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Trace Adkins is a political conservative who shoots from the hip with his point of view. He also writes about his colorful career in Country Music and how he...
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Sweet Dreams
The SWEET DREAMS series is a Japanese-language anthology published quarterly in book form. Each edition features a mixture of fiction, nonfiction, essays, and...
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Tender Murderers
An array of real-life women who murdered: "grisly, horrifying, and yet, sometimess oddly endearing" -- Richard Lupoff
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GoGirl!
Back in the day, Lindsay Goldman's mom was a superheroine, but she's retired now, and teenage Lindsay has inherited her mother's ability to fly. Donning her mom's...
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The biography of Black Panther Party co-founder Huey P. Newton, and co-written with Panther luminary David Hilliard.
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The life and roadside art of a great Texas artist.
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September 11: West Coast Writers Approach Ground Zero
Peter Coyote contributed to this anthology edited by Seattle poet and writer Jeff Meyers. The events of September 11th, 2001, their myriad repercussions, and varied...
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Sleeping Where I Fall
Out of the 1960s counterculture explosion came a radical street group called the Diggers who became the heart and soul of the Haight-Ashbury experience. Among its...
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People have questioned how I can publicly support candidates who are running against each other. I do this because supporting a candidate influences civic life in...
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NOT A GENUINE BLACK MAN: OR, HOW I CLAIMED MY PIECE OF GROUND IN THE LILY-WHITE SUBURBS
This memoir offers a candid and funny response to those who question the racial authenticity of successful black men. After receiving a letter asserting that he is...
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  Murmurs: Gathered Stories Vol. One brings together nine previously published stories hand selected to best represent the darkness prevalent in...
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Forward Prize shortlist for Best Collection 2012. Poetry Book Society Recommendation.      In Paris, night falls without haste; starlings....
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Beverley Bie Brahic is a poet with her eye on what is happening between us, between continents on which she lives, between familial relationships, between languages...
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Every marriage has issues. And every mother-in-law, father-in-law, daughter-in-law, son-in-law, sister-in-law, and brother-in-law is difficult to love at some...
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A Nest in Springtime Jacket
In English and Mandarin Chinese, Belle Yang's bilingual board books celebrate the natural world with simple concepts and beautiful, bold illustrations. In...
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'Perfect Score' is about the rite of passage of two young men, Alex and Sam, from the opposite side of the tracks. Alex lives in his uncle's mansion, and while...
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Reel V. Real: How Hollywood Turns Fact Into Fiction
All too often, highly fictionalized cinematic depictions of the past are accepted as the unassailable truth by those unfamiliar with the "real" account. This book...
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Emmy-Award winning CBS News producer Paul LaRosa's  evocative memoir of his days growing up in a Bronx housing project and working as a reporter at The New...
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Philip Markoff was a true Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and this book explores his secret life and unconscionable acts of the brilliant and well-liked Boston University...
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This is a poetry book consisting of 56 poems. They all tell you about our daily life, ups and downs. The poems are in very different style. Some of them are quite...
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