R.G.'s bookshelf: all en-US Wed, 20 Jul 2016 09:02:44 -0700 60 R.G.'s bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg Invisible Ink 11221472
Acclaimed by successful screenwriters and authors, Invisible Ink is a helpful, accessible guide to the essential elements of the best storytelling. Brian McDonald, an award winning screenwriter who has taught his craft at several major studios, supplies writers with tools to make their work more effective and provides readers and audiences a deeper understanding of the storyteller's art.

When people think of a screenplay, they usually think about dialogue—the "visible
ink" that is readily accessible to the listener, reader, or viewer. But a successful
screenplay needs Invisible Ink as well, the craft below the surface of words.
Invisible Ink lays out the essential elements of screenplay structure, using vivid
examples from famous moments in popular movies as well as from one of his own
popular scripts. You will learn techniques for building a compelling story around a
theme, making your writing engage audiences, creating appealing characters, and
much more.]]>
153 Brian McDonald R.G. 4 4.59 2010 Invisible Ink
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average rating: 4.59
book published: 2010
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Saints & Strangers 26705786
When a young woman is hanged at Plimoth Plantation just weeks before the Thanksgiving holiday, budding private investigator Sam Warren is determined to prove herself by solving the mystery.

But as the bodies pile up and Sam and her hunky friend Milo look for answers, they're drawn into a puzzle with pieces that date back nearly 400 years - and down a path which may lead straight back to Sam.

With an irresistibly attractive man, a Bombay kitty, a nosy neighbor and a cranky cop on her team, Sam sets out to stop the killings before the turkey is done.]]>
342 Richelle Elberg 1517088062 R.G. 5 4.60 2015 Saints & Strangers
author: Richelle Elberg
name: R.G.
average rating: 4.60
book published: 2015
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A fun contemporary crime mystery (and the start of a new series) with an instantly appealing protagonist and a little American history thrown in (The Pilgrim Fathers). Cute and conventional, but realistic (not a cozy) so a tiny bit of swearing here and there.
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<![CDATA[Newton's Cannon (Age of Unreason, #1)]]> 344754
1681: When Sir Isaac Newton turns his restless mind to the ancient art of alchemy, he unleashes Philosopher's Mercury, a primal source of matter and a key to manipulating the four elements of Earth, Air, Fire, and Water. Now, as France and England battle for its control, Louis XIV calls for a new weapon--a mysterious device known only as Newton's Cannon.

Half a world away, a young apprentice named Benjamin Franklin stumbles across a dangerous secret. Pursued by a deadly enemy--half scientist, half sorcerer--Ben makes his fugitive way to England. Only Newton himself can help him now. But who will help Sir Isaac? For he was not the first to unleash the Philosopher's Mercury. Others were there before him. Creatures as scornful of science as they are of mankind. And burning to be rid of both . . .]]>
384 Greg Keyes 0345433785 R.G. 4 3.74 1998 Newton's Cannon (Age of Unreason, #1)
author: Greg Keyes
name: R.G.
average rating: 3.74
book published: 1998
rating: 4
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<![CDATA[War of the Twins (Dragonlance: Legends, #2)]]> 93768
But for some, those one hundred years have passed in the blink of an eye.

Catapulted forward in time by Raistlin's powerful magic, Caramon and Crysania find themselves aiding the mage's unholy quest to master the Queen of Darkness. To his dismay, Raistlin discovers along the way that the annals of time are not so easily bent to his will.

Neither are the longings of his heart.]]>
411 Margaret Weis 0786932171 R.G. 4 4.16 1986 War of the Twins (Dragonlance: Legends, #2)
author: Margaret Weis
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average rating: 4.16
book published: 1986
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<![CDATA[Test of the Twins (Dragonlance: Legends, #3)]]> 260025
At the same time, Caramon and Tasslehoff are transported to the future. There they come to understand the consequences of Raistlin's quest-and Caramon at last realizes the painful sacrifice he must make to prevent his brother's success. Old friends and strange allies come together to aid him, but Caramon must take the last, greatest step alone.



The step into the Abyss.]]>
320 Margaret Weis 0786933887 R.G. 4 4.21 1986 Test of the Twins (Dragonlance: Legends, #3)
author: Margaret Weis
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average rating: 4.21
book published: 1986
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<![CDATA[Time of the Twins (Dragonlance: Legends, #1)]]> 29187 New York Times–bestselling series: The War of the Lance has ended, and the darkness has passed. Or has it?

