Loving Women

Loving Women

Pete Hamill

Biographies & Memoirs / Literature & Fiction

It was 1953. A time of innocence. A time when the world seemed full of possibilities. And all the rules were about to change. Michael was a streetwise Brooklyn boy heading south to join the Navy and become a man. But he was about to learn more about life than he's ever imagined. Eden was beautiful, mysterious--the perfect instructor in the art of making love, in sexual pleasure...and in courage. But her past was full of dangerous secrets that would haunt her forever. LOVING WOMEN is an unforgettable novel of honor and passion, heartbreak and desire, and one man's coming of age.
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Moon Palace

Moon Palace

Paul Auster

Fiction / Memoir

Spanning three generations, and illuminated by marvelous flights of lyricism and wit, "Moon Palace" follows an orphan child of the sixties as he seeks the key to his past and the answers to the riddle of his fate.
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Alice in Rapture, Sort Of

Alice in Rapture, Sort Of

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Children's Books / Young Adult

According to Pamela’s cousin in New Jersey, the worst thing that can happen to a girl is to start seventh grade without a boyfriend. So Alice is glad that she and Patrick are going together. But Patrick the boyfriend is a lot more complicated than Patrick the friend. What’s an appropriate gift for Alice to give him for his birthday? What should she do if he wants to kiss her and she hasn’t just brushed her teeth? Alice really likes Patrick, but sometimes it seems as though life would be a lot simpler if they were still just friends.
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The Country Ahead of Us, the Country Behind

The Country Ahead of Us, the Country Behind

David Guterson

Literature & Fiction / Nonfiction

Like his novel, Snow Falling On Cedars, for which he received the PEN/Faulkner Award, Guterson's beautifully observed and emotionally piercing short stories are set largely in the Pacific Northwest. In these vast landscapes, hunting, fishing, and sports are the givens of men's lives. With prose that stings like the scent of gunpowder, this is a collection of power. From the Trade Paperback edition.
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The Bad Place

The Bad Place

Dean Koontz

Thriller / Mystery / Science Fiction & Fantasy

Frank Pollard is afraid to fall asleep. Every morning when he awakes, he discovers something strange--like blood on his hands--a bizarre mystery that tortures his soul. Two investigators have been hired to follow the haunted man. But only one person--a young man with Down's Syndrome--can imagine where their journeys might end. That terrible place from which no one ever returns.
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Rummies

Rummies

Peter Benchley

Mystery & Thrillers

This major novel, written with sophistication and wonderful wit, has some of the flavor of One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, as it tells the story of a group of people who meet at a drug-and-alcohol rehabilitation clinic.
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The Boy Who Lost His Face

The Boy Who Lost His Face

Louis Sachar

Children's Books / Literature & Fiction

The classic novel from Newbery Medalist and National Book Award winner Louis Sachar (Holes), with a brand-new cover! David is only trying to be cool when he helps some of the popular kids steal Old Lady Bayfield’s cane. But when the plan backfires, he’s the one the “old witch” curses. Now David can’t seem to do anything right. The cool kids taunt him and his only friends are freaks. He even walks into Spanish class with his fly unzipped! And when he finally gets up the nerve to ask out a cute girl, his pants fall down in midsentence. Is it the Bayfield curse at work? Or is David simply turning into a total loser?
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A Turn in the South

A Turn in the South

V. S. Naipaul

Fiction / Nonfiction / Travel

In the tradition of political and cultural revelation V.S. Naipaul so brilliantly made his own in Among The Believers, A Turn In The South, his first book about the United States, is a revealing, disturbing, elegiac book about the American South -- from Atlanta to Charleston, Tallahassee to Tuskegee, Nashville to Chapel Hill. From the Trade Paperback edition.
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The Jeeves Omnibus - Vol 1:

The Jeeves Omnibus - Vol 1:

P. G. Wodehouse

Fiction / Humor / Music

'It's beats me why a man of his genius is satisfied to hang around pressing my clothes and what not,' says Bertie. 'If I had Jeeves's brain I should have a stab at being Prime Minisiter or something.' Luckily for us, Bertie Wooster manages to retain Jeeve's services through all the vicissitudes of purple socks and policeman's helmets, and here, gathered together for the first time, is an omnibus of Jeeves novels and stories comprising three of the funniest books ever written: Thank You, Jeeves, The code of the Woosters and The Inimirable Jeeves.
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The Third Reich

The Third Reich

Roberto Bolaño

Literature & Fiction / Poetry

After becoming war-games champion, Udo Berger and his girlfriend, Ingebor go to the Costa Brava where they meet Charly and Hanna. Then Charly disappears without a trace. As everything slips beyond his grasp, Udo attempts to re-assert himself by engaging in a days-long match of his favourite war game, Third Reich.
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