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The walking dead : Days Gone Bye [Vol. 1], Days Gone Bye
by Robert Kirkman
Police officer Rick Grimes is shot on the job and wakes up a month later to find that the world that he knows is gone. Zombies have taken over and are killing and eating those who are still alive. He sets out toward Atlanta in the hope that his family is still alive and endures many horrors along the way.
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Maus : A Survivor's Tale
by Art Spiegelman
Maus: A Survivor's Tale is the autobiographical work of Art Spiegelman. Told using the comics medium, it's the complete story of Vladek Spiegelman, a Polish Jew, living and surviving in Hitler's Europe. By addressing the horror of the Holocaust through anthropomorphic animals Spiegelman captures the everyday reality of fear and is able to explore the guilt, relief and extraordinary sensation of survival.
Winner of a Pulitzer Prize and numerous other awards, it's a moving, contemporary classic of immeasurable significance
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
by Philip K. Dick
A final, apocalyptic, world war has killed millions, driving entire species into extinction and sending the majority of mankind off-planet. Those who remain, venerate all remaining examples of life, and owning an animal of your own is both a symbol of status and a necessity. For those who can't afford an authentic animal, companies build incredibly realistic simulacrae: horses, birds, cats, sheep . . . even humans.
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Stranger in a Strange Land
by Robert A. Heinlein
Here is Heinlein's masterpiece--the brilliant spectacular and incredibly popular novel that grew from a cult favoirte to a bestseller to a classic in a few short years. It is the story of Valentine Michael Smith, the man from Mars who taught humankind grokking and water-sharing. And love
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Paper towns
by John Green
One month before graduating from his Central Florida high school, Quentin "Q" Jacobsen basks in the predictable boringness of his life until the beautiful and exciting Margo Roth Spiegelman, Q's neighbor and classmate, takes him on a midnight adventure and then mysteriously disappears
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Me and Earl and the dying girl : a novel
by Jesse Andrews
Seventeen-year-old Greg has managed to become part of every social group at his Pittsburgh high school without having any friends, but his life changes when his mother forces him to befriend Rachel, a girl he once knew in Hebrew school who has leukemia.
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