Bildungsromans
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The Neon Bible
$18.00 Add to cartJohn Kennedy Toole–who won a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for his best-selling comic masterpiece A Confederacy of Dunces–wroteThe Neon Bible for a literary contest at the age of sixteen. The manuscript… [more below]
- Author: Toole, John Kennedy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 12 1994
- ISBN10: 0802132073
- Language: English
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The Beautiful Room Is Empty
$20.00 Add to cartWhen the narrator of White’s poised yet scalding autobiographical novel first embarks on his sexual odyssey, it is the 1950s, and America is “a big gray country of families on drowsy holiday.” That co… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: White, Edmund
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 04 1994
- ISBN10: 0679755403
- Language: English
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
$5.95 Add to cartA masterpiece of modern fiction, James Joyce’s semiautobiographical first novel follows Stephen Dedalus, a sensitive and creative youth who rebels against his family, his education, and his country by… [more below]
- Series: Signet Classics
- Author: Joyce, James
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 06 2006
- ISBN10: 0451530152
- Language: English
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Last of Her Kind
$26.99 Add to cart< I>The Last of Her Kind< /I> introduces two women who meet as freshmen on the Barnard campus in 1968. Georgette George does not know what to make of her brilliant, idealistic roommate, Ann Dray… [more below]
- Author: Nunez, Sigrid
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: December 12 2006
- ISBN10: 0312425945
- Language: English
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Maps
$17.99 Add to cart“Nuruddin Farah is one of the real interpreters of experience in our troubled continent. His insight goes deep, beyond events.”–Nadine Gordimer
Winner of the Neustadt International Prize for Literatu- Series: The Blood in the Sun Trilogy #1
- Author: Farah, Nuruddin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 02 2016
- ISBN10: 1628725850
- Language: English
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Now Is Not the Time to Panic
$29.99 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER
Named a Best Book of the Year by: Time * Kirkus Reviews * USA Today * Entertainment Weekly * Garden & Gun * Vox * Atlanta Journal-Constitution
A Most Anticipated Book of Fall from: A
- Author: Wilson, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 0063267519
- Language: English
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Glass Bottle Season
$24.99 Add to cartFeatured in “The Best Summer Beach Reads From Rhody Authors” by Rhode Island Monthly (July 2023)
Summertime on Rhode Island’s luxurious Aquidneck Island.
A middle-class Cuban American–freshly graduated… [more below]
- Author: Michael, Fletcher
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1684429420
- Language: English
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Un Lugar Para Mungo / Young Mungo
$24.95 Read moreREGRESA EL GANADOR DEL PREMIO BOOKER POR HISTORIA DE SHUGGIE BAIN
«Un lugar para Mungo lo confirma: Douglas Stuart es un genio . -Ron Charles, The Washington Post
«Un pu?etazo directo … [more below]- Author: Stuart, Douglas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: May 23 2023
- ISBN10: 843974143X
- Language: Spanish
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An Experiment in Love
$19.99 Add to cartA New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year
It was the year after Chappaquiddick, and all spring Carmel McBain had watery dreams about the disaster. Now she, Karina, and Julianne were escapi- Author: Mantel, Hilary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 12 2007
- ISBN10: 0312426879
- Language: English
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The Evolution of Hallie Jo Everheart: A Novel in Stories
$20.00 Add to cartHallie Jo Everheart is growing up on a farm in the Ozarks, and life isn’t going well. Her mother dies when Hallie is only nine, her brothers treat her like dirt, and her overburdened father is sunk in
- Author: Grow, Catherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 198
- Publish Date: April 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1935052985
- Language: English
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Summer Crossing
$14.00 Read more“Witness the coming together of Truman Capote’s voice, the electric-into-neon blaze that is surely one of the premier styles of postwar American literature.”–The Washington Post Book World
“A great b… [more below]- Author: Capote, Truman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 27 2006
- ISBN10: 0812975936
- Language: English
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Gente Normal / Normal People
$20.95 Add to cartDespu s de Conversaciones entre amigos, Sally Rooney vuelve a deslumbrarnos con una historia sobre la fascinaci n mutua entre dos personas que no consiguen encontrarse.
El libro que inspir la serie… [more below]- Author: Rooney, Sally
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 21 2020
- ISBN10: 8439736312
- Language: Spanish
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Night of Many Dreams
$22.00 Add to cartNight of Many Dreams is the bestselling novel from Gail Tsukiyama that tells the tale of two sisters separated by ambition, bound by tradition
As World War II threatens their comfortable life in Hong K- Author: Tsukiyama, Gail
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 15 1998
- ISBN10: 0312199406
- Language: English
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This Side of Paradise
$18.00 Add to cartFirst published in 1920, This Side of Paradise marks the beginning of the career of one of the greatest writers of the first half of the twentieth century. In this remarkable achievement, F. Scott Fit… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics
- Author: Fitzgerald, F. Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 01 1996
- ISBN10: 0140189769
- Language: English
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Wade in the Water
$17.99 Add to cart“An impressive debut. Emotionally honest with lyricism and charm to spare, Nyani Nkrumah’s Wade in the Water depicts in riveting detail a racially charged Mississippi town, the secrets it holds, and t
- Author: Nkrumah, Nyani
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 30 2024
- ISBN10: 0063226626
- Language: English
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The House on Mango Street: Introduction by John Phillip Santos
$26.00 Add to cartA TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK
NATIONAL BESTSELLER – A 40th anniversary hardcover edition of Sandra Cisneros’s beloved coming-of-age novel about a young girl growing up in Chicago, with- Series: Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics
- Author: Cisneros, Sandra
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: February 20 2024
- ISBN10: 1101908467
- Language: English
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The Skunks
$17.95 Add to cartDear Skunks, I wrote. Then I got stuck. What was there to say about the skunks? Of course there was the smell–the spraying. Everyone’s mind jumped to the spraying. I often forgot about the spraying e… [more below]
- Author: Warnick, Fiona
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 1959030612
- Language: English
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Father Melancholy’s Daughter
$17.99 Add to cartThe novels of Gail Godwin are contemporary classics–evocative, powerfully affecting, beautifully crafted fiction alive with endearing, unforgettable characters. Her critically acclaimed work has plac
- Author: Godwin, Gail
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: February 01 2023
- ISBN10: 0380729865
- Language: English
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Monkey Bridge
$18.00 Read moreHailed by critics and writers as powerful, important fiction, Monkey Bridge charts the unmapped territory of the Vietnamese American experience in the aftermath of war.
Like navigating a monkey bridge- Author: Cao, Lan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0140263616
- Language: English
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Tell Me I’m an Artist
$17.95 Read more“Portrait of the artist as a broke and brilliant, hungry and funny young woman” (Lynn Steger Strong, author of Want), this hilarious and incisive coming-of-age novel about an art student from a poor f… [more below]
- Author: Martin, Chelsea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1593767579
- Language: English
