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Presents the stories of thirty young men who influenced the world through their inventions, achievements, and efforts. Featured biographies range from Louis Braille and Jonas Salk to David Attenborough and Jaques Cousteau. Includes color illustrations, quotes, and sidebars.

Presents stories about 100 boys and men--like Jamie Oliver, John Lennon, Lionel Messi, and Ai Weiwei--who dared to be different and shows that boys can be anything they want, that masculinity includes introverts, innovators, sensitivity, resilience, self-expression, and individuality.

Presents the complete, unabridged text of James Joyce's "Ulysses," as corrected and reset in 1961, with page references to the 1934 edition, the author's original foreword, and a reprinting of the 1933 court decision to lift the federal ban on the book.

"A riveting new collection of short stories from the beloved, internationally acclaimed, Haruki Murakami. The eight masterful stories in this new collection are all told in the first person by a classic Murakami narrator: a lonely man. Some of them (like "With the Beatles," "Cream," and "On a Stone Pillow" ) are nostalgic looks back at youth. Others are set in adulthood--"Charlie Parker Plays Bossa Nova," "Carnaval," "Confessions of a Shinagawa Monkey" and the stunning title story. Occasionally, a narrator who may or may not be Haruki himself is present, as in "The Yakult Swallows Poetry Collection." Is it memoir or fiction? The reader decides. The stories all touch beautifully on love and loss, childhood and death . . . all with a signature Murakami twist"--Provided by publisher.

"Amanda Brooks is a born-and-bred New Yorker with an envious life: she???s in a great graduate school program, lives in a cozy Tribeca apartment, and is head-over-heels for her handsome, committed boyfriend. But Amanda???s life isn???t as picture perfect as it seems. For over a decade she???s been hiding a dark secret???a secret that goes back to that summer at Camp Catalpa when a man died in the woods. Fellow campers Catherine and Meg were there too, and in the years since, not one of them has ever spoken about what happened that day. Until Amanda slips???and the truth threatens to explode the tightly controlled fa??ade of her life. When her past begins to poison her present, threatening her relationship, Amanda has no one to turn to except the two women who know her most monstrous self. Reuniting with Catherine and Meg one last time, Amanda is desperate to put the demons of that twisted summer to rest. But when trusting anyone, even one another, starts to feel like a wildly risky proposition, just how far will these three go to keep the truth from emerging???and their lives from unraveling?" --book jacket.

"The story of one man's life across generations and historical upheavals: a . . . novel about love, loss, ambition, and resolution"--Provided by publisher.

"A riveting new collection of short stories from the beloved, internationally acclaimed, Haruki Murakami. The eight masterful stories in this new collection are all told in the first person by a classic Murakami narrator: a lonely man. Some of them (like "With the Beatles," "Cream," and "On a Stone Pillow" ) are nostalgic looks back at youth. Others are set in adulthood--"Charlie Parker Plays Bossa Nova," "Carnaval," "Confessions of a Shinagawa Monkey" and the stunning title story. Occasionally, a narrator who may or may not be Haruki himself is present, as in "The Yakult Swallows Poetry Collection." Is it memoir or fiction? The reader decides. The stories all touch beautifully on love and loss, childhood and death . . . all with a signature Murakami twist"--Provided by publisher.

"Plagued by a maddening anxiety, the terrible disconnect between his own concept of happiness and the joy of the rest of the world, Yozo Oba plays the clown in his dissolute life, holding up a mask for those around him as he spirals ever downward, locked arm-in-arm with death"--Provided by publisher.

"Internet humorist James Breakwell, author of Only Dead on the Inside and Bare Minimum Parenting, gets more personal in How to Be a Man (Whatever that Means), a collection essays exploring his often-confusing relationship with masculinity through memories and witty observations"--.