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publisher: ePubLibre
title: Brave New World
writers: Aldous Huxley
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  Far in the future, the World Controllers have finally created the ideal society. In laboratories worldwide, genetic science has brought the human race to perfection. From the Alpha-Plus mandarin class to the Epsilon-Minus Semi-Morons, designed to perform menial tasks, man is bred and educated to be blissfully content with his pre-destined role. But, in the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre, Bernard Marx is unhappy. Harbouring an unnatural desire for solitude, feeling only distaste for the endless pleasures of compulsory promiscuity, Bernard has an ill-defined longing to break free. A visit to one of the few remaining Savage Reservations where the old, imperfect life still continues, may be the cure for his distress… A fantasy of the future that sheds a blazing critical light on the present-considered to be Aldous Huxley' s most enduring masterpiece.


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publisher: Random House Publishing Group
title: The Martian: A Novel
writers: Andy Weir
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  <b>#1 <i>NEW YORK TIMES </i>BESTSELLER &bull; NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE</b><br><b>A mission to Mars. A freak accident. One man&rsquo;s struggle to survive. From the author of <i>Project Hail Mary</i> comes &ldquo;a hugely entertaining novel that reads like a rocket ship afire&rdquo; (<i>Chicago Tribune</i>).</b><br><b>&ldquo;Brilliant . . . a celebration of human ingenuity [and] the purest example of real-science sci-fi for many years . . . utterly compelling.&rdquo;&mdash;<i>The Wall Street Journal</i></b><br>Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. <br>Now, he&rsquo;s sure he&rsquo;ll be the first person to die there.<br>After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with no way to even signal Earth that he&rsquo;s alive&mdash;and even if he could get word out, his supplies would be gone long before a rescue could arrive. <br>Chances are,...


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language: en
publisher: BiblioBazaar, LLC
title: The Worst Journey in the World
writers: Apsley Cherry-Garrard
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  History - General History, Travel, Adventurers & Explorers, General, History : Expeditions & Discoveries, History: World, Polar Regions, Expeditions & Discoveries, Biography & Autobiography, History of other lands, Travel : Polar Regions, Travel & holiday guides, History

summary:
  SUMMARY: "Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time that has ever been devised," wrote Apsley Cherry-Garrard in a deceptively jaunty introduction to this classic story of bravery and fortitude first published in 1922. The story he relates is of Scott's last expedition to the Antarctic, from its departure from England in 1910 to its arrival in New Zealand in 1913; it is one of the most famous and tragic in the annals of exploration. Driven by an obsession for scientific knowledge, these brave polar explorers embarked on a journey into the unknown, testing their endurance by pushing themselves to the ultimate physical and mental limits as they surveyed the striking and mammoth land that lies far to the south.Cherry-Garrard was himself a member of the expedition that had two goals: to discover as much as was scientifically possible about the terrain and habitat of Antarctica, and to be the first to reach the South Pole. The party was plagued by bad luck, weather conditions of unanticipated ferocity, and the physical deterioration of the party on the last part of the journey. Confronted by the shattering knowledge that Roald Amundsen had reached the South Pole a month before them, Scott's party then had to negotiate the last, heroic part of their journey, a doomed attempt which has entered modern mythology.The Worst Journey in the World is the inside story of this most famous of journeys and is truly one of the best and most moving books of travel ever written. Join Scott's expedition as he and his team venture deep into the frozen unknown. This volume is the second in the continuing series of Explorers Club books.


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language: en
publisher: Lyons Press
title: The Long Way
title_sort: The Long Way
writers: Bernard Moitessier, WILLIAM RODARMOR
summary:
  The Long Way is Bernard Moitessier's own incredible story of his participation in the first Golden Globe Race, a solo, non-stop circumnavigation rounding the three great Capes of Good Hope, Leeuwin, and the Horn. For seven months, the veteran seafarer battled storms, doldrums, gear-failures, knock-downs, as well as overwhelming fatigue and loneliness. Then, nearing the finish, Moitessier pulled out of the race and sailed on for another three months before ending his 37,455-mile journey in Tahiti. Not once had he touched land.


