Jason's bookshelf: all en-US Fri, 06 Dec 2024 08:48:42 -0800 60 Jason's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg Black Jack, Vol. 1 2479215 288 Osamu Tezuka 193428727X Jason 4 4.01 1974 Black Jack, Vol. 1
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]]> Light From Uncommon Stars 57021245
Shizuka Satomi made a deal with the to escape damnation, she must entice seven other violin prodigies to trade their souls for success. She has already delivered six. When Katrina Nguyen, a young transgender runaway, catches Shizuka's ear with her wild talent, Shizuka can almost feel the curse lifting. She's found her final candidate. But in a donut shop off a bustling highway in the San Gabriel Valley, Shizuka meets Lan Tran, retired starship captain, interstellar refugee, and mother of four. Shizuka doesn't have time for crushes or coffee dates, what with her very soul on the line, but Lan's kind smile and eyes like stars might just redefine a soul's worth. And maybe something as small as a warm donut is powerful enough to break a curse as vast as the California coastline. As the lives of these three women become entangled by chance and fate, a story of magic, identity, curses, and hope begins, and a family worth crossing the universe for is found.
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]]> <![CDATA[The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)]]> 38213103 355 N.K. Jemisin Jason 0 currently-reading 4.39 2015 The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[A Desolation Called Peace (Teixcalaan, #2)]]> 45154547 WINNER OF THE 2022 HUGO AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL
Now a USA Today bestseller!
Publishers Weekly's Best Books of 2021
Amazon's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of 2021
Bookpage's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of 2021
Ĺ·±¦ÓéŔÖ Choice Awards Nominee for Best Science Fiction Book of 2021

A Desolation Called Peace is the spectacular space opera sequel to Arkady Martine's genre-reinventing, Hugo Award-winning debut, A Memory Called Empire.

An alien armada lurks on the edges of Teixcalaanli space. No one can communicate with it, no one can destroy it, and Fleet Captain Nine Hibiscus is running out of options.

In a desperate attempt at diplomacy with the mysterious invaders, the fleet captain has sent for a diplomatic envoy. Now Mahit Dzmare and Three Seagrass—still reeling from the recent upheaval in the Empire—face the impossible task of trying to communicate with a hostile entity.

Their failure will guarantee millions of deaths in an endless war. Their success might prevent Teixcalaan’s destruction—and allow the empire to continue its rapacious expansion.

Or it might create something far stranger . . .
]]> 496 Arkady Martine 125018648X Jason 0 4.31 2021 A Desolation Called Peace (Teixcalaan, #2)
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]]> <![CDATA[At Home: A Short History of Private Life]]> 9471932 At HomeĚýone of the most entertaining books ever written about private life.]]> 512 Bill Bryson 0385533594 Jason 0 currently-reading 4.12 2010 At Home: A Short History of Private Life
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]]> Cibola Burn (Expanse, #4) 18886975 The fourth book in the NYT bestselling Expanse series, Cibola Burn sees the crew of the Rocinante on a new frontier, as the rush to colonize the new planets threatens to outrun law and order and give way to war and chaos. Now a Prime Original series.HUGO AWARD WINNER FOR BEST SERIESEnter a new frontier.�"An empty apartment, a missing family, that's creepy. But this is like finding a military base with no one on it. Fighters and tanks idling on the runway with no drivers. This is bad juju. Something wrong happened here. What you should do is tell everyone to leave."The gates have opened the way to a thousand new worlds and the rush to colonize has begun. Settlers looking for a new life stream out from humanity's home planets. Ilus, the first human colony on this vast new frontier, is being born in blood and fire.Independent settlers stand against the overwhelming power of a corporate colony ship with only their determination, courage, and the skills learned in the long wars of home. Innocent scientists are slaughtered as they try to survey a new and alien world. The struggle on Ilus threatens to spread all the way back to Earth.James Holden and the crew of his one small ship are sent to make peace in the midst of war and sense in the midst of chaos. But the more he looks at it, the more Holden thinks the mission was meant to fail.And the whispers of a dead man remind him that the great galactic civilization that once stood on this land is gone. And that something killed it.The ExpanseLeviathan WakesCaliban's WarAbaddon's GateCibola BurnNemesis GamesBabylon's AshesPersepolis RisingTiamat's Wrath​Leviathan FallsMemory's LegionThe Expanse Short FictionDriveThe Butcher of Anderson StationGods of RiskThe ChurnThe Vital AbyssStrange DogsAuberonThe Sins of Our Fathers]]> 593 James S.A. Corey 0316217603 Jason 0 4.40 2014 Cibola Burn (Expanse, #4)
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]]> <![CDATA[A Master of Djinn (Dead Djinn Universe, #1)]]> 52504334 Nebula, Locus, and Alex Award-winner P. Djèlí Clark returns to his popular alternate Cairo universe for his fantasy novel debut, A Master of Djinn

Cairo, 1912: Though Fatma el-Sha’arawi is the youngest woman working for the Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments and Supernatural Entities, she’s certainly not a rookie, especially after preventing the destruction of the universe last summer.

So when someone murders a secret brotherhood dedicated to one of the most famous men in history, al-Jahiz, Agent Fatma is called onto the case. Al-Jahiz transformed the world 50 years ago when he opened up the veil between the magical and mundane realms, before vanishing into the unknown. This murderer claims to be al-Jahiz, returned to condemn the modern age for its social oppressions. His dangerous magical abilities instigate unrest in the streets of Cairo that threaten to spill over onto the global stage.

Alongside her Ministry colleagues and her clever girlfriend Siti, Agent Fatma must unravel the mystery behind this imposter to restore peace to the city -or face the possibility he could be exactly who he seems…]]> 438 P. Djèlí Clark 1250267676 Jason 0 4.01 2021 A Master of Djinn (Dead Djinn Universe, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[A Dead Djinn in Cairo (Dead Djinn Universe, #0.1)]]> 30225035 Alex Award-winning author P. Djèlí Clark, A Dead Djinn in Cairo is a Tor.com original historcal fantasy set in an alternate early twentieth century infused with the otherworldly.

Egypt, 1912. In Cairo, the Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments and Supernatural Entities investigate disturbances between the mortal and the (possibly) divine.

What starts off as an odd suicide case for Special Investigator Fatma el-Sha’arawi leads her through the city’s underbelly as she encounters rampaging ghouls, saucy assassins, clockwork angels, and a plot that could unravel time itself.

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]]> Abaddon's Gate (Expanse, #3) 18663149 New York Times bestselling Expanse series.
For generations, the solar system -- Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt -- was humanity's great frontier. Until now. The alien artifact working through its program under the clouds of Venus has appeared in Uranus's orbit, where it has built a massive gate that leads to a starless dark.

Jim Holden and the crew of the Rocinante are part of a vast flotilla of scientific and military ships going out to examine the artifact. But behind the scenes, a complex plot is unfolding, with the destruction of Holden at its core. As the emissaries of the human race try to find whether the gate is an opportunity or a threat, the greatest danger is the one they brought with them.]]> 547 James S.A. Corey 0316235423 Jason 0 4.41 2013 Abaddon's Gate (Expanse, #3)
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]]> Blue Mars (Mars Trilogy, #3) 6526698 Winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novel � One of the most enthralling science fiction sagas ever written, Kim Stanley Robinson’s epic trilogy concludes with Blue Mars—a triumph of prodigious research and visionary storytelling. “A breakthrough even from [Kim Stanley Robinson’s] own consistently high levels of achievement.�—The New York Times Book Review The red planet is no more. Now green and verdant, Mars has been dramatically altered from a desolate world into one where humans can flourish. The First Hundred settlers are being pulled into a fierce new struggle between the Reds, a group devoted to preserving Mars in its desert state, and the Green “terraformers.� Meanwhile, Earth is in peril. A great flood threatens an already overcrowded and polluted planet. With Mars the last hope for the human race, the inhabitants of the red planet are heading toward a population explosion—or interplanetary war.]]> 786 Kim Stanley Robinson Jason 0 currently-reading 4.13 1996 Blue Mars (Mars Trilogy, #3)
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]]> The House on Mango Street 18904302 NATIONAL BESTSELLERĚý•ĚýA coming-of-age classic about a young girl growing up in ChicagoĚý•ĚýAcclaimed by critics, beloved by readers of all ages, taught in schools and universities alike, and translated around the world—from the winner of the 2019 PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature.“Cisneros draws on her rich [Latino] heritage...and seduces with precise, spare prose, creat[ing] unforgettable characters we want to lift off the page. She is not only a gifted writer, but an absolutely essential one.”Ěý—The New York Times Book ReviewThe House on Mango Street is one of the most cherished novels of the last fifty years. Readers from all walks of life have fallen for the voice of Esperanza Cordero, growing up in Chicago and inventing for herself who and what she will become. “In English my name means hope,â€� she says. “In Spanish it means too many letters. It means sadness, it means waiting."Told in a series of vignettes—sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes joyous—Cisneros’s masterpiece is a classic story of childhood and self-discovery and one of the greatest neighborhood novels of all time. Like Sinclair Lewis’s Main Street or Toni Morrison’s Sula, it makes a world through people and their voices, and it does so in language that is poetic and direct. This gorgeous coming-of-age novel is a celebration of the power of telling one’s story and of being proud of where you're from.Ěý ]]> 110 Sandra Cisneros 0345807197 Jason 0 3.75 1984 The House on Mango Street
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]]> <![CDATA[This Is How You Lose the Time War]]> 55710260 From award-winning authors Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone comes an enthralling, romantic novel spanning time and space about two time-traveling rivals who fall in love and must change the past to ensure their future.

Among the ashes of a dying world, an agent of the Commandment finds a letter. It reads: Burn before reading.

Thus begins an unlikely correspondence between two rival agents hellbent on securing the best possible future for their warring factions. Now, what began as a taunt, a battlefield boast, becomes something more. Something epic. Something romantic. Something that could change the past and the future.

