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We the Animals by Justin Torres Staff Pick If just hearing the phrase "lyrical coming-of-age novel" makes your shoulders sag and your attention lag, hold that thought. Justin Torres has breathed fresh life into a tired form. We the Animals is a deranged rollercoaster careening through the lives... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $12.50 Used - Hardcover 
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Annie Oakley's Girl by Rebecca Brown Staff Pick "A cult classic, Annie Oakley's Girl has been described as "one of the freshest, most memorable story collections of my lifetime" by Tillie Olsen. High praise indeed."... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood Staff Pick Published in 1964, A Single Man was Isherwood's favorite of his nine novels. It's a moving and sincere portrait of one day in the life of George, a gay British man who is an English professor in Southern California, adjusting to life after the sudden... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Exile in Guyville: How a Punk Rock Redneck Faggot Texan Moved to West Hollywood and Refused to Be Shiny and Happy by Dave White Staff Pick Dave White (of Movies.com, among other sites) is my favorite movie reviewer, and when I heard he had written a book about his move from Texas to Hollywood I had to read it. Exile in Guyville is a collection of his emails home to family and friends... (read more) List Price $13.50 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Time of the Doves by Merce Rodoreda Staff Pick I've worked in the literature section for almost eight years, and the beauty of Powell's is in the opportunity to discover, time and again, an author that you've never heard of before, one that sits on a bottom shelf close to the floor gathering dust... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Sluts by Dennis Cooper Staff Pick Dennis Cooper's The Sluts is addictive in a very disturbing way; it creates as much self-reflection as it does analysis of the characters and their fantasies. The sex described is brutal and graphic and unreal and maybe none of it ever happens and maybe... (read more) Your price: $15.95 New - Trade Paper
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Nightwood by Djuna Barnes Staff Pick There's no denying that Nightwood is a demanding text. In her preface, Jeanette Winterson aptly writes of Djuna Barnes's prose: "You can slide into it, because the prose has a narcotic quality, but you can't slide over it." When given the attention it... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Hotel De Dream (08 Edition) by Edmund White Staff Pick Edmund White is one of American literature's best kept secrets, and Hotel de Dream is his finest novel in nearly a decade. Give this one a chance; I think you'll be pleasantly surprised. If you've never read any of White's novels, this is a fantastic... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Selfish and Perverse by Bob Smith Staff Pick Entertaining, romantic, and extremely funny, Bob Smith's debut novel is the improbably charming story of Nelson Kunker, a young comedian who can't decide between the famous, gorgeous Dylan or the stable, sane (but also gorgeous) Roy. Selfish and Perverse... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $15.95 Used - Hardcover
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Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual Renegade by Justin Spring Staff Pick Sam Steward moved between culture both high (he was a close friend of Gertrude Stein) and low (he became one of the foremost tattoo artists in the country, well before tattoos became socially acceptable, and authored several volumes of erotic fiction... (read more) List Price $32.50 Your price: $23.00 Used - Hardcover
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The Elusive Embrace: Desire and the Riddle of Identity by Daniel Mendelsohn Staff Pick Mendelsohn's pitch-perfect writing enlivens tales of his childhood in a brand new Long Island suburb and the profound influence of the stories his multilingual maternal grandfather would tell of his Orthodox Jewish family and their escape from the... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Rose of No Man's Land by Michelle Tea Staff Pick Michelle Tea, a long-time favorite with streetwise memoir readers, proved she could pull off a novel with Rose of No Man's Land. It's like Freaks and Geeks with lesbians. Tea's writing dazzles and hurts in all the right places and her comic timing has... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Specimen Days by Michael Cunningham Staff Pick Specimen Days, a novel in three parts, showcases Michael Cunningham's capacity to evoke complex characters and expansive emotional reactions. Featuring a host of shifting but related characters — including a lizard-like alien and a precocious boy with... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Mass Market
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