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Determined to collect a seventy dollar debt from an old friend in the Marines, Norwood Pratt travels to New York, meeting eccentric characters along the way.

Lee Reston, a forty-four-year-old widow, who has just lost her old-est son, turns to his best friend for comfort.Love develops, but aviolent chain reaction is started, when her daughter finds out.

"Harlem is a never-ending carnival. Soldiers and sailors, hustlers and glamour girls fill its streets, looking for excitement. Every night, dance halls like the Savoy Ballroom are filled with frenzied jitterbuggers, and the best jazz musicians in the world face off in rent parties and clubs such as Small's Paradise. Yet underneath the glitter, Harlem's black residents remain second-class citizens, shut out of most jobs, charged double the rents of...

Virginia Woolf's third novel, Jacob's Room (1922) differs from its two predecessors in its experimental, abstract approach to writing. Jacob Flanders' life is examined largely through the impressions and accounts of others in his life, mostly women, creating a portrait of a young man both representative of and victimized by Edwardian society. The novel coincided with Woolf's emerging interest in feminism and is critical of the righteous patriarchy...

This national bestseller is a wildly original, brilliantly crafted novel about a young Russian immigrant's misadventures while trying to figure out what it means to be an American.

"Peggy Orenstein's Girls & Sex broke ground, shattered taboos, and galvanized conversations about young women's right to pleasure and agency in sexual encounters. It also had an unintended effect on its author: Orenstein realized that talking about girls is only half the conversation. To understand girls and sex, we also need to talk about boys and sex. Today's young men are subject to the same cultural forces as their female peers. They are steeped...

Three lost souls from Manhattan's Upper West Side, Central Park, and Greenwich Village find their bond tested during the course of a fateful Thanksgiving week when emotions run high in the wake of complicated family dynamics.

A young man searching for his origins is drawn from the Northern England countryside into the violent and corrupt London underworld of the late Regency

A coming of age story in which a college graduate who is also the son of a gangster meets new friends who introduce him to the mysteries of life and love.

Eskimo and white culture collide in this national bestselling novel of life in the contemporary Alaskan wilderness. Ordinary Wolves depicts a life different from what any of us has known: Inhuman cold, the taste of rancid salmon shared with shivering sled dogs, hunkering in a sod igloo while blizzards moan overhead. But this is the only world Cutuk Hawcley has ever known. Born and raised in the Arctic, he has learned to provide for himself by hunting,...