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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....
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About a Boy
by Nick Hornby Publisher Comments Will is thirty-six and doesn't really want children. Why does it bother people that he lives so happily alone in a fashionable, Lego-free flat, with massive speakers and a mammoth record collection, hardwood floors, and an expensive cream-colored rug...
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Prep: A Novel
by Curtis Sittenfeld Powells.com 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...
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A Long Way Down: A Novel
by Nick Hornby Powells.com 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...
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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 mission—a mission to...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Nine Stories
by J D Salinger Publisher Comments Since the publication of The Catcher in the Rye in 1951, the works of J.D. Salinger have been acclaimed for their humor, intensity, and their lack of phoniness. A collection of short fiction, Nine Stories contains works with those qualities that make...
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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...
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