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Mud Hut Man
Jun.15.2012
It’s 1079 AD and fourteen-year-old Ulf, son of a dung shoveler, lives in a hut in the shadow of the walls of Litchfield Castle. Their hut is but one of hundreds clustered at the foot of Lichfield Castle’s towering granite walls. But Ulf is cursed with a natural intelligence and a burning desire to...
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May.03.2012
From the bestselling satirist and memoirist Neal Pollack comes a funny, gritty historical noir about a tough Jew on the brink and about a great American game coming into its own. 1937. The gears of world war have begun to grind, but Inky Lautman, star point guard for the South Philadelphia...
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Feb.02.2012
Jean Rubin, a Women and Literature teacher at the community college, has three months to plan her twenty something daughter Lara's wedding to Gus, a young man from an extended Charleston family. Laurence Duvall, owner of Fashionista, the Scottsdale society...
Boomerang
Feb.02.2012
Our reluctant hero, Jean Rubin, is back for another round of dealing with with problems on every front. Married to absent-minded Maury, a physician fighting the managed care mess, their lives explode when their son brings home his pregnant girlfriend, Rosa,...
Stressed in Scottsdale
Feb.02.2012
Jean Rubin, a multi-tasker, has too much to do. She tries to find sanity in a world where environmental issues and political corruption make you laugh out loud. Wickedly funny!
Deliriously Happy
Nov.22.2011
Deliriously Happy (and Other Bad Thoughts) is a collection of supposedly funny things Larry Doyle has written for The New Yorker, Esquire, the National Lampoon and god knows where else.
Jun.25.2011
At the time I was publishing in Bogg: A Journal of American and British Writing, in the 1980's, it was a journal of most original, often funny, satirical, and sometimes outlandish poetry from both America and the UK.  I was proud to be in this journal with poets like Charles Bukowski.  Also, Bogg...
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May.20.2011
The Valley Planet is a community-minded publication that was created  to meet the cultural needs of Huntsville and the Tennessee Valley.  The Valley Planet is dedicated to promoting the ideas, arts and events that make the Tennessee Valley unique. The Valley Planet is a locally-owned magazine/...
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Apr.12.2011
New York Times-bestselling author Lisa Lutz conspires with-or should we say against?-coauthor David Hayward to write an original and hilarious tag-team crime novel. Meet Paul and Lacey Hansen: orphaned, pot-growing twentysomething siblings eking out a living in rural Northern California. When...
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Feb.06.2011
Tired of reading scifi and fantasy stories that take themselves too seriously?  Zaftan Entrepreneurs is a unique First Contact story; it is part adventure and part corporate and political satire spiced with comic relief.  Here, you'll find nasty, snarly aliens, fantasy creatures, humans,...