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Absurdly moving...

A hilarious debut from a stunningly original voice. A movingly absurd & absurdly moving novel about obsession, insecurity & the desire to be greater (or at least different) than what you are.

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Critically-Acclaimed Debut Novels

The Mysteries of Pittsburgh

Michael Chabon

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Days Between Stations: A Novel

Steve Erickson

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The Dissident

Nell Freudenberger

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Caribou Island: A Novel

David Vann

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Telex from Cuba: A Novel

Rachel Kushner

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A Way of Life, Like Any Other

Darcy O'Brien

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A Family Daughter: A Novel

Maile Meloy

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A Fortunate Age: A Novel

Joanna Smith Rakoff

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Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk: A Novel

Ben Fountain

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Edisto: A Novel

Padgett Powell

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The Longshot: A Novel

Katie Kitamura

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The White Tiger: A Novel

Aravind Adiga

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About Grace: A Novel

Anthony Doerr

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The Moviegoer

Walker Percy

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The Gin Closet

Leslie Jamison

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Rage Against the Machine

In the First Circle: The First Uncensored Edition

Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

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The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit

Sloan Wilson

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Native Son

Richard Wright

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Microserfs: A Novel

Douglas Coupland

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Cosmopolis: A Novel

Don DeLillo

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Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition

Joseph Heller

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The Metamorphosis, in the Penal Colony and Other Stori: T...

Franz Kafka

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Post Office

Charles Bukowski

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Editor's Choice

The currency of the future...

An urgent plea to the generation that freely shares their photos, feelings & relationship status, digital humanist Jaron Lanier brings the currency of the future into focus: personal information & social content.

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Analyzing the Web

Hamlet's BlackBerry: A Practical Philosophy for Building ...

William Powers

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Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, a...

Steven Johnson

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The Impulse Economy : Understanding Mobile Shoppers and W...

Gary Schwartz

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World Wide Mind: The Coming Integration of Humanity, Mach...

Michael Chorost

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Citizen Cyborg: Why Democratic Societies Must Respond To ...

James Hughes

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An Army of Davids: How Markets and Technology Empower Ord...

Glenn Reynolds

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Small Pieces Loosely Joined: A Unified Theory Of The Web

David Weinberger

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Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Le...

Sherry Turkle

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The End of Business As Usual: Rewire the Way You Work to ...

Brian Solis

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In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives

Steven Levy

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The Nature of the Future: Dispatches from the Socialstruc...

Marina Gorbis

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Blog Schmog: The Truth About What Blogs Can (and Can't) D...

Robert W. Bly , Robert Bly

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Public Parts: How Sharing in the Digital Age Improves the...

Jeff Jarvis

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Talking Back to Facebook: The Common Sense Guide to Raisi...

James P. Steyer

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Socialnomics: How Social Media Transforms the Way We Live...

Erik Qualman

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The Thank You Economy

Gary Vaynerchuk

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Visions of the Future

Our Final Hour: A Scientist's Warning

Martin Rees

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The End of Sex: How Hookup Culture is Leaving a Generatio...

Donna Freitas

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The Ripple Effect: The Fate of Fresh Water in the Twenty-...

Alex Prud'homme

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Travels To The Nanoworld

Michael Gross

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The Future of Power

Joseph S. Nye , Joseph S. Nye, Jr.

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The End of Business As Usual: Rewire the Way You Work to ...

Brian Solis

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Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think

Peter H. Diamandis , Steven Kotler

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The End of Influence: What Happens When Other Countries H...

J. Bradford DeLong , Stephen S. Cohen

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The End of Power: From Boardrooms to Battlefields and Chu...

Moises Naim

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The End of Money: Counterfeiters, Preachers, Techies, Dre...

David Wolman

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A Modern Marvel...

With verve & vitality, McCullough tells the amazing story of a modern marvel. From dangerous working conditions to corrupt bargains to heroic feats, this is the story of how a bridge came to symbolize New York.

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The Design of Everyday Life

Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transf...

Mark Pendergrast

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America and the Pill: A History of Promise, Peril, and Li...

Elaine Tyler May

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Three Squares: The Invention of the American Meal

Abigail Carroll

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The Perfect Swarm: The Science of Complexity in Everyday ...

Len Fisher

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For God, Country, and Coca-Cola

Mark Pendergrast

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Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat

Bee Wilson

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The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smalle...

Marc Levinson

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The Battery: How Portable Power Sparked a Technological R...

Henry Schlesinger

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The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persist...

Brandt

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Social Satire

Motherland: A Novel

Amy Sohn

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The White Tiger: A Novel

Aravind Adiga

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Copycat: A Novel

Gillian White

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As Husbands Go: A Novel

Susan Isaacs

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Wake Up, Sir!: A Novel

Jonathan Ames

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Gulliver's Travels

Jonathan Swift

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The Position: A Novel

Meg Wolitzer

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The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

Laurence Sterne

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Blue Angel

Francine Prose

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The Stepford Wives

Ira Levin

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A Searing Portrayal...

A searing portrayal of American marriage and the sacrifices, betrayals, and gender roles it entails, complete with a twist ending that puts the entire story in perspective.

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Campus Novels

212: A Novel

Alafair Burke

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The Raising: A Novel

Laura Kasischke

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The Sixes: A Novel

Kate White

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Prized Possessions: A Novel

Avery Corman

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The Groves of Academe: A Novel

Mary McCarthy

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One Tiny Lie: A Novel

K. A. Tucker

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Literary Biographies

Raymond Carver: A Writer's Life

Carol Sklenicka

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Rough Magic: A Biography Of Sylvia Path

Paul Alexander

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Stories About Storytellers: Publishing Alice Munro, Rober...

Douglas Gibson

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The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde

Neil McKenna

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Alive Inside the Wreck: A Biography of Nathanael West

Joe Woodward

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American Bloomsbury: Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emers...

Susan Cheever

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The Irregulars: Roald Dahl and the British Spy Ring in Wa...

Jennet Conant

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The Narnian

Alan Jacobs

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Mark Twain: A Life

Ron Powers

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Editor's Choice

Thoroughly Entertaining...

Macabre fascinations, artistic voyeurism, and current literary trends are wryly satirized in this thoroughly entertaining debut. A great read for literature-lovers who know that at times, truth really is stranger than fiction.

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