Posts Tagged ‘fiction’
Nostalgia
From one of Canada’s most celebrated writers, two-time Giller Prize winner Moyez Vassanji, comes a taut, ingenuous and dynamic novel about a future where eternal life is possible, and identities can be chosen. In the indeterminate future in an unnamed western city, physical impediments to immortality have been overcome. As society approaches the prospect of…
Read MoreCat’s Cradle
A young writer decides to interview the children of a scientist primarily responsible for the creation of the atomic bomb
Read MoreSlaughterhouse Five
Billy Pilgrim survives capture by the Gemans in World War II, the Dresden bombings, and the struggle for financial success only to be kidnapped in a flying saucer and taken to the planet Tralfamadore.
Read MoreAn English Ghost Story
The Map of Time
A skeptical H. G. Wells investigates time-travel mysteries including an aristocrat’s love affair with a murdered prostitute from the past, a Victorian woman’s escape to the future, and a plot to murder celebrated authors to steal their written works.
Read MoreThe Map of the Sky
When a New York socialite challenges her millionaire suitor to reproduce the extraterrestrial invasion featured in Wells’ War of the Worlds, three fantastical adventures in time travel and mystery ensue, replete with cameos by such figures as a young Edgar Allan Poe, Captain Shackleton and Charles Winslow from The Map of Time.
Read MoreThe Dogs of Babel
Re Jane
Jane Re is a Korean-American orphan, and Queens is her home. Jane toils in her Uncle’s grocery store, desperate for an escape. When she lands a job as an au pair for the Mazer-Farleys – Brooklyn English professors with an adopted Chinese daughter – Jane is thrilled. Introduced into a whole new life that’s worlds…
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“This is not a test”-every New Yorker’s worst nightmare is about to become a reality. New Yorkers aren’t easily intimidated, but someone is doing their best to scare them, badly. Why? After two inexplicable high-tech attacks, the city that never sleeps is on edge. Detective Michael Bennett, along with his old pal, the FBI’s Emily…
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