Joe Meno

• Mar-1999
• / General Fiction
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From the award-winning author of The Boy Detective Fails: A novel of two brothers growing up on the other side of the tracks.   “A trailer park in the Plains town of Tenderloin is the setting of this crusty coming-of-age debut, which features...

• Sep-2001
• / Suspense
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A haunted ex-con returns to his hometown: “Fans of hard-boiled pulp fiction will particularly enjoy this novel” (Booklist).   Luce Lemay is out on parole three years after an awful tragedy sent him to prison. In his small Illinois town, he d...

• Sep-2004
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Hairstyles of the Damned is an honest and affectionate depiction of wanting to belong, but never quite belonging. Joe Meno's pitch-perfect prose illuminates the tumultuous realities of American adolescence, the disintegration of the modern family, an...

• Nov-2005
• / General Fiction
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Winner of 2006 The Society of Midland Authors Adult Fiction Award

Children who anesthetize--and dress up--small wild animals in an ill-fated attempt to cheer their grieving mother; childhood friends who ritually return every year to the site...

• Sep-2006
• / Suspense
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In this “charming” and melancholic novel, a former child sleuth “investigates the hard-to-crack case of Lost Innocence” (Entertainment Weekly).   A Chicago Tribune, Kirkus Reviews, and Booklist Book of the Year   In the twilight of ...

• Sep-2008
• / General Fiction
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From the author of Between Everything and Nothing, “an inspired collection of twenty stories, brilliant in its command of tone and narrative perspective” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).Demons in the Spring is a collection of twenty short storie...

• Nov-2008
• / General Fiction
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• BrickJournal Compendium Volume 3 compiles the digital-only issues #6-7 of the acclaimed online magazine for LEGO enthusiasts of all ages ― for the first time in printed form! This full-color book spotlights all aspects of the LEGO Communit...

• Feb-2009
• / General Fiction
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• BrickJournal Compendium Volume Two compiles issues #4-5 of the acclaimed online magazine for LEGO enthusiasts of all ages -- for the first time in printed form! This full-color book spotlights all aspects of the LEGO Community, showcasing ...

• May-2009
• / General Fiction
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“This ambitious, adventurous writer . . . recalls Anton Chekhov with his amused appreciation of human foibles.” -- Wendy Smith, Chicago Tribune The sky is falling for the Caspers, a family of cowards. When the parents decide to separate, this fam...

• Jul-2012
• / Literary
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"Meno has constructed a snow-flake delicate inquiry into alienation and longing. Illustrated with drawings and photographs and shaped by tender empathy, buoyant imagination, and bittersweet wit, this wistful, provocative, off-kilter love story affirm...

• Aug-2015
• / Literary
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A boy and his grandfather hunt for a stolen horse in this novel “evoking William Faulkner and Cormac McCarthy” (Booklist).  Longlisted for the American Library Association’s Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction   In the sum...

• Sep-2015
• / Literary
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Marvel and a Wonder is a darkly mesmerizing epic and literary page-turner set at the end of the twentieth century. In summer 1995, Jim Falls, a Korean War vet, struggles to raise his sixteen-year-old grandson, Quentin, on a farm in southern Indiana. ...

• Sep-2022
• / Literary
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From the best-selling author Joe Meno, a moving novel about the impossibility of fate and family. “Joe Meno is one of those Chicago writers floating around so long that we take his sturdiness for granted. His latest, though, Book of Extraordinary T...