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genres: Hamid ibn Muhammad, called Tippo Tib, d. 1905, Arabs
language: en
publisher: London, Arnold
title: Tippoo Tib, the story of his career in Central Africa
writers: Brode, Heinrich, 1874-, Havelock, H., tr
summary:
  The metadata below describe the original scanning. Follow the "All Files: HTTP" link in the "View the book" box to the left to find XML files that contain more metadata about the original images and the derived formats (OCR results, PDF etc.). See also the <a href="http://www.archive.org/about/faqs.php#140" rel="nofollow">What is the directory structure for the texts?</a> FAQ for information about file content and naming conventions.


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genres: prose_contemporary
language: en
publisher: Anchor Books
title:
  Survivor
  Survivor

writers: Chuck Palahniuk
summary:
  Tender Branson – last surviving member of the so-called "Creedish Death Cult" – is dictating his incredible life story into the flight recorder of Flight 2039, cruising on autopilot at 39,000 feet somewhere over the Pacific Ocean. He is all alone in the plane, which will shortly reach terminal velocity and crash into the vast Australian outback. Before it does, he will unfold the tale of his journey from an obedient Creedish child and humble domestic servant to an ultra-buffed, steroid– and collagen-packed media messiah, author of a best-selling autobiography, Saved from Salvation, and the even better selling Book of Very Common Prayer (The Prayer to Delay Orgasm, The Prayer to Prevent Hair Loss, The Prayer to Silence Car Alarms). He'll even share his insight that "the only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage," and deny responsibility for the Tender Branson Sensitive Materials Landfill – a 20,000-acre repository for the nation's outdated pornography. Among other matters both bizarre and trenchant.   –courtesy of  WW Norton  
   
             Thoughts From Chuck 
            "The books are never about what you think they are about. Survivor is really about our education system because I feel, more often than not, kids are sort of taught or trained to be the best possible cogs in some big corporate machine. They're not really taught in an empowered way that they can start their own company so that they can create and run their own lives. They are sort of taught to be just good employees, to just fit in."  
   


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language: en-US
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  All the Pretty Horses
  Book 1 of The Border Trilogy

writers: Cormac McCarthy
summary:
  <b>NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER <b>&bull;</b> NATIONAL BESTSELLER &bull; The first volume in the <i>Border Trilogy,</i> from the bestselling author of <i>The Passenger </i>and the Pulitzer Prize&ndash;winning novel <i>The Road<br></i></b><br><i>All the Pretty Horses </i>is the tale of John Grady Cole, who at sixteen finds himself at the end of a long line of Texas ranchers, cut off from the only life he has ever imagined for himself. With two companions, he sets off for Mexico on a sometimes idyllic, sometimes comic journey to a place where dreams are paid for in blood.


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language: en
publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
title: McCarthy, Cormac - Suttree
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writers: McCarthy, Cormac
summary:
  <p>By the author of <b>Blood Meridian</b> and <b>All the Pretty Horses</b>, <b>Suttree</b> is the story of Cornelius Suttree, who has forsaken a life of privilege with his prominent family to live in a dilapidated houseboat on the Tennessee River near Knoxville.  Remaining on the margins of the outcast community there--a brilliantly imagined collection of eccentrics, criminals, and squatters--he rises above the physical and human squalor with detachment, humor, and dignity.<br><br><i>From the Trade Paperback edition.</i></p>


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language: en-US
publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
title:
  The Da Vinci Code
  Featuring Robert Langdon

writers: Dan Brown
summary:
  <b>DISCOVER THE #1 WORLDWIDE BESTSELLING PHENOMENON, WITH MORE THAN 85 MILLION COPIES SOLD&mdash;AND DON&rsquo;T MISS DAN BROWN&rsquo;S NEW THRILLER, <i>THE SECRET OF SECRETS</i>!<br>&ldquo;Blockbuster perfection . . . a gleefully erudite suspense novel.&rdquo; &mdash;<i>The New York Times</i></b><br><b>&ldquo;A pulse-quickening, brain-teasing adventure.&rdquo; &mdash;<i>People</i></b><br>While in Paris, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is awakened by a phone call in the dead of the night. The elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum, his body covered in baffling symbols. As Langdon and gifted French cryptologist Sophie Neveu sort through the bizarre riddles, they are stunned to discover a trail of clues hidden in the works of Leonardo da Vinci&mdash;clues visible for all to see and yet ingeniously disguised by the painter.<br>Even more startling, the late curator was involved in the Priory of Sion, a secret society whose members included Sir Isaac...


