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High fidelity

2000
Recently dumped by his wealthy girlfriend, record store owner Rob Fleming finds himself in financial trouble and sets out on a pilgrimage to ask his former girlfriends where their relationships went wrong and to learn where his life went off track.

Company

a novel
2007
On his first day of training, Stephen Jones, a young recruit, reports to the Zephyr Holding Building, where he finds a company defined by its lack of clarity, a building numbered in reverse, an invisible CEO, and a crisis over the theft of a donut, in a zany satire of corporate life.

Johnny got his gun

2009
A young man who was severely wounded in the First World War thinks about his life and about the horror and futility of war and its toll on him.

Thieves' paradise

2003
Dante is determined to stay straight, however unpaid bills, possible eviction, and slim-to-no chance with Pam, the waitress-actress who has caught his eye, force him to agree to one more con, and when that deal goes bad he finds himself in danger and taking on more work.

The clarinet polka

2003
In 1969, young Jimmy Koprowski returns from his stint in the air force to his blue-collar Polish-American hometown, where he struggles to rebuild his life and find meaning in his traditional roots.

Cheaters

2001
Stephan, Jake, and Darnell, best friends with bright futures; and soul sisters Chante, Karen, and Tammy, all support one another through their ups and downs with love, sex, and betrayal.

Dear beloved stranger

2013
A blending of fact and fiction shows Dino, fresh out of art school, as he sets out on an inner journey in order to find his identity as an artist.

A baby doesn't make the man

alternative sources of power and manhood for young men
2001
Discusses the reasons why teenage boys engage in sex, the consequences of irresponsible sexual activity, and alternative ways for young men to feel good about themselves.

Great expectations

2006
Contains an abridged version of the 1860 novel about Pip, an orphan in Victorian England who is plucked from a life of poverty and informed he is to be educated and reared as a gentleman.

The wild girl

the notebooks of Ned Giles, 1932 : a novel
2005
When Ned Giles is orphaned as a teen in Chicago, he heads west, joining the Great Apache Expedition of 1932 in search of a young boy who has been kidnapped by wild Apaches.

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