are the hunters of the night, the origin of the modern vampire myth. When a search party treks into remote woods, looking for a missing archaeologist, a lone Lochkray follows them, hoping they will lead the way to a lost settlement of his people. When an unnatural creature hunts the searchers down one by one, it becomes unclear whether they... (more)
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  The Bad Sister

  by Emma Tennant

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  Lord of the Flies

  by William Golding

  A classic tale of a group of English school boys who are left stranded on an unpopulated island, and who must confront not only the defects of their society but the defects of their own natures.
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  The Shining

  by Stephen King

  Terrible events occur at an isolated hotel in the off season, when a small boy with psychic powers struggles to hold his own against the forces of evil that are driving his father insane.
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  Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said

  by Philip K. Dick

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  The Girl on the Landing

  by Paul Torday

  The novel begins as Michael, a middle-aged man of means, is dressing for dinner at a friend's country house in Ireland. As he descends the grand staircase, he spots a small painting of a landing with an old linen press and the white marble statue of an angel. In the background is a woman clad in a dark green dress. During dinner, Michael comments on the painting to his hosts but they say there is no woman in the... (more)
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  Disjunctivism: Perception, Action, Knowledge

  Winning entry, Professional Cover/Jacket Category, in the 2009 New England Book Show sponsored by Bookbuilders of Boston. A central debate in contemporary philosophy of perception concerns the disjunctive theory of perceptual experience. Until the 1960s, philosophers of perception generally assumed that a veridical perception (a perceptual experience that presents the world as it really is) and a... (more)