Sequestered in the blackness of the dreaded Tower of High Sorcery in Palanthas, and surrounded by nameless creatures of evil, archmage Raistlin Majere weaves a plan to conquer the darkness—to bring it under his control.

Two people alone can stop him. One is Crysania, a beautiful and devoted cleric of Paladine, who tries to use her faith to lead Raistlin from the darkness. She is blind to his shadowed designs, and he draws her slowly into his neatly woven trap.

The other is Raistlin’s twin, Caramon. Made aware of his brother’s plan, a distraught Caramon travels back in time to the doomed city of Istar in the days before the Cataclysm. There, together with the ever-present kender Tasslehoff, Caramon will make his stand to save Raistlin’s soul.

Or so he believes.

The first title in the second Dragonlance novel trilogy is now being released for the first time ever in a trade hardcover edition. Featuring the stunning art and design that graced the cover of the paperback edition, this new version is a follow-up to the release of the Dragonlance novels Chronicles trilogy in hardcover in 2003. It also continues the planned release of all of the core Weis & Hickman titles in trade hardcover, allowing fans and collectors alike the chance to obtain the entire set in hardcover.
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389 Margaret Weis 0786931582 R.G. 4 4.18 1986 Time of the Twins (Dragonlance: Legends, #1)
author: Margaret Weis
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average rating: 4.18
book published: 1986
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<![CDATA[Dragons of Winter Night (Dragonlance: Chronicles, #2)]]> 23454
Meanwhile, the heroic Companions have been torn apart by war. A full season will pass before they meet again—if they meet again. Raistlin has made an ominous prediction, one that implies not all of the Companions will survive the fight. His warning, along with sinister dreams, haunt the friends as they search for the weapons that will stop the Dark Queen in her tracks: the mysterious Dragon Orbs and legendary Dragonlance.

Another riveting tale in the Dragonlance Chronicles, Dragons of Winter Night is an action-packed adventure in which the true value of love and friendship is measured against the backdrop of a catastrophic war between good and evil.


They won their first real battle in the war for Krynn, but the war has only just begun for the Companions! Friendships born in conflict will be torn apart. Hope will rest on the shoulders of a disgraced Knight and his two inexperienced companions. Worlds long divided by hatred and prejudice will either band together in a last struggle against darkness - or perish for all time.]]>
358 Margaret Weis 1932796789 R.G. 4 4.15 1985 Dragons of Winter Night (Dragonlance: Chronicles, #2)
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<![CDATA[Dragons of Spring Dawning (Dragonlance: Chronicles, #3)]]> 68378
The war against the dragon minions of Queen Takhisis rages on. Armed with the mysterious, magical Dragon Orbs and the shining, silver Dragonlance, the Companions of the Lance lead their people in a desperate final battle. Knight and barbarian, warrior and mage, dwarf and kender—no one has reckoned how high the price of defeat, or even victory, might be.

But now, in the dawn of a new day, the dark secrets that have long shadowed the hearts of the Companions come to light. If they are to truly defeat the five-headed dragon goddess, they must find a way to overcome their own personal conflicts and doubts. From betrayal and treachery to fragility and weakness, the greatest battle now lies within each of them.

Finally armed with dragonlances, a group of heroes, composed of a knight, barbarian, dwarf, and half-elf, faces a deadly showdown with the evil dragons and Takhisis, the Queen of Darkness.]]>
352 Margaret Weis 0786930705 R.G. 4 4.14 1985 Dragons of Spring Dawning (Dragonlance: Chronicles, #3)
author: Margaret Weis
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average rating: 4.14
book published: 1985
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<![CDATA[Dragons of Autumn Twilight (Dragonlance: Chronicles, #1)]]> 259836 This Dungeons & Dragons-inspired fantasy adventure is the first installment in the beloved Dragonlance Chronicles, set in the magical world of Krynn.

Once merely creatures of legend, the dragons have returned to Krynn. But with their arrival comes the departure of the old gods—and all healing magic. As war threatens to engulf the land, lifelong friends reunite for an adventure that will change their lives and shape their world forever . . .

