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The Gathering

by Anne Enright

Published: 2007-12-01

Kindle Edition: 276 pages

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Anne Enright is a dazzling writer of international stature and one of Ireland’s most singular voices. Now she delivers The Gathering, a moving, evocative portrait of a large Irish family and a shot of fresh blood into the Irish literary tradition, combining the lyricism of the old with t...

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Gaudy Night (Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries)

by Dorothy L. Sayers

Published: 1995-04-01

Mass Market Paperback: 512 pages

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When Harriet Vane attends her Oxford reunion, known as the "Gaudy," the prim academic setting is haunted by a rash of bizarre pranks: scrawled obsentities, burnt effigies and poison-pen letters -- including one that says, "Ask your boyfriend with the title if he likes arsenic in his soup." Some of the...

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Gay American Autobiography: Writings from Whitman to Sedaris (Living Out: Gay and Lesbian Autobiog)

Published: 2009-04-01

Paperback: 426 pages

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In the first anthology to survey the full range of gay men's autobiographical writing from Walt Whitman to the present, Gay American Autobiography draws excerpts from letters, journals, oral histories, memoirs, and autobiographies to provide examples of the best life writing over the last ...

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A Gay and Melancholy Sound (Nancy Pearl's Book Lust Rediscoveries)

by Merle Miller

Published: 2012-04-03

Paperback: 584 pages

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The first book in nationally renowned librarian Nancy Pearl’s new Book Lust Rediscoveries series, this lost literary classic is available for the first time in decades. As funny and entertaining as it is captivating and heartrending, A Gay and Melancholy Sound is a shattering depiction o...

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A Gay and Melancholy Sound

by Merle Miller

Published: 2012-07-01

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The Gazebo

by Emily Grayson

Published: 1999-05

Hardcover: 224 pages

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The Gazebo is an elegantly written story of enduring love and loyalty, in the popular tradition of The Bridges of Madison County and The Notebook. Once a year for half a century, a man and a woman have been meeting at the gazebo in the square of a small town in upstate New York. Martin Ra...

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* * * * Inspiring,
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Geek Girl

by Cindy C. Bennett

Published: 2011-12-08

Paperback: 280 pages

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"Think I could turn that boy bad?" My two best friends--my only two friends, really--follow my gaze and laugh. "Trevor Hoffman?" Beth scoffs. "No way, Jen." "I bet I could," I say, shrugging. "Why him?" Beth asks. "Why not any of the other nerds sitting there with him?" "Because," I say sl...

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Geek Love

by Katherine Dunn

Published: 1990-03

Paperback: 355 pages

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A carnival family saves its traveling "Carnival Fabulon" from bankruptcy by giving birth to freaks--in a "Ripley's Believe It or Not" world. A National Book Award nominee.

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* * * * Life Changing,
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Geek Love: A Novel

by Katherine Dunn

Published: 2002-06-11

Paperback: 368 pages

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National Book Award finalistHere is the unforgettable story of the Binewskis, a circus-geek family whose matriarch and patriarch have bred their own exhibit of human oddities (with the help of amphetamine, arsenic, and radioisotopes). Their offspring include Arturo the Aquaboy, who has fli...

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The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth: Popularity, Quirk Theory, and Why Outsiders Thrive After High School

by Alexandra Robbins

Published: 2011-05-03

Hardcover: 448 pages

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*Now a New York Times bestseller*   In a smart, entertaining, reassuring book that reads like fiction, Alexandra Robbins manages to cross Gossip Girl with Freaks and Geeks and explain the fascinating psychology and science behind popularity and outcasthood. She reveals that the things th...