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The Shadow of the Wind
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Carlos Ruiz Zafon
"If you thought the true gothic novel died with the nineteenth century, this will change your mind...This is one gorgeous read."--Stephen King. "Anyone who enjoys novels that are scary, erotic, touching, tragic, and thrilling should pick up "The Shadow of the Wind.""--The Washington Post.
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Confederacy of Dunces
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John Kennedy Toole
Ignatius J. Reilly, a grossly overweight medieval scholar who lives with his mother, is forced to seek employment when she can no longer tolerate his laziness. His disdainful encounters with the modern culture of New Orleans, his habitual misunderstanding of its inhabitants (some of them no less eccentric than himself) and his often hypocritical ...
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Fight Club
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Chuck Palahniuk
An apocalyptic novel about the mysterious genius Tyler Durden, inventor of the Fight Clubs, where men gather on weekends to fight each other bare-knuckled to find the fulfillment and self-esteem that are lacking in the rest of their lives. The troubled, insomniac narrator's obsession with Tyler leads to a harrowing conclusion.
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Letters to a Young Brother: Manifest Your Destiny
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Hill Harper
Straight talk and inspiring advice for America's youth are offered by the powerhouse public speaker and star of "CSI: NY." 8-page color insert.
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Less Than Zero
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Bret Easton Ellis
Bret Easton Ellis's first novel was a publishing sensation when it was published in 1985. The story of disaffected young people in the cold and amoral pop-culture world of Los Angeles, it is told from the point of view of Clay, who begins to question the emptiness of his life. LESS THAN ZERO was published when Ellis was 21 and still in college; ...
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The Rose That Grew from Concrete
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Tupac Shakur
By the time of his murder at the age of 25, Tupac Shakur was a major force in rap music, with a dozen albums and six movies under his belt. But this collection of poems, written in a poetry workshop by the future star at the age of 19, shows that Shakur possessed both a poet's disarming simplicity and a writer's raw talent well before the start of ...
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Great expectations
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Charles Dickens
The tale of the orphan, Pip, and his mysterious benefactor provides a grotesque but pointed comedy that explores the many levels of English society with insight and sympathy as well as a satiric eye. Considered by many to be Dickens's best novel, GREAT EXPECTATIONS is the story of a young man who rises out of a rough, deprived childhood to a life ...
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A Long Long Way
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Sebastian Barry
Readers meet Willie Dunne when he is still a gifted boy growing up in Dublin and follow him--through a diary and letters home--into battle during World War II where he must shoulder the unending internal damages of the war along with the hatred of his own countrymen for fighting for Britain.
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My Name is Asher Lev
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Chaim Potok
Considered Potok's greatest book, this 1972 novel is about Asher Lev's attempts to function as an artist--a goal that is sometimes in conflict with his Orthodox Jewish background.
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The Namesake
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Jhumpa Lahiri
Jhumpa Lahiri won the Pulitzer for her story collection, INTERPRETER OF MALADIES. Her first novel, set in Boston and New York, begins in 1968 with a young Indian man doing research at MIT, and his wife, who becomes pregnant with a son. As years go by, their son, unlike his parents, becomes thoroughly westernized and even rebellious, with a series ...
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Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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James Joyce
Joyce's celebrated short-story sequence provides a vivid and disturbing picture of early 20th-century Dublin and its inhabitants, whom Joyce saw as trapped in a repressed and stultifying environment. The stories are divided into five types: childhood, adolescence, marriage, maturity, and various aspects of public life, including politics. They ...
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The Glass Menagerie
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Tennessee Williams
One of Tennessee Williams' most popular plays in a special annotated edition for school and college students. The Glass Menagerie, Tennessee Williams' first great popular success and an autobiographical play about his mother and sister, launched the brilliant and controversial career of this ground-breaking American playwright. Set in St Louis ...
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Invisible Life
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E Lynn Harris
This debut by a young, gay, black author is a coming-of-age novel about bisexuality and AIDS.
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Every Young Man's Battle: Strategies for Victory in the Real World of Sexual Temptation
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Stephen Arterburn, Fred Stoeker, Mike Yorkey
The bestselling authors of "Every Man's Battle" now focus on the temptations young, single, Christian men face every day, and offer strategies for achieving sexual purity.
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David Copperfield
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Charles Dickens
Dickens's heavily autobiographical novel describing a young man's rise in the world is a classic coming-of-age story. David Copperfield, the narrator, is orphaned at a tender age and raised first by his brutal stepfather (who halts his schooling and sends him to work in a factory--as did Dickens's own father), then by a kindly aunt. He trains for ...
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Odd Thomas
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Dean R Koontz
In a small town out west, Odd Thomas works as a short-order cook at the Pico Mundo Grill. But he also communicates with ghosts, and has a particular talent for scoping out bad spirits called bodachs. When he finds a clutch of them hanging around with a stranger who has come to town, Odd starts to worry--and before long, he finds evidence that the ...
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Run W/The Horseman
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Fe Sams
A boy's account of growing up in the South during the depression era. Both a rare first novel and a new American classic, Sams novel has been compared to Tom Sawyer and To Kill a Mockingbird.
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Gangster
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Lorenzo Carcaterra
A Mafia kingpin's protege recounts the story of his boss's life in this classic underworld yarn.
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No-No Boy
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John Okada, Lawson Fusao Inada (Designer), Frank Chin (Designer)
John Okada was born in Seattle, Washington in 1923. He attended the University of Washington and Columbia University. He served in the U.S. Army in World War II, wrote one novel and died of a heart attack at the age of 47. John Okada died in obscurity believing that Asian America had rejected his work.
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This Side of Paradise
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F Scott Fitzgerald
THIS SIDE OF PARADISE, the novel that established F. Scott Fitzgerald as the voice of his generation, was written while he was in the army, extensively revised, and finally published in 1920 when he was only 23 years old. The young "romantic egoist" Amory Blaine--vain, shallow, and self-absorbed--whose progress from prep school to Princeton ...
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Stardust
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Neil Gaiman
A young man, Tristan, sets off on a quest to retrieve a fallen star and win the hand of his love in marriage. The problem is that the star seems to have landed in the realm of faeries, and Tristan must venture into those uncharted territories, far outside the walled city in which he and his love reside.
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Portnoys Complaint
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Philip Roth
Philip Roth's 1969 novel--brilliant, bawdy, shocking, and hilarious--tapped into the so-called "sexual revolution" of the late 1960s in its eagerness to break taboos. Its confessional frankness and irreverent take on family life changed American literature forever. Structured in the form of a long session with his psychoanalyst, the book explores ...
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Shards of a Broken Crown
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Raymond E Feist
In this, is the final volume in the Serpent War Saga, and the ninth of the Riftwar books. the Queen's henchmen, General Fadawah, renews his threats against Midkemia.
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Believing the Dream
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Lauraine Snelling
Thorliff has always dreamed of being a writer. But when he arrives at college, things are not as he had imagined. He longs for his loved ones back home. The distance also creates a rift between Thorliff and his childhood sweetheart. The only bright spot in his life is his job at the town newspaper. Will he be forced to leave one dream behind to ...
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Sons & Lovers
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D H Lawrence
Based very closely on D.H. Lawrence's own life, SONS AND LOVERS (1913) tells the story of young Paul Morel, son of the troubled union of an educated, upwardly mobile mother and an ill-tempered, unlettered coal miner father who speaks in a broad dialect. Although in later life Lawrence regretted his brutal portrait of his father, the hero of the ...
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