Except the discovery of their bond would mean the death of each of them. There’s still a war going on, after all. And someone has to win. That’s how war works, right?

Cowritten by two beloved and award-winning sci-fi writers, This Is How You Lose the Time War is an epic love story spanning time and space.]]> 223 Amal El-Mohtar Jason 0 currently-reading 3.93 2019 This Is How You Lose the Time War
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]]> Recursion 41941223 A thriller about time, identity, and memory...

Reality is broken.

At first, it looks like a disease. An epidemic that spreads through no known means, driving its victims mad with memories of a life they never lived. But the force that’s sweeping the world is no pathogen. It’s just the first shock wave, unleashed by a stunning discovery—and what’s in jeopardy is not our minds but the very fabric of time itself.

In New York City, Detective Barry Sutton is closing in on the truth—and in a remote laboratory, neuroscientist Helena Smith is unaware that she alone holds the key to this mystery... and the tools for fighting back.

Together, Barry and Helena will have to confront their enemy—before they, and the world, are trapped in a loop of ever-growing chaos.]]> 324 Blake Crouch 1524759805 Jason 5 4.26 2019 Recursion
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]]> <![CDATA[Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3)]]> 25735618
� The War of the Worlds for the 21st century� packed with a sense of wonder.� � Wall Street Journal

The New York Times bestselling conclusion to a tour de force near-future adventure trilogy from China's bestselling and beloved science fiction writer.

With The Three-Body Problem , English-speaking readers got their first chance to read China's most beloved science fiction author, Cixin Liu. The Three-Body Problem was released to great acclaim including coverage in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal and reading list picks by Barack Obama and Mark Zuckerberg . It was also won the Hugo and Nebula Awards, making it the first translated novel to win a major SF award.

Now this epic trilogy concludes with Death's End . Half a century after the Doomsday Battle, the uneasy balance of Dark Forest Deterrence keeps the Trisolaran invaders at bay. Earth enjoys unprecedented prosperity due to the infusion of Trisolaran knowledge. With human science advancing daily and the Trisolarans adopting Earth culture, it seems that the two civilizations will soon be able to co-exist peacefully as equals without the terrible threat of mutually assured annihilation. But the peace has also made humanity complacent.

Cheng Xin, an aerospace engineer from the early twenty-first century, awakens from hibernation in this new age. She brings with her knowledge of a long-forgotten program dating from the beginning of the Trisolar Crisis, and her very presence may upset the delicate balance between two worlds. Will humanity reach for the stars or die in its cradle?

The Remembrance of Earth's Past series:
The Three-Body Problem
The Dark Forest
Death's End

Other books:
Ball Lightning
Supernova Era
To Hold Up The Sky (forthcoming)

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]]> Trick Mirror 43130415 A breakout writer at The New Yorker examines the fractures at the center of contemporary culture and identity with verve, deftness, and intellectual ferocity, for readers who’ve wondered what Susan Sontag would have been like if she had brain damage from the Internet.

Jia Tolentino has become a peerless voice of her generation, tackling the conflicts, contradictions, and sea changes that define us and our time. Now, in this dazzling and entirely original collection of nine essays, written with a rare combination of give and sharpness, wit and fearlessness, she delves into the forces that warp our vision, demonstrating a stylistic potency and critical dexterity found nowhere else.

Trick Mirror is an enlightening, unforgettable trip through the river of self-delusion that surges just beneath the surface of our lives. This is a book about the incentives that shape us, and about how hard it is to see ourselves clearly in a culture that revolves around the self. In each essay, Tolentino writes about a cultural the rise of the nightmare social Internet; the American scammer as millennial hero; the literary heroine’s journey from brave to blank to bitter; the mandate that everything, including our bodies, should always be getting more efficient and beautiful until we die. Gleaming with Tolentino’s sense of humor and capacity to elucidate the impossibly complex in an instant, and marked by her desire to treat the reader with profound honesty, Trick Mirror is an instant classic of the worst decade yet.]]> 256 Jia Tolentino Jason 0 4.12 2019 Trick Mirror
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]]> <![CDATA[The Dark Forest (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #2)]]> 24375664 This near-future trilogy is the first chance for English-speaking readers to experience this multiple-award-winning phenomenon from Cixin Liu, China's most beloved science fiction author.

In The Dark Forest, Earth is reeling from the revelation of a coming alien invasion-in just four centuries' time. The aliens' human collaborators may have been defeated, but the presence of the sophons, the subatomic particles that allow Trisolaris instant access to all human information, means that Earth's defense plans are totally exposed to the enemy. Only the human mind remains a secret. This is the motivation for the Wallfacer Project, a daring plan that grants four men enormous resources to design secret strategies, hidden through deceit and misdirection from Earth and Trisolaris alike. Three of the Wallfacers are influential statesmen and scientists, but the fourth is a total unknown. Luo Ji, an unambitious Chinese astronomer and sociologist, is baffled by his new status. All he knows is that he's the one Wallfacer that Trisolaris wants dead.]]> 513 Liu Cixin Jason 0 4.47 2008 The Dark Forest (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #2)
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]]> Unmarriageable 39926661 In this one-of-a-kind retelling of Pride and Prejudice set in modern-day Pakistan, Alys Binat has sworn never to marry—until an encounter with one Mr. Darsee at a wedding makes her reconsider.

A scandal and vicious rumor concerning the Binat family have destroyed their fortune and prospects for desirable marriages, but Alys, the second and most practical of the five Binat daughters, has found happiness teaching English literature to schoolgirls. Knowing that many of her students won’t make it to graduation before dropping out to marry and have children, Alys teaches them about Jane Austen and her other literary heroes and hopes to inspire the girls to dream of more.

When an invitation arrives to the biggest wedding their small town has seen in years, Mrs. Binat, certain that their luck is about to change, excitedly sets to work preparing her daughters to fish for rich, eligible bachelors. On the first night of the festivities, Alys’s lovely older sister, Jena, catches the eye of Fahad “Bungles� Bingla, the wildly successful—and single—entrepreneur. But Bungles’s friend Valentine Darsee is clearly unimpressed by the Binat family. Alys accidentally overhears his unflattering assessment of her and quickly dismisses him and his snobbish ways. As the days of lavish wedding parties unfold, the Binats wait breathlessly to see if Jena will land a proposal—and Alys begins to realize that Darsee’s brusque manner may be hiding a very different man from the one she saw at first glance.

Told with wry wit and colorful prose, Unmarriageable is a charming update on Jane Austen’s beloved novel and an exhilarating exploration of love, marriage, class, and sisterhood.

]]> 352 Soniah Kamal 1524799726 Jason 0 3.74 2019 Unmarriageable
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]]> Mr. Big 1644915
Despite a few protests warning of the possible consequences, the animals solicit the support of a murder of crows to carry out the plot. But the scheming crows have their own motives to carry out the kill...]]> 0 Carol Dembicki 0978928199 Jason 4 graphic-novels 3.64 2007 Mr. Big
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Matt and Carol Dembicki's tale of a pond whose residents have decided to get rid of the snapping turtle, Mr. Big. In order to accomplish this, they align themselves with a murder of crows who have their own motivations for overthrowing Mr. Big. A great story about the balance of nature, beautifully rendered, and appropriate for all ages. Highly recommended.
]]> <![CDATA[The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)]]> 18245960 The Three-Body Problem is the first chance for English-speaking readers to experience the Hugo Award-winning phenomenon from China's most beloved science fiction author, Liu Cixin.

Set against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution, a secret military project sends signals into space to establish contact with aliens. An alien civilization on the brink of destruction captures the signal and plans to invade Earth. Meanwhile, on Earth, different camps start forming, planning to either welcome the superior beings and help them take over a world seen as corrupt, or to fight against the invasion. The result is a science fiction masterpiece of enormous scope and vision.]]> 400 Liu Cixin Jason 5 4.14 2006 The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
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]]> Light from Other Stars 43683119 From the author of national bestseller The Book of Speculation, a poignant, fantastical novel about the electric combination of ambition & wonder that keeps us reaching toward the heavens.

Eleven-year-old Nedda Papas is obsessed with becoming an astronaut. In 1986 in Easter, a small Florida Space Coast town, her dreams seem almost within reach—if she can just grow up fast enough. Theo, the scientist father she idolizes, is consumed by his own obsessions. Laid off from his job at NASA and still reeling from the loss of Nedda’s newborn brother several years before, Theo turns to the dangerous dream of extending his living daughter's childhood just a little longer. The result is an invention that alters the fabric of time.

Amidst the chaos that erupts, Nedda must confront her father and his secrets, the ramifications of which will irrevocably change her life, her community, and the entire world. But she finds an unexpected ally in Betheen, the mother she’s never quite understood, who surprises Nedda by seeing her more clearly than anyone else.

Decades later, Nedda has achieved her long-held dream, and as she floats in antigravity, far from earth, she and her crewmates face a serious crisis. Nedda may hold the key to the solution, if she can come to terms with her past and the future that awaits her.

Light from Other Stars is about fathers and daughters, women and the forces that hold them back, and the cost of meaningful work. It questions how our lives have changed, what progress looks like, and what it really means to sacrifice for the greater good.]]> 320 Erika Swyler Jason 5 3.92 2019 Light from Other Stars
author: Erika Swyler
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average rating: 3.92
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]]> <![CDATA[White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism]]> 36458393 Groundbreaking book exploring the counterproductive reactions white people have when discussing racism that serve to protect their positions and maintain racial inequality

Antiracist educator Robin DiAngelo first coined the term "white fragility" in 2011, and since then it's been invoked by critics from Samantha Bee to Charles Blow. "White fragility" refers to the defensive moves that white people make when challenged racially. These include emotions such as anger, fear, and guilt, and behaviors including argumentation and silence. In this book, DiAngelo unpacks white fragility, explaining the underlying sociological phenomena. She'll draw on examples from her work and scholarship, as well as from the culture at large, to address these fundamental questions: How does white fragility develop? What does it look like? How is it triggered? What can we do to move beyond white fragility and engage more constructively?]]> 186 Robin DiAngelo 0807047422 Jason 0 currently-reading 4.24 2018 White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
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]]> <![CDATA[The Trouble with Reality: A Rumination on Moral Panic in Our Time]]> 34854733 97 Brooke Gladstone 1523502622 Jason 0 currently-reading 4.03 2017 The Trouble with Reality: A Rumination on Moral Panic in Our Time
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]]> <![CDATA[You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington]]> 51815979 An unexpected biography breaks the first president out of his marble mold, revealing the man behind the myth

As the first woman historian to solely write an adult biography on Washington in more than a hundred years, Alexis Coe combines rigorous research and lively storytelling that will have readers--including those who thought presidential biographies were just for dads--inhaling each page.

