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1 2 >>>     sort list by title | publication date BLACK LEOPARD RED WOLF Spilling copious amounts of fresh warm blood, Marlon James' new fantasy dips into African Folklore and myth to breathe new life into a genre in danger of stagnation. -Daven Poso Wells Gabriela Alemán Celebrated Ecuadorian author Gabriela Alemán's first work to appear in English: a noir, feminist eco-thriller in which venally corrupt politicians and greedy land speculators finally get their just comeuppance! Fahrenheit 451 60th Anniversary Edition Ray Bradbury The temperature at which book paper combusts! Written in 1951, this dystopian novel is a must-read in today's world of disappearing bookstores and young readers who have never held an actual paperback. —Recommended by Don, City Lights Books Bangkok 8 A Novel John Burdett Witnessed by a throng of gaping spectators, a charismatic Marine sergeant is murdered under a Bangkok bridge inside a bolted-shut Mercedes Benz. Among the witnesses are the only two cops in the city not on the take, but within moments one is murdered... Bloodchild and Other Stories Second Edition Octavia E. Butler Through this fierce collection of stories it is easy for one to become an Octavia Butler fan. Compiled for the first time, these thought-provoking tales offers readers the chance to peer into the world of one of the best science fiction writers around... Fledgling Octavia E. Butler The coming of age story of a young black vampire girl suffering some serious backlash just for existing. Naturally, she's a fighter. Or rather, with enemies this callously calculating, you have to be. In perfect form, Octavia Butler brings us a vampire... Ready Player One Ernest Cline If you are a geek for 80s popculture taking place in Virtual Reality in the futuretime of 2044, solving videogame mysteries to win the ultimate prize, then this book is for you. I loved it to bytes! —Recommended by Don, City Lights Books Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Philip K. Dick By 2021, the World War had killed millions, driving entire species into extinction and sending mankind off-planet. Those who remained coveted any living creature, and for people who couldn't afford one, companies built incredibly realistic simulacrae:.. The Man in the High Castle A Novel Philip K. Dick "The single most resonant and carefully imagined book of Dick's career." – New York Times It's America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. The few Jews who still survive hide under assumed names. In San Francisco, the I Ching is as common as the Yellow Pages. All because some twenty years earlier the United States lost a war... The Maltese Falcon Dashiell Hammett A treasure worth killing for. Sam Spade, a slightly shopworn private eye with his own solitary code of ethics. A perfumed grafter named Joel Cairo, a fat man name Gutman, and Brigid O’Shaughnessy, a beautiful and treacherous woman... Dune Frank Herbert Paul Atreides moves with his family to the planet Dune and is forced into exile when his father's government is overthrown. The first book in the series. Mygale City Lights Noir Thierry Jonquet Mygale [MIG-uh-lee] n.: a genus of large tropical spiders. . . . Richard Lafargue, a well-known plastic surgeon, pursues and captures Vincent Moreau, who raped Lafargue's daughter and left her hopelessly mad in an asylum. Lafargue is determined to... The Three-Body Problem Remembrance of Earth's Past, Book 1 Cixin Liu The Three-Body Problem is the first chance for English-speaking readers to experience this multiple award winning phenomenon from China's most beloved science fiction author, Liu Cixin. Set against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution, a secret military project sends signals into space to establish contact with aliens. The Gunman A Novel Jean-Patrick Manchette "Forget whatever you've read about the film. This is the darkest of dark noirs, in the tradition of Jim Thompson, and the last novel Manchette would publish before his early death. Every word Manchette wrote is worth your time, much as those of one of his predecessors in French minimalism, Georges Bernanos, is."— City Lights Books 1 2 >>>