Derek is forty-one years old. His girlfriend has just left him, his father, a local DJ, is about to go to court, and his rec hockey team is up in arms about a TV reporter's attempts to glorify their weekly games. When Derek's half-...
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Author:Fitzpatrick, JamieSummary: -
Author:Elias, MichaelSummary:Nina is actually a tough Queens cop, an avenger on a mission. Her latest investigation involves Artemis, one of the city's battered women's shelters. A number of men connected to the women living there are ending up dead. Why...
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Author:Joyce, JamesSummary:Joyce records the events of a single day, June 16, 1904, in Dublin, Ireland, with its three principal characters--Stephen Dedalus, Leopold Bloom, and his wife Molly.
- Author:Vaillant, George E.Summary:
The Grant Study of Adult Development charted the physical and emotional health of over two hundred men, starting with their undergraduate days in 1938. George Vaillant follows the men into their nineties, documenting what it is like to...
- Author:Popova, ElenaSummary:
The American dream has been part of world mythology for generations now. As the land of opportunity, America still entices people from around the world to taste it for themselves. Marrying an American has been one of the most popular...
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Author:hooks, bellSummary:In a social and cultural analysis, the author explores the world of masculinity and maleness to address some of men's most common concerns, including a fear of intimacy and the loss of their patriarchal place in society, arguing...
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Author:Bushkowsky, AaronSummary:The Vanishing Man is a collection of linked short stories about a man trying to come to terms with his past, a religious upbringing, in an ever-changing personal world that constantly throws him into self-doubt. He marries, finds...
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Author:Pinker, SusanSummary:After four decades of eradicating gender barriers at work and in public life, why do men still dominate business, politics and the most highly paid jobs? Why do high-achieving women opt out of successful careers? Psychologist Susan...
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Author:Sampson, MarkSummary:The Secrets Men Keep is about the secrets men keep, and the comic possibilities that arise from our shifting sense of what it means to be a man. Taking an off-kilter approach to revealing the intricacies of modern relationships—...
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Author:Poschmann, MarionSummary:"Gilbert Silvester, eminent scholar of beard fashions in film, wakes up one day from a dream that his wife has cheated on him. Certain the dream is a message, and unable to even look at her, he flees - immediately, irrationally,...
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Author:Hodgson, William HopeSummary:In the far future, an unnamed narrator, who along with what remains of the human race dwells uneasily in an underground fortress-city surrounded by brooding, chaotic, relentless Watching Things, Silent Ones, Hounds, Giants, 'Ab-humans...
- Author:Laurens, StephanieSummary:
Tristan, fourth Earl of Trentham, laments his return to England after so much adventure during the Napoleonic Wars. With his fellow bachelors, he founds the Bastion Club for privileged gentlemen committed to avoiding marriage at all...
- Author:Forsythe, LaurenSummary:
In this funny and sharp romantic comedy, a woman with a knack for turning her boyfriends' lives around starts a professional service to help wrangle men, only to be unexpectedly matched with an old flame. Ever since she can...
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Author:Keneally, ThomasSummary:Thomas Keneally, the bestselling author of The Daughters of Mars and Schindler's List, returns with an exquisite exploration of community and country, love and morality, taking place in both prehistoric and modern Australia. An award-...
- Author:Oates, Joyce CarolSummary:
Presents Mysteries of Winterthurn, Part Three.
- Author:Joseph, FrederickSummary:
In this thought-provoking collection of essays, poems, and short reflections, Frederick Joseph explores issues of masculinity and patriarchy from both a personal and cultural standpoint. From fatherhood, and "manning up" to...
- Author:Woolf, VirginiaSummary:
Orlando emerges as a young man at the court of Queen Elizabeth I and progresses, with breathtaking ease, through three centuries until, by now a woman, she arrives in the bustle and diversions of the 1920s ... Orlando's journey,...
- Author:Gundar-Goshen, Ayelet, Silverston, SondraSummary:
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin meets The Marrying of Chani Kaufman in this cinematic novel about the birth of Israel and the true story of the marriages of convenience that were arranged to smuggle Jewish women out of Nazi-occupied Europe....
- Author:Steinbeck, JohnSummary:
Celebrating its 75th anniversary, John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men remains one of America's most widely read and beloved novels. Here is Steinbeck's dramatic adaptation of his novel-as-play, which received the New York Drama Critics'...
- Author:Glover, Robert A.Summary:
Dr. Robert A. Glover has a Ph.D. in marriage and family therapy and is co-director of the Center for Healing and Recovery in Washington. In No More Mr. Nice Guy, he presents a guide to creating a healthy and satisfying life. He believes...
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