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Lost Horizon

Author: James Hilton
Published: 2004-06-03
book: 241 pages
ISBN:0060594527
ISBN:9780060594527
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Subject: Fiction

Following a plane crash in the Himalayan mountains, a lost group of Englishmen and Americans stumble upon the dream-like, utopian world of Shangri-La, where ...

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Messenger

Author: Lois Lowry
Published: 2009-01-13
book: 169 pages
ISBN:0385737165
ISBN:9780385737166
Publisher: Bantam Books for Young Readers
Subject: Juvenile Fiction

In this novel that unites characters from "The Giver" and "Gathering Blue," Matty, a young member of a utopian community that values honesty, conceals an ...

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Herland

Author: Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Published: 1979-02-12
book: 147 pages
ISBN:0394736656
ISBN:9780394736655
Publisher: Pantheon
Subject: Fiction

On the eve of World War I, an all-female society is discovered somewhere in the distant reaches of the earth by three male explorers who are now forced to re ...

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Erewhon

Author: Samuel Butler
Published: 2002-05-29
book: 192 pages
ISBN:0486420485
ISBN:9780486420486
Publisher: Dover Pubns
Subject: Fiction

Erewhon (an anagram for "nowhere") is a faraway land where machinery is forbidden, sickness is a punishable crime, and criminals receive compassionate medical ...

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The Blithedale Romance

Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Published: 1998
book: 251 pages
ISBN:0393317641
ISBN:9780393317640
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Subject: Fiction

Absorbing 1852 novel about love, idealism, and politics bristles with Hawthorne's perceptive wit and intelligence.

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The coming race

Author: Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton
Published: 2005-07-18
book: 218 pages
ISBN:0819567493
ISBN:9780819567499
Publisher: Wesleyan Univ Pr
Subject: Fiction

The story of a fascinating underground world of winged beings

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The fifth sacred thing

Author: Starhawk
Published: 1994-06-01
book: 486 pages
ISBN:0553373803
ISBN:9780553373806
Publisher: Bantam
Subject: Fiction

A world without poverty or hunger that honors the Four Sacred Things that sustain life--earth, air, fire, and water--is poised to clash with a nightmare society ...

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The First Men in the Moon

Author: H. G. Wells
Published: 2000-12-18
book: 176 pages
ISBN:0486414183
ISBN:9780486414188
Publisher: Dover Pubns
Subject: Fiction

In this 1901 classic, Wells's "first men in the moon" practice lunar locomotion, get lost in a moon jungle, and confront intelligent life in lunar caverns.

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This Side of Paradise

Author: Steven L. Layne
Published: 2005-04-05
book: 224 pages
ISBN:1589802543
ISBN:9781589802544
Publisher: Pelican Publishing Company
Subject: Juvenile Fiction

In this compelling thriller, Steven L. Layne takes readers on a suspenseful trek into the depths of the human psyche-posing provocative questions that linger ...

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Egalia's Daughters

Author: Gerd Brantenberg
Published: 2004-11-19
book: 272 pages
ISBN:1580051251
ISBN:9781580051255
Publisher: Seal Pr
Subject: Fiction

More than just a humorous romp, Egalia's Daughters poses the provocative question of whether the culprit in gender subjugation is gender itself or power-no ...

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In the days of the comet

Author: Herbert George Wells
Published: 2001-09-01
book: 221 pages
ISBN:0803298250
ISBN:9780803298255
Publisher: Bison Books
Subject: Fiction

In the Days of the Comet is H. G. Wells's classic tale of the last days of the old earth and the extraterrestrial Change that becomes the salvation of the human ...

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Daring to dream

Author: Carol Farley Kessler
Published: 1995
book: 326 pages
ISBN:081562655X
ISBN:9780815626558
Publisher: Syracuse Univ Pr
Subject: Fiction

1 Man's Rights; or, How Would You Like It? 1870 ANNIE DENTON CRIDGE ?-by 1884 During the 1860s, Annie Denton Cridge and her husband Alfred were reformers in ...

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Soul city

Author: Touré
Published: 2004-09-02
book: 184 pages
ISBN:0316741582
ISBN:9780316741583
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Subject: Fiction

Visiting the seemingly peaceful and culturally rich community of Soul City during a magazine assignment, journalist Cadillac Jackson follows a hostile mayoral ...

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Ai

Author: Charles S. Daniel
Published: 1971
book: 296 pages
ISBN:0405035217
ISBN:9780405035210
Publisher: Ayer Publishing
Subject: Fiction

... Romeo ! wherefore art thou Romeo ? Deny thy father and refuse thy name ; Or if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, And I'll no longer be a Capulet. ...

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The Covenant Rising

Author: Stan Nicholls
Published: 2005
book: 416 pages
ISBN:0060738898
ISBN:9780060738891
Publisher: Eos
Subject: Fiction

From the author of the internationally acclaimed Orcs series comes a powerful new epic fantasy filled with spectacular magic, adventure, and political intrigue.

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The day of prosperity

Author: Paul Devinne
Published: 1971
book: 271 pages
ISBN:0405035225
ISBN:9780405035227
Publisher: Ayer Publishing
Subject: Fiction

THE DAY OF PROSPERITY PRELUDE I THE OLD DOCTOR'S SECRET It was in the year 1900. The light of a glorious June day had not yet quite faded, as I paused in my ...

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Walden Two

Author: Burrhus Frederic Skinner
Published: 2005-07-31
book: 301 pages
ISBN:0872207781
ISBN:9780872207783
Publisher: Hackett Pub Co Inc
Subject: Fiction

A reprint of the 1976 Macmillan edition.

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Mizora

Author: Mary E. Bradley Lane
Published: 2000-06
book: 147 pages
ISBN:0815628390
ISBN:9780815628392
Publisher: Syracuse Univ Pr
Subject: Fiction

This book about an 1880s radical feminist utopia Includes a new, extensive introduction.

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The history of Sir George Ellison

Author: Sarah Scott
Published: 1996
book: 235 pages
ISBN:0813108497
ISBN:9780813108490
Publisher: Univ Pr of Kentucky
Subject: Fiction

The reprint of an 18th Century novel on an ideal society run by single women. The book was written in 1776 by an Englishwoman who was avant-garde for her day.

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The millennium

Author: Upton Sinclair
Published: 2000
book: 196 pages
ISBN:1583220216
ISBN:9781583220214
Publisher: Seven Stories Pr
Subject: Fiction

Upton Sinclair's fictional vision, created in 1907, explores the state of society at the end of the millennium. Illustrations throughout.

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