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Kurt Vonnegut

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A rich man attempts a noble experiment with human nature. The result is an etched-in-acid portrayal of universal greed, hypocrisy, and follies of the flesh.
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Kurt Vonnegut

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"My first near-death experience was an accident, a botched anesthesia during a triple-bypass," Vonnegut writes at the outset of this comical fictional adventure, a flirtation not with death so much as with our very aversion to it. In God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian, Vonnegut skips back and forth between life and afterlife as if the difference between ...more
Popular Tags: death, death & dying, death, grief, bereavement ...more
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Kurt Vonnegut

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Told with deadpan humour and bitter irony, Kurt Vonnegut's cult tale of global destruction preys on our deepest fears of witnessing Armageddon and, worse still, surviving it ...Dr Felix Hoenikker, one of the founding 'fathers' of the atomic bomb, has left a deadly legacy to the world. For he is the inventor of 'ice-nine', a lethal chemical capable ...more
Popular Tags: fiction genres, science fiction & fantasy
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Michael Gerber

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WARNING: THIS ISN'T THE REAL THING...IT'S FUNNIER! "Stop that movie," Headmaster Alpo Bumblemore said, "or Hogwash is history!" Already overrun by brawling, fetid fans of the bestselling Barry Trotter books, Hogwash is certain to be pulled down brick by brick after Barry's new big-budget biopic debuts. So Barry Trotter, Ermine Cringer, and Lon Mea...more
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Popular Tags: form, humor, parodies
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Kilgore Trout

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Matthew Polly

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Bill Bryson meets Bruce Lee in this raucously funny story of one scrawny American’s quest to become a kung fu master at China’s legendary Shaolin Temple. Growing up a ninety-pound weakling tormented by bullies in the schoolyards of Kansas, young Matthew Polly dreamed of one day journeying to the Shaolin Temple in China to become the toug...more
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Brad Warner

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Hardcore Zen is not your typical "Zen" book. Brad Warner, the young punk who grew up to be a Zen master, spares no one — just like Reality itself. This bold new approach to the Why of Zen Buddhism is as strongly grounded in the tradition of Zen as it is utterly revolutionary: Warner's voice is hilarious, and he calls on the wisdom of everyone fro...more
Popular Tags: biography & autobiography, nonfiction, religion ...more
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Tony Davis

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An exploration of the art of stage design through in-depth interviews with the world's designers. Each chapter focuses on a particular designer and contains images of their most famous productions alongside text explaining the entire creative process from initial ideas and sources of inspiration to the final design. The whole range of performing ar...more
Popular Tags: performing arts, stagecraft, theater
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Cormac Mccarthy

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NATIONAL BESTSELLERPULITZER PRIZE WINNERNational Book Critic's Circle Award FinalistA New York Times Notable BookOne of the Best Books of the YearThe Boston Globe, The Christian Science Monitor, The Denver Post, The Kansas City Star, Los Angeles Times, New York, People, Rocky Mountain News, Time, The Village Voice, The Washington PostThe searing, p...more
Popular Tags: pulitzer prize winner, fiction & fantasy, rfh book group
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Paulo Coelho

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When Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist) was a young man, his parents had him committed to mental hospitals three times because he wanted to be an artist--an unacceptable profession in Brazil at the time. During his numerous forced incarcerations he vowed to write some day about his experiences and the injustices of involuntary commitment. In this fable-l...more
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