When Tanis, Sturm, Caramon, Raistlin, Flint, and Tasslehoff see a woman use a blue crystal staff to heal a villager, they wonder if it's a sign the gods have not abandoned them after all. Fueled by this glimmer of hope, the Companions band together to uncover the truth behind the gods' absence—though they aren't the only ones with an interest in the staff. The Seekers, a new religious order, wants the artifact for their own ends, believing it will help them replace the gods and overtake the continent of Ansalon. Now, the Companions must assume the unlikely roles of heroes if they hope to prevent the staff from falling into the hands of darkness.

Lifelong friends, they went their separate ways. Now they are together again, though each holds secrets from the others in his heart. They speak of a world shadowed with rumors of war. They speak of tales of strange monsters, creatures of myth, creatures of legend. They do not speak of their secrets. Not then. Not until a chance encounter with a beautiful, sorrowful woman, who bears a magical crystal staff, draws the companions deeper into the shadows, forever changing their lives and shaping the fate of the world.

No one expected them to be heroes.

Least of all, them.]]>
444 Margaret Weis 0786915749 R.G. 4 4.01 1984 Dragons of Autumn Twilight  (Dragonlance: Chronicles, #1)
author: Margaret Weis
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average rating: 4.01
book published: 1984
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<![CDATA[The Dark Tower (The Dark Tower, #7)]]> 5091 The Dark Tower saga is perhaps the most anticipated book in the author's long career. King began this epic tale about the last gunslinger in the world more than 20 years ago; now he draws its suspenseful story to a close, snapping together the last pieces of his action puzzle and drawing Roland Deschain ever closer to his ultimate goal.

Alternate cover edition for ISBN-10: 1416524525; ISBN-13: 9781416524526]]>
1050 Stephen King R.G. 5 4.27 2004 The Dark Tower (The Dark Tower, #7)
author: Stephen King
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average rating: 4.27
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<![CDATA[Wolves of the Calla (The Dark Tower, #5)]]> 4978 960 Stephen King 141651693X R.G. 4 4.19 2003 Wolves of the Calla (The Dark Tower, #5)
author: Stephen King
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average rating: 4.19
book published: 2003
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<![CDATA[The Waste Lands (The Dark Tower, #3)]]> 34084 422 Stephen King 0670032565 R.G. 4 4.25 1991 The Waste Lands (The Dark Tower, #3)
author: Stephen King
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average rating: 4.25
book published: 1991
rating: 4
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<![CDATA[Song of Susannah (The Dark Tower, #6)]]> 5093 544 Stephen King 1416521496 R.G. 4 3.98 2004 Song of Susannah (The Dark Tower, #6)
author: Stephen King
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average rating: 3.98
book published: 2004
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<![CDATA[The Drawing of the Three (The Dark Tower, #2)]]> 5094
Here he links forces with the defiant young Eddie Dean and the beautiful, brilliant, and brave Odetta Holmes, in a savage struggle against underworld evil and otherworldly enemies.

Once again, Stephen King has masterfully interwoven dark, evocative fantasy and icy realism.]]>
463 Stephen King 0451210859 R.G. 5 4.23 1987 The Drawing of the Three (The Dark Tower, #2)
author: Stephen King
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average rating: 4.23
book published: 1987
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<![CDATA[The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, #1)]]> 43615
He is a haunting figure, a loner on a spellbinding journey into good and evil. In his desolate world, which frighteningly mirrors our own, Roland pursues The Man in Black, encounters an alluring woman named Alice, and begins a friendship with the Kid from Earth called Jake. Both grippingly realistic and eerily dreamlike, The Gunslinger leaves readers eagerly awaiting the next chapter.]]>
231 Stephen King 1501143514 R.G. 3 3.95 1982 The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, #1)
author: Stephen King
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average rating: 3.95
book published: 1982
rating: 3
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<![CDATA[Sure of You (Tales of the City, #6)]]> 16259 Sure of You is a triumphant finale to one of the most addictively entertaining series of novels ever written.]]> 284 Armistead Maupin 0552998818 R.G. 4 4.06 1989 Sure of You (Tales of the City, #6)
author: Armistead Maupin
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average rating: 4.06
book published: 1989
rating: 4
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<![CDATA[Babycakes (Tales of the City, #4)]]> 16265 Tales of the City books with love and laughter are at it again, as an ordinary house-husband and his ambitious wife discover there's more to making a baby than meets the eye. Unexpected help arrives in the form of a British monarch, a grieving gay neighbour, and an international ring of mail-order brides. Armistead Maupin has written a comedy of manners for our times.]]> 320 Armistead Maupin 0552998796 R.G. 4 4.08 1984 Babycakes (Tales of the City, #4)
author: Armistead Maupin
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average rating: 4.08
book published: 1984
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<![CDATA[Further Tales of the City (Tales of the City, #3)]]> 16257 Tales of the City and More Tales of the City.

