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Hairstyles Of The Damned (Punk Planet Books)

by Joe Meno

Published: 2004-09-15

Paperback: 290 pages

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Hairstyles is an honest depiction of growing up punk on Chicago's south side: a study in the demons of racial intolerance, Catholic school conformism and class repression. It is the story of the riotous exploits of Brian, a high school burnout, and his best friend Gretchen, a punk rock gir...

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The Haj

by Leon Uris

Published: 1985-06-01

Mass Market Paperback: 544 pages

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Leon Uris retums to the land of his acclaimed  best-seller Exodus for an epic  story of hate and love, vengeance and forgiveness and  forgiveness. The Middle East is the powerful  setting for this sweeping tale of a land where revenge  is sacred and hatred noble. Where an Arab ru...

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The Hakawati

by Rabih Alameddine

Published: 2008-04-22

Hardcover: 528 pages

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Half a Life

by Darin Strauss

Published: 2010-09-15

Hardcover: 204 pages

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�Half my life ago, I killed a girl.?So begins Darin Strauss? Half a Life, the true story of how one outing in his father's Oldsmobile resulted in the death of a classmate and the beginning of a different, darker life for the author. We follow Strauss as he explores his startling past�colli...

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Half a Life

by V.S. Naipaul

Published: 2001-10-16

Hardcover: 224 pages

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One of the finest living writers in the English language, V. S. Naipaul gives us a tale as wholly un-expected as it is affecting, his first novel since the exultantly acclaimed A Way in the World, published seven years ago.Half a Life is the story of Willie Chandran, whose father, heeding ...

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Half a Life: A Memoir

by Darin Strauss

Published: 2011-05-31

Paperback: 224 pages

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In this powerful, unforgettable memoir, acclaimed novelist Darin Strauss examines the far-reaching consequences of the tragic moment that has shadowed his whole life. In his last month of high school, he was behind the wheel of his dad's Oldsmobile, driving with friends, heading off to pla...

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Half a Life: A Novel

by V.S. Naipaul

Published: 2002-10-08

Paperback: 224 pages

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In a narrative that moves with dreamlike swiftness from India to England to Africa, Nobel Laureate V. S. Naipaul has produced his finest novel to date, a bleakly resonant study of the fraudulent bargains that make up an identity.The son of a Brahmin ascetic and his lower-caste wife, Willie...

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Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas

by Tom Robbins

Published: 1995-11-01

Paperback: 400 pages

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When the stock market crashes on the Thursday before Easter, you—an ambitious, although ineffectual and not entirely ethical young broker—are convinced that you’re facing the Weekend from Hell. Before the market reopens on Monday, you’re going to have to scramble and scheme to cover your butt,...

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Half Broke Horses

by Jeannette Walls

Published: 2009-09-26

Kindle Edition: 292 pages

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Half Broke Horses is Laura Ingalls Wilder for adults, as riveting and dramatic as Isak Dinesen’s Out of Africa or Beryl Markham’s West with the Night. Destined to become a classic, it will transfix readers everywhere.“Those old cows knew trouble was coming before we did.” So begins...

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Half Broke Horses: Behind the Story - The Undisclosed Story Behind the Curtains (A Background Information Book Companion)

by The Behind the Story Team, Sarah Reagan

Published: 2011-11-17

Kindle Edition: 0 pages

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You've devoured the last morsel of your savory book. Now what?If you still have a stomach that yearns for more, "Behind the Story" will be a most delightful surprise for you. Just like the name, "Behind the Story", this innovative guide takes you by the hand and becomes your personal guide...