Wednesday, March 07, 2012

Do We Live in 1984 or a Brave New World?


In 1932, Aldous Huxley published Brave New World, a novel about an ominous future where the government keeps the population under control with drugs and entertainment. In 1949, George Orwell published Nineteen Eighty-Four, a novel about an ominous future where the government keeps the population under control with oppressive surveillance. Who do you think had a more prophetic vision of the 21st Century? Today Letters of Note featured a long letter that... 

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Dr. Seuss & Jodi Picoult Books Debut on the Indie Bestseller List

We've collected the books debuting on Indiebound'sIndie Bestseller List for the week ending March 04, 2012-a sneak peek at the books everybody will be talking about next month. (Debuted at #3 in Hardcover Fiction) The Lone Wolf by Jodi Picoult: "In the wild, when a wolf knows its time is over, when it knows it is of no more use to its pack, it may sometimes choose to slip away. Dying apart... 

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