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Hainish Novels & Stories, Vol. 1: Rocannon’s World / Planet of Exile / City of Illusions / The Left Hand of Darkness / The Dispossessed / Stories

6 best books like Hainish Novels & Stories, Vol. 1: Rocannon’s World / Planet of Exile / City of Illusions / The Left Hand of Darkness / The Dispossessed / Stories (Ursula K. Le Guin): How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States, This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen, A Journey to the End of the Millennium, The Mystery Play, The Walking Dead, Vol. 32: Rest In Peace, The Kitchen

How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
AuthorDaniel Immerwahr
ISBN0374172145
A pathbreaking history of the United States' overseas possessions and the true meaning of its empire

We are familiar with maps that outline all fifty states. And we are also familiar with the idea that the United States is an "empire," exercising power around the world. But what about the actual...
This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen
AuthorTadeusz Borowski
ISBN0140186247
Tadeusz Borowski's concentration camp stories were based on his own experiences surviving Auschwitz and Dachau. In spare, brutal prose he describes a world where the will to survive overrides compassion and prisoners eat, work and sleep a few yards from where others are murdered; where the difference...
A Journey to the End of the Millennium
AuthorA.B. Yehoshua
ISBN0156011166
In the year 999, when Ben Attar, a Moroccan Jewish merchant, takes a second wife, he commits an act whose unforeseen consequences will forever alter his family, his relationships, his business-his life. In an attempt to forestall conflict and advance his business interests at the same time, Ben Attar...
The Mystery Play
AuthorGrant Morrison
ISBN1563891891
"God is dead, and the devil killed him."

This intriguing prospect is the gimmick designed to get you to buy "The Mystery Play", a Graphic Novel by Grant Morrison. However, the story is more complicated than this would suggest, although Nietzsche is not even a character, let alone a suspect.

The...
The Walking Dead, Vol. 32: Rest In Peace
AuthorRobert Kirkman
ISBN1534312412
It’s… over?

Wha… no foolin’!? Sweet zombie jesus!

Yup, the series that became like the rotting, shambling corpses featured in its pages has finally come to a long overdue end. I kinda feel like Kent Brockman – why now, why not five years ago??

So after years of saying...
The Kitchen
AuthorOllie Masters
ISBN1401257739
New York City, late 1970s. Times Square is a haven for sex and drugs. The city teeters on the verge of bankruptcy, while blackouts can strike at any moment. This is the world of THE KITCHEN.

The Irish gangs of Hell's Kitchen rule the neighborhood, bringing terror to the streets and doing the dirty...
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