DeDe Halcyon Day and Mary Ann Singleton track down a charismatic psychopath, Michael Tolliver looks for love, landlady Anna Madrigal imprisons an anchorwoman in her basement storeroom, and Armistead Maupin is in firm control.]]>
271 Armistead Maupin 0552998788 R.G. 4 4.15 1982 Further Tales of the City (Tales of the City, #3)
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average rating: 4.15
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<![CDATA[More Tales of the City (Tales of the City, #2)]]> 16256 Tales of the City rolls recklessly along as Michael Tolliver pursues his favourite gynaecologist, Mona Ramsey uncovers her roots in a desert whorehouse, and Mary Ann Singleton finds love at sea with the amnesiac of her dreams.]]> 288 Armistead Maupin 055299877X R.G. 4 4.22 1980 More Tales of the City (Tales of the City, #2)
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average rating: 4.22
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<![CDATA[Tales of the City (Tales of the City #1)]]> 16255 371 Armistead Maupin 0552998761 R.G. 4 4.02 1978 Tales of the City (Tales of the City #1)
author: Armistead Maupin
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average rating: 4.02
book published: 1978
rating: 4
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<![CDATA[The Talisman (The Talisman, #1)]]> 59219
You are about to take a journey... a terrifying trip across America where young Jack Sawyer is searching for the Talisman, the only thing that can save his dying mother. His quest takes him into the menacing Territories where violence, surprise and the titanic struggle between good and evil reach across a mythic landscape... a journey into the dark heart of horror.]]>
656 Stephen King 0375507779 R.G. 5 4.13 1984 The Talisman (The Talisman, #1)
author: Stephen King
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average rating: 4.13
book published: 1984
rating: 5
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<![CDATA[Bring Up the Bodies (Thomas Cromwell, #2)]]> 13507212 9780805090031)

Though he battled for years to marry her, Henry VIII has become disenchanted with the audacious Anne Boleyn. She has failed to give him a son, and her sharp intelligence and strong will have alienated his old friends and the noble families of England.

When the discarded Katherine, Henry's first wife, dies in exile from the court, Anne stands starkly exposed, the focus of gossip and malice, setting in motion a dramatic trial of the queen and her suitors for adultery and treason.

At a word from Henry, Thomas Cromwell is ready to bring her down. Over a few terrifying weeks, Anne is ensnared in a web of conspiracy, while the demure Jane Seymour stands waiting her turn for the poisoned wedding ring. But Anne and her powerful family will not yield without a ferocious struggle. To defeat the Boleyns, Cromwell must ally himself with his enemies. What price will he pay for Annie's head?]]>
412 Hilary Mantel R.G. 4 4.26 2012 Bring Up the Bodies (Thomas Cromwell, #2)
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average rating: 4.26
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And the Ass Saw the Angel 68682 320 Nick Cave 1880985721 R.G. 4 3.87 1989 And the Ass Saw the Angel
author: Nick Cave
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average rating: 3.87
book published: 1989
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The Catcher in the Rye 5107 It's Christmas time and Holden Caulfield has just been expelled from yet another school...

Fleeing the crooks at Pencey Prep, he pinballs around New York City seeking solace in fleeting encounters—shooting the bull with strangers in dive hotels, wandering alone round Central Park, getting beaten up by pimps and cut down by erstwhile girlfriends. The city is beautiful and terrible, in all its neon loneliness and seedy glamour, its mingled sense of possibility and emptiness. Holden passes through it like a ghost, thinking always of his kid sister Phoebe, the only person who really understands him, and his determination to escape the phonies and find a life of true meaning.

The Catcher in the Rye is an all-time classic in coming-of-age literature- an elegy to teenage alienation, capturing the deeply human need for connection and the bewildering sense of loss as we leave childhood behind.

