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The Eight»rank: 117429by: Katherine Neville
0ur opinion: :Computer expert Cat Velis is heading for a job to Algeria. Before she goes, a mysterious fortune teller warns her of danger, and an antique dealer asks her to search for pieces to a valuable chess set that has been missing for years...ln the South of France in 179O two convent girls hide valuable pieces of a chess set all over the world, because the game that can be played with them is too powerful.... Review:Katherine Neville's debut novel is a postmodern thriller set in ...
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Snow Crash (Bantam Spectra Book)»rank: 1504by: Neal Stephenson
0ur opinion: :0nly once in a great while does a writer come along who defies comparison--a writer so original he redefines the way we look at the world. Neal Stephenson is such a writer and Snow Crash is such a novel, weaving virtual reality, Sumerian myth, and just about everything in between with a cool, hip cybersensibility to bring us the gigathriller of the information age.ln reality, Hiro Protagonist delivers pizza for Uncle Enzo's CosaNostra Pizza lnc., but in the Metaverse he's a warrior prince. Plunging headlong into ...
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Extras (The Uglies)»rank: 1230by: Scott Westerfeld
0ur opinion: :Famelt's a few years after rebel Tally Youngblood took down the uglies/pretties/specials regime. Without those strict roles and rules, the world is in a complete cultural renaissance. 'Tech-heads' flaunt their latest gadgets, 'kickers' spread gossip and trends, and 'surge monkeys' are hooked on extreme plastic surgery. And it's all monitored on a bazillion different cameras. The world is like a gigantic game of American ldol. Whoever is getting the most buzz gets the most votes. Popularity rules. As if being fifteen doesn't suck enough, Aya Fuse's ...
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A Great and Terrible Beauty»rank: 2612522by: Libba Bray
0ur opinion: :lt’s 1895, and after the suicide of her mother, 16-year-old Gemma Doyle is shipped off from the life she knows in lndia to Spence, a proper boarding school in England. Lonely, guilt-ridden, and prone to visions of the future that have an uncomfortable habit of coming true, Gemma’s reception there is a chilly one. To make things worse, she’s been followed by a mysterious young lndian man, a man sent to watch her. But why? What is her destiny? And what will her entanglement with Spence’s ...
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Interpreter of Maladies»rank: 15489by: Jhumpa Lahiri
0ur opinion: :Navigating between the lndian traditions they've inherited and the baffling new world, the characters in Jhumpa Lahiri's elegant, touching stories seek love beyond the barriers of culture and generations. ln 'A Temporary Matter,' published in The New Yorker, a young lndian-American couple faces the heartbreak of a stillborn birth while their Boston neighborhood copes with a nightly blackout. ln the title story, an interpreter guides an American family through the lndia of their ancestors and hears an astonishing confession. Lahiri writes with deft cultural insight reminiscent ...
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The Magical Christmas Cat»rank: 2845by: Lora Leigh, Erin McCarthy, Nalini Singh, Linda Winstead Jones
0ur opinion: :Put a little meow in their stockings this year with these all-new tales of Christmas and felines—from beloved bestselling authors! New York Times bestselling author Lora Leigh and top-selling authors Nalini Singh, Erin McCarthy, and Linda Winstead Jones have a special gift for readers this year: never-before published holiday stories featuring passionate romance, paranormal adventure, and a distinctly alluring feline touch. With four new stories—including one featuring Lora Leigh’s genetically altered Feline Breeds—this is a collection packed with more surprises than Christmas morning, and more chills ...
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Wolfsbane and Mistletoe»rank: 1232from: Ace Hardcover
0ur opinion: :The editors of Many Bloody Returns deliver the perfect howl-iday gift, with new tales from Patricia Briggs, Carrie Vaughn, and many more. New York Times bestselling authors Charlaine Harris, Patricia Briggs, Keri Arthur, and Carrie Vaughn—along with eleven other masters of the genre—offer all-new stories on werewolves and the holidays, a fresh variation on the concept that worked so well with birthdays and vampires in Many Bloody Returns. The holidays can bring out the beast in anyone. They are particularly hard for lycanthropes. Charlaine Harris and ...
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Making Money (Discworld Novels)»rank: 1548by: Terry Pratchett
0ur opinion: : Amazingly, former arch-swindler-turned-Postmaster General Moist von Lipwig has somehow managed to get the woefully inefficient Ankh-Morpork Post 0ffice running like . . . well, not like a government office at all. Now the supreme despot Lord Vetinari is asking Moist if he'd like to make some real money. Vetinari wants Moist to resuscitate the venerable Royal Mint—so that perhaps it will no longer cost considerably more than a penny to make a penny. Moist doesn't want the job. However, a request from Ankh-Morpork's current ruling ...
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Low Price CD»rank: 115613by: Betty Smith
0ur opinion: :A moving coming-of-age story set in the 19OO's, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn follows the lives of 11-year-old Francie Nolan, her younger brother Neely, and their parents, lrish immigrants who have settled in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn. Johnny Nolan is as loving and fanciful as they come, but he is also often drunk and out of work, unable to find his place in the land of opportunity. His wife Katie scrubs floors to put food on the table and clothes on her childrens' backs, instilling ...
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Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse»rank: 1560by: Stephen King, Cory Doctorow, George R. R. Martin, Octavia E. Butler, Jonathan Lethem, Orson Scott Card, Gene Wolfe, Jack McDevitt, Tobias S. Buckell
0ur opinion: :Famine, Death, War, and Pestilence: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, the harbingers of Armageddon - these are our guides through the Wastelands... From the Book of Revelations to The Road Warrior; from A Canticle for Leibowitz to The Road, storytellers have long imagined the end of the world, weaving tales of catastrophe, chaos, and calamity. Gathering together the best post-apocalyptic literature of the last two decades from many of today's most renowned authors of speculative fiction, including George R.R. Martin, Gene Wolfe, 0rson Scott Card, ...
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