In You Never Forget Your First, Washington's wild ambition is encouraged by his single mother and solidified by Martha Washington, the young, wealthy widow he marries. After the Revolutionary War, Washington is unanimously elected to the presidency, twice, and readers finally understand why his more educated, wealthy, and outwardly hungry Founding Fathers knew he was the only man for a seemingly impossible job. Washington loved to dance, offered unsolicited romantic advice, lost more battles than he won, and was almost felled by a life-threatening disease and a backstabbing cabinet. But he emerged successful, establishing values that ensured the survival of the United States of America to this day. Yet presidential biographers have always presented him in the same, stale way.

In a genre overdue for a shake-up, Coe highlights juicy details and skillfully differentiates between the legend and the man--and confirms she's a historian to be reckoned with.]]> 304 Alexis Coe 0735224129 Jason 0 currently-reading 3.85 2020 You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington
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]]> Dark Matter 40004664 Alternate cover edition of ASIN B0180T0IUY

Jason Dessen is walking home through the chilly Chicago streets one night, looking forward to a quiet evening in front of the fireplace with his wife, Daniela, and their son, Charlie—when his reality shatters.

It starts with a man in a mask kidnapping him at gunpoint, for reasons Jason can’t begin to fathom—what would anyone want with an ordinary physics professor?—and grows even more terrifying from there, as Jason’s abductor injects him with some unknown drug and watches while he loses consciousness.

When Jason awakes, he’s in a lab, strapped to a gurney—and a man he’s never seen before is cheerily telling him “welcome back!�

Jason soon learns that in this world he’s woken up to, his house is not his house. His wife is not his wife. His son was never born.

And someone is hunting him.]]> 352 Blake Crouch Jason 5 4.16 2016 Dark Matter
author: Blake Crouch
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average rating: 4.16
book published: 2016
rating: 5
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]]> Salt: A World History 18695133 494 Mark Kurlansky 0698139151 Jason 0 currently-reading 3.86 2002 Salt: A World History
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]]> Super Sad True Love Story 20442230

´ˇĚýNEW YORK TIMESĚýNOTABLE BOOK
Ěý
SELECTED ONE OF 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
MICHIKO KAKUTANI,ĚýTHE NEW YORK TIMES
Ěý
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
The Washington Post â€� The Boston Globe â€� San Francisco Chronicle â€� The Seattle Times â€� O: The Oprah MagazineĚýâ€� Maureen Corrigan, NPR â€� Salon â€� Slate â€� MinneapolisĚýStar Tribune â€� St. Louis Post-Dispatch â€� The Kansas City Star â€� Charlotte Observer â€� The Globe and Mail â€� Vancouver Sun â€� Montreal Gazette â€� Kirkus Reviews

]]> 340 Gary Shteyngart Jason 0 currently-reading 3.62 2010 Super Sad True Love Story
author: Gary Shteyngart
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average rating: 3.62
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]]> The Last Days of New Paris 41017647 A thriller of war that never was—of survival in an impossible city—of surreal cataclysm. In The Last Days of New Paris, China Miéville entwines true historical events and people with his daring, uniquely imaginative brand of fiction, reconfiguring history and art into something new.

“Beauty will be convulsive. . . .�

1941. In the chaos of wartime Marseilles, American engineer—and occult disciple—Jack Parsons stumbles onto a clandestine anti-Nazi group, including Surrealist theorist André Breton. In the strange games of the dissident diplomats, exiled revolutionaries, and avant-garde artists, Parsons finds and channels hope. But what he unwittingly unleashes is the power of dreams and nightmares, changing the war and the world forever.

1950. A lone Surrealist fighter, Thibault, walks a new, hallucinogenic Paris, where Nazis and the Résistance are trapped in unending conflict, and the streets are stalked by living images and texts—and by the forces of Hell. To escape the city, he must join forces with Sam, an American photographer intent on recording the ruins, and make common cause with a powerful, enigmatic figure of chance and the Exquisite Corpse.

But Sam is being hunted. And new secrets will emerge that will test all their loyalties—to each other, to Paris old and new, and to reality itself.]]> 209 China Miéville 0345544005 Jason 0 currently-reading 3.53 2016 The Last Days of New Paris
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]]> <![CDATA[Doctor Sleep (The Shining, #2)]]> 17406532 Stephen King returns to the characters and territory of one of his most popular novels ever, The Shining, in this instantly riveting novel about the now middle-aged Dan Torrance (the boy protagonist of The Shining) and the very special twelve-year-old girl he must save from a tribe of murderous paranormals.

On highways across America, a tribe of people called The True Knot travel in search of sustenance. They look harmless—mostly old, lots of polyester, and married to their RVs. But as Dan Torrance knows, and spunky twelve-year-old Abra Stone learns, The True Knot are quasi-immortal, living off the “steam� that children with the “shining� produce when they are slowly tortured to death.

Haunted by the inhabitants of the Overlook Hotel where he spent one horrific childhood year, Dan has been drifting for decades, desperate to shed his father’s legacy of despair, alcoholism, and violence. Finally, he settles in a New Hampshire town, an AA community that sustains him, and a job at a nursing home where his remnant “shining� power provides the crucial final comfort to the dying. Aided by a prescient cat, he becomes “Doctor Sleep.�

Then Dan meets the evanescent Abra Stone, and it is her spectacular gift, the brightest shining ever seen, that reignites Dan’s own demons and summons him to a battle for Abra’s soul and survival. This is an epic war between good and evil, a gory, glorious story that will thrill the millions of devoted readers of The Shining and satisfy anyone new to the territory of this icon in the King canon.]]> 658 Stephen King Jason 3 4.31 2013 Doctor Sleep (The Shining, #2)
author: Stephen King
name: Jason
average rating: 4.31
book published: 2013
rating: 3
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]]> Circe 40195463
When love drives Circe to cast a dark spell, wrathful Zeus banishes her to the remote island of Aiaia. There she learns to harness her occult craft, drawing strength from nature. But she will not always be alone; many are destined to pass through Circe's place of exile, entwining their fates with hers. The messenger god, Hermes. The craftsman, Daedalus. A ship bearing a golden fleece. And wily Odysseus, on his epic voyage home.

There is danger for a solitary woman in this world, and Circe's independence draws the wrath of men and gods alike. To protect what she holds dear, Circe must decide whether she belongs with the deities she is born from, or the mortals she has come to love.]]> 400 Madeline Miller Jason 5 4.37 2018 Circe
author: Madeline Miller
name: Jason
average rating: 4.37
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rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House]]> 36595266 With extraordinary access to the Trump White House, Michael Wolff tells the inside story of the most controversial presidency of our time

The first nine months of Donald Trump's term were stormy, outrageous—and absolutely mesmerizing. Now, thanks to his deep access to the West Wing, bestselling author Michael Wolff tells the riveting story of how Trump launched a tenure as volatile and fiery as the man himself.

In this explosive book, Wolff provides a wealth of new details about the chaos in the Oval Office. Among the revelations:

� What President Trump's staff really thinks of him
� What inspired Trump to claim he was wire-tapped by President Obama
� Why FBI director James Comey was really fired
� Why chief strategist Steve Bannon and Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner couldn't be in the same room
� Who is really directing the Trump administration's strategy in the wake of Bannon's firing
� What the secret to communicating with Trump is
� What the Trump administration has in common with the movie The Producers

Never before has a presidency so divided the American people. Brilliantly reported and astoundingly fresh, Michael Wolff's Fire and Fury shows us how and why Donald Trump has become the king of discord and disunion.]]> 339 Michael Wolff Jason 4 3.64 2018 Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House
author: Michael Wolff
name: Jason
average rating: 3.64
book published: 2018
rating: 4
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]]> Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body 26802721 An alternate cover edition for ASIN B013PKAFOC can be found here.

From the New York Times bestselling author of Bad Feminist: a searingly honest memoir of food, weight, self-image, and learning how to feed your hunger while taking care of yourself.

“I ate and ate and ate in the hopes that if I made myself big, my body would be safe. I buried the girl I was because she ran into all kinds of trouble. I tried to erase every memory of her, but she is still there, somewhere. . . . I was trapped in my body, one that I barely recognized or understood, but at least I was safe.�

In her phenomenally popular essays and long-running Tumblr blog, Roxane Gay has written with intimacy and sensitivity about food and body, using her own emotional and psychological struggles as a means of exploring our shared anxieties over pleasure, consumption, appearance, and health. As a woman who describes her own body as “wildly undisciplined,� Roxane understands the tension between desire and denial, between self-comfort and self-care. In Hunger, she explores her past—including the devastating act of violence that acted as a turning point in her young life—and brings readers along on her journey to understand and ultimately save herself.

