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  Bridge Trilogy: Book 2

  Idoru

  by William Gibson

  The New York Times bestselling author takes readers to 21st-century Tokyo after the millennial quake--where something violently new is about to erupt...
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  Bright Lights, Big City

  by Jay McInerney

  It is six am, the party is over and reality is threatening to intervene in the power-fuelled existence of a young man who should have everything but who might just end up with nothing at all. His wife has left him, his job is in jeopardy, and his social life is about to end.
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  The Cheese Monkeys

  A Novel in Two Semesters

  by Chip Kidd

  From People Who Liked It "It is rare for a book to produce uncontrollable laughter as loud as this one did. The narrator is at art college in the 1950s, and after failing to get the courses he wants, finds himself attending 'Introduction to Graphic Design,' taught by the inspiring, sadistic, and compelling Professor Winter Sorbeck. Through humiliation and excess he shows his naive young charges how to see the... (more)
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  Junie B.'s Essential Survival Guide to School

  by Barbara Park

  Junie B. Jones is back and better than ever with a must-have Survival Guide! Hello, school children! Hello! Hello! It’s me . . . Junie B., First Grader! I have been going to school for over one-and-a-half entire years now. And I have learned a jillion things that will help you survive at that place. And guess what? Now I am going to pass this information on to y-o-u!!! I wrote it all down in my brand-new book! ... (more)
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  High Fidelity

  by Nick Hornby

  Is it possible to share your life with someone whose record collection is incompatible with your own? Can people have terrible taste and still be worth knowing? Do songs about broken hearts and misery and loneliness mess up your life if consumed in excess? For Rob Fleming, thirty-five years old, a pop addict and owner of a failing record shop, these are the sort of questions that need an answer, and soon. His... (more)
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  The Psycho Ex Game

  by Merrill Markoe, Andy Prieboy

  Lisa Roberty is a successful screenwriter with an impoverished social life who’s enduring a demoralizing job at the mind-numbing sitcom You Go, Girl . Grant Repka is an obscure indie rock musician who, in his forties, finds his career surprisingly resurrected with the success of his comic operetta about the doomed romance of Tommy Lee and Pamela Anderson. When Grant and Lisa meet after one of his shows, sparks... (more)
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  The Death and Life of Bobby Z

  by Don Winslow

  When Tim Kearney, a small-time criminal, slits the throat of a Hell's Angel and draws a life sentence in a prison full of gang members, he knows he’s pretty much a dead man. That’s until the DEA makes Kearney an offer: impersonate the late, legendary dope smuggler Bobby Z so that the agency can trade him for one of their own, who was captured by a Mexican drug kingpin. Knowing his chances of survival are a little... (more)
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  Hip: The History (P.S.)

  by John Leland

  Hip: The History is the story of how American pop culture has evolved throughout the twentieth century to its current position as world cultural touchstone. How did hip become such an obsession? From sex and music to fashion and commerce, John Leland tracks the arc of ideas as they move from subterranean Bohemia to Madison Avenue and back again. Hip: The History examines how hip has helped shape -- and... (more)
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  Word

  by Coerte V. W. Felske

  Callie Carlson has spent her life at odds with the sea. Growing up on the Florida Straits, she blames the Atlantic for her mother's and father's death and the enticement of her younger brother Jeff whom she has practically raised -- the only family member left to her now. When Jeff goes out in a storm, Callie is sure that the sea will finally steal the last of her blood ties. Her frantic waiting and watching on... (more)
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  Need More Love: A Graphic Memoir

  by Aline Kominsky Crumb

  Aline Kominsky-Crumb, one of the earliest female cartoonists, presents a collection of her own highly inventive and daring artwork from over four decades, along with unusual photographs and memorabilia. The road to becoming an underground- comics legend begins with Komisky-Crumb as a nice jewish girl from Long Island, carries her to Greenwich Village in the 1960's, and to California, land of hippy cartoonists, and... (more)
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  Ambush at Fort Bragg

  by Tom Wolfe

  He's been called "the inventor of the New Journalism -- and possessor of the age's most distinctive prose style." Now in this original novella, published to critical acclaim in Rolling Stone magazine, Tom Wolfe, author of The Bonfire of the Vanities, turns his penetrating eye and devastating wit on the world of TV news... Ambush at Fort Bragg As the producer of a prime-time TV newsmagazine, Irv Durtscher fancies... (more)
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  Half Moon Street

  by Paul Theroux

  "Half Moon Street," the first of these two short novels, stars Dr. Lauren Slaughter, a young, brilliant, beautiful American in London who signs up with an "escort service" to prove to an ugly man she barely knows that she will "do just about anything." The second novel, "Buried Alive," is set in Boston and tells of middle-aged twin brothers: after a long separation they meet, George suddenly dies and Gerald... (more)
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  Luck and Pluck

  by Glendon swarthout

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  The Year of Living Biblically

  One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible

  by A. J. Jacobs

  From the bestselling author of The Know-It-All comes a fascinating and timely exploration of religion and the Bible. Raised in a secular family but increasingly interested in the relevance of faith in our modern world, A.J. Jacobs decides to dive in headfirst and attempt to obey the Bible as literally as possible for one full year. He vows to follow the Ten Commandments. To be fruitful and multiply. To love his... (more)
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  A Freewheelin' Time

  A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties

  by Suze Rotolo

  A Freewheelin’ Time is Suze Rotolo’s firsthand, eyewitness, participant-observer account of the immensely creative and fertile years of the 1960s, just before the circus was in full swing and Bob Dylan became the anointed ringmaster. It chronicles the back-story of Greenwich Village in the early days of the folk music explosion, when Dylan was honing his skills and she was in the ring with him. A shy girl from... (more)
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  Supersonic Swingers Limited Edition

  by Shag

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  Mia Hall: Book 1

  If I Stay

  by Gayle Forman

  In a single moment, everything changes. Seventeen year- old Mia Hall has no memory of the accident; she can only recall riding along the snow-wet Oregon road with her family. Then, in a blink, she finds herself watching as her own damaged body is taken from the wreck... A sophisticated, layered, and heartachingly beautiful story about the power of family and friends, the choices we all make—and the ultimate... (more)
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  Reverse Mentoring: How Young Leaders Can Transform the Church and Why We Should Let Them (J-B Leadership Network Series)

  by Earl G. Creps

  Earl Creps is known for his work in connecting the younger generation of postmoderns with their Boomer predecessors. The author of Off-Road Disciplines, Creps, in this new book, takes up the topic of how older church leaders can learn from younger leaders who are more conversant with culture, technology, and social context. In addition to making the benefits of what he calls "reverse mentoring" apparent, he also... (more)
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  Girly Graphics: An Interpretation of Lovely, Sweet, and Glamorous Graphic Designs

  Society is susceptible to messages sent by clearly marketed products through media, and "girly" has come to the surface as an iconic image along with women’s growing consumer power. The word "girly" is about reconstructing a positive image for girls. "Girly" images are powerful and convey a strong message (or signal) to the audience in today’s world. Examples are classified by four distinctive "girly" flavors:... (more)
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  Persepolis: Book 2

  Persepolis 2

  The Story of a Return

  by Marjane Satrapi

  In Persepolis, heralded by the Los Angeles Times as “one of the freshest and most original memoirs of our day,” Marjane Satrapi dazzled us with her heartrending memoir-in-comic-strips about growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. Here is the continuation of her fascinating story. In 1984, Marjane flees fundamentalism and the war with Iraq to begin a new life in Vienna. Once there, she faces the trials... (more)