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Is This Tomorrow by Caroline Leavitt In 1956, when divorced working-mom Ava Lark rents a house with her twelve-year-old son, Lewis, in a Boston suburb, the neighborhood is less than welcoming. Lewis... More about this book »	Skinny by Diana Spechler After her father’s death, twenty-six-year-old Gray Lachmann finds herself compulsively eating. Desperate to stop bingeing, she abandons her life in New York City... More about this book »
Trace Evidence by Robert Banfelder Trace Evidence is inspired by Long Island, New York’s first death penalty case in nearly a quarter century—the Robert Shulman serial killer trial—1998. On a daily... More about this book »	The Light in the Ruins by Chris Bohjalian From the New York Times bestselling author of Midwives and The Sandcastle Girls comes a spellbinding novel of love, despair, and revenge – set in war-ravaged... More about this book »
Grind by Mark Maynard A truck driver with the I.Q. of a child drives his empty rig up anddown the Interstate as an homage to his dead mother (“Deadheading”),two convicts seek redemption... More about this book »	Poems from the Edge of a New Reality - 52 Offerings for... by Andrea Becky Hanson A collection of 52 poems written from personal transformational experiences in all areas of life over a ten year period. Bold, personal and intriguing, the... More about this book »
The Mounting Storm by William Thompson Ong "The Mounting Storm"—the multi-layered saga of dark and sinister doings that thriller lovers have been waiting for. It’s the first volume in the delicious... More about this book »	Kaylee's Ghost by Rochelle Jewel Shapiro Grandmother Miriam, thrilled that her granddaughter, Violet, seems to be psychic, wants nothing more than the chance to mentor her way her own Russian grandmother... More about this book »
Hearts on the Line: the elusive pursuit of love in the city of... by Marla Martenson Marla’s day might begin with an email like this: Marla, I hope you don’t plan on charging me for the last two setups—Penny and Lydia. Let me make it crystal clear... More about this book »	Jenny Cussler's Last Stand by Bess McBride Social worker Jenny Cussler has a number of Native American veterans in her caseload and is attracted to their culture. When given the opportunity to attend a... More about this book »

The Sinaloa Story by Barry Gifford 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,... More about this book »	The Best American Short Stories 1994 (Edited) by Tobias Wolff Editors Tobias Wolff and Katrina Kenison selected twenty-one stories for this volume of the well-known series. More about this book »
Best New American Voices 2000 (Edited) by Tobias Wolff Culled from over one hundred prestigious writing programs around the United States and Canada, Best New American Voices 2000 offers a remarkable panoply of writing... More about this book »	The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short Stories (Edited) by Tobias Wolff The thirty-three stories in this volume prove that American short fiction maybe be our most distinctive national art form. As selected and introduced by Tobias... More about this book »
Rare Flesh by Clive Barker In the dark recesses of the human imagination lies an erotic potential that is rarely explored. Rare Flesh dares to venture into this taboo territory, pairing David... More about this book »	Barbary Shore by Norman Mailer Mike Lovett rents a room in a Brooklyn boarding house with the intention of writing a novel. Wounded during World War II, Lovett is an amnesiac, and much of his... More about this book »
The Deer Park by Norman Mailer Desert D’Or is the fashionable California resort where Hollywood’s glittering elite converge when they need a break from city of celluloid dreams. It is an... More about this book »	Oswald's Tale: An American Mystery by Norman Mailer Mailer opines that Lee Harvey Oswald was a sincere Marxist, a nihilist and an inveterate liar who was motivated to assassinate John F. Kennedy in order to shake up... More about this book »
The Fight by Norman Mailer The “fight” is the 1975 world heavyweight championship bout in Zaire between then reigning king of the ring Muhammad Ali and up-and-coming George Foreman. Mailer... More about this book »	The Cool Eye: Lawrence Ferlinghetti Talks to Alexis Lykiard by Lawrence Ferlinghetti The Cool Eye contains texts from two interviews (including two poems read by the author), and two new poems published here for the first time, as well as a cover... More about this book »