With the bracing candor, vulnerability, and power that have made her one of the most admired writers of her generation, Roxane explores what it means to learn to take care of yourself: how to feed your hungers for delicious and satisfying food, a smaller and safer body, and a body that can love and be loved—in a time when the bigger you are, the smaller your world becomes.]]> 232 Roxane Gay Jason 0 4.22 2017 Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
author: Roxane Gay
name: Jason
average rating: 4.22
book published: 2017
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Completely Mad: A History of the Comic Book and Magazine]]> 849919 208 Maria Reidelbach 0316738913 Jason 4 4.10 1992 Completely Mad: A History of the Comic Book and Magazine
author: Maria Reidelbach
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average rating: 4.10
book published: 1992
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Blood, Bones, and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef]]> 39706442 306 Gabrielle Hamilton Jason 5 4.01 2001 Blood, Bones, and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef
author: Gabrielle Hamilton
name: Jason
average rating: 4.01
book published: 2001
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Fear: Trump in the White House]]> 40901227
With authoritative reporting honed through eight presidencies from Nixon to Obama, author Bob Woodward reveals in unprecedented detail the harrowing life inside President Donald Trump’s White House and precisely how he makes decisions on major foreign and domestic policies. Woodward draws from hundreds of hours of interviews with firsthand sources, meeting notes, personal diaries, files and documents. The focus is on the explosive debates and the decision-making in the Oval Office, the Situation Room, Air Force One and the White House residence.

Fear is the most intimate portrait of a sitting president ever published during the president’s first years in office.]]> 357 Bob Woodward 150117553X Jason 4 4.01 2018 Fear: Trump in the White House
author: Bob Woodward
name: Jason
average rating: 4.01
book published: 2018
rating: 4
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]]> All the Light We Cannot See 19398490 Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, a New York Times Book Review Top Ten Book, National Book Award finalist, more than two and a half years on the New York Times bestseller list


A blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Marie-Laure lives in Paris near the Museum of Natural History, where her father works as the master of the locks (there are thousands of locks in the museum). Open your eyes, and see what you can with them before they close forever. Marie-Laure has been blind since the age of six. Her father builds a perfect miniature of their Paris neighbourhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate the real streets with her feet and cane. When she is twelve, the German Nazis occupy Paris and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo on the Brittany coast, where Marie-Laure’s agoraphobic reclusive great-uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel.

In a mining town in Germany, the orphan Werner Pfennig grows up with his younger sister, Jutta, both enchanted by a crude radio they find that brings them news and stories from places they have never seen or imagined. Werner becomes an master at building and fixing these crucial new radios, a talent that wins him a place at an elite and brutal military academy and, ultimately, makes him a highly specialized tracker of the Resistance. More and more aware of the human cost of his intelligence, Werner travels through the heart of Hitler Youth to the far-flung outskirts of Russia, and finally into Saint-Malo, where his path converges with Marie-Laure. The story Illuminates the ways, against all odds, that people try to be good to one another.

At the same time, far away in a walled city by the sea, an old man discovers new worlds without ever setting foot outside his home. But all around him, impending danger closes in.

Ten years in the writing, a National Book Award finalist, All the Light We Cannot See is a magnificent, deeply moving novel from a writer “whose sentences never fail to thrill� (Los Angeles Times).]]> 552 Anthony Doerr Jason 5 4.38 2014 All the Light We Cannot See
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name: Jason
average rating: 4.38
book published: 2014
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]]> The Song of Achilles 13537029
Greece in the age of heroes. Patroclus, an awkward young prince, has been exiled to the kingdom of Phthia to be raised in the shadow of King Peleus and his golden son, Achilles. “The best of all the Greeks”—strong, beautiful, and the child of a goddess—Achilles is everything the shamed Patroclus is not. Yet despite their differences, the boys become steadfast companions. Their bond deepens as they grow into young men and become skilled in the arts of war and medicine—much to the displeasure and the fury of Achilles� mother, Thetis, a cruel sea goddess with a hatred of mortals.

When word comes that Helen of Sparta has been kidnapped, the men of Greece, bound by blood and oath, must lay siege to Troy in her name. Seduced by the promise of a glorious destiny, Achilles joins their cause, and torn between love and fear for his friend, Patroclus follows. Little do they know that the Fates will test them both as never before and demand a terrible sacrifice.

Built on the groundwork of the Iliad, Madeline Miller’s page-turning, profoundly moving, and blisteringly paced retelling of the epic Trojan War marks the launch of a dazzling career.]]> 351 Madeline Miller Jason 5 4.31 2011 The Song of Achilles
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average rating: 4.31
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]]> <![CDATA[I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter]]> 34454557
Perfect Mexican daughters do not go away to college. And they do not move out of their parents� house after high school graduation. Perfect Mexican daughters never abandon their family.

But Julia is not your perfect Mexican daughter. That was Olga’s role.

Then a tragic accident on the busiest street in Chicago leaves Olga dead and Julia left behind to reassemble the shattered pieces of her family. And no one seems to acknowledge that Julia is broken, too. Instead, her mother seems to channel her grief into pointing out every possible way Julia has failed.

But it’s not long before Julia discovers that Olga might not have been as perfect as everyone thought. With the help of her best friend Lorena, and her first kiss, first love, first everything boyfriend Connor, Julia is determined to find out. Was Olga really what she seemed? Or was there more to her sister’s story? And either way, how can Julia even attempt to live up to a seemingly impossible ideal?]]> 352 Erika L. Sánchez 1524700509 Jason 0 4.17 2017 I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
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]]> The Outsider 37684362
An eleven-year-old boy’s violated corpse is found in a town park. Eyewitnesses and fingerprints point unmistakably to one of Flint City’s most popular citizens. He is Terry Maitland, Little League coach, English teacher, husband, and father of two girls. Detective Ralph Anderson, whose son Maitland once coached, orders a quick and very public arrest. Maitland has an alibi, but Anderson and the district attorney soon add DNA evidence to go with the fingerprints and witnesses. Their case seems ironclad.

As the investigation expands and horrifying answers begin to emerge, King’s propulsive story kicks into high gear, generating strong tension and almost unbearable suspense. Terry Maitland seems like a nice guy, but is he wearing another face? When the answer comes, it will shock you as only Stephen King can.]]> 577 Stephen King Jason 4 4.17 2018 The Outsider
author: Stephen King
name: Jason
average rating: 4.17
book published: 2018
rating: 4
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]]> American Gods 36949233
Together they embark on a profoundly strange journey across the heart of the USA, whilst all around them a storm of preternatural and epic proportions threatens to break.

Scary, gripping and deeply unsettling, American Gods takes a long, hard look into the soul of America. You'll be surprised by what - and who - it finds there...]]> 674 Neil Gaiman Jason 3 4.17 2001 American Gods
author: Neil Gaiman
name: Jason
average rating: 4.17
book published: 2001
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[A Wrinkle in Time (Time Quintet, #1)]]> 10808486 NEWBERY MEDAL WINNER � TIME MAGAZINE’S 100 BEST FANTASY BOOKS OF ALL TIME � NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM DISNEY
Read the ground-breaking science fiction and fantasy classic that has delighted children for over 60 years!
"A Wrinkle in Time is one of my favorite books of all time. I've read it so often, I know it by heart." —Meg Cabot

Late one night, three otherworldly creatures appear and sweep Meg Murry, her brother Charles Wallace, and their friend Calvin O'Keefe away on a mission to save Mr. Murry, who has gone missing while doing top-secret work for the government. They travel via tesseract--a wrinkle that transports one across space and time--to the planet Camazotz, where Mr. Murry is being held captive. There they discover a dark force that threatens not only Mr. Murry but the safety of the whole universe.

A Wrinkle in Time is the first book in Madeleine L’Engle’s Time Quintet.]]> 228 Madeleine L'Engle Jason 0 currently-reading 4.03 1962 A Wrinkle in Time (Time Quintet, #1)
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average rating: 4.03
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]]> <![CDATA[The Girl Who Fell from the Sky]]> 10615879 Excellent Book 272 Heidi W. Durrow Jason 0 3.77 2010 The Girl Who Fell from the Sky
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name: Jason
average rating: 3.77
book published: 2010
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]]> <![CDATA[Infomocracy (Centenal Cycle, #1)]]> 28604673 It's been twenty years and two election cycles since Information, a powerful search engine monopoly, pioneered the switch from warring nation-states to global micro-democracy. The corporate coalition party Heritage has won the last two elections. With another election on the horizon, the Supermajority is in tight contention, and everything's on the line.

With power comes corruption. For Ken, this is his chance to do right by the idealistic Policy1st party and get a steady job in the big leagues. For Domaine, the election represents another staging ground in his ongoing struggle against the pax democratica. For Mishima, a dangerous Information operative, the whole situation is a puzzle: how do you keep the wheels running on the biggest political experiment of all time, when so many have so much to gain?

Infomocracy is Malka Older's debut novel.

]]> 382 Malka Ann Older 0765385147 Jason 0 currently-reading 3.81 2016 Infomocracy (Centenal Cycle, #1)
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average rating: 3.81
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]]> <![CDATA[Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal]]> 36949800 Philadelphia Inquirer).

Verily, the story Biff has to tell is a miraculous one, filled with remarkable journeys, magic, healings, kung fu, corpse reanimations, demons, and hot babes. Even the considerable wiles and devotion of the Savior's pal may not be enough to divert Joshua from his tragic destiny. But there's no one who loves Josh more—except maybe "Maggie," Mary of Magdala—and Biff isn't about to let his extraordinary pal suffer and ascend without a fight.]]> 468 Christopher Moore Jason 4 4.27 2002 Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
author: Christopher Moore
name: Jason
average rating: 4.27
book published: 2002
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)]]> 35647970 This is an alternate cover edition for B000QCS8TW.

Long ago, in a time forgotten, a preternatural event threw the seasons out of balance. In a land where summers can last decades and winters a lifetime, trouble is brewing. The cold is returning, and in the frozen wastes to the north of Winterfell, sinister forces are massing beyond the kingdom’s protective Wall. To the south, the king’s powers are failing—his most trusted adviser dead under mysterious circumstances and his enemies emerging from the shadows of the throne. At the center of the conflict lie the Starks of Winterfell, a family as harsh and unyielding as the frozen land they were born to. Now Lord Eddard Stark is reluctantly summoned to serve as the king’s new Hand, an appointment that threatens to sunder not only his family but the kingdom itself.

