Barnes & Noble Discovers Punk; Joe Meno's Hairstyles of the Damned; All Holiday 2004 Discover Great New Writers Selections Discounted 20%.NEW YORK New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of -- Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : BKS BKS Barracks BKS Best Kept Secret (gaming) BKS Bildung, Kultur Und Sport (German) BKS Brookside (city) BKS Bergen Kirurgiske Sykehus (Bergen, Norway) ), the world's largest bookseller, has selected Joe Meno's Hairstyles of the Damned as one of the seasonal choices for the Holiday 2004 "Discover Great New Writers" program. Currently, Hairstyles of the Damned is the second bestselling fiction selection among Holiday Discover titles, behind the New York Times bestseller, Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke Susanna [Mary] Clarke (born November 1, 1959) is a British author best known for her debut novel Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (2004), a Hugo Award-winning alternate history fantasy. . In Hairstyles of the Damned, punk and rock bands like the Dead Kennedys, Minor Threat, the Misfits, Slayer and the Smiths provide the music for this mix tape of one teenager's adolescence. Brian, a conflicted Catholic high school burnout Burnout Depletion of a tax shelter's benefits. In the context of mortgage backed securities it refers to the percentage of the pool that has prepaid their mortgage. , is obsessed ob·sess v. ob·sessed, ob·sess·ing, ob·sess·es v.tr. To preoccupy the mind of excessively. v.intr. with hard rock and his best friend, a belligerent pink-haired punk named Gretchen. He frets over his attraction to her, and like most teenagers, Brian struggles with his identity. A bit of an outcast, he uses this condition to assess the social options available to him at his parochial school parochial school (pərō`kēəl), school supported by a religious body. In the United States such schools are maintained by a number of religious groups, including Lutherans, Seventh-day Adventists, Orthodox Jews, Muslims, and . The quiet, introspective in·tro·spect intr.v. in·tro·spect·ed, in·tro·spect·ing, in·tro·spects To engage in introspection. [Latin intr Brian identifies best with the punks, if he doesn't quite join their ranks. But his emotional honesty allows him to see behind their arrogant posturing a very real anger and a true love of music: "When everything else was wrong, (the music) made it right." "Hairstyles of the Damned is a richly detailed, deeply evocative account of those painfully remembered teenage years - a time of roller-coaster emotions, when nearly every insignificant slight feels like a body slam," said Jill Lamar, manager and editor of the Discover Great New Writers program. Discover Titles Discounted 20% Gift-givers may rest assured that a book chosen from the Discover Great New Writers display is a gift that will not only surprise, but is sure to appeal to the most finicky fin·ick·y adj. fin·ick·i·er, fin·ick·i·est Insisting capriciously on getting just what one wants; difficult to please; fastidious: a finicky eater. reader on their shopping list. The Discover holiday season includes an engaging history of the National Geographic Society National Geographic Society U.S. scientific society founded in 1888 in Washington, D.C., by a small group of eminent explorers and scientists “for the increase and diffusion of geographic knowledge. (Explorers House), an emotionally haunting spiritual memoir (Fumbling), an instant bestseller inspired by sources as varied as Dickens and Tolkien (Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell), and eight other winsome win·some adj. Charming, often in a childlike or naive way. [Middle English winsum, from Old English wynsum : from wynn, joy; see wen-1 works of fiction, three enthralling en·thrall tr.v. en·thralled, en·thrall·ing, en·thralls 1. To hold spellbound; captivate: The magic show enthralled the audience. 2. To enslave. memoirs (Shanghai Diary, Devil in the Details, and Toast), the chilling tale of an historic blizzard (The Children's Blizzard), and a mesmerizing mes·mer·ize tr.v. mes·mer·ized, mes·mer·iz·ing, mes·mer·iz·es 1. To spellbind; enthrall: "He could mesmerize an audience by the sheer force of his presence" new Teen Discover selection (The Boy from the Basement). The Holiday Discover titles, each discounted 20 percent, will be prominently displayed in more than 600 Barnes & Noble bookstores across the country through January 2005. (See attached table for authors and titles.) The Discover Great New Writers program, entering its 15th year, is the leader in uncovering debuting and unheralded literary talents, with an unparalleled record of finding tomorrow's literary stars from today's publishing newcomers. A volunteer group of Barnes & Noble booksellers considered the works of more than 140 authors for the holiday program. Over the years, Discover has prominently featured and promoted such writers as Yann Martel, Alice Sebold, James Frey For other persons named James Frey, see James Frey (disambiguation). James Christopher Frey (born September 12, 1969 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American writer. He graduated from Denison University and also attended The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. , Michel Faber Michel Faber (13 April 1960) is an Australian writer of fiction. Faber was born in The Hague, The Netherlands, but claims to remember little of his life in Holland as he moved to Australia with his family at age 7 . , Sebastian Junger Sebastian Junger (born 17 January 1962 in Belmont, Massachusetts) is an American author and journalist. He graduated from Concord Academy in 1980 and received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Wesleyan University in cultural anthropology in 1984. , Frank McCourt
Francis "Frank" McCourt (born August 19, 1930) is an Irish-American teacher and author. , Jeffrey Eugenidies, Laura Hillenbrand, Hampton Sides and Tracy Chevalier, among dozens of authors who've gone on to become household names and the winners of prestigious literary awards. About Barnes & Noble, Inc. Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the world's largest bookseller and a Fortune 500 company, operates 839 bookstores in 50 states. For the third year in a row, the company is the nation's top retail brand for quality, according to the EquiTrend(R) Brand Study by Harris Interactive(R). Barnes & Noble conducts its online business through Barnes & Noble.com (www.bn.com), one of the Web's largest e-commerce sites and the number-one brand among e-commerce companies, according to the latest EquiTrend survey. In addition to its retail operations, Barnes & Noble is one of the largest book publishers in the world. Its subsidiary, Sterling Publishing, publishes over 1,300 new titles a year and has an active list of over 6,000 titles. General financial information on Barnes & Noble, Inc. can be obtained via the Internet by visiting the company's corporate Web site: http://www.barnesandnobleinc.com/financials.
HOLIDAY 2004 DISCOVER GREAT NEW WRITERS SELECTIONS
Title Author Genre Publisher
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The Boy from the Dutton Children's
Basement Susan Shaw Teen Books
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The Children's
Blizzard David Laskin Nature HarperCollins
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Devil in the
Details Jennifer Traig Biography Little, Brown
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Eating Mammals John Barlow Fiction HarperPerennial
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Explorers House Robert M. Poole Current Affairs Penguin Press
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Fruit Brian Francis Fiction MacAdam/Cage
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Fumbling Kerry Egan Religion Doubleday
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Hairstyles of the
Damned Joe Meno Fiction Akashic Books
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The In-Between
World of Vikram
Lall M.G. Vassanji Fiction Knopf
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Jonathan Strange &
Mr. Norrell Susanna Clarke Fiction Bloomsbury USA
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The Last Song of Siddharth D.
Dusk Shanghvi Fiction Arcade Books
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Maximum City Suketu Mehta History Knopf
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Outwitting History Aaron Lansky Reference Algonquin Books
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Shanghai Diary Ursula Bacon Biography M Press
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The Stowaway Robert Hough Fiction Arcade Books
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Toast Nigel Slater Biography Gotham Books
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The Unthinkable
Thoughts of Jacob
Green Joshua Braff Fiction Algonquin Books
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