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Pictures of the Gone World, Vol. 1
Published to celebrate forty years of City Lights publishing, which began with the letterpress printing of this book in 1955. It was Lawrence Ferlinghetti's first...
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How to Paint Sunlight
This collection of recent poems is graced with a short introduction by the poet in which he says, “All I ever wanted to do was to paint light on the walls of life...
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Ringolevio: A Life Played for Keeps
Peter Coyote wrote the introduction to this memorable tale of Emmett Grogan and the Diggers, the irreverent urban guerrillas and masters of street theater who made...
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A Free Library in This City: The Illustrated History of the San Francisco Public Library
Peter Coyote’s contribution to this illustrated history of San Francisco Public Library is called “Time to Be Savored Not Saved.” The book was researched and...
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Photojournalism and critical commentary come together in The Whole World’s Watching: Peace and Social Justice Movements of the 1960s and 1970s, an oversized volume...
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New  Buffalo
Peter Coyote wrote the foreword for this book on New Buffalo, one of the most successful of the collective farms that dotted the country in the 1960s and 1970s....
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Imagine: What America Could Be in the 21st Century
Peter Coyote contributed an essay to this collection. It was edited by Marianne Williamson, who posed the question to nearly forty of her well-known contemporaries...
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Maya Angelou: Poems
Tenderly, joyously, sometimes in sadness, sometimes in pain, Maya Angelou writes from the heart and celebrates life as only she has discovered it. In this moving...
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Night of Many Dreams
As World War II threatens their comfortable life in Hong Kong, young Joan and Emma Lew escape with their family to spend the war years in Macao. When they return...
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The Beautiful
Before penning her contemporary classic Valencia, Tea wrote wonderfully honest narrative poems, which she self-published in small editions, now collected here for...
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No Character Limit
Between texting and tweeting, it may seem that real writing has gone out the window. But it hasn't, and the girls and women of WriteGirl prove it. No Character...
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PRESS RELEASE: A new thriller set in the Texas PanhandleWhen journalist Charles Lawton finds a cartridge case from an M16-A1 assault rifle near a desiccated body in...
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Kashi is a tale of clashes of cultures, relationship experiments and religious and moral differences in the holiest of Hindu cities, just at the time India’s...
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Kashi is a tale of clashes of cultures, relationship experiments and religious and moral differences in the holiest of Hindu cities, just at the time India’s...
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  Kashi is a tale of clashes of cultures, relationship experiments and religious and moral differences in the holiest of Hindu cities, just at the time India’s...
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Two startling murders that replicate the death of a mediaeval English king and the discovery of a mysterious ancient tapestry lead Belinda Lawrence and her...
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A SEAL Wolf Christmas
They start out in the Amazon on a mission with hot SEAL Bjornolf ghosting the mission. When they return, Hunter's got another for them--all to do with Christmas--...
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Jaguar Fever
Jaguar shifter Maya Anderson learns about a secret jaguar society through underground social networking sites. She wanted to discover others like her, but now she's...
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Kids Are Worth It!
(This synopsis describes the 2002 revised version.) The parenting classic, now revised with new chapters, checklists, and information about today's most pressing...
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Parenting Through Crisis
In this companion to her bestselling Kids are Worth It!, parenting educator Barbara Coloroso shows how parents can help children find a way through grief and...
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