Sweeping from a harsh land of cold to a summertime kingdom of epicurean plenty, A Game of Thrones tells a tale of lords and ladies, soldiers and sorcerers, assassins and bastards, who come together in a time of grim omens. Here an enigmatic band of warriors bear swords of no human metal; a tribe of fierce wildlings carry men off into madness; a cruel young dragon prince barters his sister to win back his throne; a child is lost in the twilight between life and death; and a determined woman undertakes a treacherous journey to protect all she holds dear. Amid plots and counter-plots, tragedy and betrayal, victory and terror, allies and enemies, the fate of the Starks hangs perilously in the balance, as each side endeavors to win that deadliest of conflicts: the game of thrones.

Unparalleled in scope and execution, A Game of Thrones is one of those rare reading experiences that catch you up from the opening pages, won’t let you go until the end, and leave you yearning for more.

Source: randomhousebooks.com]]> 819 George R.R. Martin Jason 0 currently-reading 4.56 1996 A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
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]]> Breakfast of Champions 36681274 Breakfast of Champions, one of Kurt Vonnegut’sĚý most beloved characters, the aging writer Kilgore Trout, finds to his horror that a Midwest car dealer is taking his fiction as truth. What follows is murderously funny satire, as Vonnegut looks at war, sex, racism, success, politics, and pollution in America and reminds us how to see the truth.]]> 322 Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Jason 0 currently-reading 4.13 1973 Breakfast of Champions
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average rating: 4.13
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]]> Americanah 17184818
As teenagers in a Lagos secondary school, Ifemelu and Obinze fall in love. Their Nigeria is under military dictatorship, and people are fleeing the country if they can. Ifemelu--beautiful, self-assured--departs for America to study. She suffers defeats and triumphs, finds and loses relationships and friendships, all the while feeling the weight of something she never thought of back home: race. Obinze--the quiet, thoughtful son of a professor--had hoped to join her, but post-9/11 America will not let him in, and he plunges into a dangerous, undocumented life in London. Fifteen years later, Obinze is a wealthy man in a newly democratic Nigeria, while Ifemelu has achieved success as a writer of an eye-opening blog about race in America. But when Ifemelu returns to Nigeria, and she and Obinze reignite their shared passion--for their homeland and for each other--they will face the toughest decisions of their lives. Fearless, gripping, spanning three continents and numerous lives, Americanah is a richly told story of love and expectation set in today's globalized world.]]> 590 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Jason 0 4.34 2013 Americanah
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average rating: 4.34
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]]> Wonder Boys 13369245 The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Chabon presents a hilarious and heartbreaking work—the story of the friendship between the "wonder boys"—Grady, an aging writer who has lost his way, and Crabtree, whose relentless debauchery is capsizing his career.]]> 388 Michael Chabon Jason 0 3.87 1995 Wonder Boys
author: Michael Chabon
name: Jason
average rating: 3.87
book published: 1995
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]]> <![CDATA[We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (Bobiverse, #1)]]> 32109569 Alternate Cover Edition can be found here.

Bob Johansson has just sold his software company and is looking forward to a life of leisure. There are places to go, books to read, and movies to watch. So it's a little unfair when he gets himself killed crossing the street.

Bob wakes up a century later to find that corpsicles have been declared to be without rights, and he is now the property of the state. He has been uploaded into computer hardware and is slated to be the controlling AI in an interstellar probe looking for habitable planets. The stakes are high: no less than the first claim to entire worlds. If he declines the honor, he'll be switched off, and they'll try again with someone else. If he accepts, he becomes a prime target. There are at least three other countries trying to get their own probes launched first, and they play dirty.

The safest place for Bob is in space, heading away from Earth at top speed. Or so he thinks. Because the universe is full of nasties, and trespassers make them mad - very mad.]]> 383 Dennis E. Taylor Jason 3 4.29 2016 We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (Bobiverse, #1)
author: Dennis E. Taylor
name: Jason
average rating: 4.29
book published: 2016
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[The Handmaid's Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)]]> 12961964 The Handmaid's Tale is not only a radical and brilliant departure for Margaret Atwood, it is a novel of such power that the reader will be unable to forget its images and its forecast. Set in the near future, it describes life in what was once the United States, now called the Republic of Gilead, a monotheocracy that has reacted to social unrest and a sharply declining birthrate by reverting to, and going beyond, the repressive intolerance of the original Puritans. The regime takes the Book of Genesis absolutely at its word, with bizarre consequences for the women and men of its population. The story is told through the eyes of Offred, one of the unfortunate Handmaids under the new social order. In condensed but eloquent prose, by turns cool-eyed, tender, despairing, passionate, and wry, she reveals to us the dark corners behind the establishment's calm facade, as certain tendencies now in existence are carried to their logical conclusions. The Handmaid's Tale is funny, unexpected, horrifying, and altogether convincing. It is at once scathing satire, dire warning, and tour de force. It is Margaret Atwood at her best.]]> 325 Margaret Atwood Jason 0 currently-reading 4.09 1985 The Handmaid's Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)
author: Margaret Atwood
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average rating: 4.09
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]]> Norse Mythology 30831912 Introducing an instant classic―master storyteller Neil Gaiman presents a dazzling version of the great Norse myths.

Neil Gaiman has long been inspired by ancient mythology in creating the fantastical realms of his fiction. Now he turns his attention back to the source, presenting a bravura rendition of the great northern tales.

In Norse Mythology, Gaiman stays true to the myths in envisioning the major Norse pantheon: Odin, the highest of the high, wise, daring, and cunning; Thor, Odin’s son, incredibly strong yet not the wisest of gods; and Loki―son of a giant―blood brother to Odin and a trickster and unsurpassable manipulator.

Gaiman fashions these primeval stories into a novelistic arc that begins with the genesis of the legendary nine worlds and delves into the exploits of deities, dwarfs, and giants. Once, when Thor’s hammer is stolen, Thor must disguise himself as a woman―difficult with his beard and huge appetite―to steal it back. More poignant is the tale in which the blood of Kvasir―the most sagacious of gods―is turned into a mead that infuses drinkers with poetry. The work culminates in Ragnarok, the twilight of the gods and rebirth of a new time and people.

Through Gaiman’s deft and witty prose emerge these gods with their fiercely competitive natures, their susceptibility to being duped and to duping others, and their tendency to let passion ignite their actions, making these long-ago myths breathe pungent life again.

Librarian's note: See alternate cover edition of ASIN B01HQA6EOC here.]]> 304 Neil Gaiman Jason 4 4.07 2017 Norse Mythology
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]]> <![CDATA[A Wild Sheep Chase (The Rat, #3)]]> 9526286 A New York Times bestselling author—and “a mythmaker for the millennium, a wiseacre wisemanâ€� (New York Times Book Review)—delivers a surreal and elaborate quest that takes readers from Tokyo to the remote mountains of northern Japan, where the unnamed protagonist has a surprising confrontation with his demons.ĚýAn advertising executive receives a postcard from a friend and casually appropriates the image for an advertisement. What he doesn’t realize is that included in the scene is a mutant sheep with a star on its back, and in using this photo he has unwittingly captured the attention of a man who offers a menacing find the sheep or face dire consequences.]]> 364 Haruki Murakami Jason 0 currently-reading 4.13 1982 A Wild Sheep Chase (The Rat, #3)
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average rating: 4.13
book published: 1982
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]]> Greek Lives 279476 translated and accompanied by a lucid introduction, explanatory notes, bibliographies, maps, and indexes.]]> 528 Plutarch 0192825011 Jason 0 4.00 100 Greek Lives
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]]> Island 13095730
Inevitably, this island of bliss attracts the envy and enmity of the surrounding world. A conspiracy is underway to take over Pala, and events are set in motion when an agent of the conspirators, a newspaperman named Faranby, is shipwrecked there. What Faranby doesn't expect is how his time with the people of Pala will revolutionize all his values and—to his amazement—give him hope.]]> 384 Aldous Huxley Jason 0 currently-reading 3.91 1962 Island
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name: Jason
average rating: 3.91
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]]> <![CDATA[The Beat: Go-Go Music from Washington, D.C. (American Made Music Series)]]> 7061546
Go-go―the only musical form indigenous to Washington, DC―features a highly syncopated, nonstop beat and vocals that are spoken as well as sung. The book chronicles its development and ongoing popularity, focusing on many of its key figures and institutions, including established acts such as Chuck Brown (the Godfather of Go-Go), Experience Unlimited, Rare Essence, and Trouble Funk; well-known DJs, managers, and promoters; and filmmakers who have incorporated it into their work. The Beat! provides longtime fans and those who study American musical forms a definitive look at the music and its makers.]]> 304 Kip Lornell 1604732415 Jason 5 3.81 2009 The Beat: Go-Go Music from Washington, D.C. (American Made Music Series)
author: Kip Lornell
name: Jason
average rating: 3.81
book published: 2009
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America]]> 29556560
The wretched and landless poor have existed from the time of the earliest British colonial settlement to today's hillbillies. They were alternately known as “waste people,� “offals,� “rubbish,� “lazy lubbers,� and “crackers.� By the 1850s, the downtrodden included so-called “clay eaters� and “sandhillers,� known for prematurely aged children distinguished by their yellowish skin, ragged clothing, and listless minds.

Surveying political rhetoric and policy, popular literature and scientific theories over four hundred years, Isenberg upends assumptions about America’s supposedly class-free society––where liberty and hard work were meant to ensure real social mobility. Poor whites were central to the rise of the Republican Party in the early nineteenth century, and the Civil War itself was fought over class issues nearly as much as it was fought over slavery. Reconstruction pitted poor white trash against newly freed slaves, which factored in the rise of eugenics�-a widely popular movement embraced by Theodore Roosevelt that targeted poor whites for sterilization. These poor were at the heart of New Deal reforms and LBJ’s Great Society; they haunt us in reality TV shows like Here Comes Honey Boo Boo and Duck Dynasty. Marginalized as a class, white trash have always been at or near the center of major political debates over the character of the American identity.

