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No Logo
There's a bad mood rising against the corporate brands. No Logo is the warning on the label.
No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies is a book by Canadian journalist Naomi Klein. First published by Knopf Canada in January 2000, shortly after the WTO Ministerial Conference protests in Seattle had generated media attention around such issues, it became one of the most influential books about the anti-globalization movement and an international bestseller.
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FRANKENSTEIN, by Mary Shelley. This is probably the most star twisted romance ever written.. This book is created so the pages turn, and every time you reopen the book it will find the very page you left off at.
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After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship, one solitary lifeboat
remains bobbing on the wild, blue Pacific.The crew of the surviving
vessel consists of a hyena, a zebra (with a broken leg), a female
orang-utan, a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger and Pi - a 16-year-old
Indian boy.The scene is set for one of the most extraordinary pieces of
literary fiction of recent years.
Yann Martel's Life of Pi is a transformative novel,
a dazzling work of imagination that will delight and astound readers in
equal measure. It is a triumph of storytelling and a tale that will, as
one character puts it, make you believe in God.
Orson Scott Card has the distinction of having swept both the Hugo and Nebulaawards in two consecutive years with his amazing novels Ender’s Game
and Speaker for the Dead. For a body of work that ranges from science
fiction to nonfiction to plays, Card has been recognized as an author
who provides vivid, colorful glimpses between the world we know and
worlds we can only imagine.
In a peaceful, prosperous African
American neighborhood in Los Angeles, Mack Street is a mystery child
who has somehow found a home. Discovered abandoned in an overgrown
park, raised by a blunt-speaking single woman, Mack comes and goes from
family to family–a boy who is at once surrounded by boisterous
characters and deeply alone. But while Mack senses that he is different
from most, and knows that he has strange powers, he cannot possibly
understand how unusual he is until the day he sees, in a thin slice of
space, a narrow house. Beyond it is a backyard–and an entryway into an
extraordinary world stretching off into an exotic distance of
geography, history, and magic.
From the end of the eighteenth century into the early years of the
nineteenth, Americans crossed the Appalachian Mountains and Northwest
Territory, spreading west. They traveled to find new homes,
new lands, and they brought with them the plain magics of plain people.
It is from these roots of the American dream that award-winning writer
Orson Scott Card has crafted a uniquely American fantasy. Using the
lore and the folk magic of the men and women who settled a continent,
and the beliefs of the tribes who were here before them, Card has
created an alternate frontier America; a world where certain magic
really works and has colored the entire history of the colonies. Charms,
beseechings, hexes, and potions all have a place in the lives of the
people of this world. 'Knacks' abound: dowsers find water, sparks set
fires, blacksmiths speak to iron, the second sight
warns of dan ger, and a torch can read the heart-fire of anyone within
reach. Alvin Miller is the seventh son of a seventh son, born while all
of his brothers still lived. Such a birth is a powerful magic; such a
boy is destined to perhaps become a Maker, even though no Maker has
been born for many a century. But Alvin is something special; and even
before his birth, dark forces reached out to destroy him. Rejoin the
tale of Alvin and his wife Peggy as they work to create the Crystal
City of Alvin's vision, where all people can live together in peace. ORSON SCOTT CARD lives in Greensboro, North Carolina.