Juniper's bookshelf: all en-US Fri, 10 Aug 2018 16:21:01 -0700 60 Juniper's bookshelf: all 144 41 https://www.goodreads.com/images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg Pastoralia 14295
The stories in Pastoralia are set in a slightly skewed version of America, where elements of contemporary life have been merged, twisted, and amplified, casting their absurdity—and our humanity—in a startling new light. Whether he writes a gothic morality tale in which a male exotic dancer is haunted by his maiden aunt from beyond the grave, or about a self-help guru who tells his followers his mission is to discover who's been "crapping in your oatmeal," Saunders's stories are both indelibly strange and vividly real.]]> 188 George Saunders 0747553866 Juniper 5 4.09 2000 Pastoralia
author: George Saunders
name: Juniper
average rating: 4.09
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]]> The Alchemist 865 197 Paulo Coelho 0061122416 Juniper 0 to-read 3.85 1988 The Alchemist
author: Paulo Coelho
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average rating: 3.85
book published: 1988
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]]> <![CDATA[Seventh Son (Tales of Alvin Maker, #1)]]> 40290 241 Orson Scott Card 076534775X Juniper 5 3.88 1987 Seventh Son (Tales of Alvin Maker, #1)
author: Orson Scott Card
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average rating: 3.88
book published: 1987
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[The Worthing Saga (Worthing, #1-3)]]> 40304
It was a miracle of science that permitted human beings to live, if not forever, then for a long, long time. Some people, anyway. The rich, the powerful--they lived their lives at the rate of one year every ten. Somec created two societies: that of people who lived out their normal span and died, and those who slept away the decades, skipping over the intervening years and events. It allowed great plans to be put in motion. It allowed interstellar Empires to be built.

It came near to destroying humanity.

After a long, long time of decadence and stagnation, a few seed ships were sent out to save our species. They carried human embryos and supplies, and teaching robots, and one man. The Worthing Saga is the story of one of these men, Jason Worthing, and the world he found for the seed he carried.

Orson Scott Card is "a master of the art of storytelling" (Booklist), and The Worthing Saga is a story that only he could have written.
]]> 463 Orson Scott Card 0812533313 Juniper 5 3.86 1990 The Worthing Saga (Worthing, #1-3)
author: Orson Scott Card
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average rating: 3.86
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]]> Treason 7956 Iron is the promise of freedom -- which may never be fulfilled as Lanik uncovers a treacherous conspiracy beyond his imagination.
Now charged with a mission of conquest -- and exile -- Lanik devises a bold and dangerous plan... a quest that may finally break the vicious chain of rivalry and bloodshed that enslaves the people of Treason as the Offworld never could.]]> 275 Orson Scott Card 0765309041 Juniper 5 3.90 1978 Treason
author: Orson Scott Card
name: Juniper
average rating: 3.90
book published: 1978
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Shadow of the Giant (The Shadow #4)]]> 8647 388 Orson Scott Card 1841492051 Juniper 5 4.01 2005 Shadow of the Giant (The Shadow #4)
author: Orson Scott Card
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average rating: 4.01
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]]> <![CDATA[Shadow Puppets (The Shadow Series, #3)]]> 234724
Earth and its society have been changed irrevocably in the aftermath of Ender Wiggin's victory over the Formics. The unity forced upon the warring nations by an alien enemy has shattered. Nations are rising again, seeking territory and influence, and most of all, seeking to control the skills and loyalty of the children from the Battle School.

But one person has a better idea. Peter Wiggin, Ender's older, more ruthless, brother, sees that any hope for the future of Earth lies in restoring a sense of unity and purpose. And he has an irresistible call on the loyalty of Earth's young warriors. With Bean at his side, the two will reshape our future.

