Breakfast of Champions
Kyrt Vonegyt
The author of Slaughterhouse 5 and Hocus Pocus satirizes the horrors of plastic, disposable America with a mixture of cartoons and comic outbursts against rules and reason... |
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Hocus Pocus
Kyrt Vonegyt
This is a satirical, fiction autobiography of a West Point-trained Vietnam veteran. In the year 2001, the old soldier has been arrested for masterminding the largest prison break in history. Now his son wants to know more about him... |
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Slapstick, Or, Lonesome No More!
Kyrt Vonegyt
Wilbur and Eliza Swain are so immensely hideous, helpless and vile in their infancy that their wealthy parents send them to live on a nearby asteroid. But the monstrous pair possess a joint intelligence that could outstrip the most advanced computers... |
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God bless you, Mr. Rosewater
Kyrt Vonegyt
A novel about people, their pleasures, pains and perversions, and money. It is a satire on insanity - a millionaire's private lunacy, the inherited obsessions of a famous family and the collective madness that grips a whole nation. |
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Jailbird
Kyrt Vonegyt
When Walter F. Starbuck, the least celebrated of the Watergate conspirators, is freed from jail after two years, his first 24 hours of freedom take shape with the unforeseen turns of fortune and moral innuendo of an urban fairytale. |
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Merrick
An Rajs
When last the vampire Lestat was seen, he was rising from the dead in present-day New Orleans to walk again among Anne Rice's unforgettable undead. Now Lestat lives again, but in a twilight world of music and memory.
His charismatic ... [ more ] |
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Blood Canticle
An Rajs
Lestat is back with a vengeance and in thrall to Rowan Mayfair. Both demon and angel, he is drawn to kill but tempted by goodness as he moves among the pantheon of Anne Rice's unforgettable characters. Julien Mayfair, his tormentor; ... [ more ] |
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Blackwood Farm
An Rajs
Lestat is back, saviour and demon, presiding over a gothic story of family greed and hatred through generations, a terrifying drama of blood lust and betrayal, possession and matricide.
Blackwood Farm with its grand Southern mansion, set ... [ more ] |
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The Summons
John Grisham
Ray Atlee is a professor of law at the university of Virginia who is forty-three and newly single. He has a father, a very sick old man who lives alone in the ancestral home in Clanton, Mississippi a beloved and powerful official who has ... [ more ] |
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The Runaway Jury
John Grisham
Every jury has a leader, and the verdict belongs to him.
In Biloxi, Mississippi, a landmark tobacco trial with hundreds of millions of dollars at stake begins routinely, then swerves mysteriously off course. The jury is behaving ... [ more ] |
