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If Holden Caulfield had grown up in an age of environmental politics he might sound like Cute Eats Cute's 15-year-old narrator. Set in a Midwestern town at the turn...
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Gypsy Escapades
Can a ragtag quartet of newfound friends outwit terrorists during a crisis in India? In our precarious world of old grudges and ruthless high-tech...
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It is the summer of 1948 when a handsome, charismatic stranger, Charlie Beale, recently back from the war in Europe, shows up in the town of Brownsburg, a sleepy...
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by Timothy Pina
Many people remember Benjamin Franklin as the man who discovered electricity. But did you know that he was bullied as a child? Yes, Ben was bullied by his older...
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Salt In Our Blood recounts the moving story of a commercial fisherman's wife, who is both a mother and a successful attorney on the Oregon coast. Set against...
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A collection of flash fiction which will challenge and delight readers. All over the place in the space of a mind.
“The brilliant stories in Sylvia Petter’s...
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Boston had always served as a confusing symbol, like the quincunx pattern on a turtle’s back, or the moment in James Joyce’s...
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In her latest cookbook, Deborah Madison, America's leading authority on vegetarian cooking and author of Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone, reveals the surprising...
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Drama / 4m, 3f Set in the 1970s on the Texas border separating the United States and Mexico, Lydia is an intense, lyrical, and magical new play. The Flores...
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If there is one thing special about doctors, it is that society has granted us unique privileges. The license to probe the private lives and bodies of people is...
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Five-year-old Luna isn't at all sure she wants to go school. For all she knows, there might be monsters there. But when her loving parents assure her that she'll...
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Certain symbols abound in modern Western culture that are instantly recognizable: the cross signifies Christianity, the six-pointed Star of David is revered by Jews...
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With a focus on the non-financial aspects of retirement, How to Retire Happy, Wild and Free by Ernie J. Zelinski explores the myriad choices and decisions that ...
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by Geling Yan
A young Chinese woman named Fusang is kidnapped and sold into prostitution in San Francisco in the late 19th Century. A modern Chinese author examines her, trying...
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by Geling Yan
See also separate blog entry on the film This Side of Heaven based on this work:
http://www.redroom.com/blog/geling-yan/film-side-heaven
This novella is about a...
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1985. It was raining men and girls just wanted to have fun on Ladies Night. That's when I came to New York City, to become a star. When I was hired to be the MC...
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Fourteen-year-old Maximum Ride and the other members of "Flock"--Fang, Iggy, Nudge, Gasman and Angel--are just like ordinary kids--only they have wings...
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...a storehouse of information about all aspects of the presidents' lives.
– Oklahoma City Oklahoman.
Pledging to deliver captivating, timely reading and great...
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by John Jung
A social history of the role of the Chinese laundry on the survival of early Chinese immigrants in the U.S.during the Chinese Exclusion law period, 1882-1943, and...
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by Tim Wise
In this spellbinding lecture, delivered at Mt. Holyoke College in October 2007, Tim Wise, author of White Like Me: Reflections on Race From a Privileged Son offers...
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