A Visit from the Goon Squad
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A New York Times Book Review Best Book. Bennie is an aging former punk rocker and record executive Sasha is the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. Here, Jennifer Egan reveals their pasts, along with the inner lives of a host of other characters whose paths intersect with theirs. With music pulsing on every page, A VISIT FROM THE GOON SQUAD is a startling, exhilarating novel of self-destruction and redemption. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. 340p.
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Bossypants
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This #1 national bestseller reveals Tina Fey to be – possibly, or improbably – the funniest comedic writer for TV alive today. Here, part autobiography, part guide to being a boss, she tackles gender roles in her business and in her life. She veers from frank assessments of gender politics in the traditionally male-dominated world of comedy to hilariously embarrassing tales of failed collegiate romances. In Bossypants, Fey charts a lot of battles in her career, but it renders them hilario…
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Catching Fire (Hunger Games: Book 2)
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Against all odds, Katniss has won the Hunger Games. She and fellow District 12 tribute Peeta Medlark are miraculously still alive. Katniss should be relieved, happy even. After all, she has returned to her family and her longtime friend, Gale. Yet nothing is the way Katniss wishes it to be. Gale holds her at an icy distance. Peeta has turned his back on her completely. And there are whispers of a rebellion against the Capitol - a rebellion that Katniss and Peeta may have helped create. 39…
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Chico & Rita
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Cuba, 1948. Chico is a young piano player with big dreams. Rita is a beautiful singer with an extraordinary voice. Music and romantic desire unite them, but their journey brings heartache and torment. From Havana to New York, Paris, Hollywood, and Las Vegas, two passionate individuals battle impossible odds to unite in music and love. Javier Mariscal's art perfectly captures the steamy, vibrant atmosphere of 1940s Havana and transports the reader back to a time filled with music and roman…
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Everything Matters!
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Junior Thibodeau grows up in rural Maine in a time of Atari, baseball cards, pop Catholicism and cocaine. He also knows something no one else knows - neither his exalted parents, nor his baseall-savant brother, nor the love of his life (she doesn't believe him anyway): The world will end when he is thirty-six. While Junior searches for meaning in a doomed world, his loved ones tell an all-American saga of fathers and sons, blinding romance, lost love, and reconciliation - culminating in o…
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Just Kids
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JUST KIDS starts out as a love story and ends up on Elegy Row. Serving as a Baudelarian salute to New York City during the late sixties and seventies and to its rich and poor, its hustlers and hellions, it makes for a true fable, a portrait of two young artists, Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe, ascending the halcyon daze to fame. Smith's penchant for immortalizing herself this side of the graveyard dog, lets all the struggle and morphing genius connect for a rhythmic ride through that…
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Mockingjay (Hunger Games: Book 3)
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In this sequel to The Hunger Games and Catching Fire, Katniss Everdeen, girl on fire, has survived, even though her home has been destroyed. Gale has escaped. Katniss's family is safe. Peeta has been captured by the Capitol. District 13 really does exist. There are rebels. There are new leaders. A revolution is unfolding. As it turns out, it is by design that Katniss was rescued from the arena in the cruel and haunting Quarter Quell, and it is by design that she has long been part of the …
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Moveable Feast
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Written during the last years of his life, Hemingway’s memories as an unknown writer living in Paris in the 1920s are deeply personal, warmly affectionate and full of wit. Looking back not only at his own much young self, but also at the other writers who shared Paris with him – literary ‘stars’ like James Joyce, Wyndham Lewis, Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein – he recalls the time when, poor, happy and writing in cafes, he discovered his vocation. 126p.
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Paris versus New York: A Tally of Two Cities
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A visual dual tribute to the Big Apple and the City of Lights is a full-length volume that builds on the author's popular online travel journal by the same name and complements juxtaposed graphics with lighthearted taglines that celebrate the special details of each city. 40,000 first printing.
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The Corrections
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Winner of the National Book Award. Comic, tragic monumental novel about a family breakdown in an age of easy fixes. 'Large-hearted and merciless' - David Foster Wallace. 592p. Pap.
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The Great Gatsby
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This is the definitive, textually accurate edition of a 20th-century classic, based on the Cambridge critical edition that is drawn on the manuscript and surviving proofs of the novel, along with Fitzgerald's later revisions and corrections. 216p.
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The Hunger Games
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In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV. If sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen is to win, she will have to start making choices that weigh survival against humanity and l…
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The New York Trilogy
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In three brilliant variations on the classic detective story - City of Glass, Ghosts, The Locked Room - Paul Auster makes the well-traversed terrain of New York City his own, as it becomes a strange, compelling landscape in which identities merge or fade and questions serve only to further obscure the truth. THE NEW YORK TRILOGY is published here as part of a series of first novels to celebrate Faber's 80th birthday. 314p.
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The Tiger's Wife: A Novel
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National Book Award Finalist. In a Balkan country mending from war, Natalia, a young doctor, is compelled to unravel the mysterious circumstances surrounding her beloved grandfather’s recent death. Searching for clues, she turns to his worn copy of The Jungle Book and the stories he told her of his encounters over the years with “the deathless man.” But most extraordinary of all is the story her grandfather never told her – the legend of the tiger’s wife. 338p.
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This small, intimate and luminous memoir revisits the most sacred experiences of writer, performer, and visual artist Patti Smith’s early years – with truths so vivid they border on the insurreal. The author entwines her childhood self – and its “clear, unspeakable joy” – with memories both real and envisioned from her twenties on New York City’s MacDougal Street, the street of noir cafes. Completed in Michigan, on Smith’s 45th birthday and originally published in a slim volume from Raymo…
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