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Maria Tucci
Author
Language
English
Description
This short-story collection Welcome to the Monkey House (1968) incorporates almost completely Vonnegut's 1961 "Canary in a Cathouse," which appeared within a few months of Slaughterhouse-Five and capitalized upon that breakthrough novel and the enormous attention it suddenly brought.
Drawn from both specialized science fiction magazines and the big-circulation general magazines (Saturday Evening Post, Colliers, etc.)
...2) To die for
Series
Criterion collection volume 1213
Language
English
Formats
Description
The all-American obsession with celebrity turns monstrous in this deliciously subversive (and disturbingly prescient) satire of our television-mediated, true-crime-obsessed age. In a career breakthrough, Nicole Kidman delivers a diabolical deconstruction of the girl next door as a local TV weather reporter whose perfectly perky facade belies a murderous heart, as her ruthless pursuit of fame ensnares three disaffected teens in a sordid, tabloid-ready...
Series
Publisher
Symphony Space
Pub. Date
p2005.
Language
English
Description
An award-winning series of classic and contemporary short fiction read by acclaimed actors. The readings are recorded live at Peter Norton Symphony Space in New York City. The radio series is a co-production of Symphony Space and WNYC, New York Public Radio, and is heard on public radio stations nationwide.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
The latest masterwork from one of the leading writers of suspense . . . New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Lowell returns with a chilling tale of the law gone wrong and a kidnapping that threatens more than one life. The Wrong Hostage Orphaned at thirteen, Grace Silva clawed her way out of poverty and violence to become one of the most respected judges on the federal bench. Grace believes in the rule of law -- lives it, breathes it. She has...
Author
Series
[Rarities unlimited series] volume 1
Publisher
Morrow
Pub. Date
c2001.
Language
English
Description
Inheriting rare leaves from a legendary volume known as the Book of the Learned, Serena Lynn Charters learns that someone is willing to kill to keep the leaves hidden and teams up with appraiser Erik North in an investigation in the California desert.