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  Jesus' Son

  by Denis Johnson

  An intense collection of interconnected stories that portray life through the eyes of a young man in a small Iowa town, by the author of Already Dead: A California Gothic, Angels and Resuscitation of a Hanged Man.
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  Absolute Beginners

  by Colin MacInnes

  London, 1958-Soho, Notting Hill . . .a world of smoky jazz clubs, coffee bars, and hip hangouts in the center of London's emerging youth culture. The young and restless--the absolute beginners--were creating a world as different as they dared from the traditional image of England's green and pleasant land. Follow our young photographer as he records the moments of a young teenager's life in the capital--sex,... (more)
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  Trainspotting: Book 1

  Trainspotting

  by Irvine Welsh

  For the first time in hardcover with the original jacket art: "The best book ever written by man or woman...deserves to sell more copies than the Bible."— Rebel, Inc. Trainspotting is the novel that first launched Irvine Welsh's spectacular career—an authentic, unrelenting, and strangely exhilarating episodic group portrait of blasted lives. It accomplished for its own time and place what Hubert Selby,... (more)
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  Candy

  by Luke Davies

  "Candy is beside me, drenched in sweat. She's breathing gently, long slow breaths. I imagine her soul going in and out: wanting to leave, wanting to come back, wanting to leave, wanting to come back. The day will soon harden into what we need to do. But for now we have each other. . . ." He met Candy amid a lush Sydney summer. Gorgeous, sexy, free-spirited Candy. They fell in love fast, lots of laughter and lust,... (more)
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  Toxický squat

  by Hana Kavurová

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  No Love Lost

  by J W. Smith

  J. W. Smith, an aspiring author, a high-school graduate, once incarcerated, and with determination aimed to educate himself by reading and writing during his time of solitude. The spirit of God provided the faith, and the strength of his mind allowed him to begin his dream of becoming a writer. He was born and raised in Los Angeles, California, currently residing in Dallas, Texas. To learn more about him, visit... (more)
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  Taxi Driver (Faber Reel Classics S.)

  by Paul Schrader

  A loner, Travis Bickle takes up driving a taxi in search of an escape from his sleeplessness and his disgust with the corruption he finds around him. His pent-up rage, fuelled by his doomed relationship with the political campaign worker Betsy, leads to an inevitable descent into psychosis and violence. This volume also contains an extended interview between Schrader and Martin Scorsese in which they discuss... (more)
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  West of Then: A Mother, a Daughter, and a Journey Past Paradise

  by Tara Bray Smith

  At the center of West of Then is Karen Morgan -- island flower, fifth-generation haole (white) Hawaiian, Mayflower descendant -- now living on the streets of downtown Honolulu. Despite her recklessness, Karen inspires fierce loyalty and love in her three daughters. When she goes missing in the spring of 2002, Tara, the eldest, sets out to find and hopefully save her mother. Her journey is about what you give up... (more)
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  Drugstore Cowboy

  by James Fogle

  This rich and compelling story of four traveling junkies who lives revolve around looting drugstores was made into the movie voted best film of 1989 by the National Society of Film critics and is published here for the first time.
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  Flee the Angry Strangers

  by George Mandel

  Diane Lattimer is an eighteen-year-old single mother struggling with the separation from her infant son who has been sent to live with a foster family in Long Island. Strapped with guilt, Diane searches for redemption in souls as lost as her own, in the jazz-and drug-fueled hipsters of Greenwich Village. Finding solace only in one-night stands and an increasing dependence on drugs, Diane spirals into a world of... (more)
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  501 Minutes to Christ: Personal Essays

  by Poe Ballantine

  Poe Ballantine’s second collection of personal essays follows, and expands on, his acclaimed Things I Like About America. Ballantine’s world is a crazy quilt of odd jobs, eccentric characters, boarding houses, buses, and beer, rendered in the author’s by turns absurd and poignant voice. “The Irving” briskly details the author’s diabolic plan to punch John Irving in the nose after opening for him before an... (more)