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  Alice: Book 1

  Alice in Wonderland

  by Lewis Carroll

  The classic tale of ALICE IN WONDERLAND has been read and loved by children for generations. Filled with humor, adventure, and imagination for children of all ages. The fantastical tale begins when Alice falls into a rabbit hole, literally a dream land.
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  Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass (Collector's library)

  by Lewis Carroll

  One hot summer's day Alice tumbles down, down, down a rabbit hole – and finds herself in Wonderland, where everything is topsy-turvy, upside down, and wrong-way round. Here begins a series of fantastical adventures as Alice’s body GROWS and shrinks , she swims in a pool of her own tears, attends the maddest of tea parties, and meets such iconic and beloved characters as the smiling Cheshire Cat, the hookah-smoking... (more)
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  Cryptonomicon

  by Neal Stephenson

  In 1942, Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse - mathematical genius and young Captain in the U.S. Navy - is assigned to detachment 2702. It is an outfit so secret that only a handful of people know it exists, and some of those people have names like Churchill and Roosevelt. The mission of Waterhouse and Detachment 2702-commanded by Marine Raider Bobby Shaftoe-is to keep the Nazis ignorant of the fact that Allied... (more)
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  The Sirens of Titan

  by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

  The Sirens of Titan is a Hugo Award-nominated novel by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., first published in 1959. His second novel, it involves issues of free will, omniscience, and the overall purpose of human history.When Winston Niles Rumfoord flies his spaceship into a chrono-synclastic infundibulum he is converted into pure energy and only materializes when his waveforms intercept Earth or some other planet. As a... (more)
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  Phantasmagoria and Other Poems

  by Lewis Carroll

  Mathematician and author Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) has delighted millions with his most widely regarded book, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland". Known for pointing out the absurdities of life in his fiction and poetry, Carroll (a pseudonym for Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) took paranormal belief to the extreme in the satirical poem "Phantasmagoria", the humorous story of an annoying ghost that is assigned to haunt a... (more)