Here is the continuing story of Bean and Petra, and the rest of Ender's Dragon Army, as they take their places in the new government of Earth.]]> 375 Orson Scott Card 0765340054 Juniper 5 3.89 2002 Shadow Puppets (The Shadow Series, #3)
author: Orson Scott Card
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average rating: 3.89
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]]> <![CDATA[Shadow of the Hegemon (The Shadow Series, #2)]]> 9534
But with the external threat gone, the Earth has become a battlefield once more. The children of the Battle School are more than heroes; they are potential weapons that can bring power to the countries that control them. One by one, all of Ender's Dragon Army are kidnapped. Only Bean escapes; and he turns for help to Ender's brother Peter.

Peter Wiggin, Ender's older brother, has already been manipulating the politics of Earth from behind the scenes. With Bean's help, he will eventually rule the world.]]> 451 Orson Scott Card 0812565959 Juniper 5 3.96 2000 Shadow of the Hegemon (The Shadow Series, #2)
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average rating: 3.96
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]]> <![CDATA[Ender's Shadow: Command School]]> 7284642 120 Mike Carey 0785135987 Juniper 5 4.43 Ender's Shadow: Command School
author: Mike Carey
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]]> <![CDATA[Children of the Mind (Ender's Saga, #4)]]> 31360
At the start of Children of the Mind, Jane, the evolved computer intelligence, is using her newly discovered abilities to take the races of buggers, humans and pequeninos outside the universe and back instantaneously. She uses these powers to move them to distant habitable planets for colonization. She is losing her memory and concentration as the vast computer network connected to the ansible is being shut down. If she is to survive, she must find a way to transfer her aiúa (or soul) to a human body.]]> 370 Orson Scott Card 0765304740 Juniper 4 3.78 1996 Children of the Mind (Ender's Saga, #4)
author: Orson Scott Card
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average rating: 3.78
book published: 1996
rating: 4
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]]> Xenocide (Ender's Saga, #3) 8648
On Lusitania, Ender found a world where humans and pequininos and the Hive Queen could all live together; where three very different intelligent species could find common ground at last. Or so he thought.

Lusitania also harbors the descolada, a virus that kills all humans it infects, but which the pequininos require in order to become adults. The Starways Congress so fears the effects of the descolada, should it escape from Lusitania, that they have ordered the destruction of the entire planet, and all who live there. The Fleet is on its way, a second xenocide seems inevitable.

Xenocide is the third novel in Orson Scott Card's The Ender Saga.]]> 592 Orson Scott Card 0312861877 Juniper 5 3.81 1991 Xenocide (Ender's Saga, #3)
author: Orson Scott Card
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average rating: 3.81
book published: 1991
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]]> <![CDATA[Ender's Shadow (The Shadow Series, #1)]]> 9532
Growing up is never easy. But try living on the mean streets as a child begging for food and fighting like a dog with ruthless gangs of starving kids who wouldn't hesitate to pound your skull into pulp for a scrap of apple. If Bean has learned anything on the streets, it's how to survive. And not with fists. He is way too small for that. But with brains.

Bean is a genius with a magician's ability to zero in on his enemy and exploit his weakness.

What better quality for a future general to lead the Earth in a final climactic battle against a hostile alien race, known as Buggers. At Battleschool Bean meets and befriends another future commander - Ender Wiggins - perhaps his only true rival.

Only one problem: for Bean and Ender, the future is now.

Ender's Shadow is the book that launched The Shadow Series, and the parallel novel to Orson Scott Card's science fiction classic, Ender's Game.]]> 469 Orson Scott Card 0765342405 Juniper 5 4.32 1999 Ender's Shadow (The Shadow Series, #1)
author: Orson Scott Card
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average rating: 4.32
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]]> <![CDATA[Speaker for the Dead (Ender's Saga, #2)]]> 7967
In the aftermath of his terrible war, Ender Wiggin disappeared, and a powerful voice arose: The Speaker for the Dead, who told the true story of the Bugger War.

Now, long years later, a second alien race has been discovered, but again the aliens' ways are strange and frightening...again, humans die. And it is only the Speaker for the Dead, who is also Ender Wiggin the Xenocide, who has the courage to confront the mystery...and the truth.