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language: EN-US
publisher: Atria Books
title: Angels and Demons
writers: Dan Brown
summary:
  <b>The explosive Robert Langdon thriller from Dan Brown, the #1 <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>The Da Vinci Code, The Lost Symbol,</i> <i>Inferno, </i>and <I>The Secret of Secrets.</I> </b><BR>An ancient secret brotherhood. A devastating new weapon of destruction. An unthinkable target. When world-renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to his first assignment to a Swiss research facility to analyze a mysterious symbol&#8212;seared into the chest of a murdered physicist&#8212;he discovers evidence of the unimaginable: the resurgence of an ancient secret brotherhood known as the Illuminati...the most powerful underground organization ever to walk the earth. The Illuminati has now surfaced to carry out the final phase of its legendary vendetta against its most hated enemy&#8212;the Catholic Church.<BR> <BR>Langdon's worst fears are confirmed on the eve of the Vatican's holy conclave, when a messenger of the Illuminati announces they have hidden an...


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genres: Fiction
language: en-US
publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
title: The Lost Symbol
writers: Dan Brown
summary:
  <b>THE #1 WORLDWIDE BESTSELLER FROM THE ICONIC AUTHOR OF <i>THE DA VINCI CODE </i>AND THE NEW ROBERT LANGDON THRILLER, <i>THE SECRET OF SECRETS</i></b><br><b>&ldquo;Impossible to put down.&rdquo; &mdash;<i>The New York Times</i></b><br><b>&ldquo;Thrilling and entertaining, like the experience on a roller coaster.&rdquo; &mdash;<i>Los Angeles Times</i></b><br>Famed Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon answers an unexpected summons to deliver a lecture at the U.S. Capitol Building. His plans are interrupted when a disturbing object&mdash;artfully encoded with five symbols&mdash;is discovered in the building. Langdon recognizes in the find an ancient invitation into a lost world of esoteric, potentially dangerous wisdom.<br>When his mentor, Peter Solomon&mdash;a long-standing Mason and beloved philanthropist&mdash;is kidnapped, Langdon realizes that the only way to save Solomon is to accept the mystical invitation and plunge headlong into a clandestine world of Masonic secrets, hidden...


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language: en
publisher: Back Bay Books
title: Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays
writers: David Foster Wallace
genres:
  Criticism, Literature: Classics, Literary Collections, General, Literary Criticism, American essays, Essays, Literature - Classics

summary:
  SUMMARY:

  Do lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a funny bone? What is John Updike's deal, anyway? And what happens when adult video starlets meet their fans in person? David Foster Wallace answers these questions and more in essays that are also enthralling narrative adventures. Whether covering the three-ring circus of a vicious presidential race, plunging into the wars between dictionary writers, or confronting the World's Largest Lobster Cooker at the annual Maine Lobster Festival, Wallace projects a quality of thought that is uniquely his and a voice as powerful and distinct as any in American letters.


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identifier_isbn: 9780316920049
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language: en
publisher: Hachette Digital, Inc.
title: Infinite jest
title_sort: Infinite jest
writers: David Foster Wallace
genres:
  Fiction, General, Literary, Humorous Stories, Humorous, Compulsive behavior - Fiction, Compulsive behavior, Addicts, Addicts - Fiction

