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The Catcher in the Rye: All In One Edition

by J.D. Salinger

Published: 2017-11-27

Paperback: 136 pages

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The hero-narrator of The Catcher in the Rye is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days. The boy himself...

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The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe

by Kij Johnson

Published: 2016-08-16

Paperback: 192 pages

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One of NPR's Best Books of 2016 and a Hugo, Nebula, John W. Campbell, and Locus Award finalist for Best NovellaProfessor Vellitt Boe teaches at the prestigious Ulthar Women’s College. When one of her most gifted students elopes with a dreamer from the waking world, Vellitt must retrieve ...

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Herland (Dover Thrift Editions)

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Published: 1998-06-18

Paperback: 128 pages

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A prominent turn-of-the-century social critic and lecturer, Charlotte Perkins Gilman is perhaps best known for her short story "The Yellow Wallpaper," a chilling study of a woman's descent into insanity, and Women and Economics, a classic of feminist theory that analyzes the destructive ef...

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The Name of the Wind: 10th Anniversary Deluxe Edition (Kingkiller Chronicle)

by Patrick Rothfuss

Published: 2017-10-03

Hardcover: 752 pages

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"No one writes about stories like Pat Rothfuss. How the right story at the right time can change the world, how the teller can shape a life." —Lin-Manuel Miranda This deluxe, illustrated edition celebrates the New York Times-bestselling series, The Kingkiller Chronicle—a masterful epi...

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Man on Fire

by A J Quinnell

Published: 2015-03-12

Paperback: 348 pages

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Fierce authentic action, masterful storytelling and a touchingly moving friendship combine in this gripping novel of suspense and revenge, set in an Italy plagued by kidnapping. Washed-up, a near alcoholic, ex-mercenary Creasy takes on the job of guarding the 11 year old daughter of an Italian industrialist....

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The Billion Dollar Molecule: One Company's Quest for the Perfect Drug

by Barry Werth

Published: 1995-03-01

Paperback: 464 pages

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Join journalist Barry Werth as he pulls back the curtain on Vertex, a start-up pharmaceutical company, and witness firsthand the intense drama being played out in the pioneering and hugely profitable field of drug research. Founded by Joshua Boger, a dynamic Harvard- and Merck-trained scie...

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The History of Sexuality, Vol. 1: An Introduction

by Michel Foucault

Published: 1990-04-14

Paperback: 168 pages

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Michel Foucult offers an iconoclastic exploration of why we feel compelled to continually analyze and discuss sex, and of the social and mental mechanisms of power that cause us to direct the questions of what we are to what our sexuality is.

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Here We Lie

by Paula Treick DeBoard

Published: 2018-01-30

Paperback: 368 pages

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“A complex look at the long-standing consequences of privilege and toxic masculinity…. Compulsively readable!” —Kate Moretti, New York Times bestselling author of The Vanishing YearMegan Mazeros and Lauren Mabrey are complete opposites on paper. Megan is a girl from a modest Midwes...

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My Name Used to Be Muhammad: The True Story of a Muslim Who Became a Christian

by Tito Momen, Jeff Benedict

Published: 2016-02-06

Paperback: 288 pages

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Born in Nigeria, Tito Momen was raised to observe the strict teachings of Islam. At age five, he was waking at 4:45 every morning to attend the mosque and perform dawn prayer with the men in his village. By age six, he was training to memorize the Qur'an by copying the entire book word for word. He was...

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How to Lose Friends & Alienate People

by Toby Young

Published: 2002-07-03

Hardcover: 368 pages

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In 1995 high-flying British journalist Toby Young left London for New York to become a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. Other Brits had taken Manhattan-Alistair Cooke then, Anna Wintour now-so why couldn't he? But things didn't quite go according to plan. Within the space of two years h...