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Jonathan Tropper

Everything Changes

Jonathan Tropper's novel The Book of Joe dazzled critics and readers alike with its heartfelt blend of humor and pathos. Now Tropper brings all that--and more--to an irresistible new novel. In Everything Changes, Tropper delivers a touching, wickedly funny new tale about love, loss, and the perils of a well-planned life. To all appearances, Zachary King is a man with luck on his side. A steady, well-paying job, a rent-free Manhattan apartment, and Hope, his stunning, blue-blooded fiancée: smart, sexy, and completely out of his league. But as the wedding day looms, Zack finds himself haunted by the memory of his best friend, Rael, killed in a car wreck two years earlier--and by his increasingly complicated feelings for Tamara, the beautiful widow Rael left behind. Then Norm--Zack's freewheeling, Viagra-popping father--resurfaces after a twenty-year absence, looking to make amends. Norm's overbearing, often outrageous efforts to reestablish ties with his sons infuriate Zack, and yet, despite twenty years of bad blood, he finds something compelling in his father's maniacal determination to transform his own life. Inspired by Norm, Zack boldly attempts to make some changes of his own, ...

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Precious (Push Movie Tie-In Edition)

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE Includes a Reading Group Guide Precious Jones, an illiterate sixteen-year-old, has up until now been invisible to the father who rapes her and the mother who batters her and to the authorities who dismiss her as just one more of Harlem's casualties. But when Precious, pregnant with a second child by her father, meets a determined and radical teacher, we follow her on a journey of education and enlightenment as she learns not only how to write about her life, but how to make it truly her own for the first time.

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INbOX 2: All Is Fair in Love & Gender War

The pursuit for love and happiness during the worst gender war I have ever seen is flat out discouraging. Loyalty and trust is so hard to come by especially in an era where social media influences a lot of the bullshit we face daily. And to be honest with you...I AM SO SICK AND TIRED OF THE TOXICITY AND HATRED I see between women and men in these social media groups it's insane! But as much as I've said to hell with love... I still find myself in pursuit of it. A young couple longs to leave their past behind them and make their relationship work. But...sometimes the secrets and demons you try to bury will never rest till they return to hold you accountable. This shit will have you sitting somewhere by yourself sipping a glass of liquor...with a loaded pistol, contemplating your next move... like me. Young, pissed, dangerous, not giving a fuck and fantasizing revenge...You must pay for your sins.