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Hotel Room Trilogy: Tricks/Blackout/Mrs. Kashfi
Plays in three episodes, which take place in the same New York City at three different times.
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Baby Cat-Face
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...
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Wild at Heart
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...
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The Sinaloa Story
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,...
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Perdita Durango
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...
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My Last Martini
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...
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Lost Highway
Screenplay of Lost Highway, co-written with writer and director David Lynch
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My Father In The Night tells the story of three generations of men living in the North Beach section of San Francisco in an Irish-American family. Eleven year-old...
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The Phantom Father
Gifford’s father, Rudy Winston, was considered a “good man to know” in the wild and woolly Chicago of the 1930s, ’40s, and ’50s. His list of friends and...
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Out of the past: Adventures in Film Noir
For a tour of noir cinema this handbook is the perfect companion and Barry Gifford is an ideal guide. His choice selection of films exposes the menacing, moody, and...
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Sedan - an entertainment - the part three
Sedan the part three is the final part of the Sedan trilogy. The battles for freedom and justice have been long but finally some matters are resolved – some for the...
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The Apostles
Harry Haitch takes a hazardous journey to discover who killed his father and learns that he didn’t know his dad at all. In the end he finds the truth but at great...
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Do Chocolate Lovers Have Sweeter Babies?:  The Surprising Science of Pregnancy
Science writer Jena Pincott spent her pregnancy and postpartum months asking the questions that doctors don’t answer, and finding answers that expectant mothers...
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Deadly Currents
  The Arkansas River, heart and soul of Salida, Colorado, fuels the small town’s economy and thrums in the blood of river ranger Mandy Tanner. When a...
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Story - how the Welsh flag came ito being
This is a short story for children of all ages. You’ve all seen the wonderful dragon on the Welsh flag – well – this is how it came to be there. There’s a dragon, a...
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Thomas O. Larkin
Thomas O. Larkin was among the first to test what would be called the "California Dream." Arriving in Mexican California in 1832, he expected to become a rich man--...
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Soft Adventure Travel
  Soft adventure. The sort of experience that goes beyond the typical tourist itinerary. There is no great physical challenge involved here. There is...
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American Monsters by Sezin Koehler, illustrated by Rose Deniz
"An important work of post-modern feminist horror, American Monsters is a poignant, angry volume about predation, the corruption of the rave scene, and...
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"A remarkable book: part travelogue, part rant, part memoir, part literary analysis and urban history, it is like nothing else I've ever read. In wondering why we...
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In this hilarious collection of personal essays, New York Times bestselling author Merrill Markoe reveals, among other things, the secret formula for comedy: Start...
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