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Geek Love

by Katherine Dunn

Published: 1990-03

Paperback: 355 pages

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A carnival family saves its traveling "Carnival Fabulon" from bankruptcy by giving birth to freaks--in a "Ripley's Believe It or Not" world. A National Book Award nominee.

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* * * * Life Changing,
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Geek Love: A Novel

by Katherine Dunn

Published: 2002-06-11

Paperback: 368 pages

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National Book Award finalistHere is the unforgettable story of the Binewskis, a circus-geek family whose matriarch and patriarch have bred their own exhibit of human oddities (with the help of amphetamine, arsenic, and radioisotopes). Their offspring include Arturo the Aquaboy, who has fli...

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The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth: Popularity, Quirk Theory, and Why Outsiders Thrive After High School

by Alexandra Robbins

Published: 2011-05-03

Hardcover: 448 pages

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*Now a New York Times bestseller*   In a smart, entertaining, reassuring book that reads like fiction, Alexandra Robbins manages to cross Gossip Girl with Freaks and Geeks and explain the fascinating psychology and science behind popularity and outcasthood. She reveals that the things th...

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Geeks, Girls, and Secret Identities

by Mike Jung

Published: 2012-10-01

Hardcover: 320 pages

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A SUPER funny, SUPER fast-paced, SUPER debut!Vincent Wu is Captain Stupendous's No. 1 Fan, but even he has to admit that Captain Stupendous has been a little off lately. During Professor Mayhem's latest attack, Captain Stupendous barely made it out alive - although he did manage to save Vi...

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Geisha, A Life

by Mineko Iwasaki, Rande Brown

Published: 2004-07-02

Hardcover: 297 pages

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No woman in the three-hundred-year history of the karyukai has ever come forward in public to tell her story -- until now. "Many say I was the best geisha of my generation," writes Mineko Iwasaki. "And yet, it was a life that I found too constricting to continue. And one that I ultimatel...

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Gem of the Ocean: 1904 (August Wilson Century Cycle)

by August Wilson

Published: 2007-09

Hardcover: 120 pages

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"No one except perhaps Eugene O'Neill and Tennessee Williams has aimed so high and achieved so much in the American theater."-John Lahr, The New Yorker "A swelling battle hymn of transporting beauty. Theatergoers who have followed August Wilson's career will find in Gem a touchstone for ...

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Gemini Summer

by Iain Lawrence

Published: 2008-11-11

Paperback: 272 pages

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EACH MEMBER OF the River family pursues a dream. But when a tragedy befalls the Rivers, it brings a halt to everyone's dreams. Everyone but Danny. For he finally gets his dog. And not just any old dog, but a stray that he believes embodies the spirit of someone he dearly loves. Nothing can separate them,...

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The Gendarme

by Mark T. Mustian

Published: 2011-09-06

Paperback: 336 pages

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To most people, Emmett Conn is a confused old World War I veteran, fading in and out of senility. But in his mind, Emmett is haunted by events he'd long forgotten. In his dreams, he's a gendarme, a soldier marching Armenians out of Turkey. He commits unspeakable acts. Yet he feels comp...

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A General Theory of Love

by Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini, Richard Lannon

Published: 2001-01-09

Paperback: 274 pages

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This original and lucid account of the complexities of love and its essential role in human well-being draws on the latest scientific research. Three eminent psychiatrists tackle the difficult task of reconciling what artists and thinkers have known for thousands of years about the human ...

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The General's Daughter

by Nelson DeMille

Published: 1999-01

Paperback: 496 pages

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Long before the John Travolta film of The General's Daughter (which the author extols in the foreword), Nelson DeMille's seventh mystery was the breakout hit of his career. The rapid-fire dialogue and scenes are cinematic, and the storytelling puts most movies to shame. The book has three ...