The Virgin Suicides
The Virgin Suicides

Author: Jeffrey Eugenides

Publisher: Vintage Canada

Published: 2011-09-20

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 0307401936

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First published in 1993, The Virgin Suicides announced the arrival of a major new American novelist. In a quiet suburb of Detroit, the five Lisbon sisters—beautiful, eccentric, and obsessively watched by the neighborhood boys—commit suicide one by one over the course of a single year. As the boys observe them from afar, transfixed, they piece together the mystery of the family’s fatal melancholy, in this hypnotic and unforgettable novel of adolescent love, disquiet, and death. Jeffrey Eugenides evokes the emotions of youth with haunting sensitivity and dark humor and creates a coming-of-age story unlike any of our time. Adapted into a critically acclaimed film by Sofia Coppola, The Virgin Suicides is a modern classic, a lyrical and timeless tale of sex and suicide that transforms and mythologizes suburban middle-American life.

Dazed and Confused
Dazed and Confused

Author: Richard Linklater

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 1993-09-15

Total Pages: 134

ISBN-13: 9780312094669

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Uses ads, cartoons, and newspaper articles from the seventies and profiles of characters from the movie to offer a satiric look at the period.

Ttyl
Ttyl

Author: Lauren Myracle

Publisher: Turtleback Books

Published: 2005-04-01

Total Pages: 219

ISBN-13: 9781417827015

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Chronicles, in "instant message" format, the day-to-day experiences, feelings, and plans of three friends, Zoe, Maddie, and Angela, as they begin tenth grade.

Avi
Avi

Author: Margaret Speaker Yuan

Publisher: Infobase Learning

Published: 2013-11

Total Pages: 120

ISBN-13: 1438149085

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A 2003 Newbery Award winner for his book Crispin : The Cross of Lead, Avi is one of the foremost children's and young adults' authors read in the classroom today.

The Best Novels of the Nineties
The Best Novels of the Nineties

Author: Linda Parent Lesher

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2015-11-17

Total Pages: 489

ISBN-13: 1476603898

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This reader’s guide provides uniquely organized and up-to-date information on the most important and enjoyable contemporary English-language novels. Offering critically substantiated reading recommendations, careful cross-referencing, and extensive indexing, this book is appropriate for both the weekend reader looking for the best new mystery and the full-time graduate student hoping to survey the latest in magical realism. More than 1,000 titles are included, each entry citing major reviews and giving a brief description for each book.

I was a Teenage Professional Wrestler
I was a Teenage Professional Wrestler

Author: Ted Lewin

Publisher: Hyperion Books

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780786810093

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These days, artist Ted Lewin, the winner of a 1994 Caldecott Honor Medal, is at the top of his game. During his earlier years, as he recounts in this acclaimed autobiography, he was competing in a very different sort of arena--the pro wrestling tour. Illustrated with photos, sketches, and paintings.

Freak the Mighty
Freak the Mighty

Author: Rodman Philbrick

Publisher: Usborne Publishing Ltd

Published: 2015-04-01

Total Pages: 140

ISBN-13: 1409591050

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Max is used to being called Stupid. And he is used to everyone being scared of him. On account of his size and looking like his dad. Kevin is used to being called Dwarf. And he is used to everyone laughing at him. On account of his size and being some cripple kid. But greatness comes in all sizes, and together Max and Kevin become Freak The Mighty and walk high above the world. An inspiring, heartbreaking, multi-award winning international bestseller.

Girl, Interrupted
Girl, Interrupted

Author: Susanna Kaysen

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2013-06-19

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 0804151113

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30th ANNIVERSARY EDITION • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In 1967, after a session with a psychiatrist she'd never seen before, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen was put in a taxi and sent to McLean Hospital. Her memoir of the next two years is a "poignant, honest ... triumphantly funny ... and heartbreaking story" (The New York Times Book Review). WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR The ward for teenage girls in the McLean psychiatric hospital was as renowned for its famous clientele—Sylvia Plath, Robert Lowell, James Taylor, and Ray Charles—as for its progressive methods of treating those who could afford its sanctuary. Kaysen's memoir encompasses horror and razor-edged perception while providing vivid portraits of her fellow patients and their keepers. It is a brilliant evocation of a "parallel universe" set within the kaleidoscopically shifting landscape of the late sixties. Girl, Interrupted is a clear-sighted, unflinching document that gives lasting and specific dimension to our definitions of sane and insane, mental illness and recovery.

2010 Comic Book Checklist & Price Guide
2010 Comic Book Checklist & Price Guide

Author: Maggie Thompson

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2009-10-08

Total Pages: 5414

ISBN-13: 1440229112

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No other guide on the market covers the volume of comic book listings and range of eras as Comic Book Checklist & Price Guide does, in an easy-to-use checklist format. Readers can access listings for 130,000 comics, issued since 1961, complete with names, cover date, creator information and near-mint pricing. With super-hero art on the cover and collecting details from the experts as America's longest-running magazine about comics in this book, there is nothing that compares.