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Keeper of dreams
Orson Scott Card.
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656 p. ; 25 cm.
This new collection of Card's short fiction contains 22 stories, including two from the Alvin Maker Universe, with new introductions and commentary on his life and work, all written by Card himself.
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Keeping it real
Justina Robson.
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337 p. ; 23 cm.
"The Quantum Bomb of 2015 changed everything. The fabric that kept the universe's different dimensions apart was torn and now, six years later, the people of earth exist in uneasy company with inhabitants of, among others, the elven, elemental, and demonic realms. Magic is real and can be even more dangerous than technology. Elves are exotic, erotic, dangerous and really bored with the constant Lord of the Rings references. Elementals are a law unto themselves, and demons are best left well to themselves. Special agent Lila Black used to be pretty, but now she's not so sure. Her body is now more than half restless carbon and metal alloy machinery - a machine she's barely in control of. It goes into combat mode, enough weapons for a small army springing from within itself, at the merest provocation. As for her heart ... well ever since being drawn into a Game by the elven rock star she's been assigned to protect, she's not even sure she can trust that anymore either."--BOOK JACKET.
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Killer secrets
Lora Leigh.
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378 p. ; 18 cm.
Kira Porter, an undercover agent for the Department of Homeland Security, enters into an uneasy alliance with Ian Richards, a Navy SEAL and the illegitimate son of a criminal, on a mission complicated by their own passionate desires.
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Wolf totem
Jiang Rong ; translated by Howard Goldblatt.
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vii, 527 p. : map ; 25 cm.
An epic Chinese tale that depicts the dying culture of the Mongols--the ancestors of the Mongol hordes who at one time terrorized the world--and the parallel extinction of the animal they believe to be sacred: the fierce and otherworldly Mongolian wolf.
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Last last chance
Fiona Maazel.
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337 p. ; 24 cm.
"A lethal strain of virus vanishes from a lab in Washington, D.C., letting loose an epidemic - and all the world thinks Lucy Clark's dead father is to blame. The "superplague" may be the least of Lucy's problems, though. There's her mother, Isifrid, a peddler of high-end hatwear, a crackhead and pagan theologian. There's her twelve-year-old half sister, Hannah, who is obsessed with disease and Christian fundamentalism, and there's Lucy's lover, Stanley, who's hell-bent on finding a womb for his dead wife's frozen eggs. There's her grandmother, Agneth, who believes in reincarnation (and who turns out to be right)." "And then there's Lucy herself, whose wise, warped approach to life makes her a guide to love among the ruins. Romping across the country from New York City to rural Pennsylvania and the Texas desert, Lucy tries to get the better of her drug addiction and keep her family intact - and she tells us, uproariously, all about it." "Last Last Chance is a novel about survival and recovery, opportunity and despair - about love and faith in an age of anxiety."--BOOK JACKET.
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Lavinia
Ursula K. Le Guin.
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279 p. : map ; 24 cm.
In The Aeneid, Vergil's hero fights to claim the king's daughter, Lavinia, with whom he is destined to found an empire. Lavinia herself never speaks a word in the poem. Now, Ursula K. Le Guin gives Lavinia a voice in a novel that takes the reader to the half-wild world of ancient Italy, when Rome was a muddy village near seven hills.--From amazon.com.
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Die Leiden eines Amerikaners Roman
Siri Hustvedt. Aus dem Engl. von Uli Aumüller und Gertraude Krueger.
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411 p. ; 21 cm.
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Der letzte Weynfeldt : Roman
Martin Suter.
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313 p. ; 19 cm.
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Ein liebender Mann : Roman
Martin Walser.
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284 p. ; 21 cm.
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Ling hun 21 ke : Yi ge nû fu hao 60 nian de jing shen liu bian
Wang Chunyuan zhu.
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354 p. ; 23 cm.
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Losing you
Nicci French.
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292 p. ; 25 cm.
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The paper moon
Andrea Camilleri ; translated by Stephen Sartarelli.
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264 p. ; 20 cm.
The moody Inspector Montalbano is further beset by the existential questions that have been plaguing him of late. But he doesn't have much time to wax philosophical before the gruesome murder of a man--shot at point-blank range in the face with his pants down--commands his attention. Add two evasive, beautiful women as prime suspects, some dirty cocaine, mysterious computer codes, and a series of threatening letters, and things soon get very complicated at the police headquarters in Vigàta.
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