J.D. Salinger's (1919�2010) classic novel of teenage angst and rebellion was first published in 1951. The novel was included on Time's 2005 list of the 100 best English-language novels written since 1923. It was named by Modern Library and its readers as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. It has been frequently challenged in the court for its liberal use of profanity and portrayal of sexuality and in the 1950's and 60's it was the novel that every teenage boy wants to read.]]>
277 J.D. Salinger 0316769177 R.G. 5 3.81 1951 The Catcher in the Rye
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average rating: 3.81
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Of Mice and Men 890 “I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that's why.�

They are an unlikely pair: George is "small and quick and dark of face"; Lennie, a man of tremendous size, has the mind of a young child. Yet they have formed a "family," clinging together in the face of loneliness and alienation. Laborers in California's dusty vegetable fields, they hustle work when they can, living a hand-to-mouth existence. But George and Lennie have a plan: to own an acre of land and a shack they can call their own.

While the powerlessness of the laboring class is a recurring theme in Steinbeck's work of the late 1930s, he narrowed his focus when composing Of Mice and Men, creating an intimate portrait of two men facing a world marked by petty tyranny, misunderstanding, jealousy, and callousness. But though the scope is narrow, the theme is universal: a friendship and a shared dream that makes an individual's existence meaningful.

A unique perspective on life's hardships, this story has achieved the status of timeless classic due to its remarkable success as a novel, a Broadway play, and three acclaimed films.]]>
107 John Steinbeck 0142000671 R.G. 5 3.88 1937 Of Mice and Men
author: John Steinbeck
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average rating: 3.88
book published: 1937
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Giovanni’s Room 38462 here.

Baldwin's haunting and controversial second novel is his most sustained treatment of sexuality, and a classic of gay literature. In a 1950s Paris swarming with expatriates and characterized by dangerous liaisons and hidden violence, an American finds himself unable to repress his impulses, despite his determination to live the conventional life he envisions for himself. After meeting and proposing to a young woman, he falls into a lengthy affair with an Italian bartender and is confounded and tortured by his sexual identity as he oscillates between the two.

Examining the mystery of love and passion in an intensely imagined narrative, Baldwin creates a moving and complex story of death and desire that is revelatory in its insight.]]>
159 James Baldwin R.G. 5 4.31 1956 Giovanni’s Room
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average rating: 4.31
book published: 1956
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Way Station 190999
More than a hundred years before, an alien named Ulysses had recruited Enoch as the keeper of Earth's only galactic transfer station. Now, as Enoch studies the progress of Earth and tends the tanks where the aliens appear, the charts he made indicate his world is doomed to destruction. His alien friends can only offer help that seems worse than the dreaded disaster. Then he discovers the horror that lies across the galaxy...]]>
210 Clifford D. Simak 0020248717 R.G. 4 4.02 1963 Way Station
author: Clifford D. Simak
name: R.G.
average rating: 4.02
book published: 1963
rating: 4
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Gateway (Heechee Saga, #1) 218427
When prospector Robinette Broadhead went out to Gateway on the Heechee spacecraft, he decided he would know which was the right mission to make him his fortune. Three missions later, now famous and permanently rich, Rob Broadhead has to face what happened to him and what he has become... in a journey into himself as perilous and even more horrifying than the nightmare trip through the interstellar void that he drove himself to take!]]>
278 Frederik Pohl 0345475836 R.G. 4 4.07 1977 Gateway (Heechee Saga, #1)
author: Frederik Pohl
name: R.G.
average rating: 4.07
book published: 1977
rating: 4
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<![CDATA[Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)]]> 112537 243 Arthur C. Clarke 1857231589 R.G. 4 4.12 1973 Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)
author: Arthur C. Clarke
name: R.G.
average rating: 4.12
book published: 1973
rating: 4
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Slan (Slan, #1) 643792 Astounding. Editor John W. Campbell, Jr., discovered and promoted great new writers such as A.E. van Vogt, whose novel Slan was one of the works of the era.

Slan is the story of Jommy Cross, the orphan mutant outcast from a future society prejudiced against mutants, or slans. Throughout the forties and into the fifties, Slan was considered the single most important SF novel, the one great book that everyone had to read. Today it remains a monument to pulp SF adventure, filled with constant action and a cornucopia of ideas.