Speaker for the Dead, the second novel in Orson Scott Card's Ender Quintet, is the winner of the 1986 Nebula Award for Best Novel and the 1987 Hugo Award for Best Novel.]]> 382 Orson Scott Card 0812550757 Juniper 5 4.11 1986 Speaker for the Dead (Ender's Saga, #2)
author: Orson Scott Card
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average rating: 4.11
book published: 1986
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]]> <![CDATA[Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)]]> 375802
In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race's next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. A brilliant young boy, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin lives with his kind but distant parents, his sadistic brother Peter, and the person he loves more than anyone else, his sister Valentine. Peter and Valentine were candidates for the soldier-training program but didn't make the cut―young Ender is the Wiggin drafted to the orbiting Battle School for rigorous military training.

Ender's skills make him a leader in school and respected in the Battle Room, where children play at mock battles in zero gravity. Yet growing up in an artificial community of young soldiers Ender suffers greatly from isolation, rivalry from his peers, pressure from the adult teachers, and an unsettling fear of the alien invaders. His psychological battles include loneliness, fear that he is becoming like the cruel brother he remembers, and fanning the flames of devotion to his beloved sister.

Is Ender the general Earth needs? But Ender is not the only result of the genetic experiments. The war with the Buggers has been raging for a hundred years, and the quest for the perfect general has been underway for almost as long. Ender's two older siblings are every bit as unusual as he is, but in very different ways. Between the three of them lie the abilities to remake a world. If, that is, the world survives.

Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game is the winner of the 1985 Nebula Award for Best Novel and the 1986 Hugo Award for Best Novel.]]> 324 Orson Scott Card 0812550706 Juniper 5 4.31 1985 Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
author: Orson Scott Card
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average rating: 4.31
book published: 1985
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]]> Breakfast of Champions 4980 Alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here

In Breakfast of Champions, one of Kurt Vonnegut’s most beloved characters, the aging writer Kilgore Trout, finds to his horror that a Midwest car dealer is taking his fiction as truth. What follows is murderously funny satire, as Vonnegut looks at war, sex, racism, success, politics, and pollution in America and reminds us how to see the truth.]]> 303 Kurt Vonnegut Jr. 0385334206 Juniper 2 4.07 1973 Breakfast of Champions
author: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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average rating: 4.07
book published: 1973
rating: 2
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]]> A Prayer for Owen Meany 4473 637 John Irving 0552135399 Juniper 3 4.24 1989 A Prayer for Owen Meany
author: John Irving
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average rating: 4.24
book published: 1989
rating: 3
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]]> The Secret History 29044 Truly deserving of the accolade modern classic, Donna Tartt's novel is a remarkable achievement—both compelling and elegant, dramatic and playful.

Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college discover a way of thinking and living that is a world away from the humdrum existence of their contemporaries. But when they go beyond the boundaries of normal morality they slip gradually from obsession to corruption and betrayal, and at last—inexorably—into evil.]]> 559 Donna Tartt 1400031702 Juniper 0 to-read 4.15 1992 The Secret History
author: Donna Tartt
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average rating: 4.15
book published: 1992
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]]> <![CDATA[The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)]]> 5043 Ken Follett is known worldwide as the master of split-second suspense, but his most beloved and bestselling book tells the magnificent tale of a twelfth-century monk driven to do the seemingly impossible: build the greatest Gothic cathedral the world has ever known.

Everything readers expect from Follett is here: intrigue, fast-paced action, and passionate romance. But what makes The Pillars of the Earth extraordinary is the time the twelfth century; the place feudal England; and the subject the building of a glorious cathedral. Follett has re-created the crude, flamboyant England of the Middle Ages in every detail. The vast forests, the walled towns, the castles, and the monasteries become a familiar landscape.