We acknowledge racial injustice as an ugly stain on our nation’s history. With Isenberg’s landmark book, we will have to face the truth about the enduring, malevolent nature of class as well.]]> 480 Nancy Isenberg 110160848X Jason 0 currently-reading 3.87 2016 White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
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average rating: 3.87
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]]> Dororo (Dororo, #1-3) 11862291
Joined by mouthy orphan sidekick Dororo, Hyakkimaru's adventures bring him face to face with the greater world: both its miracles and its monsters. Part yokai tale, part travel story, Osamu Tezuka's classic adventure Dororo offers a thoughtful allergory for becoming what one is -- for nobody, is born whole.]]> 848 Osamu Tezuka 1935654322 Jason 4 4.05 1967 Dororo (Dororo, #1-3)
author: Osamu Tezuka
name: Jason
average rating: 4.05
book published: 1967
rating: 4
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]]> Fahrenheit 451 13079982 Sixty years after its original publication, Ray Bradbury’s internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 stands as a classic of world literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. Today its message has grown more relevant than ever before.

Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television “family.� But when he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people didn’t live in fear and to a present where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead of the mindless chatter of television, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known.]]> 194 Ray Bradbury Jason 5 3.97 1953 Fahrenheit 451
author: Ray Bradbury
name: Jason
average rating: 3.97
book published: 1953
rating: 5
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]]> The Seventh (Parker, #7) 12209018
In The Seventh, the heist of a college football game goes bad, and the take is stolen by a crazed, violent amateur. Parker must outrun the cops—and the killer—to retrieve his cash.]]> 168 Richard Stark Jason 4 4.16 1966 The Seventh (Parker, #7)
author: Richard Stark
name: Jason
average rating: 4.16
book published: 1966
rating: 4
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]]> The Handle (Parker, #8) 11663211 172 Richard Stark Jason 4 4.15 1966 The Handle (Parker, #8)
author: Richard Stark
name: Jason
average rating: 4.15
book published: 1966
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[The Golem and the Jinni (The Golem and the Jinni, #1)]]> 17406654 The Golem and the Jinni, a chance meeting between mythical beings takes readers on a dazzling journey through cultures in turn-of-the-century New York.

Chava is a golem, a creature made of clay, brought to life by a disgraced rabbi who dabbles in dark Kabbalistic magic and dies at sea on the voyage from Poland. Chava is unmoored and adrift as the ship arrives in New York harbor in 1899.

Ahmad is a jinni, a being of fire born in the ancient Syrian desert, trapped in an old copper flask, and released in New York City, though still not entirely free.

Ahmad and Chava become unlikely friends and soul mates with a mystical connection. Marvelous and compulsively readable, Helene Wecker's debut novel The Golem and the Jinni weaves strands of Yiddish and Middle Eastern literature, historical fiction and magical fable, into a wondrously inventive and unforgettable tale.]]> 819 Helene Wecker Jason 4 4.26 2013 The Golem and the Jinni (The Golem and the Jinni, #1)
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average rating: 4.26
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]]> Finley the Flute 18731846 36 Claire Geddes 1482725606 Jason 4 4.33 2013 Finley the Flute
author: Claire Geddes
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average rating: 4.33
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]]> <![CDATA[The Jones Men: Special 40th Anniversary Edition]]> 22851969
"It was The Wire before there was The Wire."
--Gar Anthony Haywood

DETROIT, 1974

To become the King, you have to take the crown. It won't be given up lightly. Heroin kingpin, Willis McDaniel, has been wearing that particular piece of jewelry for far too long, and youngblood, Lennie Jack, thinks it would look really good on his head. When a junkie tells Jack about a big delivery, the young Vietnam vet makes his move. Feeling his empire crumble, McDaniel puts the word out to find whoever's responsible. The hunt is on, the battle is engaged, and the streets of Detroit run red with blood.

In 1974 Vern E. Smith took the crime fiction world by storm with his debut novel, The Jones Men. Heralded as "a large accomplishment in the art of fiction" by the New York Times, The Jones Men went on to be nominated for an Edgar Award and became a New York Times Notable Book. The art of crime fiction has never been the same since.]]> 226 Vern E. Smith Jason 4 3.43 1974 The Jones Men: Special 40th Anniversary Edition
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name: Jason
average rating: 3.43
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rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[20th Century Boys, Volume 3: Hero with a Guitar]]> 6285596
Kenji races home and picks up the newspaper: sure enough, the mystery microbe has hit London. He thinks back over everything that has happened and what he and his childhood friends dug up, and is forced to face the unbelievable truth--someone really is putting into motion the story Kenji made up as a child, and people are dying because of it!]]> 204 Naoki Urasawa 1421519224 Jason 5 4.33 2000 20th Century Boys, Volume 3: Hero with a Guitar
author: Naoki Urasawa
name: Jason
average rating: 4.33
book published: 2000
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[20th Century Boys, Volume 5: Reunion (20th Century Boys, #5)]]> 6481097
The giant robot has already been built and now awaits the Great Awakening... With the Friend's identity still a mystery, the countdown to the apocalypse continues, day by day, minute by minute--for on December 31, 2000, humanity will meet its final hour. Hoping to get as many people who knew about their group's emblem involved in their clandestine efforts, Kenji's crew reaches out to their childhood antagonists: the twins Mabo and Yanbo. Back when they were kids, Yanbo and Mabo terrorized Kenji and company to no end. As adults, and with a crisis looming, will the evilest brothers in history now fight on the side of good? Humanity, having faced extinction at the end of the 20th century, would not have entered the new millennium if it weren't for them. In 1969, during their youth, they created a symbol. In 1997, as the coming disaster slowly starts to unfold, that symbol returns. This is the story of a gang of boys who try to save the world.]]> 212 Naoki Urasawa 142152340X Jason 5 4.29 2001 20th Century Boys, Volume 5: Reunion (20th Century Boys, #5)
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average rating: 4.29
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]]> <![CDATA[20th Century Boys, Volume 4: Love and Peace]]> 6285597
Meanwhile, the evil organization is closing in on a man called Shogun in the ganglands of Bangkok. The mystery grows deeper, the fear more intense, as we near the final battle at the turn of the century... Is there really any way to save the world from annihilation?]]> 210 Naoki Urasawa 1421519232 Jason 5 4.39 2001 20th Century Boys, Volume 4: Love and Peace
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average rating: 4.39
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]]> <![CDATA[Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage]]> 21398139 IQ84.]]> 352 Haruki Murakami Jason 4 3.98 2013 Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
author: Haruki Murakami
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average rating: 3.98
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rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[He Died with His Eyes Open (Factory Series #1)]]> 13130482
Murders are a dime a dozen in Margaret Thatcher's London, and when it comes to the brutal killing of a middle-aged alcoholic found dumped outside of town, Scotland Yard has more important cases to deal with.

Instead it's a job for the Department of Unexplained Deaths and its head Detective Sergeant. With only a box of cassette-tape diaries as evidence the rogue detective has no chouce but to listen to the haunting voice of the victim for clues to his gruesome end.

The first book in Derek Raymond's acclaimed Factory Series is an unflinching yet deeply compassionate portrait of a city plagued by poverty and perversion, and a policeman who may be the only one who cares about the "people who don't matter and who never did."]]> 226 Derek Raymond 1612190138 Jason 5 3.69 1984 He Died with His Eyes Open (Factory Series #1)
author: Derek Raymond
name: Jason
average rating: 3.69
book published: 1984
rating: 5
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]]> Man Hungry 20693515
Apart from its steamy content, Man Hungry is actually a fine novel and a fascinating glimpse into the development of one of our most prolific and talented writers. It’s all there—hints of his dark style, flawed and wonton characters, and the old familiar haunts, including the first appearance of the fictional Monequois College in the equally made-up town of Monequois, New York, which subsequently appears in at least a half dozen Westlake novels under at least four of his pen names.

If you’re a Westlake fan, a fan of the genre, or just looking for a great vintage read, this new edition of Man Hungry from Blackbird Books will satisfy your appetite!]]> 194 Alan Marshall 1610530152 Jason 4 2.33 1959 Man Hungry
author: Alan Marshall
name: Jason
average rating: 2.33
book published: 1959
rating: 4
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]]> Pop. 1280 17204285
Still, Nick has some very complex problems to deal with. Two local pimps have been sassing him, ruining his already tattered reputation. His girlfriend Rose is being terrorized by her husband. And then, there's his wife and her brother Lenny who won't stop troubling Nick's already stressed mind. Are they a little too close for a brother and a sister?

With an election coming up, Nick needs to fix his problems and fast. Because the one thing Nick does know is that he will do anything to stay sheriff. Because, as it turns out, Sheriff Nick Corey is not nearly as dumb as he seems.

In Pop. 1280, widely regarded as a classic of mid-20th century crime, Thompson offers up one of his best, in a tale of lust, murder, and betrayal in the Deep South that was the basis for the critically acclaimed French film Coup de Torchon.]]> 215 Jim Thompson Jason 5 3.93 1964 Pop. 1280
author: Jim Thompson
name: Jason
average rating: 3.93
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rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[20th Century Boys, Volume 10: The Faceless Boy]]> 7326815 It appears that Kanna's ambitious gamble has paid off as the leaders of the local Thai and Chinese mafias agree to both call a truce and offer to back her up. This doesn't sit too well with Yukiji, though, who is furious that Kanna would risk her life in such a brazen way. But one thing seems certain: when it comes to fighting the Friends, there's no limit to how far Kanna will go. Meanwhile, Koizumi Kyoko begins following Kanna in an attempt to tell her about everything she learned while at Friend Land. Her behavior, however, does not go unnoticed by the Friends, and a menacing dream navigator suddenly appears to inform Kyoko that she will need to go to Friend World for further reeducation. Luckily for Kyoko, there are no immediate spaces available, but will she have enough time to get help from Kanna and Yoshitsune before her number is called?

