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Boys Adrift: The Five Factors Driving the Growing Epidemic of Unmotivated Boys and Underachieving Young Men

by Leonard Sax

Published: 2009-01-06

Paperback: 288 pages

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Something scary is happening to boys today. From kindergarten to college, American boys are, on average, less resilient and less ambitious than they were a mere twenty years ago. The gender gap in college attendance and graduation rates has widened dramatically. While Emily is working hard...

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The Boys from Dolores: Fidel Castro's Classmates from Revolution to Exile

by Patrick Symmes

Published: 2007-07-10

Hardcover: 368 pages

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From the author of Chasing Che, the remarkable tale of a group of boys at the heart of Cuba's political and social history. The Boys from Dolores illuminates the elite island society from which Fidel Castro and his brother Raul emerged.The Colegio de Dolores was a Jesuit boarding school in...

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The Boys in the Band: 40th Anniversary Edition

by Mart Crowley

Published: 2008-04-01

Paperback: 160 pages

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?Boys can still hold its own . . . [Mart] Crowley's point is about how the humor is shaped and defined by the pain.??The New York TimesThe Boys in the Band was the first commercially successful play to reveal gay life to mainstream America. Alyson is proud to release a special fortieth ann...

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The Boys in the Trees: A Novel

by Mary Swan

Published: 2008-01-22

Paperback: 207 pages

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?This is a mesmerizing novel, that can truly claim to be filled with a ?terrible beauty.???Alice Munro�Newly arrived to the countryside, William Heath, his wife, and two daughters appear the picture of a devoted family. But when accusations of embezzlement spur William to commit an unthink...

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The Boys of My Youth

by Jo Ann Beard

Published: 1999-01-29

Paperback: 224 pages

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Rarely does the debut of a new writer garner such attention & acclaim. The excitement began the moment "The Fourth State of Matter," one of the fourteen extraordinary personal narratives in this book, appeared in the pages of the New Yorker. It increased when the author received a prestigious Whiting...

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The Boys of Winter: The Untold Story of a Coach, a Dream, and the 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team

by Wayne Coffey

Published: 2005-10-25

Paperback: 273 pages

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The Story of the Greatest Sports Moment of the Twentieth CenturyOnce upon a time, they taught us to believe. They were the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team, a blue-collar bunch led by an unconventional coach, and they engineered what Sports Illustrated called the greatest sports moment of the...

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The Boys on the Bus

by Timothy Crouse

Published: 2003-08-12

Paperback: 416 pages

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Cheap booze. Flying ?eshpots. Lack of sleep. Endless spin. Lying pols.Just a few of the snares lying in wait for the reporters who covered the 1972 presidential election. Traveling with the press pack from the June primaries to the big night in November, Rolling Stone reporter Timothy Crou...

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Boys Will Put You on a Pedestal (So They Can Look Up Your Skirt): A Dad's Advice for Daughters

by Philip Van Munching

Published: 2005-05-03

Paperback: 175 pages

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Life can be pretty tricky when you're a teenage girl.New things matter: Clothes. Parties. Boys. Suddenly being liked and being popular don't mean the same thing. Your parents get completely bizarre when the subject of dating comes up. A friend you've had forever stabs you in the back for n...

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Boy's Life

by Robert R. McCammon

Published: 2011-10-18

Kindle Edition: 0 pages

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In Zephyr, Alabama, a bizarre murder is only the beginning Small town boys see weird sights, and Zephyr has provided Cory Jay Mackenson with his fair share of oddities. He knows the bootleggers who lurk in the dark places outside of town. On moonless nights, he’s heard spirits congregat...

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Bo's Café: A Novel

by John Lynch, Bill Thrall, Bruce McNicol

Published: 2009-09-25

Paperback: 256 pages

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High-powered executive Steven Kerner is living the dream in southern California. But when his bottled pain ignites in anger one night, his wife kicks him out. Then an eccentric mystery man named Andy Monroe befriends Steven and begins unravelling his tightly wound world. Andy leads Steven through a series...