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Michael Chabon masterfully renders the funny, tender, and captivating first-person narrative of Art Bechstein, whose confusion and heartache echo the tones of literary forebears like The Catcher in the Rye's Holden Caulfield and The Great Gatsby's Nick Carraway. The Mysteries of Pittsburgh incontrovertibly established Chabon as a powerful force in contemporary fiction, even before his Pulitzer Prize-winning The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay. An unforgettable story of coming of age in America, it is also an essential milestone in American fiction.

Life couldn't be more perfect for Luke and Lily. Luke was living life, happy, being with the woman of his dreams and owning his own bar. Lily was incredibly happy being with the man of her dreams and pursuing her career in photography. Everything was perfect, until something from Lily's past surfaced, causing Luke to think twice about their relationship.

When eccentric millionaire Gideon Quidley receives a divine revelation to hide his earthly treasure somewhere in the hills, he sets out to find a fitting hiding spot, choosing only a few Bible verses as clues leading to untold riches of gold, silver, cash...and one very unexpected - and very costly - item. Treasure hunters descend upon the hills of West Virginia, including those surrounding the small town of Emmaus, where TD Lovett and Waite Evers provide the latest updates and the beating heart of the community on radio station Country 16.

Author Chris Minnick exposes the gritty events and strange characters that inhabit a small traveling circus in his new novel, Ferment. Set in the recent past, the book provides a glimpse of what life might be like in the final days of a once-great institution of American entertainment. Told as a series of 48 short vignettes, Ferment bounces between past and present and between the ordinary and the extraordinary with playful and deceivingly simple language.

Kristin Kakes was fundamentally changed last week by a simple chocolate shake. Kristin can't explain it. She hasn't become a new person. Kristin is still a good student, she is still driven to succeed and do her best, but the world has opened up to her. Kristin's story could stop right there, but good stories never end. The pocket hole still exists, and even though Kristin tells herself that Tommy Amsterdam means nothing to her, she has a hard time not looking for him in the halls.

Based on actual events, The Ceiling tells of two Superman-worshipping adolescent boys, raised by the state, who befriend one another, battle the house bully, chase the girls...and, along the way, discover the true meaning of friendship and family.

As civilization comes to an end, Lewis and Karen take their last vacation to the only cold place left on Earth, the remote resort town of Cold Pools. There, they will say goodbye....

For five years, Abby has gone to sleep wondering about the family she never knew and waiting for her eighteenth birthday. But when her birthday finally comes, she hesitates. What if her birth parents want nothing to do with her?But just one month after her birthday, Abby and her adoptive parents have a disagreement that sends her searching for the birth parents she never knew.