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- The Yiddish Policemen's Union
Michael Chabonstandalone novel2007
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In an alternate present where Jewish refugees settled Alaska during World War II rather than Israel, homicide detective Meyer Landsman -- divorced, drinking, living in a run-down hotel -- catches a case in his own building: a former chess prodigy, shot dead beside an unfinished game. Landsman and his half-Tlingit partner Berko Shemets learn the dead man was more than he seemed, connected to a messianic movement within Sitka's Orthodox community, just as the settlement faces a countdown of its own -- its status as a federal district about to expire, everyone's future up for grabs. Michael Chabon's Hugo- and Nebula-winning noir, told as hardboiled alternate history.
- Immortal Beloved
series3 books2010
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Cate Tiernan's Immortal Beloved follows Nastasya, an immortal who has restarted her life more times than she can count and is tired of her aimless party-girl existence. She retreats to River's Edge, a refuge for wayward immortals, where she begins to confront long-buried secrets about herself and those around her. The story continues across Darkness Falls and Eternally Yours.
- The Blue Ant Trilogy
series3 books2003
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Hubertus Bigend is a fictional character appearing in the third trilogy of novels of science fiction and literary author William Gibson. Bigend is the antihero of Gibson's Pattern Recognition (2003), Spook Country (2007) and Zero History (2010). In an interview Gibson says "I've always had a sense of Bigend as someone who presents himself as though he knows what's going on, but who in fact doesn't. It's just my sense of the subtext of the character: he's bullshitting himself, at the same time as he's bullshitting all of us."
- The Shining
series5 books1977
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Stephen King's 1977 novel The Shining follows the Torrance family as winter caretakers of the isolated, malevolent Overlook Hotel, where father Jack is gradually consumed by the hotel's influence while his young son Danny's psychic "shining" draws its attention. Doctor Sleep (2013) picks up the story decades later, following Danny as an adult still marked by that childhood ordeal. Together the two form a horror duology spanning nearly forty years of real-world publication.
- The Door Into Summer
Robert A. Heinleinstandalone novel1957
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From the first page of the Signet 6th printing: "An electronics engineer invents a wizard robot... only to find himself shanghaied by his ruthless partner and his gold-digging fiancee. The crafty pair forces him to submit to the "long sleep" - suspended animation for thirty years. But when he wakes up in the year 2000 A.D. the inventor makes a startling discovery. He learns that it is possible now to twist time forwards or backwards. And so he returns to the past bent on a mission... of revenge."
- God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater or Pearls Before Swine
Kurt Vonnegut & Jr.standalone novel1965
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The Rosewater Foundation was built to shield the family fortune from taxes, but its current steward, war veteran and committed alcoholic Eliot Rosewater, has other ideas: he moves the foundation's offices to rural Rosewater County, Indiana, and starts handing out 'unlimited amounts of love and limited sums of money' to anyone who asks. His disgusted father, Senator Lister Rosewater, watches the family name become a punchline. Meanwhile a distant, downtrodden cousin, Fred Rosewater, is approached by an ambitious young lawyer with a scheme to have Eliot declared insane and the fortune redirected. A satire of American philanthropy, class and sanity from Kurt Vonnegut.
- The Wolves of Mercy Falls
series4 books2009
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The Wolves of Mercy Falls is a series of four novels, located in the genres of romance, fantasy and young adult (YA) fiction, written by Maggie Stiefvater. Published by American multinational company Scholastic from between 2009 and 2014, the series consists of the titles Shiver, Linger, Forever and Sinner. Set in the fictional town of Mercy Falls, Stiefvater has stated that the real town of Ely in Minnesota would be its closest neighbouring destination, with the two towns sharing a similar climate.
- Misery
Stephen Kingstandalone novel1987
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Novelist Paul Sheldon finishes the manuscript that will finally kill off Misery Chastain, the heroine who made his career, when a snowstorm sends his car off a Colorado road. He wakes with both legs shattered, in the care of Annie Wilkes, a former nurse and 'number one fan' with no intention of taking him to a hospital. Annie manages his pain with drugs he comes to depend on, and her moods swing between doting and violent. When she learns Misery doesn't survive his new manuscript, her reaction makes clear Paul isn't just her patient, he's her hostage. A Stephen King novel about a writer at his most devoted fan's mercy.
- Crash
J. G. Ballardstandalone novel1973
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Crash is a novel by J. G. Ballard, first published in 1973 with a cover designed by Bill Botten. It follows a group of car-crash fetishists who, inspired by the famous crashes of celebrities, become sexually aroused by staging and participating in car accidents.
- Modern Tale of Faerie
series4 books2002
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Tithe opens Holly Black's Modern Faerie Tales with Kaye Fierch, a teenage drifter who discovers she's a changeling with real faerie blood after returning to her childhood home on the Jersey Shore, and gets pulled into the political violence of the local faerie courts. The trilogy, continuing through Valiant and Ironside, keeps its "suburban fantasy" grounded in ordinary New Jersey settings rather than a storybook otherworld.
- Kairos
series11 books1962
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The Time Quintet is a science fantasy series of five young adult novels written by American author Madeleine L'Engle and made up of A Wrinkle in Time (1962), A Wind in the Door (1973), A Swiftly Tilting Planet (1978), Many Waters (1986), and An Acceptable Time (1989).
- The Tommyknockers
Stephen Kingstandalone novel1987
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The Tommyknockers is a 1987 science fiction horror novel by Stephen King. The novel is an excursion into the realm of science fiction for King, as the residents of the Maine town of Haven gradually fall under the influence of a mysterious object buried in the woods. King has since soured on The Tommyknockers, describing it as "an awful book", due to his drug addiction while writing the novel, though acknowledges the story's potential: "There's really a good book in here, underneath all the sort of spurious energy that cocaine provides, and I ought to go back." A miniseries adaptation was released in 1993.
- The Mad Man
Samuel R. Delanystandalone novel1994
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The Mad Man is a literary novel by Samuel R. Delany, first published in 1994 by Richard Kasak. In a disclaimer that appears at the beginning of the book, Delany describes it as a "pornotopic fantasy". It was originally published in 1994, republished and slightly revised in 1996, and republished again with significant changes in 2002 and again in an e-book version with further corrections in 2015. Delany considers the 2015 version the definitive edition.
