Sleepless Nights in the Procrustean Bed (I.O. Evans Studies in the Philosophy & Criticism of Literature 5)
By: Harlan Ellison
4.23
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
A series of essays including: Stealing Tomorrow, Down the Rabbit-Hole to TV-Land, Rolling Dat Ole D…
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1. Preacher, Volume 1: Gone to Texas
By: Garth Ennis , Steve Dillon , Joe R. Lansdale
4.18
Format: 336 pages, Comics
Alternate Cover Edition One of the most celebrated comics titles of the late 1990s, PREACHER is… read more
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"I thought you an' I'd already settled the roles in the fucker/fuckee relationship! I guess I thought wrong!"-Garth Ennis, Preacher, Volume 1: Gone to Texas
" Criminal: You can suck my dick, motherfucker! Detective Bridges: You suck mine! [shoves barrel of pistol in the Criminal's mouth] An' you get used to it, cause you get to Rykers you're gonna find a …"-Garth Ennis, Preacher, Volume 1: Gone to Texas
2. Ceremony (Spenser, #9)
By: Robert B. Parker
5.00
Format: 160 pages,
Pretty teenager April Kyle is in grown-up-trouble, involved with people who'd beat her up for a dol… read more
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3. The Widening Gyre (Spenser, #10)
By: Robert B. Parker
5.00
Format: 160 pages,
The adoring wife of Senate candidate Meade Alexander has a smile as sweet as candy and dotted her i… read more
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4. The Mismeasure of Man
By: Stephen Jay Gould
5.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
The definitive refutation to the argument of The Bell Curve. How smart are you? If that question do… read more
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5. The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick 3: Second Variety
By: John Brunner , Philip K. Dick
3.73
Format: 251 pages, Paperback
Many thousands of readers consider Philip K. Dick the greatest science fiction mind on any planet. … read more
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6. Batman/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Vol. 1
By: James Tynion IV
3.89
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
DC Comics and IDW team up for the crossover event of the decade! Two of the most iconic entertainme… read more
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7. A Catskill Eagle (Spenser, #12)
By: Robin Waterfield , Robert B. Parker
3.89
Format: None pages, Paperback
Spenser's girlfriend Susan goes away with another man, Jerry Costigan, the son of a very rich and d… read more
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8. Valediction (Spenser, #11)
By: Robert B. Parker
3.20
Format: None pages, Paperback
The most dangerous man to cross is one who isn't afraid to die. But the most deadly is one who does… read more
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9. The Drowned World
By: Martin Amis , J.G. Ballard
4.50
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
First published in 1962, J.G. Ballard's mesmerizing and ferociously prescient novel imagines a terr… read more
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10. The Hemingway Hoax
By: Joe Haldeman
3.69
Format: 121 pages, Paperback
In 1992 the young Hemingway, still promise in the world of letters, suffers the loss of a suitcase … read more
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11. The Consolations of Philosophy
By: Alain de Botton
3.64
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Alain de Botton's The Consolations of Philosophytakes the discipline of logic and the mind back to … read more
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12. A Savage Place (Spenser, #8)
By: Robert B. Parker
4.18
Format: 411 pages, Paperback
TV reporter Candy Sloan has eyes the color of cornflowers and legs that stretch all the way to heav… read more
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13. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
By: Salman Rushdie
4.10
Format: 209 pages, Hardcover
From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply pers… read more
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"Waiting is thinking, and to think deeply is, very often, to change one’s mind."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"I don’t usually think of my books as prophecies. I’ve had some trouble with prophets in my life, and I’m not applying for the job."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"To have a room of one’s own, one must have money. (I don’t think Virginia Woolf ever went to India, but her dictum stands, even there, even for men.)"-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"An intimacy of strangers. That's a phrase I've sometimes used to express the joyful thing that happens in the act of reading, that happy union of the interior lives of author and reader."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
14. Novelist as a Vocation
By: Haruki Murakami
3.89
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A charmingly idiosyncratic look at writing, creativity, and the author’s own novels. Haruki Mura… read more
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"writing novels is, to my way of thinking, basically a very uncool enterprise"-Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation
"La experiencia nos enseña a los escritores lo duro que es seguir siendo escritor."-Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation
"Una sociedad capaz de asumir e integrar distintos puntos de vista y formas de pensar será capaz de avanzar lenta pero segura en la dirección correcta"-Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation
"Una sociedad capaz de asumir e integrar distintos puntos de vista y formas de pensar será capaz de avanzar lenta pero segura en la dirección correcta."-Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation
15. The Black Monday Murders, Vol. 2: A Story of Human Sacrifice
By: Jonathan Hickman
4.27
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Thomas Dane goes looking for a man who doesn't want to be found. From JONATHAN HICKMAN (EAST OF … read more
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16. Becoming Superman: My Journey from Poverty to Hollywood with Stops Along the Way at Murder, Madness, Mayhem, Movie Stars, Cults, Slums, Sociopaths, and War Crimes
By: J. Michael Straczynski
4.64
Format: 460 pages, Hardcover
For four decades, J. Michael Straczynski has been one of the most successful writers in Hollywood, … read more
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"Writing is a holy chore."-J. Michael Straczynski, Becoming Superman: My Journey from Poverty to Hollywood with Stops Along the Way at Murder, Madness, Mayhem, Movie Stars, Cults, Slums, Sociopaths, and War Crimes
"Never let them stop you from telling the story you want to tell."-J. Michael Straczynski, Becoming Superman: My Journey from Poverty to Hollywood with Stops Along the Way at Murder, Madness, Mayhem, Movie Stars, Cults, Slums, Sociopaths, and War Crimes
"If you hold fast to what's true and right and just, things work out."-J. Michael Straczynski, Becoming Superman: My Journey from Poverty to Hollywood with Stops Along the Way at Murder, Madness, Mayhem, Movie Stars, Cults, Slums, Sociopaths, and War Crimes
"He showed me that words can do more than tell stories, they can heal, and as long as you live inside the dignity of what you write, no one can take that away that what matters most. Those who hate yo…"-J. Michael Straczynski, Becoming Superman: My Journey from Poverty to Hollywood with Stops Along the Way at Murder, Madness, Mayhem, Movie Stars, Cults, Slums, Sociopaths, and War Crimes
17. The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
By: Claire North
4.03
Format: 417 pages, Kindle Edition
Some stories cannot be told in just one lifetime. Harry August is on his deathbed. Again. No matter… read more
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"To regret your soul is to regret your past."-Claire North, The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
"Time, it transpires, is not so good at telling after all."-Claire North, The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
"There is no loss, if you cannot remember what you have lost."-Claire North, The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
"Forgive me," I wrote at the bottom. "I did not think I would break."-Claire North, The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
18. Isaac Asimov Presents the Great SF Stories 1: 1939
By: Isaac Asimov
4.08
Format: 432 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg selected their favorite SF stories from the "Golden Years" of … read more
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19. Declassified: A Low-Key Guide to the High-Strung World of Classical Music
By: Arianna Warsaw-Fan Rauch
3.68
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
“A refreshingly fun guide” that reads “as if you’re a fly on the wall in conservatory auditions, cu… read more
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20. Polostan (Bomb Light, #1)
By: Neal Stephenson
3.91
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The first installment in Neal Stephenson’s three-part Bomb Light cycle, Polostan follows the early … read more
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21. Sleepless Nights in the Procrustean Bed (I.O. Evans Studies in the Philosophy & Criticism of Literature 5)
By: Harlan Ellison
4.23
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
A series of essays including: Stealing Tomorrow, Down the Rabbit-Hole to TV-Land, Rolling Dat Ole D… read more
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