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Budding Prospects: A Pastoral
All Felix Nasmyth and friends have to do is harvest a crop of cannabis sativa ... and half a million tax-free dollars will be theirs. But they haven’t reckoned on...
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Without a Hero
A critic once said of T. Coraghessan Boyle, “More happens in one of Boyle’s stories than in most post-Victorian novels.” This is precisely the case in Without a...
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World's End
Haunted by the burden of his family’s traitorous past, woozy with pot, cheap wine, and sex, and disturbed by a frighteningly real encounter with some family ghosts...
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The Tortilla Curtain
Men and women with brown faces and strong backs who risk everything to cross the Mexican border and invade the American Dream are the Okies of the 1990s. Two of...
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Riven Rock
T. C. Boyle’s seventh novel transforms two characters straight out of history into rich mythic figures whose tortured love story is as heartbreaking as it is...
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The Hoarders -- for independent readers age 9-12
In case you're wondering, the title is NOT about messy houses like in the TV show.  ​The hoarders​ in my story are a couple of kids who figure out a way to...
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The Good Father
Four years ago, nineteen-year-old Travis Brown made a choice: to raise his newborn daughter on his own. While most of his friends were out partying and meeting...
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Keeper of the Light
Dr. Olivia Simon is on duty in the emergency room of North Carolina’s Outer Banks Hospital when a gunshot victim is brought in. Midway through the desperate effort...
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Get Lost in the '90s!
KURT loves the 1990s! Thanks to his parents who graduated Hazel Park High the exact same year he was born — 1994 — he’s a walking encyclopedia of ’90s nostalgia...
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Is there anything funny about death? As a matter of fact, there is, and 24 gifted authors have shared their true stories about the fascinating, compelling, and...
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Gates of Eden IPPY Award
Release date: August 1, 2012 Silver Medalist 2012 Independent Publishers Book Awards GATES OF EDEN: A story of resistance, rebellion, and love...  Set against...
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Black Dahlia Avenger II
  In Black Dahlia Avenger II, bestselling author and veteran LAPD homicide detective Steve Hodel presents his six-year follow-up investigation [2006-2012] into...
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Beamish Boy: A Memoir
“Poignant and inspirational, comical and terrifying! From one page to the next, readers are in the hands of an author who knows how to paint a scene!”   ...
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The why and how of "Keeping Spirits Alive" through writing memoir. Who is she—your mother—deep down inside? How will she be remembered? Why does it matter? Join...
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Larry Smith was the general editor on this book edited by AllenFrost for Bottom Dog Press. He also wrote the Foreword and compiled the biographies for the...
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