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The Bartender's Tale

by Ivan Doig

Published: 2013-08-06

Paperback: 414 pages

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A national bestseller, the story of “a boy’s last days of youth and a history his father can’t leave behind” (The Daily Beast).Tom Harry has a streak of frost in his black pompadour and a venerable bar called The Medicine Lodge, the chief watering hole and last refuge in the town o...

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Bartleby & Co.

by Enrique Vila-Matas

Published: 2007-05-23

Paperback: 178 pages

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A marvelous novel by one of Spain's most important contemporary authors, in which a clerk in a Barcelona office takes us on a romping tour of world literature.In Bartleby & Co., an enormously enjoyable novel, Enrique Vila-Matas tackles the theme of silence in literature: the writers ...

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Base Ten (Women Writing Science Project)

by Maryann Lesert

Published: 2009-02-01

Paperback: 304 pages

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Compelling and fiercely honest, Base Ten exposes the daily battles of women scientists fighting to preserve a family life and succeed in a discipline that functions on the archaic belief that every scientist has a ?wife? at home.Reared to believe that she could do anything, astrophysicist ...

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Baseball Fever

by Johanna Hurwitz

Published: 2000-02-29

Paperback: 128 pages

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Ezra Feldman, almost ten, likes baseball more than anything else in the world. But his father cannot understand why his son would rather rot his brains watching men swinging big wooden sticks than read a book or play chess. Can an unwanted car trip, a grumpy old professor, and a surprising chess victory...

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Based Upon Availability CD

by Alix Strauss

Published: 2010-06-08

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From the very first page of this stunning novel, readers are drawn into the lives of eight seemingly ordinary women who pass through Manhattan's swanky Four Seasons Hotel. While offering sanctuary to some, solace to others, the hotel captures their darkest moments as they grapple with fam...

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The Basic Eight: A Novel

by Daniel Handler

Published: 2006-05-09

Paperback: 416 pages

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Flannery Culp wants you to know the whole story of her spectacularly awful senior year. Tyrants, perverts, tragic crushes, gossip, cruel jokes, and the hallucinatory effects of absinthe -- Flannery and the seven other friends in the Basic Eight have suffered through it all. But now, on tab...

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Basket Case

by Carl Hiaasen

Published: 2005-02-01

Paperback: 400 pages

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Once a hotshot investigative reporter, Jack Tagger now bangs out obituaries for a South Florida daily, "plotting to resurrect my career by yoking my byline to some famous stiff." Jimmy Stoma, the infamous front man for Jimmy and the Slut Puppies, dead in a fishy-smelling scuba "accident" may be just...

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The Basketball Diaries: Movie Tie-In Edition

by Jim Carroll

Published: 1995-04-01

Paperback: 224 pages

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Basketball Jones

by E. Lynn Harris

Published: 2010-01-05

Paperback: 256 pages

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AJ Richardson is living the good life. Thanks to his longtime lover, NBA star Dray Jones, he has a gorgeous townhouse in New Orleans, plenty of frequent-flier miles, and an MBA he's never had to use. Built on a deep and abiding love, their hidden relationship sustains them both. But when D...

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The Bastard of Istanbul

by Elif Shafak

Published: 2007-01-18

Hardcover: 368 pages

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From one of Turkey's most acclaimed and outspoken writers, a novel about the tangled histories of two families In her second novel written in English, Elif Shafak confronts her country's violent past in a vivid and colorful tale set in both Turkey and the United States. At its center is t...