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Where Are Your Boys Tonight?

The Oral History of Emo’s Mainstream Explosion 1999-2008

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A "vivid and breathless" (Billboard)oral history of emo’s takeover from 1999 to 2008, featuring My Chemical Romance, Fall Out Boy, Paramore, Panic! At the Disco, Taking Back Sunday, Jimmy Eat World, Dashboard Confessional.If Meet Me in the Bathroom traced New York City's early 2000’s rock scene, Where Are Your Boys Tonight? is an essential music biography that gives the inside story of the turn-of ... Read more

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A "vivid and breathless" (Billboard)oral history of emo’s takeover from 1999 to 2008, featuring My Chemical Romance, Fall Out Boy, Paramore, Panic! At the Disco, Taking Back Sunday, Jimmy Eat World, Dashboard Confessional.If Meet Me in the Bathroom traced New York City's early 2000’s rock scene, Where Are Your Boys Tonight? is an essential music biography that gives the inside story of the turn-of
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The Chieftain

Victorian True Crime through the Eyes of a Scotland Yard Detective

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George Clarke joined the Metropolitan Police in 1841. Though a "slow starter," his career took off when he was transferred to the small team of detectives at Scotland Yard in 1862, where he became known as "The Chieftain." This book paints the most detailed picture yet published of detective work in mid-Victorian Britain, covering "murders most foul," "slums and Society," the emergence of ... Read more

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George Clarke joined the Metropolitan Police in 1841. Though a "slow starter," his career took off when he was transferred to the small team of detectives at Scotland Yard in 1862, where he became known as "The Chieftain." This book paints the most detailed picture yet published of detective work in mid-Victorian Britain, covering "murders most foul," "slums and Society," the emergence of
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Erased!

A Comedy

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Ken and Sonia are lecturers in a further education college whose principal, Morton Scregg, is a lecherous tyrant. One day, after a drunken lunch, Principal Scregg falls down the college stairs to his death. As the last to speak to him, Ken is accused of his murder. The death of Scregg and the injustice of being blamed for it, is a turning point in Kens life. He and Sonia come to realise that there ... Read more

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Ken and Sonia are lecturers in a further education college whose principal, Morton Scregg, is a lecherous tyrant. One day, after a drunken lunch, Principal Scregg falls down the college stairs to his death. As the last to speak to him, Ken is accused of his murder. The death of Scregg and the injustice of being blamed for it, is a turning point in Kens life. He and Sonia come to realise that there
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High Crimes and Low Stakes

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The professors at the American University of the Southern Balkans, AUSB, have become lazy, complacent and resistant to change, so when a new reforming departmental chair is appointed with a brief to shake them up, they mount a witch hunt to have him fired. At the same time the US president is trying to push forward a plan to replace all NATO airbases with stations of unmanned drones capable of ... Read more

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The professors at the American University of the Southern Balkans, AUSB, have become lazy, complacent and resistant to change, so when a new reforming departmental chair is appointed with a brief to shake them up, they mount a witch hunt to have him fired. At the same time the US president is trying to push forward a plan to replace all NATO airbases with stations of unmanned drones capable of
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Balikwas

How to Emigrate to the Philippines

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Balikwas is a Tagalog word, virtually untranslatable into English.It signifies a startling change, such as an awakening. It can also mean 'going over to the other side'. Chris Payne writes about making a change, a change of moving his life to the other side of the world when he and wife Loydz emigrated to The Philippines. The book is an account of what needed to be done at each end of the project, ... Read more

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Balikwas is a Tagalog word, virtually untranslatable into English.It signifies a startling change, such as an awakening. It can also mean 'going over to the other side'. Chris Payne writes about making a change, a change of moving his life to the other side of the world when he and wife Loydz emigrated to The Philippines. The book is an account of what needed to be done at each end of the project,
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Encounters with a Fat Chemist