This edition has a new introduction by Kevin J. Anderson.]]>
272 A.E. van Vogt 0312852363 R.G. 5 3.71 1940 Slan (Slan, #1)
author: A.E. van Vogt
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average rating: 3.71
book published: 1940
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Tigana 104089
Tigana is the magical story of a beleaguered land struggling to be free. It is the tale of a people so cursed by the black sorcery of a cruel despotic king that even the name of their once-beautiful homeland cannot be spoken or remembered...

But years after the devastation, a handful of courageous men and women embark upon a dangerous crusade to overthrow their conquerors and bring back to the dark world the brilliance of a long-lost name...Tigana.

Against the magnificently rendered background of a world both sensuous and barbaric, this sweeping epic of a passionate people pursuing their dream is breathtaking in its vision, changing forever the boundaries of fantasy fiction.]]>
676 Guy Gavriel Kay 0451457765 R.G. 4 4.07 1990 Tigana
author: Guy Gavriel Kay
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average rating: 4.07
book published: 1990
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<![CDATA[The Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials, #3)]]> 18122
But how can he go looking for Lord Asriel when Lyra is gone? Only with her help can he fathom the myriad plots and intrigues that beset him.

The two great powers of the many worlds are lining up for war, and Will must find Lyra, for together they are on their way to battle, an inevitable journey that will even take them to the world of the dead...]]>
465 Philip Pullman 0440238153 R.G. 4 4.11 2000 The Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials, #3)
author: Philip Pullman
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average rating: 4.11
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<![CDATA[The Subtle Knife (His Dark Materials, #2)]]> 119324
Each is searching—Lyra for the meaning of Dark Matter, Will for his missing father—but what they find instead is a deadly secret, a knife of untold power. And neither Lyra nor Will suspects how tightly their lives, their loves, and their destinies are bound together... until they are split apart.]]>
326 Philip Pullman 0679879250 R.G. 4 4.12 1997 The Subtle Knife (His Dark Materials, #2)
author: Philip Pullman
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average rating: 4.12
book published: 1997
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<![CDATA[The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, #1)]]> 119322
Can one small girl make a difference in such great and terrible endeavors? This is Lyra: a savage, a schemer, a liar, and as fierce and true a champion as Roger or Asriel could want--but what Lyra doesn't know is that to help one of them will be to betray the other.]]>
399 Philip Pullman 0679879242 R.G. 4 4.02 1995 The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, #1)
author: Philip Pullman
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average rating: 4.02
book published: 1995
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SantaLand Diaries 178357 138 David Sedaris 0349119759 R.G. 4 4.33 1998 SantaLand Diaries
author: David Sedaris
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average rating: 4.33
book published: 1998
rating: 4
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Naked 4138 Naked, Sedaris turns the mania for memoir on its proverbial ear, mining the exceedingly rich terrain of his life, his family, and his unique worldview—a sensibility at once take-no-prisoners sharp and deeply charitable. A tart-tongued mother does dead-on imitations of her young son's nervous tics, to the great amusement of his teachers; a stint of Kerouackian wandering is undertaken (of course!) with a quadriplegic companion; a family gathers for a wedding in the face of imminent death. Through it all is Sedaris's unmistakable voice, without doubt one of the freshest in American writing.]]> 304 David Sedaris R.G. 4 4.10 1997 Naked
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Me Talk Pretty One Day 4137 272 David Sedaris 0349113912 R.G. 4 4.01 2000 Me Talk Pretty One Day
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<![CDATA[The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)]]> 11
Together this dynamic pair begin a journey through space aided by quotes from The Hitchhiker's Guide ("A towel is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have") and a galaxy-full of fellow travelers: Zaphod Beeblebrox--the two-headed, three-armed ex-hippie and totally out-to-lunch president of the galaxy; Trillian, Zaphod's girlfriend (formally Tricia McMillan), whom Arthur tried to pick up at a cocktail party once upon a time zone; Marvin, a paranoid, brilliant, and chronically depressed robot; Veet Voojagig, a former graduate student who is obsessed with the disappearance of all the ballpoint pens he bought over the years.

Where are these pens? Why are we born? Why do we die? Why do we spend so much time between wearing digital watches? For all the answers stick your thumb to the stars. And don't forget to bring a towel!]]>
216 Douglas Adams R.G. 4 4.21 1979 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
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