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by Nick Hornby

Hornby's first novel for young adults--a wonderfully witty, poignant, "New York Times"-bestselling story about a teenage boy who is unexpectedly thrust into fatherhood--is now available in a trade-sized paperback edition.

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High fidelity

High fidelity more books like this

by Nick Hornby

A pop music junkie, deserted by his girlfriend, fulfills his lifelong dream of dating a singer with a recording contract. It doesn't help.

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About a Boy

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by Nick Hornby

Will Freeman, a 30-something Londoner, is vaguely in search of a wife, but is simultaneously turned off by the responsibilities that a real life might entail. He befriends young Marcus, son of a single mother with problems, and finds himself being drawn against his will into a tumultuous set of circumstances. Finally he is able, after all, to ...

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Shakespeare Wrote for Money

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by Nick Hornby, Vowell Sarah (Introduction by)

With an affectionate introduction by Sarah Vowell, this is the third and final collection of columns by celebrated novelist Nick Hornby from "The Believer" magazine. Hornby's monthly reading diary is unlike any arts column in any other publication; it discusses cultural artifacts the way they actually exist in people's lives. Hornby is a voracious ...

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How to Be Good

How to Be Good more books like this

by Nick Hornby

In his fourth novel, Nick Hornby writes about a doctor named Katie Carr whose difficult husband, David, known as the "Angriest Man in Holloway," writes a newspaper column. Katie has had enough. But then David falls into the hands of a do-gooder mystic and becomes, suddenly, a caring, earnest person--and Katie begins to question her own life. HOW ...

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A Long Way Down

A Long Way Down more books like this

by Nick Hornby

Four depressed people meet by accident on a London rooftop, each preparing to jump and end it all. Struck by the coincidence--and bonded by their mutual despair--each of the four agrees to put off the deadly deed, reevaluate things, and get together to talk it over. As time goes by, friendships and enmities form, and the course of their lives is ...

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Fever pitch

Fever pitch more books like this

by Nick Hornby

This book, chronicled from the perspective of a fanatical ten-year-old soccer fan, through disillusioned adolescence, to an adult "who should know better", examines the absurdities, idiosyncrasies and traumas of everyday life and football. While Chelsea were undoubtedly the football team at the heart of fashionable London in the late 1960s, it ...

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by Linda Sue Park

A video message from a dead person. A larcenous teenager. A man who can stick his left toe behind his head and in his ear. An epileptic girl seeking answers in a fairy tale. A boy who loses everything in World War II, and his brother who loses even more. And a family with a secret so big that it changes everything. The world's best beloved ...

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Songbook

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by Nick Hornby

In this collection of short essays, Hornby writes about 26 of his favorite songs--or rather, the 26 he liked best while he was writing the book. A companion of sorts to his novel HIGH FIDELITY, which features music-obsessed record store clerks forever making "best of" lists, SONGBOOK examines pop songs, the process by which they become lodged in ...

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The Polysyllabic Spree: A Hilarious and True Account of One Man's Struggle with the Monthly Tide of the Books He's Bought and the Books He's Been Meaning to Read

The Polysyllabic Spree: A Hilarious and True Account of One Man's Struggle with the Monthly Tide of the Books He's Bought and the Books He's Been Meaning to Read more books like this

by Nick Hornby

"Books are, let's face it, better than everything else," writes Nick Hornby in his "Stuff I've Been Reading" column in "The Believer." This book collects Hornby's popular columns in a single, artfully illustrated volume with selected passages from the novels, biographies, collections of poetry, and comics under discussion.

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Housekeeping Vs. the Dirt: Fourteen Months of Massively Witty Adventures in Reading Chronicled by the National Book Critics Circle Finalist for Criticism more books like this

by Nick Hornby

In this latest collection of essays following "Housekeeping vs. the Dirt," critic and author Hornby continues the feverish survey of his swollen bookshelves, offering a funny, intelligent, and unblinkered account of the stuff he's been reading.

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Speaking with the Angel more books like this

by Nick Hornby (Editor)

A dozen of the most successful and popular writers today including: Helen Fielding, Robert Harris, Patrick Marber, Zadie Smith, John O'Farrell, Roddy Doyle, Melissa Bank and Irvine Welsh have written 6000-word fictional monologues along the lines of Alan Bennet's "Talking Heads". And Colin Firth makes his debut as a fiction writer. The result is a ...