summary:
  <h3>Amazon.com Review</h3><p>In a sprawling, wild, super-hyped magnum opus, David Foster Wallace fulfills the promise of his precocious novel <strong>Infinite Jest</strong> bends every rule of fiction, features a huge cast and multilevel narrative, and questions essential elements of American culture - our entertainments, our addictions, our relationships, our pleasures, our abilities to define ourselves. </p><h3>From Publishers Weekly</h3><p>With its baroque subplots, zany political satire, morbid, cerebral humor and astonishing range of cultural references, Wallace's brilliant but somewhat bloated dirigible of a second novel (after The Broom in the System) will appeal to steadfast readers of Pynchon and Gaddis. But few others will have the stamina for it. Set in an absurd yet uncanny near-future, with a cast of hundreds and close to 400 footnotes, Wallace's story weaves between two surprisingly similar locales: Ennet House, a halfway-house in the Boston Suburbs, and the adjacent Enfield Tennis Academy. It is the "Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment" (each calendar year is now subsidized by retail advertising); the U.S. and Canada have been subsumed by the Organization of North American Nations, unleashing a torrent of anti-O.N.A.N.ist terrorism by Quebecois separatists; drug problems are widespread; the Northeastern continent is a giant toxic waste dump; and CD-like "entertainment cartridges" are the prevalent leisure activity. The novel hinges on the dysfunctional family of E.T.A.'s founder, optical-scientist-turned-cult-filmmaker Dr. James Incandenza (aka Himself), who took his life shortly after producing a mysterious film called Infinite Jest, which is supposedly so addictively entertaining as to bring about a total neural meltdown in its viewer. As Himself's estranged sons?professional football punter Orin, introverted tennis star Hal and deformed naif Mario?come to terms with his suicide and legacy, they and the residents of Ennet House become enmeshed in the machinations of the wheelchair-bound leader of a Quebecois separatist faction, who hopes to disseminate cartridges of Infinite Jest and thus shred the social fabric of O.N.A.N. With its hilarious riffs on themes like addiction, 12-step programs, technology and waste management (in all its scatological implications), this tome is highly engrossing?in small doses. Yet the nebulous, resolutionless ending serves to underscore Wallace's underlying failure to find a suitable novelistic shape for his ingenious and often outrageously funny material. <br />Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. </p>


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language: en
publisher: Union Square & Co.
title: H.P. Lovecraft Goes to the Movies
writers: H. P. Lovecraft
summary:
  <B>An anthology of original Lovecraft stories that inspired some of the scariest horror films in history.</B><BR /> H.P. Lovecraft is universally regarded as one of the twentieth century&rsquo;s most important horror authors. But with more than 100 movies based on his writing, he also ranks alongside Edgar Allan Poe and Stephen King as one of the most adapted authors of all time.<BR /><I>H.P. Lovecraft Goes to the Movies</I>&#160;presents the very best of the acclaimed author&rsquo;s stories that have been adapted to film. The collection also includes an enlightening historical introduction, short headnotes for each story featuring interesting trivia, and an appendix with credits for each screen version.&#160;<BR /> Featured stories include:<BR /> &ldquo;The Colour out of Space&rdquo;: filmed twice, once as a vehicle for Boris Karloff called&#160;<I>Die, Monster, Die!</I><BR /> &ldquo;The Dunwich Horror,&rdquo; also filmed two times, once with Dean Stockwell<BR /> &ldquo;Pickmans...


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language: en
title: Kafka on the Shore
writers: Haruki Murakami
genres:
  Fantasy, Science Fiction, Fiction, Literary, 20th Century, Asia, Classics, Science Fiction Fantasy, Japan


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language: en-US
publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
title: 1Q84
writers: Haruki Murakami
summary:
  <b>NATIONAL BESTSELLER &bull; &ldquo;A tremendous accomplishment. It does every last blessed thing a masterpiece is supposed to&mdash;and a few things we never even knew to expect.&rdquo;<i>&mdash;San Francisco Chronicle</i></b><br><b>&ldquo;Brilliant . . . an irresistibly engaging literary fantasy.&rdquo;<i>&mdash;The Washington Post</i></b><br><b>A <i>Kirkus Reviews </i>Best Fiction Book of the Century </b><br>The year is 1984 and the city is Tokyo.<br>A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driver&rsquo;s enigmatic suggestion and begins to notice puzzling discrepancies in the world around her. She has entered, she realizes, a parallel existence, which she calls 1Q84 &mdash;&ldquo;Q is for &lsquo;question mark.&rsquo; A world that bears a question.&rdquo; Meanwhile, an aspiring writer named Tengo takes on a suspect ghostwriting project. He becomes so wrapped up with the work and its unusual author that, soon, his previously placid life begins to come unraveled.<br>As...


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language: en
title: Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience
writers: Henry David Thoreau
genres:
  Civil disobedience, Authors, American -- 19th century -- Biography, Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862 -- Homes and haunts -- Massachusetts -- Walden Woods, Wilderness areas -- Massachusetts -- Walden Woods, Natural history -- Massachusetts -- Walden Woods, Solitude, Government, Resistance to, Walden Woods (Mass.) -- Social life and customs


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genres: love_contemporary
language: en
publisher: Abacus
title: The Wasp Factory
writers: Iain Banks
summary:
  Enter — if you can bear it — the extraordinary private world of Frank, just sixteen, and unconventional, to say the least.  "Two years after I killed Blyth I murdered my young brother Paul, for quite different and more fundamental reasons than I'd disposed of Blyth, and then a year after that I did for my young cousin Esmerelda, more or less on a whim.  "That's my score to date. Three. I haven't killed anybody for years, and don't intend to ever again.  "It was just a stage I was going through."  


