Explosive subversive wild & funny 50 years on the novel's strength is undiminished. Reading Joseph Heller's classic satire is nothing less than a rite of passage. Set in the closing months of World War II this is the story of a bombardier named Yossarian who is frantic & furious because thousands of people he has never met are trying to kill him. His real problem is not the enemy
- it is his own army which keeps increasing the number of missions the men must fly to complete their service. If Yossarian makes any attempts to excuse himself from the perilous missions then he is caught in Catch-22: if he flies he is crazy & doesn't have to; but if he doesn't want to he must be sane & has to. That's some catch...
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At the heart of Joseph Heller's bestselling novel first published in 1961 is a satirical indicement of military madness & stupidity & the desire of the ordinary man to survive it. It is a tale of the dangerously sane Captain Yossarian who spends his time in Italy plotting to survive. ...

The Catcher in the Rye" is J. D. Salinger's world-famous novel of disaffected youth. Holden Caulfield is a seventeen- year-old dropout who has just been kicked out of his fourth school. Navigating his way through the challenges of growing up Holden dissects the 'phony' aspects of society & the 'phonies' themselves: the headmaster whose affability depends on the wealth of the parents his roommate who scores with girls using sickly-sweet affection. Written with the clarity of a boy leaving childhood behind " The Catcher in the Rye" explores the world with disarming frankness & a warm affecting charisma which has made this novel a universally loved classic of twentieth-century literature. J. D. Salinger was born in 1919 & died in January 2010. He grew up in New York City & wrote short stories from an early age but his breakthrough came in 1948 with the publication in The New Yorker of "A Perfect Day for Bananafish". " The Catcher in the Rye" was his first & only novel published in 1951. It remains one of the most translated taught & reprinted texts & has sold some 65 million copies. His other works include the novellas " Franny & Zooey" " For Esme with Love & Squalor" & " Raise High the Roof Beam Carpenters published with Seymour
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The Catcher in the Rye" is J. D. Salinger's world-famous novel of disaffected youth. Holden Caulfield is a seventeen- year-old dropout who has just been kicked out of his fourth school. Navigating his way through the challenges of growing up Holden dissects the 'phony' aspects of society & the 'phonies' themselves: the headmaster whose affability depends on the wealth of the parents his roommate who scores with girls using sickly-sweet affection. Written with the clarity of a boy leaving childhood behind " The Catcher in the Rye" explores the world with disarming frankness & a warm affecting charisma which has made this novel a universally loved classic of twentieth-century literature. J. D. Salinger was born in 1919 & died in January 2010. He grew up in New York City & wrote short stories from an early age but his breakthrough came in 1948 with the publication in The New Yorker of "A Perfect Day for Bananafish". " The Catcher in the Rye" was his first & only novel published in 1951. It remains one of the most translated taught & reprinted texts & has sold some 65 million copies. His other works include the novellas " Franny & Zooey" " For Esme with Love & Squalor" & " Raise High the Roof Beam" " Carpenters" published with " Seymour
- An Introduction"."
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After winning the brutal Hunger Games Katniss Everdeen returns to her district hoping for a peaceful future. But Katniss starts to hear rumours of a deadly rebellion against the Capitol. A rebellion that she & Peeta have helped to create. As Katniss & Peeta are forced to visit the districts on the Capitol's cruel Victory Tour the stakes are higher than ever. Unless Katniss & Peeta can convince the world that they are still lost in their love for each other the consequences will be horrifying. This is the terrifying sequel to The Hunger Games"." ...

After winning the brutal Hunger Games Katniss Everdeen returns to her district hoping for a peaceful future. But Katniss starts to hear rumours of a deadly rebellion against the Capitol. A rebellion that she & Peeta have helped to create. As Katniss & Peeta are forced to visit the districts on the Capitols cruel Victory Tour the stakes are higher than ever. Unless Katniss & Peeta can convince the world that they are still lost in their love for each other the consequences will be horrifying. This is the terrifying sequel to The Hunger Games"." ...

In this stunningly original book Richard Wrangham argues that it was cooking that caused the extraordinary transformation of our ancestors from apelike beings to Homo erectus. At the heart of Catching Fire" lies an explosive new idea: the habit of eating cooked rather than raw food permitted the digestive tract to shrink & the human brain to grow helped structure human society & created the male-female division of labour. As our ancestors adapted to using fire humans emerged as 'the cooking apes'. Covering everything from food-labelling & overweight pets to raw-food faddists " Catching Fire" offers a startlingly original argument about how we came to be the social intelligent & sexual species we are today." ...

This is the second book in the ground-breaking Hunger Games" trilogy. After winning the brutal Hunger Games Katniss & Peeta return to their district hoping for a peaceful future. But their victory has caused rebellion to break out.. .and the Capitol has decided that someone must pay. As Katniss & Peeta are forced to visit the districts on the Capitols Victory Tour the stakes are higher than ever. Unless they can convince the world that they are still lost in their love for each other the consequences will be horrifying. Then comes the cruelest twist: the contestants for the next Hunger Games are announced & Katniss & Peeta are forced into the arena once more." ...

This is the second book in the ground-breaking Hunger Games" trilogy. After winning the brutal Hunger Games Katniss & Peeta return to their district hoping for a peaceful future. But their victory has caused rebellion to break out.. .and the Capitol has decided that someone must pay. As Katniss & Peeta are forced to visit the districts on the Capitols Victory Tour the stakes are higher than ever. Unless they can convince the world that they are still lost in their love for each other the consequences will be horrifying. Then comes the cruelest twist: the contestants for the next Hunger Games are announced & Katniss & Peeta are forced into the arena once more." ...