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Rhiana is an elusive creature. She works at Northtown Books on Sundays and dedicates the rest of her time to the study of botany. It's well known that she enjoys taxonomic identification as much as lollypops and mochas.

Island (Paperback)

By Aldous Huxley
$14.99
ISBN-13: 9780061561795
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Published: Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 11/2009
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Much like Brave New World, this book takes place in an "ideal" society where spiritual and sexual norms are intertwined with bizarre politics and the promise of enlightenment.

 

The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven (Paperback)

By Sherman Alexie
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9780802141675
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Published: Grove Press, 3/2005
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Native author Sherman Alexie gives an accurate and intimate portrayal of life on the Rez. This book left me feeling both sad and nostalgic.

 

Invisible Monsters (Paperback)

By Chuck Palahniuk
$14.95
ISBN-13: 9780393319293
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company, 9/1999
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If you're into disfigurement, vanity, stealing, and recreational use of prescription hormone pills -- this book is for you.

 

Love Medicine: Newly Revised Edition (Paperback)

By Louise Erdrich
$14.99
ISBN-13: 9780061787423
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Published: Harper Perennial, 5/2009
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One of my favorite authors. Each of her novels is a time machine. This is the first in a series of books following the history of an Ojibwe family through several generations. Erdrich's writing elegantly and carefully illustrates the people, as well as the setting and the emotions each convey. Once you turn the last page you'll clasp the book to your heart and reach for the next in the series, The Beet Queen.

 

The Unbearable Lightness of Being: Twentieth Anniversary Edition (Hardcover)

By Milan Kundera
$23.99
ISBN-13: 9780060597184
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Published: Harper, 5/2004

This classic was recommended to me under the guise that Milan Kundera's prose was similar to that of Haruki Murakami. It is. The main difference is that Kundera's introspective dreamworld is set in communist Prague, 1968, not Japan. Each psyche in this love quadrangle articulates sexuality, and mental escape from an authoritarian political environment.

 

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