No matter how much you promise to cook or pay the rent you blew it cauze Bill Bailey ain't never coming home again

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Larry Heinemann

Paco Sullivan is the only man in Alpha Company to survive a cataclysmic Viet Cong attack on Fire Base Harriette in Vietnam. Everyone else is annihilated. When a medic finally rescues Paco almost two days later, he is waiting to die, flies and maggots covering his burnt, shattered body. He winds up back in the US with his legs full of pins, daily rations of Librium and Valium, and no sense of what to do next. One evening, on the tail of a rainstorm, he limps off the bus and into the small town of Boone, determined to find a real job and a real bed--but no matter how hard he works, nothing muffles the anguish in his mind and body. Brilliantly and vividly written, Paco's Story--winner of a National Book Award--plunges you into the violence and casual cruelty of the Vietnam War, and the ghostly aftermath that often dealt the harshest blows.From the Trade Paperback edition.

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Alice Bach

Sixteen-year-old Hallie's romantic idealization of her minister leads her to volunteer work with the poor of New York City and some disillusioning encounters with reality.

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Anna North

Allison vient de quitter sa Virginie natale pour New York. Elle travaille dans un bar et n'a aucune ambition, aucun avenir. Puis elle rencontre Sophie Stark, une jeune réalisatrice décidée à faire d'elle une star. Daniel, ancien champion de basket, se remet d'un terrible accident de voiture. Ses retrouvailles avec Sophie Stark, son amour de jeunesse, lui redonnent le goût de vivre. La carrière de George, producteur hollywoodien, est au point mort. Pour renouer avec le succès, il décide d'appeler Sophie Stark, étoile montante du cinéma indépendant. Artiste passionnée, géniale et insaisissable, Sophie transforme et transcende la vie de ceux qui croisent sa route. Pour le meilleur et pour le pire.

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Leah Hager Cohen

From the inside front flap: I J Esker spends her days teaching math at a private school in Brooklyn; most nights she curls up under an afghan in her tiny apartment and reads. At thirty-one, after early loss and disappointment, Esker has found a quiet resolve in her self-imposed solitude. But when Ann James, her favorite student, mysteriously falls from the bleachers during Winter Concert rehearsals and has to stay home in casts during the weeks before Christmas, Esker begins home-tutoring the precocious teenager, and soon, much to her chagrin, finds herself falling edgily, haltingly in love with the girl's father, Wally. ...Charged with Esker's own irreverance and wit, *Heart, You Bully, You Punk* sweeps us irresistibly into her profound and wistful struggle to unite the rest of her self with her unruly heart.