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Summary: This first volume in the Library of America edition of Octavia E. Butler's collected works opens with her masterpiece, Kindred, one of the landmark American novels of the last half century. Its heroine, Dana, a Black woman, is pulled back and forth between the present and the pre-Civil War past, where she finds herself enslaved on the plantation of a white ancestor whose life she must save to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2020
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Summary: Economic and environmental crises spiral out of control and lead to social chaos leaving no safe havens. Young Lauren Olamina, a minister's daughter loses her family and home in a night of violence and is forced to venture out into the unprotected land that has become America. But her fight for survival turns into something more, a startling vision of human destiny and the birth of a new faith.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 2000
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Summary: "Octavia E. Butler's only collection of shorter work ... These works of the imagination are parables of the contemporary world"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Stories Press 2005
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Summary: "In a frightening near future, an alien disease is poised to become a devastating global epidemic -- unless someone can stop it. Blake Maslin and his two daughters are driving to Flagstaff when bandits swarm their car. At gunpoint, the marauders kidnap one of Blake's children, promising to keep her safe in return for medical care. Warily, the doctor goes with them, not realizing that he has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aspect 1996
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Summary: Laura Olamina's daughter, Larkin, describes the broken and alienated world of 2032, as war racks the North American continent and an ultra-conservative religious crusader becomes president
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 2000
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Summary: In an "epic, game-changing, moving and brilliant" story of love and hate, two immortals chase each other across continents and centuries, binding their fates together -- and changing the destiny of the human race (Viola Davis). Doro knows no higher authority than himself. An ancient spirit with boundless powers, he possesses humans, killing without remorse as he jumps from body to body to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2020