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genres: Sci-Fi, Dystopian
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language: en
title: Ballard, J. G. - High Rise
title_sort: Ballard, J. G. - High Rise
writers: Ballard, J. G.
summary:
  <p class="description">J.G. Ballard's 1975 novel "High Rise" contains all of the qualities we have come to expect from this author: alarming psychological insights, a study of the profoundly disturbing connections between technology and the human condition, and an intriguing plot masterfully executed. Ballard, who wrote the tremendously troubling "Crash," really knows how to dig deep into our troubling times in order to expose our tentative grasp of modernity. Some compare this book to William Golding's "Lord of the Flies," and there are definite characteristics the two novels share. I would argue, however, that "High Rise" is more eloquent and more relevant than Golding's book. Unfortunately, this Ballard novel is out of print. Try and locate a copy at your local library because the payoff is well worth the effort.<br>"High Rise" centers around four major characters: Dr. Robert Laing, an instructor at a local medical school, Richard Wilder, a television documentary producer, Anthony Royal, an architect, and the high rise building all three live in with 2,000 other people. Throughout the story, Ballard switches back and forth between these three people, recording their thoughts and actions as they live their lives in the new high-rise apartment building. Ballard made sure to pick three separate people living on different floors of the forty floor building: Laing lives on the twenty fifth floor, Wilder lives on the second floor, and Royal lives in a penthouse on the fortieth floor (befitting his status as the designer of the building). Where you live in this structure will soon take on an importance beyond life itself.<br>At the beginning of the story, most of the people living in the building get along quite well. There are the usual nitpicky problems one would expect when 2,000 people are jammed together, but overall people move freely from the top to the bottom floors. A person living on the bottom floors can easily go to the observation deck on the top of the building to enjoy the view, or shop at the two banks of stores on the tenth and thirty-fifth floors. Children swim and play in the pools and playgrounds throughout the high rise without any interference. Despite the fact that well to do people live in the building, with celebrities and executives on the top floors, middle-class people on the middle floors, and airline pilots and the like on the bottom ten floors, everyone gets along reasonably well-at first.<br>Then things change. The gossip level increases among the residents, and parties held on different floors start to exclude people from other areas. In quick succession, objects start to land on balconies, dropped by residents on higher levels. Equipment failures, such as electrical outages, lead to mild assaults between residents. Cars parked close to the building are vandalized, and a jeweler living on the fortieth floor does a swan dive out of the window. Every incident leads to further acts of violence and increasing chaos in the lives of those in the building. People begin to take a greater interest in what's going on where they live than in outside activities and jobs. As the violence escalates, elevators and lobbies on each floor turn into armed camps as the residents attempt to block any encroachments on their territory. What starts out as a book about living in a technological marvel quickly morphs into a study of how technology can cause human beings to regress back into primitivism. Moreover, Ballard tries to draw a correlation between the technology of the building and this descent into a Stone Age mentality. He shows in detail how the residents of the apartments sink back into the morass, passing through a classical Marxist structure of bourgeoisie-proletariat, moving on to a clan/tribal system, to a system of stark individuality. In short, Ballard tries to equate our striving towards individuality through technology with how we started out in our evolution as hunter-gatherers, as individuals seeking individual gains. The promise that technology will liberate the individual is not the highest form of evolution, argues Ballard, but is actually a return to the lowest forms of human expression.<br>Within a few pages of the story, I thought this might turn out to be very similar to a Bentley Little book. Little, nominally a horror writer but often a social satirist, often takes a situation like this and shows how people collapse under the pressures of modern life. My belief was not born out, however, not because Ballard doesn't take certain situations over the top but because he imbues his work with a significant philosophical subtext that Little would never write about. Bentley Little is all about focusing on the over the top, outrageous incidents of humanity's decline, whereas Ballard is more interested in serving as a preacher on anti-humanistic technology, thundering out a jeremiad concerning where we might go if we do not take the time to think very carefully about the society we wish to create.<br>"High Rise" is a dark, forbidding tale of woe that is sure to get a reaction from anyone who reads it. There seem to be few out there who can deliver such devastating blows to our love of technology as Ballard does in his works. This author is often referred to as a science fiction writer, but "High Rise" works just as well on a horror level. So does "Crash," when I think about it, although the cold, detached prose of that book is not present in "High Rise." Whatever genre Ballard falls into, this book delivers on every level.</p>


