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'Ready Player One,' by Ernest Cline "At once wildly original and stuffed with irresistible nostalgia, Ready Player One is a spectacularly genre-busting, ambitious, and charming debut—part quest novel, part love story, and part virtual space opera set in a universe where spell-slinging mages battle giant Japanese robots, entire planets are inspired by Blade Runner, and flying DeLoreans achieve light speed." 'La Part de L'Autre,' by Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt "The archetypal story of following the life that was and the life that could have been gets a news twist in this exploration of what Hitler's life could have been if a slightly different turn had been taken at a critical juncture." 'Gardens of Democracy,' by Eric Liu and Nick Hanauer "Timely, inspiring, and highly charged, The Gardens of Democracy is a much-needed call to action for citizens to embrace their roles in a democratic society. Liu and Hanauer's ideas are simple but revolutionary: true 'self-interest' is incomplete without tending to the shared best interests of the national community." 'Champlain's Dream,' by David Hackett Fischer "In this sweeping, enthralling biography, acclaimed historian David Hackett Fischer brings to life the remarkable Samuel de Champlain—soldier, spy, master mariner, explorer, cartographer, artist, and Father of New France. This superb biography, the first in decades, is as dramatic and exciting as the life it portrays. " Anything by Stephen King ... The Shining "Jack Torrance’s new job at the Overlook Hotel is the perfect chance for a fresh start. As the off-season caretaker at the atmospheric old hotel, he’ll have plenty of time to spend reconnecting with his family and working on his writing. "But as the harsh winter weather sets in, the idyllic location feels ever more remote . . . and more sinister. And the only one to notice the strange and terrible forces gathering around the Overlook is Danny Torrance, a uniquely gifted five-year-old." The Stand "Stephen King’s apocalyptic vision of a world blasted by plague and tangled in an elemental struggle between good and evil remains as riveting and eerily plausible as when it was first published. "A patient escapes from a biological testing facility, unknowingly carrying a deadly weapon: a mutated strain of super-flu that will wipe out 99 percent of the world’s population within a few weeks." Anything by Neal Stephenson ... Start with some of Stephenson's classics: Snow Crash "In reality, Hiro Protagonist delivers pizza for Uncle Enzo’s CosoNostra Pizza Inc., but in the Metaverse he’s a warrior prince. Plunging headlong into the enigma of a new computer virus that’s striking down hackers everywhere, he races along the neon-lit streets on a search-and-destroy mission for the shadowy virtual villain threatening to bring about infocalypse." Cryptonomicon "A breathtaking tour de force, and Neal Stephenson's most accomplished and affecting work to date, Cryptonomicon is profound and prophetic, hypnotic and hyper-driven, as it leaps forward and back between World War II and the World Wide Web, hinting all the while at a dark day-after-tomorrow. It is a work of great art, thought and creative daring; the product of a truly iconoclastic imagination working with white-hot intensity." Anything by Tad Williams ... Start with some of Williams' classics: The Dragonbone Chair "With The Dragonbone Chair, Tad Williams introduced readers to the incredible fantasy world of Osten Ard. His beloved, internationally bestselling series Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn inspired a generation of modern fantasy writers, including George R.R. Martin, Patrick Rothfuss, and Christopher Paolini, and defined Tad Williams as one of the most important fantasy writers of our time." Shadowmarch "Shadowmarch begins Tad Williams' first epic fantasy trilogy since his best-selling Memory, Sorrow and Thorn. Rich with detail and exotic culture, and filled with a cast of characters both diverse and three-dimensional, Shadowmarch is a true fantasy achievement, an epic of storytelling by a master of the genre."

Soundtracks - Songs in Netflix StrangerThings & 13ReasonsWhy

#13REASONSWHY 1 "More Than Gravity" by Colin & Caroline 2 "Love Will Tear Us Apart" by Joy Division 3 "You, Me, Cellphones" by Husbands 4 "Cool Blue" by The Japanese House 5 "Young & Unafraid" by The Moth and the Flame 6 "Mess Is Mine" by Vance Joy 7 "Reunion" by M83 8 "Run Boy Run" by Woodkid 9 "Doing It to Death" by The Kills 10 "The Only Boy Awake" by Meadows 11 "Cowards Starve" by Protomartyr 12 "Into the Black" by Chromatics 13 "Fascination Street" by The Cure 14 "Everything Always" by Ctznshp 15 "The Night We Met" by Lord Huron 16 "Amused" by Hunger 17 "Hollow Visions" by Eagulls 18 "Thirteen" by Elliott Smith 19 "It All Feels Right" by Washed Out 20 "The Great Longing" by LUH 21 "In a Black Out" by Hamilton Leithauser + Rostam 22 "The Strangers" by St. Vincent 23 "The Walls Came Down" by The Call 24 "Bye Bye Bye" by School of Seven Bells 25 "My Life in Rewind" by Eagulls 26 "24" by Sleigh Bells 27 "Atmosphere" by Codeine 28 "The Stand" by The Alarm 29 "A 1000 Times" by Hamilton Leithauser + Rostam 30 "Talking With Strangers" by Miya Folick 31 "The Killing Moon" by Echo and the Bunnymen 32 "Rescue" by Rogue Wave 33 "Vienna" by Ultravox 34 "Only You" by Selena Gomez 35 "Windows" by Angel Olsen 36 "See a Little Light" by Bob Mould Netflix Stranger Things.songs Episode 1 1.-She Has Funny Cars by Jefferson Airplane 2.- White Rabbit by Jefferson Airplane 3.- Africa by Toto 4.- Can’t Seem to Make You Mine by The Seeds Episode 2 5.- Should I Stay or Should I Go by The Clash 6.- I Melt With You by Modern English 7.- Hazy Shade of Winter by The Bangles 8.-Tie a Yellow Ribbon by The Dawn Episode 3 9.-Heroes by Peter Gabriel 10.- Waiting for a Girl Like You by Foreigner Episode 4 11.- Atmosphere by Joy Division Episode 5 12.- Elegia by New Order 13.- Nocturnal Me by Echo & The Bunnymen Episode 6 14.- Sunglasses at Night by Corey Hart 15.- The Bargain Store by Dolly Parton Episode 7 16.-Fields of Corals by Vangelis Episode 8 17.- When It’s Cold I’d Like to Die by Moby 18.- Go Nowhere by Reagan Youth 19.- Raise a Little Hell by Trooper