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Prep: A Novel by Curtis Sittenfeld Staff Pick "The best thing about this novel, and there are many very good things, is its strikingly intelligent voice. Sittenfeld nails the neurosis of adolescence with an unusual and appropriate tone....Sittenfeld's depiction of complex relationships is welcome... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover 
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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 $24.95 Your price: $2.50 Used - Hardcover
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Mission to America by Walter Kirn Publisher Comments From one of our most admired and visible young writers, a superb new novel about the collision between the forces of faith and an overstimulated, overfed, spiritually overextended America. Mason LaVerle is a young man on a missiona mission to America. He... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Thumbsucker by Walter Kirn Publisher Comments This eighties-centric, Ritalin-fueled, pitch-perfect comic novel by a writer to watch brings energy and originality to the classic Midwestern coming-of-age story. Meet Justin Cobb, "the King Kong of oral obsessives" (as his dentist dubs him) and the... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Up in the Air by Walter Kirn Publisher Comments Ryan Bingham's job as a Career Transition Counselor — he fires people — has kept him airborne for years. Although he has come to despise his line of work, he has come to love the culture of what he calls "Airworld," finding contentment within... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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About a Boy by Nick Hornby Publisher Comments Now a major motion picture from Universal Pictures. Will Freeman may have discovered the key to dating success: If the simple fact that they were single mothers meant that gorgeous women—women who would not ordinarily look twice at Will—might... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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She Needed Me by Walter Kirn Publisher Comments Walter Kirn has fashioned She Needed Me, a moving, surprising, and darkly comic novel whose sympathetic portrait of a disillusioned generation is mercifully uncynical. Weaver Walquist and Kim Lindgren first meet outside a St. Paul, Minnesota, abortion... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Nine Stories by J D Salinger Publisher Comments A collection of brilliant, sad, and influential stories that includes favorites like "A Perfect Day for Bananafish," "Teddy," and "For Esmé, with Love and Squalor," as well as the underrated gem, "Just Before the War With the Eskimos." Almost invariably,... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger Publisher Comments Ever since it was first published in 1951, this novel has been the coming-of-age story against which all others are judged. Read and cherished by generations, the story of Holden Caulfield is truly one of America's literary treasures.... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Love Monkey (P.S.) by Kyle Smith Publisher Comments Many men aim high; Tom Farrell dares to be average. While his friends accumulate wedding rings, mortgages, and even, alarmingly, babies, Tom still lives alone in his rented apartment with nothing but condiments and alcohol in his refrigerator. He spends... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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