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Orwell's 1945 fable about the power struggles among animals on a farm parallels the situation in Russia at the time as Orwell saw it; the characters include the ruthless pig Stalin, his idealistic Trotsky-like adversary, and the simple, kindly horse who represents the common man. All animals are equals but some animals are more equal than others. George Orwell's classic satire of the Russian Revolution is the account of the bold struggle, initiated...
2) Numero zero
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Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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1945, Lake Como. Mussolini and his mistress are captured and shot by local partisans. The precise circumstances of Il Duce's death remain controversial. 1992, Milan. Colonna, a depressed hack writer, is offered a fee he can't resist to ghostwrite a book. His subject: a fledgling newspaper, which happens to be financed by a powerful media magnate. As Colonna gets to know the team, he learns of the editor's paranoid theory that Mussolini's corpse was...
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English
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Adjustment Day is coming. Are you ready for the reckoning? Politicians have brought the nation to the brink of a third world war-- in an effort to control the burgeoning population of young males. Working-class men dream of burying the elites; professors propound theories that offer students only the bleakest future. Are the directives in the Talbott book the secrets to surviving? Or are they something else entirely?
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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A "satirical look at a dysfunctional southern family complete with an overbearing stage mom, a 9 year-old pageant queen, a cheating husband, his teenage girlfriend, a crazy grandmother and Jesus"--
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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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"Like Bastard Out of Carolina, ffitch's electrifying debut novel is a paean to independence and a protest against the materialism of our age." —O: The Oprah Magazine
"Delightfully raucous." —Sam Sacks, The Wall Street Journal
Helen arrives in Appalachian Ohio full of love and her boyfriend's ideas for living off the land. Too soon, with winter coming, he calls it quits. Helped by Rudy—her
12) Blasphemy
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Publisher
Golden Gryphon Press
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xi, 349 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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In two short novels and five short stories the author "examines our tendency to believe in various authoritarian systems, to accept them at their word, and to behave accordingly. And he doesn't approve."--From the foreword.
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Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
346 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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"A cowboy governor finds himself the accidental leader of Texas's right-wing revolution in this irreverent, entertaining debut novel. Written with the comedic mastery of Christopher Buckley, Don't Mess with Travis tells the story of Ben Travis, a no-name Texas senator who becomes governor after a late-night accident takes the lives of the men ahead of him in the chain of command. Before the paint has even dried on his parking spot, the recently divorced...
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Internet apocalypse novels volume 3
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
234 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In this third and final installment of the Internet Apocalypse Trilogy, Gladstone, the would-be Internet Messiah, finds himself in exile from America, falsely accused of murder. Meanwhile, a government Special Agent is hot on his trail and has joined forces with a would-be Hollywood producer who is bent on finding Gladstone to option his story for film. When the World Wide Web returns in a highly compromised and commercialized state under the new...
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