by Michel Houellebecq (2000)
Zedenschets van de tweede helft van de 20e eeuw aan de hand van de levensgeschiedenis van twee halfbroers, de één een vergeestelijkt wetenschapper, de ander een jachtige erotomaan.
Ross Steele
If you're traveling to or doing business in France and want to avoid any unfortunate misunderstandings, The French Way is the most up-to-date guide to French culture. Written by renowned French culture expert Ross Steele, the book offers a uniquely impartial perspective on how the French think, the country's customs, and other traits of a changing society and a people that perennially both fascinate and infuriate!
Joy Ashe
"This fast-paced genetic thriller with a strong political undertow begins with a phone call plea for help to Boston-based attorney Paeton Weaver by her sister, Casey Bell, after the discovery of her philanthropist husband's bloodied body, supposedly, by his own hand ... His death comes in the year 2013, post the U.S. presidential inauguration ... Paeton Weaver takes the reader on a disturbing journey to examine the social, psychological and legal ramifications of genetic social engineering when under new US leadership, citizens become valued based on genetic characteristics ..."--Publisher's website.
John Whitman
Thirteen-year-old Tash, her younger brother Zak, and their Uncle Hoole visit the planet D'vouran, where they encounter the sluglike crime lord Smada the Hutt and reports of people vanishing into thin air.
Kimberly Fuller
Having escaped extermination when ruthless invaders colonized his planet, a space traveler wanders for many years and then returns to claim his world, changing the lives of seventeen-year-old Maran and her friends.