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Barnes & Noble Discovers Punk; Joe Meno's Hairstyles of the Damned; All Holiday 2004 Discover Great New Writers Selections Discounted 20%.


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), 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

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, 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.



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 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).
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, 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
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, 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.

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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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