]]> 212 Naoki Urasawa 1421523450 Jason 5 4.39 2002 20th Century Boys, Volume 10: The Faceless Boy
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average rating: 4.39
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]]> <![CDATA[20th Century Boys, Volume 11 (20th Century Boys, #11)]]> 8492843 232 Naoki Urasawa 1421523469 Jason 5 4.30 2002 20th Century Boys, Volume 11 (20th Century Boys, #11)
author: Naoki Urasawa
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average rating: 4.30
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]]> <![CDATA[20th Century Boys, Volume 9: Rabbit Nabokov (20th Century Boys, #9)]]> 7349925
This is the story of a gang of boys who try to save the world! As boys, Kenji and his friends came up with a bunch of stories about an evil organization bent on world destruction. As adults, someone is now turning their fantasies into reality!

The year is 2014, and Neo Tokyo is completely under the control of the Friend. Kanna has decided to stand up and avenge Kenji--will she be able to muster up enough support for her cause? Kanna makes her way to a mafia-operated casino and quickly finds herself at a high stakes table. Is she lucky (and smart) enough to turn the odds in her favor at the bizarre and fast-paced game of Rabbit Nabokov? While Kanna marshals her forces, Koizumi Kyoko experiences true horror at the reeducation camp known as Friend Land. Going back in time in their "Virtual World," she meets Kenji and his pals as boys in 1971 and sees something that is strictly taboo: the Friend's childhood face! Will she live to report back on the Friend's identity?]]> 212 Naoki Urasawa 1421523442 Jason 5 4.38 2002 20th Century Boys, Volume 9: Rabbit Nabokov (20th Century Boys, #9)
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average rating: 4.38
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]]> The Initiates 15806485 272 Étienne Davodeau 1561637033 Jason 4 3.98 2011 The Initiates
author: Étienne Davodeau
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average rating: 3.98
book published: 2011
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[The Washington Nationals and Their Grand Tour of 1867]]> 17839353 70 Frank Ceresi 1939282063 Jason 4 4.00 2013 The Washington Nationals and Their Grand Tour of 1867
author: Frank Ceresi
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]]> <![CDATA[The League of Regrettable Superheroes: Half-Baked Heroes from Comic Book History]]> 23164984 Look, up in the sky! It's a bee! It's a clown! It's...a giant eyeball?

You know about Batman, Superman, and Spiderman, but have you heard of Doll Man, Doctor Hormone, or Spider Queen? In The League of Regrettable Superheroes, you’ll meet one hundred of the strangest superheroes ever to see print, complete with backstories, vintage art, and colorful commentary. So prepare yourself for such not-ready-for-prime-time heroes as Bee Man (Batman, but with bees), the Clown (circus-themed crimebuster), the Eye (a giant, floating eyeball; just accept it), and many other oddballs and oddities. Drawing on the entire history of the medium, The League of Regrettable Superheroes will appeal to die-hard comics fans, casual comics readers, and anyone who enjoys peering into the stranger corners of pop culture.]]> 256 Jon Morris 1594747636 Jason 4 3.80 2015 The League of Regrettable Superheroes: Half-Baked Heroes from Comic Book History
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name: Jason
average rating: 3.80
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]]> <![CDATA[21st Century Boys, Volume 2 (21st Century Boys, #2)]]> 15800496 200 Naoki Urasawa 1421543273 Jason 5 4.21 2007 21st Century Boys, Volume 2 (21st Century Boys, #2)
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average rating: 4.21
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]]> <![CDATA[21st Century Boys, Volume 1 (21st Century Boys, #1)]]> 15800495 200 Naoki Urasawa 1421543265 Jason 5 4.07 2007 21st Century Boys, Volume 1 (21st Century Boys, #1)
author: Naoki Urasawa
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average rating: 4.07
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]]> <![CDATA[20th Century Boys, Volume 22 (20th Century Boys, #22)]]> 13163537 Friend reveals all about his conspiracy and declares that he shall destroy the world within seven days. Kanna plans a music festival to evacuate people to the Expo venue, which is the only place the dictator holds sacred and the only place safe from destruction. While the 20th Century Boys race toward the final battle, Kenji is coming back to Tokyo!!]]> 256 Naoki Urasawa 1421542773 Jason 5 4.14 2006 20th Century Boys, Volume 22 (20th Century Boys, #22)
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average rating: 4.14
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]]> <![CDATA[20th Century Boys, Volume 21 (20th Century Boys, #21)]]> 13163542 Friend is carrying out his plan for the extermination of the human race—all according to his predictions. And the man who survived Bloody New Year’s Eve is heading toward Tokyo. The boys are coming back together one by one. The time is come. This is the countdown to the final battle.]]> 208 Naoki Urasawa 1421535394 Jason 5 4.20 2006 20th Century Boys, Volume 21 (20th Century Boys, #21)
author: Naoki Urasawa
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average rating: 4.20
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]]> <![CDATA[20th Century Boys, Volume 19 (20th Century Boys, #19)]]> 12349663 230 Naoki Urasawa 1421535378 Jason 5 4.28 2005 20th Century Boys, Volume 19 (20th Century Boys, #19)
author: Naoki Urasawa
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average rating: 4.28
book published: 2005
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]]> <![CDATA[20th Century Boys, Volume 20 (20th Century Boys, #20)]]> 12349665 208 Naoki Urasawa 1421535386 Jason 5 4.35 2005 20th Century Boys, Volume 20 (20th Century Boys, #20)
author: Naoki Urasawa
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average rating: 4.35
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]]> <![CDATA[20th Century Boys, Volume 18 (20th Century Boys, #18)]]> 11029911 Far, far from Tokyo, a man approaches the checkpoint at the Northern Border... Everyone north of the gate is dead, but here he comes on a motorbike with a guitar strapped to his back. Who is this man who calls himself Joe Yabuki, and why does he break out in song? Is he a Messiah here to save the people, or is he just a deluded nut?

]]> 208 Naoki Urasawa 142153536X Jason 5 4.32 2005 20th Century Boys, Volume 18 (20th Century Boys, #18)
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]]> <![CDATA[20th Century Boys, Volume 17 (20th Century Boys, #17)]]> 11029904
Reads R to L (Japanese Style).

It is the third year of the Friendship Era. Darkness covers the earth, and the world is under the control of evil. The Friend has become President of the World, and he reigns from within the enclosed walls of Tokyo City. Most people believe in the Friend, but hidden below the surface is a small ray of hope. Someone known as the Ice Queen is calling for the people to rise up, and she has deemed August 20 the day to take up arms... But can anyone really stop this nightmare?]]> 208 Naoki Urasawa 1421535351 Jason 5 4.31 2004 20th Century Boys, Volume 17 (20th Century Boys, #17)
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average rating: 4.31
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]]> <![CDATA[20th Century Boys, Volume 16 (20th Century Boys, #16)]]> 10258114
Next, the clock is rolled forward to the third year of the Friendship Era, a frightening time in which the virus has decimated most of the world's population, and the vaccine is available only to a lucky few. Tokyo has been quarantined behind a giant wall that is patrolled by both the Global Defense Forces and the Friend's secret police, and yet while life on the inside is made to resemble Kenji's childhood from the 1960s, the world beyond the wall is a desolate wasteland. Two young siblings come to the aid of an injured man who has managed to break through the barricade, and his name is Otcho!]]> 216 Naoki Urasawa 1421535343 Jason 5 4.34 2004 20th Century Boys, Volume 16 (20th Century Boys, #16)
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average rating: 4.34
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]]> <![CDATA[20th Century Boys, Volume 14 (20th Century Boys, #14)]]> 9077552
Meanwhile, Kanna and company take advantage of the lax security following the Friend's passing and break into Friend Land. Their objective: to reenter the Virtual World. Feeling that Kanna's too emotionally involved, though, Yoshitsune decides to enter the game with Koizume Kyoko instead—a decision that doesn't sit too well with Koizumi. With Kanna prepared to terminate the game should things go bad, Yoshitsune and Koizumi journey back to the summer of 1971, but is it the real 1971 or just another one of the Friend's fabrications?]]> 232 Naoki Urasawa 1421535327 Jason 5 4.44 2003 20th Century Boys, Volume 14 (20th Century Boys, #14)
author: Naoki Urasawa
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average rating: 4.44
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]]> <![CDATA[20th Century Boys, Volume 15 (20th Century Boys, #15)]]> 10258109
Around the globe, the mysterious and deadly virus continues to spread as the death toll mounts. However, Kanna, Otcho and Yoshitsune have another concern: despite what is being reported in the media, several people have claimed to see the Friend alive and walking the streets of Tokyo. But what does this bode for the pope's visit to Japan and the 2015 World Exposition in Tokyo?]]> 232 Naoki Urasawa 1421535335 Jason 5 4.42 2003 20th Century Boys, Volume 15 (20th Century Boys, #15)
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]]> <![CDATA[20th Century Boys, Volume 13 (20th Century Boys, #13)]]> 8965055
Also, Otcho relays to Kanna what he learned about her mother, Kiriko. In 2003, Kiriko appeared at Dr. Yamane's laboratory just as he was developing his deadliest virus yet. The two lab partners would work in tandem, with Yamane developing a new virus and Kiriko contributing a vaccine. But was Dr. Yamane simply being naive, or did he realize that he was helping to create the means for the Friends to annihilate 99 percent of the world's population in the year 2015?!]]> 232 Naoki Urasawa 1421535319 Jason 5 4.41 2003 20th Century Boys, Volume 13 (20th Century Boys, #13)
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]]> <![CDATA[20th Century Boys, Volume 12 (20th Century Boys, #12)]]> 8303549
Meanwhile, Otcho and Kakuta are busily trying to track down Kiriko's former colleague, Dr. Yamane. Unexpectedly, their search leads them to the very neighborhood that Otcho, Kenji, Maruo and the rest of their childhood pals grew up in. Can a visit to their old school shed new light on a bizarre incident that happened when they were all in the sixth grade?]]> 232 Naoki Urasawa 1421523655 Jason 5 4.43 2003 20th Century Boys, Volume 12 (20th Century Boys, #12)
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average rating: 4.43
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]]> <![CDATA[Captive of Friendly Cove: Based on the Secret Journals of John Jewitt]]> 25073848 2016 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards, Best Adaptation from Another Medium
2016 Harvey Award, Best Graphic Novel Album


