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The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer Mailer’s Pulitzer Prize–winning work scrutinizes the life and death of Gary Gilmore, who murdered two innocent men in Provo, Utah, in 1976. Gilmore was the first... More about this book »	The Deer Park by Norman Mailer Desert D’Or is the fashionable California resort where Hollywood’s glittering elite converge when they need a break from city of celluloid dreams. It is an... More about this book »
The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, the Novel as History by Norman Mailer Following his arrest during the October 1967 anti-Vietnam march at the Pentagon, Mailer wrote of the anger, hippies, bewildered MPs and draft-card burners. More about this book »	An American Dream by Norman Mailer Few modern American novels have ignited more controversy and contention than this story of Stephen Richards Rojack, war hero and congressman turned professor and... More about this book »
Barbary Shore by Norman Mailer Mike Lovett rents a room in a Brooklyn boarding house with the intention of writing a novel. Wounded during World War II, Lovett is an amnesiac, and much of his... More about this book »	The Gospel According to the Son by Norman Mailer Norman Mailer writes a novel about Jesus’ life. Is God speaking to me? Jesus asks. Or am I hearing voices? If the voices are from God, why has He chosen me as His... More about this book »
The Fight by Norman Mailer The “fight” is the 1975 world heavyweight championship bout in Zaire between then reigning king of the ring Muhammad Ali and up-and-coming George Foreman. Mailer... More about this book »	The Heart of a Woman by Maya Angelou The Heart of a Woman continues Dr. Angelou’s autobiographical work begun in I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, exploring her beginnings as a writer and civil rights... More about this book »
The Water Dancers by Terry Gamble A tale of class and race set in the post-World War II of Northern Michigan. Drawing from the rarely intersecting worlds of the Native American population and that... More about this book »	The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer Hailed as one of the finest novels to come out of World War II, The Naked and the Dead received unprecedented critical acclaim upon its publication and has since... More about this book »

Love and Other Delusions by Larry Baker Love and Other Delusions In Alice’s world, it all made sense. She told her husband, “I stopped cheating on you when I started sleeping with Danny.” He... More about this book »	Why Aren't You Smiling? by Alvin Orloff Growing up in the 1970s has never before been portrayed with such delightful ludicrousness and heartrending tenderness as in Why Aren't You Smiling? When teenage... More about this book »
Tales From the House Band Volume I by Patricia V. Davis A very unusual blues guitarist gets into a barroom brawl on a distant asteroid. An autistic boy plays air guitar to an audience only his brother can see. A soul... More about this book »	A Place of Belonging by Bob Mustin Stephen Banks loos up from breakfast at a Clarkesville, Georgia, diner to see a frightened and unkempt young woman climb from the truck. Who is she? Banks must find... More about this book »
Deadlines Are Murder by Anne Macdonald Former banker turned budding romance novelist Sam Monroe is wanted in the murder of her soon to be ex-husband’s grad assistant and lover, Ariella Fantini. Ariella... More about this book »	Battle Hymn of the Tiger Daughter by Diana Holquist How one family fought the myth that you have to destroy childhood in order to raise extraordinary adults. What does a “successful” child look like? If you... More about this book »
When a Parent Has Cancer: A Guide to Caring for Your Children by Wendy S Harpham At some point in our lives, many of us will face the crisis of an unexpected illness. For parents, the fear, anxiety and confusion resulting from a cancer... More about this book »	After Cancer: A Guide to Your New Life by Wendy S Harpham As anyone who has been diagnosed with cancer knows, surviving cancer is more than just killing cancer cells and getting through treatment. Patients must deal with... More about this book »
Diagnosis: Cancer - Your Guide Through the First Few Months by Wendy S Harpham Written by a doctor who has herself had cancer, this aims to help cancer patients and their families through the first few months after diagnosis. It considers... More about this book »	The Hope Tree: Kids Talk about Breast Cancer by Wendy S Harpham The Hope Tree helps families talk about the difficulties children face when one of their parents has cancer or other illness. Dr. Wendy... More about this book »