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  Dear Dickhead - A Novel

  Virginie Despentes

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  The French novel taking the world by storm: an ultracontemporary Dangerous Liaisons about sex, feminism, and addiction. 
   
   
   
  Oscar is a B-list novelist in his forties. He used to be an alcoholic and a cokehead, but now he keeps himself busy by ranting on social media. When Rebecca, an actress whose looks he insulted, sends him an angry email, they strike up a combative correspondence—at the very moment that Oscar is accused of sexual harassment by his former publicist. What ensues is a no-holds-barred conversation about life under the patriarchy, and above all about addiction—to drugs, to alcohol, to the internet, to rage. 
   
   
   
  Virginie Despentes, the celebrated author of King Kong Theory, has written her breakthrough book: a Dangerous Liaisons for our time. We follow Rebecca and Oscar as they develop an unlikely friendship and argue over questions of right and wrong in a city—Paris—where pleasure, excess, and freedom rule the day, or used to. Dear Dickhead is a guns-blazing novel about a culture that makes men and women sick, and about how the search for feeling leaves us addicted to what makes us feel. The result is a provocative and unmissable book from the author hailed by the Guardian as France's "rock and roll Zola."

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  Ambassador 12: The Unfolding Army

  Patty Jansen

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  For three months, Cory and his team have hung with Asto's military in orbit, watching as drone armies attacked Earth. 
  They could have helped more had Nations of Earth communicated with the fleet or if they could only find out where these drones come from, who controls them and from where. The enemy is smart, enmeshed with sections of Earth's population and Asto's military severely hamstrung by Nations of Earth playing chicken. 
  Three months ago, the president contacted Cory asking for help. The connection was interrupted and never re-established. 
  It's as if they don't want help. 
  Cory's got gamra breathing down his neck with the requirement that Nations of Earth officially approves the presence of Asto's military in orbit. 
  Something has to give. 
  He and his team return to a battle-scarred Earth on a hare-brained mission to talk to Nations of Earth, to check on the president, to get him to sign for approval. Getting there is hard. The state of the Nations of Earth assembly is deeply troubling. But getting out, that's where it gets truly interesting.

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  Apocalyptic Sci-Fi 3 - 6...

  E. M. Forster, Robert...

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  Apocalyptic Sci-Fi 3 - 6 Apocalyptic Science Fiction Short StoriesThe Machine Stops by E. M. ForsterThe Burnt Planet by William BrittainAn Enemy of Peace by Robert SilverbergThe Last Man in New York by Paul MacNamaraWhen the Moon Fell by Morrison ColladayFinis by Frank Lillie Pollock

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  Anthem

  Ayn Rand

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  "Anthem" by Ayn Rand is a dystopian novella that unfolds in a future society where individuality is eradicated, and collectivism reigns supreme. The protagonist, Equality 7-2521, dares to defy the oppressive system and embarks on a journey of self-discovery. As he grapples with forbidden thoughts and explores the forbidden concept of "I," he uncovers the power of individualism and the pursuit of personal identity. Rand's thought-provoking narrative delves into the consequences of a society that suppresses individualism, offering a compelling exploration of the human spirit's indomitable quest for freedom and self-expression. "Anthem" serves as a timeless exploration of the importance of individual rights and the inherent value of human independence.

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  Becoming Mariella

  Janet Constantino

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  It's unprecedented, even in the 21st century, for a young Sicilian woman to incur infamy and defy the centuries old mandate, “Family is everything!” Twenty-two-year old Mariella Russo is desperate to flee Sicily, that, while her lifelong home, has become a claustrophobic island.  She’s being relentlessly coerced into an engagement with her wealthy college sweetheart from a prominent, powerful, family, and her envious and erratic mother hopes the match will increase her own ignominious social status. To fight for independence and escape entrapment, Mariella flees to San Francisco.  
  But her bête noire—entrapment—follows Mariella to San Francisco, where everyone wants more from her than she wants to give.  Her American roommate, Leslie, turns out to be a gay man rather than the woman she imagined; her employer/lover pressures her to live with him.  And, her neurotic mother haunts her, wreaking havoc and embarrassment. An urgent return trip to Sicily puts Mariella to the ultimate challenge of submitting to tradition or choosing a life she wants for herself.

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  The Martian Shore

  Charles L. Fontenay

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  The Martian Shore by Charles L. Fontenay - Shaan made the longest crawl in history—to avoid crawling before tyrants! 
  The lone figure trudged across the Hellas Desert toward Alpheus Canal. He moved fast in the low gravity of Mars, but the canal was miles away and the afternoon was far gone. 
  Robbo Shaan turned his marsuit temperature unit down a degree. He still perspired freely, but he didn't dare turn it any lower. Only a green Earthand would ignore any survival factor when stranded on the Martian desert. 
  Shaan had no map, no compass. But he remembered there was a private dome in the middle of the canal, just about due east from him. He didn't have enough oxygen to reach it. They had seen to that. But he'd try till he died. 
  The brand itched on his forehead, and scalded in the sweat that poured down from his close-cropped blond hair. With his marshelmet on, there was no way to scratch it. It throbbed. 
  Even if he reached the dome, or any dome, that brand guaranteed that he would be shot on sight. 
  Soldiers of the Imperial Government of Mars had dropped the jetcopter to the sand hours before, and turned Robbo Shaan out to die. He had stood on the red sand and watched the 'copter with the four-winged eagles painted on its sides, as it rose and fled away from him in the direction of Mars City. 
  He smiled grimly. The Imperial Constitution did not permit the Government to kill a man outright, no matter what his crime. This was the way they did it instead. 
  Robbo Shaan's crime was simple. He believed in the old democratic form of government the Martian dome-cities had had after the Martian people won their freedom from the Earth corporations in the Charax Uprising—and had recently lost. Shaan had talked democracy, and under the new Imperial Government that was treason.

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