Blake Nelson

• Sep-2023
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The conclusion to cult hits Girl and Dream SchoolAndrea Marr, freshly kicked out of college, retreats to her hometown of Portland, Oregon and takes a job at J.Crew. But her ambition to become a writer catches up with her and drives her to make the le...

• Jun-2019
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HOW TO MEET WOMEN It's early 2016, and divorced, liberal-minded Martin is having trouble meeting women. He reluctantly agrees to some coaching from Rob, his Trump supporting brother-in-law. Skeptical at first, Martin's romantic life im...

• Jun-2018
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A novel about the obsessive vortex of falling in love in an impossible time and place. The summer I was seventeen I met this girl... Nick has the best of moms and the worst of moms. On the upside, she's a distinguished professor and bestselling...

• Jun-2017
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In the style of Blake Nelson's cult favorite, Girl comes a brand-new story about the moments in life that change how you see everything and everyone you always thought you knew -- including yourself. Every school has them: the cool kids. The insid...

• Sep-2016
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When Buster the dog barks early in the morning, it wakes up Captain Randy Miller, who lives just three houses down the street. Everyone is saddened at the news that Buster has been kidnapped. Everyone gets busy looking for clues and putting up poster...

• Jun-2014
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Robert "'Cali" Callahan is a teen runaway, living on the streets of Venice Beach, California. He's got a pretty sweet life: a treehouse to sleep in, a gang of surf bros, a regular basketball game...even a girl who's maybe-sorta interested in him. ...

• Dec-2011
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Andrea Marr, the heroine of the bestselling novel Girl, is back. And headed to college. Imagining a typical "J. Crew/college catalog" experience, Andrea leaves Portland to attend prestigious Wellington College in Connecticut. Surrounded by the best a...

• Mar-2011
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Madeline is sent away to Spring Meadows to help with a drinking and rage problem she has. It's a pretty intense place, but there is the weekly movie night in town--where Madeline meets Stewart, who's at another rehab place nearby. They fall for each ...

• May-2009
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James Hoff likes to rant against America's consumerist culture. He also likes to rant against his ex-girlfriend, Sadie, who he feels isn't doing enough to change the world. But just like he can't avoid buying things, he also can't avoid Sadie for lon...

• Mar-2008
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It was an accident. He didn't mean to kill the security guard with his skateboard--it was self-defense. But there's no one to back up his story. No one even knows he was at Paranoid Park. Should he confess, or can he get away with it? It's an ethical...

• Sep-2007
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Emma: Wants Jeff Matthews to notice her. Hates sexist boys. Wonders when she'll get her period. Tom: Must avoid looking like a wuss. Must deal with his blended family. Must get a chance with Kelly A. Then something freaky happens: Emma a...

• Jul-2007
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Seventeen-year-old Emily and her best friend Reese can't wait for summer vacation on Cape Cod. Every year, it's the same thing: high hopes that they may finally hook up with some cool guys...and it never happens. But this year, they're sure it's goin...

• Feb-2007
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Chloe Thomas is going to the prom. Of course, she doesn't have a date, she needs a dress, and she's the last person anyone expects to see there. But her two oldest friends asked her to go, and she said yes. Right away things start to fall apart. Laur...

• Oct-2004
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Music is Pete's life. From playing in a jazz band to jamming at 2 AM with his guitar-playing dad, Pete is almost never without his bass. He's sure his treasured Fender Precision bass, along with his vow never to be a sell-out, will lead him to a reco...

• Sep-2004
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Max is the consummate high school overachiever. Straight-A student, debate team captain, future editor of the school paper, dutiful Max does what's expected, until the day he inexplicably breaks up with Cindy, his perfect girlfriend. Is their relatio...

• Jul-2003
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Mitch Smith is an ambitious young man. He wants to work the coolest clubs, date the hottest girls, do the hardest drugs. But when a one night stand with nice girl Amy Peterson threatens to become something more, Mitch must decide between an actual re...

• Jun-1997
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A downtown Baudelaire of the '90s: that's what New York poet Mark West used to be. Now, at thirty-one, locked in a perpetual adolescence, he's slipping. Even when he takes an artist-in-residence position at a small Oregon college, he finds himself st...

• Sep-1994
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Blake Nelson's cult favorite novel captures the moment when everything changes for one girl when her first love, first time, and first step outside of her comfort zone happen all at once.Meet Andrea Marr: straight-A high school student, thrift-store ...