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Night People by Barry Gifford Gifford (Wild at Heart) never shies away from confrontational fiction even when it strains credulity. Yet these four well-wrought, linked novellas, all dealing with... More about this book »	Arise and Walk by Barry Gifford It’s time to check in again with Barry Gifford’s gang of New Orleans weirdos. A few of our old favorites from Night People (1992) are back, including Marble Lesson... More about this book »
Saroyan: A Biography by Barry Gifford Along with Ernest Hemingway, William Saroyan—winner of a Pulitzer Prize in drama for The Time of Your Life and an Academy Award for the screenplay of The Human... More about this book »	Hotel Room Trilogy: Tricks/Blackout/Mrs. Kashfi by Barry Gifford Plays in three episodes, which take place in the same New York City at three different times. More about this book »
Baby Cat-Face by Barry Gifford From Barry Gifford comes a “wild, wacky, funny, well-written, and surreal” novel (Kansas City Star) about a woman struggling to make her way in “a New Orleans so... More about this book »	Wild at Heart by Barry Gifford In the visual equivalent of sound bites, novelist and poet Gifford (Ghosts No Horse Can Carry, Port Tropique) cuts to the heart with sharply focused shots of young... More about this book »
The Sinaloa Story by Barry Gifford Employing a strange and bountiful cast of characters, The Sinaloa Story bobs and weaves as if challenging the reader to follow a spectacular, if often incoherent,... More about this book »	Perdita Durango by Barry Gifford In Perdita Durango, Gifford brings us the uniquely villainous Perdita, born as a minor character in Wild at Heart and reincarnated here as the killer-lovely queen... More about this book »
My Last Martini by Barry Gifford From the author of Night People, Wild at Heart, The Sinaloa Story, and more than a dozen other works of award-winning fiction and nonfiction comes this piquant... More about this book »	Lost Highway by Barry Gifford Screenplay of Lost Highway, co-written with writer and director David Lynch More about this book »

Deliriously Happy: and Other Bad Thoughts by Larry Doyle 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... More about this book »	The Tao of Forgiveness by William C Martin How do we forgive when forgiveness seems impossible? William Martin, author of the bestselling The Parent's Tao Te Ching, provides practical and time honored... More about this book »
Tough Justice by Russell Turney A compromised Justice system, a drug running bike gang, and new love collide. New Zealand’s Justice system is compromised by a drug running bike gang. Justice... More about this book »	Muta by Morton Chalfy The lives of a pre-historic couple intertwine with and influence the lives of two modern day couples with strong spiritual and romantic effects. The adventure of... More about this book »
J-Boys: Kazuo's World, Tokyo, 1965 by Shogo Oketani Kazuo Nakamoto's life in inner-city Tokyo is one of tea and tofu, of American TV and rock 'n' roll. Kazuo is nine. It is the mid-1960s, just after the Japan... More about this book »	Designing with Kanji: Japanese Character Motifs for Surface,... by Shogo Oketani Japanese kanji characters combine meaning with beauty and thus offer a unique medium for artistic expression. But if you don’t know the language, how do you find... More about this book »
The L Life: Extraordinary Lesbians Making a Difference by Erin McHugh There have been few cultural touchstones to open people’s eyes to everyday lesbian life—until now. Through fascinating interviews and stunning portrait... More about this book »	Opuestos: Mexican Folk Art Opposites in Spanish and English by Cynthia Weill Opuestos teaches young children the opposites in Spanish and English. It uses the charming animal wood carvings of brothers Martin and Quirino Santiago of... More about this book »
Colores de la vida: Mexican folk art colors in English and... by Cynthia Weill Colores de la Vida introduces young children to color vocabulary in Spanish and English. Each page has a separate group or groupings of animals. ... More about this book »	ABeCedarios: Mexican Folk Art ABCs in English and Spanish by Cynthia Weill Seemingly the typical alphabet book with large type, this volume stands out for its artwork: gorgeous animal wood sculptures created in Oaxaca.... More about this book »