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Guts: The Endless Follies and Tiny Triumphs of a Giant Disaster

by Kristen Johnston

Published: 2012-03-13

Hardcover: 288 pages

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?It felt like I was speeding on the Autobahn toward hell, trapped inside a DeLorean with no brakes. And even if I could somehow stop, I?d still be screwed, because there's no way I?d ever be able to figure out how to open those insane, cocaine-designed doors.? The two-time Emmy Award-winni...

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The Guy Not Taken: Stories

by Jennifer Weiner

Published: 2007-06-26

Paperback: 320 pages

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Jennifer Weiner's talent shines like never before in this collection of short stories, following the tender, often hilarious, progress of love and relationships over the course of a lifetime.We meet Marlie Davidow, home alone with her new baby late one night, when she wanders onto her ex's...

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Guyland: The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men

by Michael Kimmel

Published: 2009-10-01

Paperback: 352 pages

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The passage from adolescence to adulthood was once clear. Today, growing up has become more complex and confusing, as young men drift casually through college and beyond?hanging out, partying, playing with tech toys, watching sports. But beneath the appearance of a simple extended boyhood,...

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The Guynd: A Scottish Journal

by Belinda Rathbone

Published: 2007-04-23

Paperback: 304 pages

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"Rathbone nails down a little bit of the Scottish soul in all its stark splendor."—New York Times Book ReviewThis memoir offers an American woman's uniquely privileged view into the pastoral Scotland of today. By turns funny, heartwarming, and occasionally sad, it is the author's account...

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The Gypsy In My Soul

Paperback: 276 pages

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Poland, 1943-Heinrich Himmler orders the mass deportation of Gypsies to concentration camps. Sasha Karmazin, a Gypsy woman living in Warsaw, Poland, is torn from her family by the Gestapo and must leave behind her Polish husband, Henryk, and her two teenage sons, Karl and Dimitri. After being transported...

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The Ha Ha

by Dave King

Published: 2005

Paperback: 340 pages

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The Ha-Ha: A Novel

by Dave King

Published: 2006-03-06

Paperback: 368 pages

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Howard Kapostash has not spoken in thirty years. The small repertory of gestures and simple sounds that he uses to communicate lead most people to assume he is disturbed. No one understands that Howard is still the same man he was before his tragic injury. But when he agrees to help an old...

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Habibi

by Craig Thompson

Published: 2011-09-20

Hardcover: 672 pages

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From the internationally acclaimed author of Blankets (“A triumph for the genre.”—Library Journal), a highly anticipated new graphic novel. Sprawling across an epic landscape of deserts, harems, and modern industrial clutter, Habibi tells the tale of Dodola and Zam, refugee child s...

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The Habit

by Susan Morse

Published: 2011-11-08

Kindle Edition: 0 pages

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Colette may be right. She thinks I imprinted unnaturally on Ma at birth, like a foundling duck hatched accidentally in the nest of a needy, scatterbrained rattlesnake.  From the time she was born, Susan Morse was her mother's "special" child. For Susan, special translated into becomin...

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Hacking Harvard

by Robin Wasserman

Published: 2007-09-11

Paperback: 320 pages

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It's the ultimate challenge: breaking into the Ivy League.The hack: To get one deadbeat, fully unqualified slacker into the most prestigious school in the country.The crew: Eric Roth -- the good guy, the voice of reason. Max Kim -- the player who made the bet in the first place. Schwartz...