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Burn Collector: Collected Stories From One Through Nine

author: Al Burianshelved under: Writing
date: 2010publisher: PM Press
content type: book
description: Burn Collector compiles the first nine issues of Al Burian’s sporadically published and widely acclaimed personal zine. Beginning in the mid-nineties, Burian distributed his work through the tight-knit network of the DIY punk music scene.

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Samarkand

author: Amin Maalouf; translated by Russell Harrisshelved under: Fiction
date: 1994publisher: Abacus
content type: book
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Accused of mocking the inviolate codes of Islam, the Persian poet and sage Omar Khayyam fortuitously finds sympathy with the very man who is to judge his alleged crimes. Recognising genius, the judge decides to spare him and gives him instead a small, blank book, encouraging him to confine his thoughts to it alone.

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You Shall Know Our Velocity

author: Dave Eggersshelved under: Fiction
date: 2003 c.2002publisher: Penguin Books Australia
content type: book
description: Will has surprisingly come into a large amount of money, around $40,000. His photograph screwing in a lightbulb has been made a silhouette and is being used as a picture for the company's lightbulb boxes. He is uncomfortable having this money because of a subplot that bursts into several scenes in the book: Will and Hand's third friend, Jack, had recently been killed in a car accident, and the two had delusional ambitions to use the money to save his life, but to no avail.

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Evasion

author: Crimethincshelved under: Fiction
date: 2001publisher: Crimethinc.
content type: book
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Babs2Brisbane

author: Barbara Hadrillshelved under: transport
date: 2009publisher: Centre for Alternative Energy
content type: book
description: Autobiographical account of an overland trip from UK to Australia

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