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- | ==== #20 - NATIVE SON ~ by ~ Richard Wright ==== | + | ==== #20 - NATIVE SON by Richard Wright ==== |
Classic work shows the plight of victimized blacks fighting against the political and social conditions of Chicago in the 1930s. A frustrated and resentful black man is driven to violence and murder.\\ | Classic work shows the plight of victimized blacks fighting against the political and social conditions of Chicago in the 1930s. A frustrated and resentful black man is driven to violence and murder.\\ | ||
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- | ==== #21 - HENDERSON THE RAIN KING ~ by ~ Saul Bellow ==== | + | ==== #21 - HENDERSON THE RAIN KING by Saul Bellow ==== |
In his search for identity, an American millionaire travels to a remote area of Africa, where he is captured by a native tribe. His friendship with the king wins him the title of rain god, and he becomes deeply involved with the natives and participates in a strange experiment.\\ | In his search for identity, an American millionaire travels to a remote area of Africa, where he is captured by a native tribe. His friendship with the king wins him the title of rain god, and he becomes deeply involved with the natives and participates in a strange experiment.\\ | ||
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- | ==== #83 - by ==== | + | ==== #83 - THE PUPPET MASTERS |
- | \\ | + | Three secret-service agents must find a way to halt the invasion of earth by alien monsters who have the ability to control men's thoughts and actions.\\ |
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- | * [[https:// | + | ==== #84 - IT by Stephen King ==== |
- | ==== #84 - by ==== | + | It began in 1958 when seven imperiled children searched in the drains beneath the New England town of Derry for the horror they believed lurked there. Twenty-seven years later those children, now grown, recall their buried memories. Again, the most heinous violence awaits them. Strong language, violence, and some descriptions of sex.\\ |
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- | \\ | + | ==== #85 - V. by Thomas Pynchon |
+ | A wild, discursive tale of two men and an unknown woman called " | ||
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- | * [[https:// | + | ==== #86 - DOUBLE STAR by Robert Heinlein |
- | ==== #86 - by ==== | + | An unemployed actor in the year 2100 takes a drink from a space pilot and finds himself shanghaied to Mars for the most important and dangerous role of his career. He is coerced into impersonating a prominent and controversial public figure.\\ |
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- | * [[https:// | + | ==== #87 - CITIZEN OF THE GALAXY |
- | ==== #87 - by ==== | + | Thorby is taken from his parents at an early age and knows many cruel masters in his childhood. Now he is sold again--this time to a decrepit beggar named Baslim. After living with Baslim for a while, Thorby realizes that Baslim is involved in more than begging. Thorby promises that when Baslim dies, Thorby will deliver a message for him. But delivery of the message lands Thorby in an alien spaceship where he becomes both guest and prisoner.\\ |
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==== #88 - BRIDESHEAD REVISITED by Evelyn Waugh ==== | ==== #88 - BRIDESHEAD REVISITED by Evelyn Waugh ==== | ||
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==== #91 - A FAREWELL TO ARMS by Ernest Hemingway ==== | ==== #91 - A FAREWELL TO ARMS by Ernest Hemingway ==== | ||
Romance between American lieutenant Frederic Henry in the ambulance service in Italy during World War I and the English nurse Catherine Barkley, who tends him when he is wounded. When Catherine becomes pregnant, she refuses to marry Frederic.\\ | Romance between American lieutenant Frederic Henry in the ambulance service in Italy during World War I and the English nurse Catherine Barkley, who tends him when he is wounded. When Catherine becomes pregnant, she refuses to marry Frederic.\\ | ||
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- | ==== #94 - by ==== | + | ==== #94 - MY ÁNTONIA |
- | \\ | + | A lawyer recalls his Nebraska boyhood and the girl who was a strong influence on his life in this novel about pioneering conditions and the assimilation of the immigrant.\\ |
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- | ==== #95 - by ==== | + | ==== #95 - MULENGRO |
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+ | After serving time in the workhouse, young Suttree chooses a ramshackle houseboat on the Tennessee River instead of his family' | ||
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- | ==== #96 - by ==== | + | ==== #97 - MYTHAGO WOOD by Robert Holdstock |
- | \\ | + | The Huxley family lives on the edge of Ryhope Wood, a forest in a remote corner of Britain. One by one, the Huxley men are drawn into the wild, primitive life of Ryhope Wood. They are lured by their curiosity, by the beauty of one of the mythical beings living there, and by their lust for power over the beast-like humans who inhabit the wood. 1984.\\ |
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- | * [[https:// | + | ==== #98 - ILLUSIONS |
- | ==== #97 - by ==== | + | Richard earns a living by barnstorming and by giving three dollar rides in his old biplane. One day a mysterious pilot lands next to Richard and tells him "There are some things you do not know." The visitor, a retired Messiah from Indiana, teaches Richard that the world is an illusion and reality lies within one's self.\\ |
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- | * [[https:// | + | * [[BR 03931]] - 1 volume. |
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- | \\ | + | A journalist writing a series of articles on old Toronto asks Dr. Hullah to reminisce about the sudden death of an Anglican priest twenty years earlier. The doctor obliges willingly, but not without recalling certain youthful events, including his encounter with a Native American medicine woman and a stint in the army, and airing his thoughts on the arts. Yet one question vexes him: why did Father Hobbes die? Some strong language.\\ |
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- | * [[https:// | + | ==== #100 - THE SATANIC VERSES |
- | ==== #99 - by ==== | + | When two Indian-born actors fall from an exploded hijacked airplane onto an English Channel beach, they must overcome violent personal conflicts in order to survive the catastrophe. Gibreel acquires a halo, but Saladin begins to take on the appearance of the devil, and from here on the story becomes a tale of good and evil.\\ |
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