Against this richly imagined and intricately interwoven backdrop, filled with the ravages of war and the rhythms of daily life, the master storyteller draws the reader irresistibly into the intertwined lives of his characters into their dreams, their labors, and their loves: Tom, the master builder; Aliena, the ravishingly beautiful noblewoman; Philip, the prior of Kingsbridge; Jack, the artist in stone; and Ellen, the woman of the forest who casts a terrifying curse. From humble stonemason to imperious monarch, each character is brought vividly to life.

The building of the cathedral, with the almost eerie artistry of the unschooled stonemasons, is the center of the drama. Around the site of the construction, Follett weaves a story of betrayal, revenge, and love, which begins with the public hanging of an innocent man and ends with the humiliation of a king.

For the TV tie-in edition with the same ISBN go to this Alternate Cover Edition
]]> 976 Ken Follett 045122213X Juniper 5 4.35 1989 The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)
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average rating: 4.35
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]]> <![CDATA[Jurassic Park (Jurassic Park, #1)]]> 40604658
Until something goes wrong...

In Jurassic Park, Michael Crichton taps all his mesmerizing talent and scientific brilliance to create his most electrifying technothriller.]]> 466 Michael Crichton 0307763056 Juniper 4 4.38 1990 Jurassic Park (Jurassic Park, #1)
author: Michael Crichton
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average rating: 4.38
book published: 1990
rating: 4
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]]> Gone with the Wind 18405 1037 Margaret Mitchell 0446365386 Juniper 3 4.30 1936 Gone with the Wind
author: Margaret Mitchell
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average rating: 4.30
book published: 1936
rating: 3
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]]> A Clockwork Orange 227463 A Clockwork Orange is a frightening fable about good and evil, and the meaning of human freedom. And when the state undertakes to reform Alex to "redeem" him, the novel asks, "At what cost?"

This edition includes the controversial last chapter not published in the first edition and Burgess's introduction "A Clockwork Orange Resucked."]]> 192 Anthony Burgess Juniper 3 3.98 1962 A Clockwork Orange
author: Anthony Burgess
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average rating: 3.98
book published: 1962
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]]> <![CDATA[The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, #1)]]> 100915
Lucy is the first to find the secret of the wardrobe in the professor's mysterious old house. At first her brothers and sister don't believe her when she tells of her visit to the land of Narnia. But soon Edmund, then Peter and Susan step through the wardrobe themselves. In Narnia they find a country buried under the evil enchantment of the White Witch. When they meet the Lion Aslan, they realize they've been called to a great adventure and bravely join the battle to free Narnia from the Witch's sinister spell.]]> 206 C.S. Lewis Juniper 5 4.24 1950 The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, #1)
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average rating: 4.24
book published: 1950
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]]> <![CDATA[Earth Unaware (The First Formic War, #1)]]> 13151129 HUMANS THOUGHT THEY WERE ALONE IN THE GALAXY. UNTIL NOW.

A hundred years before Ender's Game, humanity is slowly making its way out to the planets of the solar system, exploring and mining asteroids.



The ship El Cavador is far from Earth, in the deeps of the Kuiper Belt, beyond Pluto. When the ship's telescopes pick up a fast-moving object coming in-system, they're unsure what to make of it.



Little do they know that this object is the most important thing to happen to the human race in a million years. It's humanity's first contact with an alien race. The First Formic War is about to begin.



BOOK ONE OF THE FIRST FORMIC WAR

]]> 368 Orson Scott Card 0765329042 Juniper 0 to-read 3.97 2012 Earth Unaware (The First Formic War, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[Twilight (The Twilight Saga, #1)]]> 41865
First, Edward was a vampire.

Second, there was a part of him - and I didn't know how dominant that part might be - that thirsted for my blood.

And third, I was unconditionally and irrevocably in love with him.

Deeply seductive and extraordinarily suspenseful, Twilight is a love story with bite.]]> 544 Stephenie Meyer 0316015849 Juniper 4 3.68 2005 Twilight (The Twilight Saga, #1)
author: Stephenie Meyer
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average rating: 3.68
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]]> The Old Man and the Sea 2165 Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found here

The last novel Ernest Hemingway saw published, The Old Man and the Sea has proved itself to be one of the most enduring works of American fiction. It is the story of an old Cuban fisherman, down on his luck, and his supreme ordeal: a relentless, agonizing battle with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream.