Teaching at a University in Northern Cyprus

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Chris Payne writes a hilarious surreal account of life as a university professor at a dysfunctional university in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. On the beautiful island of Cyprus, little works as you expect it to, from the primitive plumbing to the maniacal university bus service. The American Institute of Cyprus is a seat of higher learning like no other. The place is chaotically ... Read more

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Chris Payne writes a hilarious surreal account of life as a university professor at a dysfunctional university in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. On the beautiful island of Cyprus, little works as you expect it to, from the primitive plumbing to the maniacal university bus service. The American Institute of Cyprus is a seat of higher learning like no other. The place is chaotically
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Hot Wax

A Novel

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“A brooding, double-sided highway thriller.” —The New York TimesThe new novel from the bestselling author of If We Were Villains and Graveyard Shift—a vivid and immersive tale of one woman’s reckless mission to make sense of the events that shattered her childhood and made her who she is.Summer, 1989: ten-year-old Suzanne is drawn like a magnet to her father’s forbidden world of e... ... Read more

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“A brooding, double-sided highway thriller.” —The New York TimesThe new novel from the bestselling author of If We Were Villains and Graveyard Shift—a vivid and immersive tale of one woman’s reckless mission to make sense of the events that shattered her childhood and made her who she is.Summer, 1989: ten-year-old Suzanne is drawn like a magnet to her father’s forbidden world of e...
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Sellout

The Major-Label Feeding Frenzy That Swept Punk, Emo, and Hardcore (1994–2007)

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NATIONAL BESTSELLERAN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR“Ozzi’s reporting is strong, balanced and well told...a worthy successor to its obvious inspiration, Michael Azerrad’s 2001 examination of the ’80s indie underground, Our Band Could Be Your Life.”—New York Times Book ReviewA raucous music history of punk, emo, and hardcore’s growing pains during the commercial boom of the early 90s and mid-augh... ... Read more

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NATIONAL BESTSELLERAN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR“Ozzi’s reporting is strong, balanced and well told...a worthy successor to its obvious inspiration, Michael Azerrad’s 2001 examination of the ’80s indie underground, Our Band Could Be Your Life.”—New York Times Book ReviewA raucous music history of punk, emo, and hardcore’s growing pains during the commercial boom of the early 90s and mid-augh...
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Herculine

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One of the Best Books of 2025Elle • Autostraddle • Debutiful • Chicago Review of Books • MUBI • Dazed • LitHub • Library Journal • them •LooseyA “witty, often-chilling, compulsively readable” (Vogue) horror debut following a woman who seeks refuge at an all-trans girl commune only to discover that demons haunt her fellow comrade... ... Read more

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I'll Make a Spectacle of You

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This heart-pounding Southern gothic horror debut from Beatrice Winifred Iker, takes readers to Bricksbury Mountain College, the oldest and most storied HBCU in the nation. But as one student is about to find out, a long history comes with a legacy of secrets.Zora Robinson is an ambitious grad student in her dream program at her dream university. When her thesis advisor hands her a strange diary ... Read more

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This heart-pounding Southern gothic horror debut from Beatrice Winifred Iker, takes readers to Bricksbury Mountain College, the oldest and most storied HBCU in the nation. But as one student is about to find out, a long history comes with a legacy of secrets.Zora Robinson is an ambitious grad student in her dream program at her dream university. When her thesis advisor hands her a strange diary
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Killer on the Road / The Babysitter Lives

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Two novels in one book, The Babysitter Lives and Killer on the Road, from the master of modern horror Stephen Graham Jones, winner of the Bram Stoker Award and New York Times bestselling author of The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, The Only Good Indians, and the Indian Lake trilogy.The Babysitter LivesWhen high school senior Charlotte agrees to babysit the Wilbanks twins, she plans to put the six-year
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Polybius

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“If you’re a fan of Stephen King and Stranger Things, then this is the book for you.” —Richard Chizmar, New York Times bestselling authorStranger Things meets The Walking Dead in this chilling horror novel based on the terrifying urban legend about a video game created by the government for psychological warfare.October, 1982. Forced to move to the quiet seaside town of Tasker Bay by her mother,
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