A collection of linked short stories by Aleksander Hemon that recount the experiences of a young man coming-of-age in communist Sarajevo and forced to flee to America as the city is torn apart.

Jewish-American author Philip Roth's 1969 comic novel about a successful New York lawyer named Alexander Portnoy who is plagued by guilt stemming from an obsession with sex and a domineering mother.

Sixteen-year-old Bobby Clark is introduced to two of the world's oldest passions--love and money--after he drops out of school to work with his older brother Jim and Jim's girlfriend Lisa in the jewelry business.

Young Titus Bass abandons his home and the tempting neighbor girl Amy, to answer the call of the wilderness, traveling south from Kentucky to New Orleans, back up river to St. Louis, and into the unexplored Great Plains, encountering vixens and villains along the way.

Mrs. Reilly pushing her reluctant son Ignatius, age 30, into the working world of New Orleans is a decision with unforeseeably hilarious results. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.