Based on John Jewitt’s journals, this artful book of historical fiction recounts an amazing slice of historyĚý
Ěý
After his ship is burned and his shipmates killed, John Jewitt lived as a captive of the Mowachaht Indians for three years on the west coast of Vancouver Island. Readers can follow Jewitt’s adventures in this graphic novel as he plies his skills as a blacksmith, saves the life of his only remaining crew member, and comes up with a strategy to free them both.]]> 168 Rebecca Goldfield 1936218119 Jason 0 to-read 3.75 2015 Captive of Friendly Cove: Based on the Secret Journals of John Jewitt
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average rating: 3.75
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]]> Master Keaton, Vol. 1 21412473 321 Hokusei Katsushika 1421575892 Jason 4 3.99 2011 Master Keaton, Vol. 1
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rating: 4
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]]> Skippy Dies 7146335
Why does Skippy, a fourteen-year-old boy at Dublin's venerable Seabrook College, end up dead on the floor of the local doughnut shop?

Could it have something to do with his friend Ruprecht Van Doren, an overweight genius who is determined to open a portal into a parallel universe using ten-dimensional string theory?

Could it involve Carl, the teenage drug dealer and borderline psychotic who is Skippy’s rival in love?

Or could "the Automator", the ruthless, smooth-talking headmaster intent on modernizing the school, have something to hide?

Why Skippy dies and what happens next is the subject of this dazzling and uproarious novel, unraveling a mystery that links the boys of Seabrook College to their parents and teachers in ways nobody could have imagined. With a cast of characters that ranges from hip-hop-loving fourteen-year-old Eoin "MC Sexecutioner� Flynn to basketball-playing midget Philip Kilfether, packed with questions and answers on everything from Ritalin, to M-theory, to bungee jumping, to the hidden meaning of the poetry of Robert Frost, Skippy Dies is a heartfelt, hilarious portrait of the pain, joy, and occasional beauty of adolescence, and a tragic depiction of a world always happy to sacrifice its weakest members. As the twenty-first century enters its teenage years, this is a breathtaking novel from a young writer who will come to define his generation.]]> 661 Paul Murray 0241141826 Jason 2
]]> 3.78 2010 Skippy Dies
author: Paul Murray
name: Jason
average rating: 3.78
book published: 2010
rating: 2
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A book about a kid who got friend-zoned to death with the occasional pop-physics interstitial. It's like a male teenager's fever dream. Lots of eye rolling over here, difficult to continue with at times. Pretty prose, tho. Worth reading at least some of it just for that. Way too pretty for the story.


]]> <![CDATA[Fahrenheit 451: The Authorized Adaptation]]> 5199185 "Monday burn Millay, Wednesday Whitman, Friday Faulkner, burn 'em to ashes, then burn the ashes."

For Guy Montag, a career fireman for whom kerosene is perfume, this is not just an official slogan. It is a mantra, a duty, a way of life in a tightly monitored world where thinking is dangerous and books are forbidden.

In 1953, Ray Bradbury envisioned one of the world's most unforgettable dystopian futures, and in Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, the artist Tim Hamilton translates this frightening modern masterpiece into a gorgeously imagined graphic novel. As could only occur with Bradbury's full cooperation in this authorized adaptation, Hamilton has created a striking work of art that uniquely captures Montag's awakening to the evil of government-controlled thought and the inestimable value of philosophy, theology, and literature.

Including an original foreword by Ray Bradbury and fully depicting the brilliance and force of his canonic and beloved masterwork, Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 is an exceptional, haunting work of graphic literature.]]> 151 Tim Hamilton 080905101X Jason 4 3.93 2009 Fahrenheit 451: The Authorized Adaptation
author: Tim Hamilton
name: Jason
average rating: 3.93
book published: 2009
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[The Secret History of Wonder Woman]]> 21855259 Examines the life of Wonder Woman creator William Moulton Marston and his polyamorous relationship with wife Elizabeth Holloway and mistress Olive Byrne, both of whom inspired and influenced the comic book character's creation and development.
-Abstract from WorldCat]]> 410 Jill Lepore 0385354045 Jason 4 3.73 2014 The Secret History of Wonder Woman
author: Jill Lepore
name: Jason
average rating: 3.73
book published: 2014
rating: 4
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]]> Fables, Vol. 20: Camelot 18275594
Collecting: Fables 130-140]]> 256 Bill Willingham 1401245161 Jason 0 currently-reading 3.96 2014 Fables, Vol. 20: Camelot
author: Bill Willingham
name: Jason
average rating: 3.96
book published: 2014
rating: 0
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date added: 2014/11/16
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]]> <![CDATA[Above the Dreamless Dead: World War I in Poetry and Comics]]> 20696439
The marriage of poetry and comics is a deeply fruitful combination, as evidenced by this collection. In stark black and white, the words of the Trench Poets find dramatic expression and reinterpretation through the minds and pens of some of the greatest cartoonists working today.

With New York Times bestselling editor Chris Duffy (Nursery Rhyme Comics, Fairy Tale Comics) at the helm, Above the Dreamless Dead is a moving and illuminating tribute to those who fought and died in World War I. Twenty poems are interpreted in comics form by twenty of today's leading cartoonists, including Eddie Campbell, Kevin Huizenga, George Pratt, and many others.Ěý]]> 144 Chris Duffy 1626720657 Jason 0 currently-reading 3.95 2014 Above the Dreamless Dead: World War I in Poetry and Comics
author: Chris Duffy
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average rating: 3.95
book published: 2014
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]]> The Denial of Death 2761 The Denial of Death is Ernest Becker's brilliant and impassioned answer to the "why" of human existence. In bold contrast to the predominant Freudian school of thought, Becker tackles the problem of the vital lie -- man's refusal to acknowledge his own mortality. In doing so, he sheds new light on the nature of humanity and issues a call to life and its living that still resonates more than twenty years after its writing.]]> 336 Ernest Becker Jason 0 currently-reading 4.07 1973 The Denial of Death
author: Ernest Becker
name: Jason
average rating: 4.07
book published: 1973
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]]> <![CDATA[Favorite Wife: Escape from Polygamy]]> 6138530 Favorite Wife is a powerful account of the affairs of the heart, coming of age under exceptional circumstances, and the tough choices that are sometimes painfully necessary to preserve human dignity.]]> 424 Susan Ray Schmidt 1599214946 Jason 0 to-read 3.76 2009 Favorite Wife: Escape from Polygamy
author: Susan Ray Schmidt
name: Jason
average rating: 3.76
book published: 2009
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Cursed Pirate Girl The Collected Edition]]> 10087900 120 Jeremy A. Bastian 1450743706 Jason 5 3.97 2008 Cursed Pirate Girl The Collected Edition
author: Jeremy A. Bastian
name: Jason
average rating: 3.97
book published: 2008
rating: 5
read at: 2014/11/05
date added: 2014/11/05
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This book is just completely great in every conceivable way. From the design to the illustrations to the story to just the feel of the paper. Wonderful. Must own for any comics library, instant placement on the eye-level shelf.
]]> <![CDATA[An Empire on the Edge: How Britain Came to Fight America]]> 20165935
In this powerful but fair-minded narrative, British author Nick Bunker tells the story of the last three years ofĚýmutual embitterment that precededĚýthe outbreak of America’s war for independenceĚýin 1775. It was a tragedy of errors, in which both sides shared responsibility for a conflict that cost the lives of at least twenty thousand Britons and a still larger number of Americans. The British and the colonists failed to see how swiftly they were drifting toward violence until the process had gone beyond the point of no return.

At the heart of the book lies the Boston Tea Party, an event that arose from fundamental flaws in the way the British managed their affairs. By the early 1770s, Great Britain had become a nation addicted to financial speculation, led by a political elite beset by internal rivalry and increasingly baffled by a changing world. When the East India Company came close to collapse, it patched together a rescue plan whose disastrous side effect was the destruction of the tea.

WithĚýlawyers in London calling the Tea Party treason, and with hawks in Parliament crying out for revenge, the British opted for punitive reprisals without foreseeing the resistance they would arouse. For their part, Americans underestimated Britain’s determination not to give way. By the late summer of 1774, when the rebels in New England began to arm themselves, the descent into war had become irreversible.

Drawing on careful study of primary sources from Britain and the United States,ĚýAn Empire on the EdgeĚýsheds new light on the Tea Party’s origins and on the roles of such familiar characters as Benjamin Franklin, John Hancock, and Thomas Hutchinson. The book shows how the king’s chief minister, Lord North, found himself driven down the road to bloodshed. At his side was Lord Dartmouth, the colonial secretary, an evangelical Christian renowned for his benevolence. In a story filled with painful ironies, perhaps the saddest was this: that Dartmouth, a man who loved peace, had to write the dispatch that sent the British army out to fight.]]> 448 Nick Bunker 030759484X Jason 0 to-read 4.15 2014 An Empire on the Edge: How Britain Came to Fight America
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average rating: 4.15
book published: 2014
rating: 0
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]]> Ayako 7631912 704 Osamu Tezuka 1934287512 Jason 4 3.90 2010 Ayako
author: Osamu Tezuka
name: Jason
average rating: 3.90
book published: 2010
rating: 4
read at: 2014/09/18
date added: 2014/09/18
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