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Nick Hornby Songbook more books like this

by Nick Hornby

In this collection of short essays, Hornby writes about 26 of his favorite songs--or rather, the 26 he liked best while he was writing the book. A companion of sorts to his novel HIGH FIDELITY, which features music-obsessed record store clerks forever making "best of" lists, SONGBOOK examines pop songs, the process by which they become lodged in ...

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The Complete Polysyllabic Spree

by Nick Hornby

'So this is supposed to be about the how, and when, and why, and what of reading - about the way that, when reading is going well, one books leads to another and to another, a paper trail of theme and meaning; and how, when it's going badly, when books don't stick or take, when your mood and the mood of the book are fighting like cats, you'd ...

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The Complete Polysyllabic Spree

by Nick Hornby

In his monthly accounts of what he's read - along with what he may one day read - Nick Hornby brilliantly explores everything from the classic to the graphic novel, as well as poems, plays, sports books and other kinds of non-fiction. If he occasionally implores a biographer for brevity, or abandons a literary work in favour of an Arsenal match, ...

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My Favourite Year: A Collection of Football Writing more books like this

by Nick Hornby (Editor)

Roddy Doyle's account of the Republic of Ireland's triumphant journey through Italia '90 is just one of the many first-class pieces in this anthology of original football writing. Contributors include: Roddy Doyle, Harry Pearson, Harry Ritchie, Ed Horton, Olly Wicken, D.J. Taylor, Huw Richards, Nick Hornby, Chris Pierson, Matt Nation, Graham Brack ...

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Juliet, Naked more books like this

by Nick Hornby

What happens when a washed-up musician looks for anther chance? And a childless woman looks for a change? "Juliet, Naked" is a powerfully engrossing, humorous novel about music, love, loneliness, and the struggle to live up to one's promise.

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My Favourite Year: A Collection of New Football Writing more books like this

by Nick Hornby (Editor)

An anthology on the experience of being a football fan. Each piece centres on one season in the life of one club.

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Da Capo Best Music Writing: The Year's Finest Writing on Rock, Pop, Jazz, Country, and More more books like this

by Nick Hornby (Editor), Benjamin Schafer (Editor)

The year's best essays and articles on music as selected by Nick Hornby, author of High Fidelity. Welcome to the second volume in an exciting annual series that celebrates the year's best writing about music and its culture, as selected by Nick Hornby, creator of the most famously music-obsessed hero in contemporary fiction. Covering the gamut ...

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The Picador Book of Sportswriting more books like this

by Nick Hornby (Editor), Nick Coleman (Editor)

Over the last few years - with the advent of fanzines, sports supplements and men's magazines - both the nature and the profile of sportswriting in Britain have changed, and in the press box, if not on the field, we are experiencing a Golden Age. This collection selects the best from both traditional sportswriters and writers inspired by sports ...

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Double A-side ; Fever pitch ; High fidelity

by Nick Hornby

An omnibus edition of the novel HIGH FIDELITY - about a man whose fanatical passion for music causes him almost as much discomfort as his ineffectual, but honest relationships with women - and the autiobiographical FEVER PITCH - about Hornby's abiding love for Arsenal Football Club and childhood in the suburbs of London.

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by Nick Hornby

FEVER PITCH, winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award, stands as the definitive statement on the obsessive nature of football fandom. 'His triumph is that, without glossing over its large-scale stupidities and discomforts, he makes terrace life seem not just plausible but sometimes near-heroic in its single minded vehemence, its ...

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Fever pitch : the screenplay more books like this

by Nick Hornby

Paul Ashworth has two problematic relationships: one with his football team, and one with Sarah, a colleague at the north London comprehensive where he works. Set against the backdrop of the 1988/89 football season, the couple's highs and lows mirror those of Arsenal.

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How to Be Good Abridged Audio more books like this

by Nick Hornby, Frances Barber (Read by)

In his fourth novel, Nick Hornby writes about a doctor named Katie Carr whose difficult husband, David, known as the "Angriest Man in Holloway," writes a newspaper column. Katie has had enough. But then David falls into the hands of a do-gooder mystic and becomes, suddenly, a caring, earnest person--and Katie begins to question her own life. HOW ...

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31 Songs more books like this

by Nick Hornby

Here, Nick Hornby writes about 31 songs - most of them loved, some of them once loved, all of them significant to him. He begins with Teenage Fanclub's "Your Love is the Place that I Come From" and ends with Patti Smith's "Pissing in a River", encompassing varied singers along the way, such as Van Morrison and Nelly Furtado, and songs as different ...

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