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Frankenstein

Author: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Published: 2004-04-27
book: 324 pages
ISBN:0743487583
ISBN:9780743487580
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Subject: Fiction

Presents the story of Dr. Frankenstein and his obsessive experiment that leads to the creation of a monstrous and deadly creature.

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Animal farm

Author: George Orwell
Published: 2003
book: 385 pages
ISBN:0151010269
ISBN:9780151010264
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Subject: Fiction

George Orwell's classic satire on totalitarianism in which farm animals overthrow their human owner and set up their own government is accompanied by "1984," ...

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Ender's Game

Author: Orson Scott Card
Published: 2006-10-31
book: 256 pages
ISBN:0765317389
ISBN:9780765317384
Publisher: Tor Books
Subject: Fiction

Child-hero Ender Wiggin must fight a desperate battle against a deadly alien race if mankind is to survive.

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Brave new world

Author: Aldous Huxley
Published: 1998
book: 268 pages
ISBN:0060929871
ISBN:9780060929879
Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Subject: Fiction

Huxley's terrifying prophetic novel describes the socialized horrors of a futuristic utopian society devoid of individual freedom. Reprint.

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Fahrenheit 451

Author: Ray Bradbury
Published: 1996
book: 179 pages
ISBN:0345410017
ISBN:9780345410016
Publisher: Random House of Canada
Subject: Fiction

A totalitarian regime has ordered all books to be destroyed, but one of the book burners suddenly realizes their merit.

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The city of Ember

Author: Jeanne DuPrau
Published: 2004-05-25
book: 270 pages
ISBN:0375822747
ISBN:9780375822742
Publisher: Yearling
Subject: Juvenile Fiction

From the Hardcover edition.

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Slaughterhouse-five

Author: Kurt Vonnegut
Published: 1999-01-12
book: 275 pages
ISBN:0385333846
ISBN:9780385333849
Publisher: Dial Press Trade Paperback
Subject: Fiction

Billy Pilgrim returns home from the Second World War only to be kidnapped by aliens from the planet Tralfamadore, who teach him that time is an eternal present

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A Wrinkle in Time

Author: Madeleine L'Engle
Published: 2007-05-01
book: 245 pages
ISBN:0312367546
ISBN:9780312367541
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Subject: Juvenile Fiction

Now, 40 years after A Wrinkle in Time was first published to become one of the landmark books in childrens literature, Square Fish is proud to present this ...

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The War of the Worlds

Author: H. G. Wells
Published: 2005-01
book: 238 pages
ISBN:1596792531
ISBN:9781596792531
Publisher: ABDO & Daughters
Subject: Juvenile Fiction

Humans battle evil aliens to save Earth and its people from certain doom when the Martians land in England.

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The Time Machine

Author: H. G. Wells
Published: 2009
book: 120 pages
ISBN:1434452395
ISBN:9781434452399
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Subject: Fiction

An edition of H.G. Wells' famous novel, The Time Machine.

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Flowers for Algernon

Author: Daniel Keyes
Published: 2005-04-11
book: 324 pages
ISBN:0156030306
ISBN:9780156030304
Publisher: Mariner Books
Subject: Fiction

When brain surgery makes a mouse into a genius, dull-witted Charlie Gordon wonders if it might also work for him.

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Lord of the flies

Author: William Golding
Published: 1954
book: 208 pages
ISBN:0399501487
ISBN:9780399501487
Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group
Subject: Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc

The classic tale of a group of English school boys who are left stranded on an unpopulated island, and who must confront not only the defects of their society ...

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Jurassic Park

Author: Michael Crichton
Published: 1991-11-13
book: 399 pages
ISBN:0345370775
ISBN:9780345370778
Publisher: Random House, Inc.
Subject: Fiction

In JURASSIC PARK Michael Crichton taps all his mesmerizing talent and scientific brilliance to create his most electrifying techno-thriller.

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Gravity's rainbow

Author: Thomas Pynchon
Published: 1995
book: 760 pages
ISBN:0140188592
ISBN:9780140188592
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Subject: Fiction

Gravity's Rainbow, his convoluted, allusive novel about a metaphysical quest, published in 1973, further confirmed Pynchon's reputation as one of the greatest ...

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The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy

Author: Douglas Adams
Published: 1997-06-23
book: 208 pages
ISBN:0345418913
ISBN:9780345418913
Publisher: Del Rey
Subject: Fiction

Chronicles the off-beat and occasionally extraterrestrial journeys, notions, and acquaintances of galactic traveler Arthur Dent

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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

Author: Jules Verne
Published: 2009-01
book: 56 pages
ISBN:1607540002
ISBN:9781607540007
Publisher: Windmill Books
Subject: Juvenile Fiction

Captain Nemo and his somewhat reluctant cohorts have great undersea adventures in the high-tech submarine, the Nautilus.

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The Maze Runner

Author: James Dashner
Published: 2009-10-06
book: 375 pages
ISBN:0385737947
ISBN:9780385737944
Publisher: Delacorte Pr
Subject: Juvenile Fiction

Sixteen-year-old Thomas wakes up with no memory in the middle of a maze and realizes he must work with the community in which he finds himself if he is to ...

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The Giver

Author: Lois Lowry
Published: 2006-01-24
book: 179 pages
ISBN:0385732554
ISBN:9780385732550
Publisher: Delacorte Pr
Subject: Juvenile Fiction

At the age of twelve, Jonas, a young boy from a seemingly utopian, futuristic world, is singled out to receive special training from The Giver, who alone holds ...

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The Hunger Games

Author: Suzanne Collins
Published: 2010
book: 384 pages
ISBN:0439023521
ISBN:9780439023528
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Subject: Juvenile Fiction

The acclaimed author of the "New York Times"-bestselling Underland Chronicles series delivers equal parts suspense and philosophy, adventure and romance, in a ...

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The Martian chronicles

Author: Ray Bradbury
Published: 1997-02-01
book: 268 pages
ISBN:0380973839
ISBN:9780380973835
Publisher: William Morrow
Subject: Fiction

The tranquility of Mars is disrupted by the earthmen who have come to conquer space, colonize the planet, and escape a doomed Earth

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