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Frog in the Pot

by Richard Beckham II

If life is not a test, then what is it?That¿s what Alvin Taylor, a 27-year-old alcoholic janitor, tries to figure out over his winter vacation with help from a mocking, …
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Black Spring

by Henry Miller

Ten autobiographical pieces that take Miller from his childhood in Brooklyn to literary life in Paris.
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The Catcher in the Rye

by J.D. Salinger

J.D. Salinger's classic of adolescent angst is now available for the first time in trade paperback. Holden Caulfield, knowing he is to be expelled from school, decides to leave early. …
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The Tale of Mu

by Richard Charles Beckham, II

What if the Garden of Eden were on a sunken continent? What if our world was once sustained by human emotion, particularly the love of the first two human souls? …
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The Hobbit, Or, There and Back Again

by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

Bilbo Baggins, a respectable, well-to-do hobbit, lives comfortably in his hobbit-hole until the day the wandering wizard Gandalf chooses him to take part in an adventure from which he may …
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Tropic of Cancer

by Henry Miller

The account of a young writer and his friends in free-wheeling Paris.
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Tropic of Capricorn

by Henry Miller

A vicious social commentary of the times and culture of the 1920's New York City.
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Down and Out in Paris and London

by George Orwell

The adventures of a broke British writer as he works as a dishwasher in Paris and stays in homeless shelters in London.
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The Sun Also Rises

by Ernest Hemingway

A profile of the Lost Generation captures life among the expatriates on Paris' Left Bank during the 1920s, the brutality of bullfighting in Spain, and the moral and spiritual dissolution …
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The Rum Diary

by Hunter S. Thompson

The irreverent writer's long lost novel, written before his nonfiction became popular, chronicles a journalist's enthusiastic, drunken foray through 1950s San Juan.
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

by Hunter S. Thompson

50th Anniversary Edition • With an introduction by Caity Weaver, acclaimed New York Times journalist This cult classic of gonzo journalism is the best chronicle of drug-soaked, addle-brained, rollicking good …
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Infinite Jest

by David Foster Wallace

The story of an intelligent but zany dysfunctional family is set in a drug-and-alcohol addicts' halfway house and a tennis academy and follows such themes as heartbreak, philosophy, and advertising.
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Modern Classics Finnegans Wake

by James Joyce

A daring work of experimental, Modernist genius, James Joyce's Finnegans Wake is one of the greatest literary achievements of the twentieth century, and the crowning glory of Joyce's life. The …