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Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami Publisher Comments This stunning and elegiac novel by the author of the internationally acclaimed Wind-Up Bird Chronicle has sold over 4 million copies in Japan and is now available to American audiences for the first time. It is sure to be a literary event. Toru, a... (read more) Your price: $15.00 New - Trade Paper
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American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis Publisher Comments Now a major motion picture from Lion's Gate Films starring Christian Bale (Metroland), Chloe Sevigny (The Last Days of Disco), Jared Leto (My So Called Life), and Reese Witherspoon (Cruel Intentions), and directed by Mary Harron (I Shot Andy Warhol). In... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Secret History by Donna Tartt Publisher Comments Richard Papen arrived at Hampden College in New England and was quickly seduced by an elite group of five students, all Greek scholars, all worldly, self-assured, and, at first glance, all highly unapproachable. As Richard is drawn into their inner... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Choke: A Novel by Chuck Palahniuk Publisher Comments Victor Mancini, a medical-school dropout, is an antihero for our deranged times. Needing to pay elder care for his mother, Victor has devised an ingenious scam: he pretends to choke on pieces of food while dining in upscale restaurants. He then allows... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Russian Debutante's Handbook by Gary Shteyngart Publisher Comments The Russian Debutante's Handbook is infused with energy and wit and a brilliant use of language. Hilarious, extravagant, yet uncannily true to life, it follows the adventures of Vladimir, a young Russian-American immigrant, whose capitalist dreams and... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh From Powells.com In the past decade writers such as A. L. Kennedy, Iain Banks, Alan Warner, Michel Faber, and Ian Rankin have made Scotland one of the most talked about literary communities in the world. No writer, though, has been more central to this "... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Rules of Attraction by Bret Easton Ellis Publisher Comments Set at a small, affluent liberal-arts college in New England at the height of the Reagan 80s, The Rules of Attraction is a startlingly funny, kaleidoscopic novel about three students with no plans for the future--or even the present--who become entangled... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh Publisher Comments An outsider's account of a troubled aristocratic family, written by the celebrated English novelist. Charles Ryder, the narrator, is a dull and rather pompous undergraduate at Oxford when he meets Sebastian Flyte, a wealthy and sybaritic classmate. The... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Story of My Life (Vintage Contemporaries) by Jay Mcinerney Publisher Comments In his breathlessly paced new novel Jay McInerney revisits the nocturnal New York of Bright Lights, Big City. Alison Poole, twenty going on 40,000, is a budding actress already fatally well versed in hopping the clubs, shopping Chanel falling in and out... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Slaves of New York by Tama Janowitz Publisher Comments Meet the denizens of New York City: artists, prostitutes, saints, and seers. All are aspiring toward either fame or oblivion, and hoping for love and acceptance. Instead they find high rents, faithless partners, and dead-end careers. But between the... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Hundred Brothers (Vintage Contemporaries) by Donald Antrim Publisher Comments With this satanically funny novel Donald Antrim establishes himself as a literary provocateur of the first order as well as a grandmaster of the subject of sibling rivalry as he bring together 11 eccentric brothers in the decaying library of their family... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis Publisher Comments Set in L.A. in the early 1980s, this bestselling and coolly mesmerizing novel established its young author as the E Scott Fitzgerald for a generation so irretrievably lost that its motto might be "Disappear here." Clay comes home for Christmas vacation... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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