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Lullaby

Chuck Palahniuk

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Ever heard of a culling song? It’s a lullaby sung in Africa to give a painless death to the old or infirm. The lyrics of a culling song kill, whether spoken or even just thought. You can find one on page 27 of Poems and Rhymes from Around the World, an anthology that is sitting on the shelves of libraries across the country, waiting to be pick...more

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Fight Club: A Novel

Chuck Palahniuk

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The first rule about fight club is you don't talk about fight club.Chuck Palahniuk's outrageous and startling debut novel that exploded American literature and spawned a movement. Every weekend, in the basements and parking lots of bars across the country, young men with white-collar jobs and failed lives take off their shoes and shirts and fight e...more

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Honey for the Bears (Norton Paperback Fiction)

Anthony Burgess

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A sharply written satire, Honey for the Bears sends an unassuming antiques dealer, Paul Hussey, to Russia to do one final deal on the black market as a favor for a dead friend's wife.

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1600-present , 1900-1999 , 1950-1999 , 1960s , antique collecting , black market , business , capitalism , communism , communists , conflicts & dualities , conspiracy , cultures in conflict , family & friendship , fiction themes , hobbies & activities , infidelity , legal, courtroom & crime , love, relationships & sex , loyalty & betrayal , money & finance , peoples & cultures , politics , red tape , russians , satire , secrets , sexual frustration , truth & falsehood , types of characters

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The Wanting Seed (Norton Paperback Fiction)

Anthony Burgess

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All Editions	A Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess (1295 reviews )
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Swift as Desire: A Novel

Laura Esquivel

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Instead of entering the world crying like other babies, Júbilo was born with a smile on his face. He had a gift for hearing what was in people’s hearts, for listening to sand dunes sing and insects whisper. Even as a young boy, acting as an interpreter between his warring Mayan grandmother and his Spanish-speaking mother, he would translate word...more

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Como Agua Para Chocolate (Spanish Edition)

Laura Esquivel

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Peppered with recipes, remedies and folky digressions, this novel is a treat. The heroine of this fantastical love story, Tita, the youngest of three Mexican daughters, is expected to devote her life to her widowed mother. When her lover, Pedro, asks her to marry him, her mother denies her permission and offers Rosaura, her sister, instead. Pedro a...more

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All Editions	Ovod. Prervannaia druzhba E. Voinich Write the first review.(See your review)
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Landscape Painted with Tea (Vintage International Series)

Milorad Pavic

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By the author of the highly acclaimed literary bestseller "Dictionary of the Khazars", "Landscape Painted with Tea", Milorad Pavic's second novel, is a tale of mysterious quest that is part modern Odyssey and part crossword puzzle. It begins with the story of a brilliant but failed architect in Belgrade and his search for his father, an officer who...more

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