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Literature
BROWN GIRL
Written by Taneus-Miller, Leilani
Shelly Nacre is the brown face in a sea of white, washed up on the rocky shores of Long Island. Life changes suddenly when tragedy befalls her family, leaving Shelly to make sense of what has happened in the only way she knows how. Her father, an armchair activist, feeds her plenty by way of philosophical ruminations, but these words do not anchor her.
UNLIMITED DREAM COMPANY
Written by Ballard, J G
When a light aircraft crashes into the Thames at Shepperton, the young pilot who struggles to the surface minutes later seems to have come back from the dead. Within hours everything in the dormitory suburb is transformed.
HELLO AMERICA
Written by Ballard, J G
Following the energy crisis of the late twentieth century, America has been abandoned. Now, a century later, a small group of European explorers returns to the now climatically mutated continent. But America is unrecognizable--the Bering Strait has been dammed and much of the country has become a desert, populated by isolated natives and the bizarre remnants of a disintegrated culture.
MILLENNIUM PEOPLE
Written by Ballard, J G
Violent rebellion comes to London's middle classes in this "fascinating" (San Francisco Chronicle) novel from the same author of Crash and Empire of the Sun. Never more timely, Millennium People "seeks to illuminate our hearts of darkness while undermining our assumptions about what literature is meant to do" (Los Angeles Times).
DAY OF CREATION
Written by Ballard, J G
On the arid, war-plagued terrain of central Africa, a manic doctor is consumed with visions of transforming the Sahara into a land of abundance. But Dr. Mallory's obsession quickly spirals dangerously out of control. First published in 1987, this classic Ballard thriller continues to resonate "with dark implications for the future of humanity" (Publishers Weekly).
RUSHING TO PARADISE
Written by Ballard, J G
Led by a charismatic and slightly unhinged woman, a group of environmentalists wrest control over a small South Pacific island in hopes of cultivating it into their own private Eden. But paradise is not quite what it seems in this "searing" (Kirkus Reviews) send-up of environmentalism, feminism, and extremism of all sorts.
DROUGHT
Written by Ballard, J G
Water. Man's most precious commodity is a luxury of the past. Radioactive waste from years of industrial dumping has caused the sea to form a protective skin strong enough to devastate the Earth it once sustained. And while the remorseless sun beats down on the dying land, civilization itself begins to crack.
KINGDOM COME
Written by Ballard, J G
A violent novel filled with insidious twists, Kingdom Come follows the exploits of Richard Pearson, a rebellious, unemployed advertising executive, whose father is gunned down by a deranged mental patient in a vast shopping mall outside Heathrow Airport. When the prime suspect is released without charge, Richard's suspicions are aroused.
SUPER-CANNES
Written by Ballard, J G
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ALI SMITH Long-regarded as one of the true visionary writers of the twentieth century, J.G. Ballard was one of the first British writers of the post-war period to begin to see, and to map out in his fiction, the future course of our civilization.
COUPLES
Written by Updike, John
"Trapped in their cozy catacombs, the couples have made sex by turns their toy, their glue, their trauma, their therapy, their hope, their frustration, their revenge, their narcotic, their main line of communication and their sole and pitiable shield against the awareness of death."--Time One of the signature novels of the American 1960s, Couples is a book that, when it de
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