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Mind of My Mind By Octavia E. Butler Grand Central Publishing Mass Market Paperback (224 pages) List Price: $18.99* Lowest New Price: $17.06* Lowest Used Price: $1.49* Usually ships in 24 hours* *(As of 10:44 Pacific 3 Sep 2010 More Info) Click Here Product Description: A young ghetto telepath launches a psychic struggle against the four-thousand-year-old immortal who has been her father, lover, master, and creator to free her fellow telepaths. Reprint. PW. K.

Kindred (Bluestreak) By Octavia E. Butler Spring Arbor/Ingram Released: 2004-02-01 Paperback (287 pages) List Price: $15.00* Lowest New Price: $6.99* Lowest Used Price: $4.88* Usually ships in 24 hours* *(As of 10:44 Pacific 3 Sep 2010 More Info) Click Here Product Description: The twenty-fifth-anniversary edition of the classic novel that has sold over 250,000 copies Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner, is drowning, and Dana has been summoned to save him. Dana is drawn back again and again for Rufus, yet each time the stay grows longer and more dangerous until it is uncertain whether or not Dana"s life will end, long before it has even begun. "In Kindred Octavia Butler creates a road for the impossible, and a balm for the unbearable. It is everything the literature of science fiction can be." —Walter Mosley "[Kindred] is a shattering work of art with much to say about love, hate, slavery and racial dilemmas, then and now." —Los Angeles Herald Examiner "Truly terrifying. . . . A book you"ll find hard to put down." ¯Essence "Butler"s books are exceptional. . . . She is a realist, writing the most detailed social criticism and creating some of the most fascinating female characters in the genre . . . real women caught in impossible situations." ¯The Village Voice "Butler"s literary craftsmanship is superb."—The Washington Post Book World

Survivor By Octavia E. Butler Signet Paperback (187 pages) List Price: $1.75* Lowest Used Price: $69.55* *(As of 10:44 Pacific 3 Sep 2010 More Info) Click Here

Parable of the Talents By Octavia E. Butler Grand Central Publishing Paperback (424 pages) List Price: $14.99* Lowest New Price: $4.79* Lowest Used Price: $4.41* Usually ships in 24 hours* *(As of 10:44 Pacific 3 Sep 2010 More Info) Click Here ISBN13: 9780446675789 Notes: BUY WITH CONFIDENCE, Over one million books sold! 98% Positive feedback. Compare our books, prices and service to the competition. 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed Product Description: Lauren Olamina's love is divided among her young daughter, her community, and the revelation that led Lauren to found a new faith that teaches "God Is Change". But in the wake of environmental and economic chaos, the U.S. government turns a blind eye to violent bigots who consider the mere existence of a black female leader a threat. And soon Lauren must either sacrifice her child and her followers -- or forsake the religion that can transform human destiny.

Dawn (Xenogenesis, Bk. 1) By Octavia E. Butler Aspect Mass Market Paperback (256 pages) List Price: $17.99* Lowest New Price: $16.13* Lowest Used Price: $7.99* Usually ships in 24 hours* *(As of 10:44 Pacific 3 Sep 2010 More Info) Click Here Product Description: Known for her African-American feminist perspective, the author presents the first installment of a trilogy exploring the death of the earth as we know it and the advent of interbreeding between humans and extraterrestrials. Reissue.

Wild Seed By Octavia E. Butler Grand Central Publishing Paperback (320 pages) List Price: $19.99* Lowest New Price: $17.93* Lowest Used Price: $12.45* Usually ships in 24 hours* *(As of 10:44 Pacific 3 Sep 2010 More Info) Click Here Product Description: Doro is an entity who changes bodies like clothes, killing his hosts by reflex -- or design. He fears no one -- until he meets Anyanwu. Anyanwu is a shapeshifter who can absorb bullets and heal with a kiss...and savage anyone who threatens those she loves. She fears no one -- until she meets Doro. From African jungles to the colonies of America, Doro and Anyanwu weave together a pattern of destiny that not even immortals can imagine.

Fledgling By Octavia E. Butler Grand Central Publishing Paperback (320 pages) List Price: $13.99* Lowest New Price: $5.60* Lowest Used Price: $6.87* Usually ships in 24 hours* *(As of 10:44 Pacific 3 Sep 2010 More Info) Click Here Product Description: Octavia E. Butler is one of the finest voices in fiction--period. . . . A master storyteller, Butler casts an unflinching eye on racism, sexism, poverty, and ignorance and lets the reader see the terror and beauty of human nature.-"The Washington Post Book World "Readers familiar with . . . "Parable of the Sower and "Bloodchild will recall that [Butler] never asks easy questions or settles for easy answers."-Gerald Jonas in "The New York Times "Fledgling, Octavia Butler's first new novel in seven years, is the story of an apparently young, amnesiac girl whose alarmingly unhuman needs and abilities lead her to a startling conclusion: She is in fact a genetically modified, 53-year-old vampire. Forced to discover what she can about her stolen former life, she must at the same time learn who wanted-and still wants-to destroy her and those she cares for and how she can save herself. "Fledgling is a captivating novel that tests the limits of "otherness" and questions what it means to be truly human. Octavia E. Butler is the author of 11 novels, including "Kindred, "Dawn, and "Parable of the Sower. Recipient of a MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant, the Nebula Award, the Hugo Award, and numerous other literary awards, she has been acclaimed for her lean prose, strong protagonists, and social observations that range from the distant past to the far future.

Parable of the Sower By Octavia E. Butler Grand Central Publishing Paperback (352 pages) List Price: $13.95* Lowest New Price: $5.44* Lowest Used Price: $6.38* Usually ships in 24 hours* *(As of 10:44 Pacific 3 Sep 2010 More Info) Click Here Product Description: Octavia E. Butler, the grande dame of science fiction, writes extraordinary, inspirational stories of ordinary people. Parable of the Sower is a hopeful tale set in a dystopian future United States of walled cities, disease, fires, and madness. Lauren Olamina is an 18-year-old woman with hyperempathy syndrome--if she sees another in pain, she feels their pain as acutely as if it were real. When her relatively safe neighborhood enclave is inevitably destroyed, along with her family and dreams for the future, Lauren grabs a backpack full of supplies and begins a journey north. Along the way, she recruits fellow refugees to her embryonic faith, Earthseed, the prime tenet of which is that "God is change." This is a great book--simple and elegant, with enough message to make you think, but not so much that you feel preached to.

Bloodchild and other Stories By Octavia E. Butler Seven Stories Press Paperback (145 pages) List Price: $10.00* Lowest New Price: $7.97* Lowest Used Price: $5.00* *(As of 10:44 Pacific 3 Sep 2010 More Info) Click Here Product Description: An anthology of science fiction tales by an accomplished African-American writer includes "Speech Sounds," which won the Hugo Award, "Near of Kin," her only non-science fiction tale, and the award-winning "Bloodchild." Original. 20,000 first printing. IP.

Adulthood Rites (Xenogenesis, Book Two) By Octavia E. Butler Warner Aspect Books Mass Market Paperback (304 pages) List Price: $18.99* Lowest New Price: $14.69* Lowest Used Price: $3.23* Usually ships in 24 hours* *(As of 10:44 Pacific 3 Sep 2010 More Info) Click Here Product Description: The second in a critically acclaimed trilogy follows the life of Akin, the son of the heroine of Dawn, who struggles to cope with the isolation of being neither human nor alien. Reissue.