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Kurt Vonnegut's first novel spins the chilling tale of engineer Paul Proteus, who must find a way to live in a world dominated by a supercomputer and run completely by machines. Paul's rebellion is vintage Vonnegut – wildly funny, deadly serious, and terrifyingly close to reality.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Now a major motion picture directed by Steven Spielberg. “Enchanting . . . Willy Wonka meets The Matrix.”—USA Today “As one adventure leads expertly to the next, time simply evaporates.”—Entertainment Weekly A world at stake. A quest for the...

The Culture -- a human/machine symbiotic society -- has thrown up many great Game Players, and one of the greatest is Gurgeh. Jernau Morat Gurgeh. The Player of Games. Master of every board, computer and strategy. Bored with success, Gurgeh travels to the Empire of Azad, cruel and incredibly...

When young music teacher Andre Beaufort discovers an antique player piano in the basement of his apartment building, he is visited by the ghost of the original owner: a dapper and charismatic playboy from the Roaring Twenties, Freddy Birtwistle. Andre has never seen a ghost and Freddy has never been one, so they get off to a rocky start. But when Andre finds his neighbor murdered on his doorstep, he and Freddy join forces to narrow the pool of suspects.

Max Best is not living his—ahem—best life. His job's a drag, his home's a shooting gallery, his hopes are nil, and lately, even his beloved game of football has devolved from a chaotic, ecstatic delight into a cold, calculating equation complete with stats, tech terms, and mindless lingo. But then Max rescues a mysterious old man from a mugging. "Nick" seems friendly enough . . . until he innocently asks his savior, "Would you sell your soul to be a top football manager?" Naturally, Max says yes, and in that instant, everything changes.

“Learn How To Play The Game, Or Get Played By The Game.” Women are masters of illusion! And good men get fooled by a big butt and a pretty smile everyday because it’s so easy for a woman to look attractive with BBL’s, makeup, fake boobs and revealing outfits. It’s easy for you to get confused because they all look the same on the outside, but in reality they aren’t the same on the inside. When you accept a woman into your life you get more than her body, you get her mind. And if her mind isn’t attractive, it’s only a matter of time before her body loses its attractiveness to...

Out of time, out of levels, and out of ideas. The dreaded level seventy was just around the corner. Reaching the milestone would see a virus unleashed that would erase whatever game he was in, forcing Commander Hunter Dyson to scramble for a solution to end Synnia’s scheme before it was too late. Only a handful of virus carriers remained to carry out the high elf’s plan, so Dyson and his team placed all of their focus on taking them out, believing that they had finally gained the upper hand. They were wrong. Synnia still had some tricks up her sleeve, and the all-out assault her armies ...

All over America, families are investing blood, sweat, tears, and retirement savings in their children’s sports careers, all with the ultimate goal of…what exactly? A college scholarship? A professional contract? Simply the taste of victory? Through the lens of the highly competitive world of girls’ softball, Lewis reveals the youth sports industrial complex that has arisen to aggressively monetize after-school pastimes.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The thrilling sequel to the beloved worldwide bestseller Ready Player One, the near-future adventure that inspired the blockbuster Steven Spielberg film. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST “The game is on again. . . . A...

In this final master-work of The Rational Male series, Rollo Tomassi breaks down the fundamental mechanics of Game, intersexual social skills, and the nuts and bolts psychology that makes it work. The Players Handbook is not a "how-to" book, it's a "why-it-works" book. It’s not an instruction manual—it is the missing textbook on Game and understanding intersexual dynamics. Game is an adaptive set of social skills and best practices in navigating intersexual dynamics in a modern sexual marketplace.

WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD PRIZE A big and big-hearted novel—one enthralling, transformative year in the life of a child actor coming of age in a bygone Manhattan, from the critically acclaimed author of Mr. Peanut NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORKER...

Being a prince may seem like a fairytale, but to me, it’s not all sunshine and rainbows. That’s why I’m excited when I get permission from my uncle—the king of Norway—to go undercover as a student at an American college for a year. And I’m even more ecstatic to be selected for their football team. Soccer, I mean. The only problem? Farron, the team captain, dislikes me on sight. Determined to win him over, I start a charm offensive, but nothing works. He only hates me more.

Three low-income families have been given a handsome retainer to join Geraldine Borden for a day at her cliffside estate. All the parents must do to collect the rest of their money is allow their children to test out the revolutionary playground equipment Geraldine has been working on for decades. But there’s a reason the structures in the bowels of her gothic castle have taken so long to develop—they were never meant to see the light of day.

In this self-portrait by an American genius, Kurt Vonnegut writes with beguiling wit and poignant wisdom about his favorite comedians, country music, a dead friend, a dead marriage, and various cockamamie aspects of his all-too-human journey through life. This is a work that resonates with Vonnegut's singular voice: the magic sound of a born storyteller mesmerizing us with truth.

Seduce Women with Ease There are few things more important to a single man than his ability to seduce women. Although the world is filled with chances to attract women and get women, few men seize these opportunities. Few men, do what they can and should to get lucky. And the reason is obvious: most guys don't know how to pick up girls. This is where sexual instruction becomes integral. To understand the female mind, one must adopt the Player mind. If you lack the charisma, the communication skills and the prowess to get lucky, then the Player mind is your answer. An active sex life is a ...

It’s all fun and games until someone mods the wrong commander. Hunter Dyson thought he was the commander of a space vessel on a mission to destroy the Vrae, a metallic insect race hell bent on destroying all life in the cosmos. It turns out that he wasn’t. The world Commander Dyson knew came to a crashing halt while getting ready to have steamy sex with the hottest member of his crew. The crash was literal since everything (and everyone, sadly) around him froze up, his cabin became distorted, and everything went dark. Commander Dyson wasn’t in space. In fact, he wasn’t even a ...

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A risky opportunity with a promising reward: Hope Two of the biggest threats have been dealt with. Commander Hunter Dyson paid homage to his namesake. He became the hunter rather than the prey, but the targets popped up faster than he could take them down. Dyson and his team of video game women needed to get ahead of Synnia’s forces before they were overwhelmed by the numbers, but they didn’t know where to start until an old friend offered a hand. Knowledge was power. The old friend didn’t know what Synnia Arkwood was up to either, but they were able to share the clues they’d ...

2044. The world of games changed long ago. "Ascension" has become one of the most popular VRMMO games. It is a huge world divided into a hundred Floors, with each Floor a boundless location with its own countries, tribes, and millions of players. The object of the game is to unlock all the gates and conquer the top. Having joined the game, Will Thomson doesn't realize that he is all by himself. Then he accepts the first quest...Cursed Rat: level 46....

Four lives are drawn together in a sweeping, panoramic new novel from Richard Powers, showcasing the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Overstory at the height of his skills. Twelve-year-old Evie Beaulieu sinks to the bottom of a swimming pool in Montreal strapped to one of the world’s first aqualungs. Ina Aroita grows up in naval bases across the Pacific with art as her only home. Two polar opposites at an elite Chicago high school bond over a three-thousand-year-old board game; Rafi Young will get lost in literature, while Todd Keane’s work will lead to a startling AI breakthrough.