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Empire Falls: A Novel by Richard Russo Publisher Comments With Empire Falls, Richard Russo cements his reputation as one of America's most compelling and compassionate storytellers. Miles Roby has been slinging burgers at the Empire Grill for 20 years, a job that cost him his college education and much of... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Straight Man: A Novel by Richard Russo Publisher Comments In this uproarious new novel, Richard Russo performs his characteristic high-wire walk between hilarity and heartbreak. Russo's protagonist is William Henry Devereaux, Jr., the reluctant chairman of the English department of a badly underfunded college... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Little Children by Tom Perrotta Publisher Comments Tom Perrotta's thirty-ish parents of young children are a varied and surprising bunch. There's Todd, the handsome stay-at-home dad dubbed "The Prom King" by the moms of the playground; Sarah, a lapsed feminist with a bisexual past, who seems to have... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $2.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Election by Tom Perrotta Publisher Comments Tracy Flick wants to be President of Winwood High. She's one of those ambitious girls who finds time to do it all: edit the yearbook, star in the musical, sleep with her English teacher. But another teacher, staunch idealist Jim McAllister (aka "Mr. M."),... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Bad Haircut: Stories of the Seventies by Tom Perrotta Publisher Comments Tom Perrotta made his literary debut with his short story collection Bad Haircut, earning critical praise and comparisons to Salinger, Carver, and Roth by taking readers to New Jersey in the 1970s as a boy named Buddy struggles with the timeless... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Little Children (Movie Tie-In) by Tom Perrotta Publisher Comments Unexpectedly suspenseful, but written with the same rich feeling and dark humor of Perrotta's previous novels, LITTLE CHILDEN exposes a surprising side of a familiar world. LITTLE CHILDREN Tom Perrotta's thirty-ish parents of young children are a... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $1.50 Used - Mass Market
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Little Children by Tom Perrotta Publisher Comments TOM PERROTTA's thirtyish parents of young children are a varied and surprising bunch. There's Todd, the handsome stay-at-home dad, dubbed "The Prom King" by the moms at the playground, and his wife, Kathy, a documentary filmmaker envious of the... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Wishbones by Tom Perrotta Publisher Comments Everything is going pretty well for Dave Raymond. He's 31, but he still feels young. He's playing guitar with the Wishbones, a New Jersey wedding band, and while it isn't exactly the Big Time, it is music. He has a roof over his head...well, it's his... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Joe College by Tom Perrotta Publisher Comments For many college students, spring break means fun and sun in Florida. For Danny, a Yale junior, it means two weeks behind the wheel of the Roach Coach, his father's lunch truck, which plies the parking lots of office parks in central New Jersey. But... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $2.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Sideways: A Novel by Rex Pickett Publisher Comments Sideways is the story of two friends-Miles and Jack-going away together for the last time to steep themselves in everything that makes it good to be young and single: pinot, putting, and prowling bars. In the week before Jack plans to marry, the pair... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Bones: A Novel by Seth Greenland Publisher Comments A hysterically scathing first novel about ambition and its discontents. Frank Bones is a self-destructive, take-no-prisoners, bad boy comic whose recent stage stunt with a firearm has cost him his audience and his bookings. Back at the bottom rung... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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A Long Way Down: A Novel by Nick Hornby Staff Pick Nick Hornby is the Dickens of our time. He's beloved by countless readers who don't otherwise care about novels. In the guise of effortless entertainment, his populist style delivers profound truths about the human condition. Both authors shaped novels... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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