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language: en-US
publisher: Transit Books
title: A New Name
writers: Jon Fosse
summary:
  <p><b>WINNER OF THE 2023 NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE</b></p><b>2022 International Booker Prize, Finalist<br>2022 National Book Award, Finalist<br><i>New York Times </i>Editors' Choice</b><br><p><br>&#34;With <i>Septology</i>, Fosse has found a new approach to writing fiction, different from what he has written before and&#8212;it is strange to say, as the novel enters its fifth century&#8212;different from what has been written before. <i>Septology</i> feels new.&#34;&#8212;<b>WYATT MASON, <i>HARPERS</i></b><br></p><p>Asle is an aging painter and widower who lives alone on the west coast of Norway. His only friends are his neighbor, A&#778;sleik, a traditional fisherman-farmer, and Beyer, a gallerist who lives in the city. There, in Bj&#248;rgvin, lives another Asle, also a painter but lonely and consumed by alcohol. Asle and Asle are doppelga&#776;ngers&#8212;two versions of the same person, two versions of the same life. Written in melodious and hypnotic "slow prose," <i>A New...


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language: en
publisher: Transit Books
title: I is Another
writers: Jon Fosse
summary:
  <p><strong>WINNER OF THE 2023 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE</strong></p>&#10;<p><b>&#34;Fosse's portrait of intersecting lives is that rare metaphysical novel that readers will find compulsively readable."&#8212;<i>Publishers Weekly, Starred Review</i></b></p>The Other Name follows the lives of two men living close to each other on the west coast of Norway. The year is coming to a close and Asle, an aging painter and widower, is reminiscing about his life. He lives alone, his only friends being his neighbor, &#197;sleik, a bachelor and traditional Norwegian fisherman-farmer, and Beyer, a gallerist who lives in Bj&#248;rgvin, a couple hours' drive south of Dylgja, where he lives. There, in Bj&#248;rgvin, lives another Asle, also a painter. He and the narrator are doppelgangers&#8212;two versions of the same person, two versions of the same life. <i>I is Another</i> calls into question concrete notions around subjectivity and the self. What makes us who we are? And why do we lead one...


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language: en
publisher: Transit Books
title: The Other Name
writers: Jon Fosse
summary:
  <p><strong>WINNER OF THE 2023 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE</strong></p>&#10;<p><strong>Longlisted for the 2020 International Booker Prize</strong></p>&#10;<p>"Fosse's fusing of the commonplace and the existential, together with his dramatic forays into the past, make for a relentlessly consuming work: already Septology feels momentous."&#8212;<strong>The Guardian</strong></p>&#10;<p>The Other Name follows the lives of two men living close to each other on the west coast of Norway. The year is coming to a close and Asle, an aging painter and widower, is reminiscing about his life. He lives alone, his only friends being his neighbor, &#197;sleik, a bachelor and traditional Norwegian fisherman-farmer, and Beyer, a gallerist who lives in Bj&#248;rgvin, a couple hours' drive south of Dylgja, where he lives. There, in Bj&#248;rgvin, lives another Asle, also a painter. He and the narrator are doppelgangers&#8212;two versions of the same person, two versions of the same...


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language: nl
publisher: HarperCollins
title: Bridge to Terabithia
writers: Katherine Paterson
summary:
  <p>Jess Aarons' greatest ambition is to be the fastest runner in his grade. He's been practicing all summer and can't wait to see his classmates' faces when he beats them all. But on the first day of school, a new girl boldly crosses over to the boys' side and outruns everyone.<p>That's not a very promising beginning for a friendship, but Jess and Leslie Burke become inseparable. Together they create Terabithia, a magical kingdom in the woods where the two of them reign as king and queen, and their imaginations set the only limits. Then one morning a terrible tragedy occurs. Only when Jess is able to come to grips with this tragedy does he finally understand the strength and courage Leslie has given him.