Using the simple, powerful language of a fable, Hemingway takes the timeless themes of courage in the face of defeat and personal triumph won from loss and transforms them into a magnificent twentieth-century classic. Written in 1952, this hugely successful novel confirmed his power and presence in the literary world and played a large part in his winning the 1954 Nobel Prize for Literature.]]> 96 Ernest Hemingway 0684830493 Juniper 4 3.82 1952 The Old Man and the Sea
author: Ernest Hemingway
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average rating: 3.82
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]]> <![CDATA[American Gods (American Gods, #1)]]> 30165203
Together they embark on a profoundly strange journey across the heart of the USA, whilst all around them a storm of preternatural and epic proportions threatens to break.

Scary, gripping and deeply unsettling, American Gods takes a long, hard look into the soul of America. You'll be surprised by what - and who - it finds there...]]> 635 Neil Gaiman Juniper 4 4.10 2001 American Gods (American Gods, #1)
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average rating: 4.10
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]]> Memoirs of a Geisha 929
In "Memoirs of a Geisha," we enter a world where appearances are paramount; where a girl's virginity is auctioned to the highest bidder; where women are trained to beguile the most powerful men; and where love is scorned as illusion. It is a unique and triumphant work of fiction - at once romantic, erotic, suspenseful - and completely unforgettable.]]> 503 Arthur Golden 1400096898 Juniper 5 4.31 1997 Memoirs of a Geisha
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average rating: 4.31
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]]> The Lovely Bones 12232938
So begins the story of Susie Salmon, who is adjusting to her new home in heaven, a place that is not at all what she expected, even as she is watching life on earth continue without her -- her friends trading rumors about her disappearance, her killer trying to cover his tracks, her grief-stricken family unraveling. Out of unspeakable tragedy and loss, The Lovely Bones succeeds, miraculously, in building a tale filled with hope, humor, suspense, even joy.]]> 372 Alice Sebold 0316166685 Juniper 4 3.87 2002 The Lovely Bones
author: Alice Sebold
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average rating: 3.87
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]]> <![CDATA[Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream]]> 7745 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is the best chronicle of drug-soaked, addle-brained, rollicking good times ever committed to the printed page. It is also the tale of a long weekend road trip that has gone down in the annals of American pop culture as one of the strangest journeys ever undertaken.]]> 204 Hunter S. Thompson 0679785892 Juniper 5 4.07 1971 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
author: Hunter S. Thompson
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average rating: 4.07
book published: 1971
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]]> Brave New World 5129 Brave New World is a dystopian social science fiction novel by English author Aldous Huxley. Largely set in a futuristic World State, whose citizens are environmentally engineered into an intelligence-based social hierarchy, the novel anticipates huge scientific advancements in reproductive technology, sleep-learning, psychological manipulation and classical conditioning that are combined to make a dystopian society which is challenged by only a single individual: the story's protagonist.]]> 288 Aldous Huxley 0060929871 Juniper 4 3.99 1932 Brave New World
author: Aldous Huxley
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average rating: 3.99
book published: 1932
rating: 4
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]]> Life of Pi 4214 460 Yann Martel 0770430074 Juniper 5 3.94 2001 Life of Pi
author: Yann Martel
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average rating: 3.94
book published: 2001
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)]]> 2767052
In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV.

Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen regards it as a death sentence when she steps forward to take her sister's place in the Games. But Katniss has been close to dead before-and survival, for her, is second nature. Without really meaning to, she becomes a contender. But if she is to win, she will have to start making choices that weigh survival against humanity and life against love.]]> 374 Suzanne Collins 0439023483 Juniper 5 4.35 2008 The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
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average rating: 4.35
book published: 2008
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