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Back in the World: Stories
To American soldiers in Vietnam, “back in the world” meant America and safety. To Tobias Wolff’s characters, Back in the World is where lives that have veered out...
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In Pharaoh's Army: Memories of the Lost War
In Pharaoh’s Army is Tobias Wolff’s unflinching account of his tour in Vietnam, his tangled journey there and back. Using his old wiles and talents, he passes...
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Good Grief
Some widows face their loss with denial. Sophie Stanton’s reaction is one of pure bafflement. “How can I be a widow?” Sophie asks at the opening of Lolly Winston’s...
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Happiness Sold Separately
Infertility and infidelity pack a potent—and potentially fatal—one-two punch to Elinor and Ted Mackey’s once-idyllic marriage in Winston’s perceptive and poignant...
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Women of the Silk
In Women of the Silk Gail Tsukiyama takes her readers back to rural China in 1926, where a group of women forge a sisterhood amidst the reeling machines that...
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The Samurai's Garden: A Novel
The daughter of a Chinese mother and a Japanese father, Tsukiyama uses the Japanese invasion of China during the late 1930s as a somber backdrop for her unusual...
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Dreaming Water
Tsukiyama’s fifth novel details a short span in the life of Cate and Hana, a mother and daughter coping with the onslaught of Werner’s Syndrome. This syndrome,...
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Valencia
Valencia is the fast-paced account of one girl’s search for love and high times in the drama-filled dyke world of San Francisco’s Mission District. Through a string...
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The Chelsea Whistle
In this memoir, Michelle Tea takes the reader back to the city of her childhood: Chelsea, Massachusetts—Boston’s ugly, scrappy little sister and a place where time...
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Baby Remember My Name
Michelle Tea, a favorite on the spoken-word scene and beloved in literary circles for books such as Valencia, Chelsea Whistle and most recently Rose of No Man’s...
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WINNER OF THE 2013 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST • LONGLISTED FOR THE AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION’S ANDREW CARNEGIE...
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Parasites Like Us
Hailed as "remarkable" by The New Yorker, Emporium earned Adam Johnson comparisons to Kurt Vonnegut and T. C. Boyle. Now, in Parasites Like Us, he takes us on an...
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A Howl for a Highlander
A Highland Wolf on a Mission... Duncan MacNeill is hell-bent on catching the thief who's stolen the clan's fortune and run off to Grand Cayman Island. Duncan has...
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Hummingbird Review Spring 2013
The current issue features Hollywood-themed poetry and essays by our esteemed cast of new and established authors, including "Dances With Wolves" author Michael...
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  New book guides pet lovers in selecting and welcoming 'Your Ideal Cat'     Authors Ben and Lynette Hart give advice on how to choose a new feline...
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What My Mother Gave Me
In What My Mother Gave Me, women look at the relationships between mothers and daughters through a new lens: a daughter’s story of a gift from her mother that has...
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The Same Tapes contains the taped disclosures of Joseph Same; a man who used a false moniker to re-experience events in backward time. And it recounts those events...
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The Same Tapes contains the taped disclosures of Joseph Same; a man who used a false moniker to re-experience events in backward time. And it recounts those events...
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The Same Tapes book cover.jpg
The Same Tapes contains the taped disclosures of Joseph Same; a man who used a false moniker to re-experience events in backward time. And it recounts those events...
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The Souls of Her Feet (a novel cinderella)
What if Cinderella didn’t have dainty little feet? What if Cinderella’s fairy godmother was kind of a drag? What if Cinderella actually found her voice?...
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