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The Road to Wellville by T. Coraghessan Boyle Wellville is a rich plumcake of a book, full of ripely conceived characters, satire both broad and bitter, beautifully integrated period atmosphere and writing that... More about this book »	What It's Like To Live Now by Meredith Maran More about this book »
Budding Prospects: A Pastoral by T. Coraghessan Boyle 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... More about this book »	Notes From An Incomplete Revolution by Meredith Maran More about this book »
Without a Hero by T. Coraghessan Boyle 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... More about this book »	Dirty by Meredith Maran More about this book »
Class Dismissed by Meredith Maran More about this book »	Mythbusters: The Explosive Truth Behind 30 of the Most... by Kent Zimmerman An inside look at the science behind the myths. More about this book »
World's End by T. Coraghessan Boyle 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... More about this book »	The Tortilla Curtain by T. Coraghessan Boyle 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... More about this book »

Pancho Land by Raul Ramos y Sanchez Latino insurgents are waging a bitter civil war. Sarah Evans was once their hostage in Los Angeles, a rebel stronghold in a war-torn Southern California. Now, Sarah... More about this book »	Sister Spit: Writing, Rants and Reminiscence from the Road by Michelle Tea A collection of writing and artwork from the irreverent, flagrantly queer, hilariously feminist, tough-talking, genre-busting ruffians who have toured with the... More about this book »
PRETTIEST DOLL by gina willner-pardo “It’s good to be pretty. I’m really lucky.” So begins the story of thirteen-year-old Olivia, or Liv, who started winning beauty pageants at age three. Lately she’s... More about this book »	Eyes of the Wild: Journeys of Transformation with the Animal... by Imogen Oxley Eyes of the Wild by Eleanor O’Hanlon takes the reader on an epic, personal journey from the Pacific Coast of Mexico to the edge of the Arctic pack... More about this book »
The Cassoulet Saved Our Marriage: True Tales of Food, Family,... by caroline m grant The oysters they ate together the first night in their new city. The chicken Milanese she learned to cook after weight-loss surgery. The cassoulet that both anchors... More about this book »	State Out of the Union: Arizona and the Final Showdown Over the... by Jeff Biggers State Out of the Union is award-winning journalist and historian Jeff Biggers’ riveting account of Arizona, the famed frontier state whose conflict over... More about this book »
The Glass Sponge by Jules Jacob Jacob's poetry collection, The Glass Sponge, traces family moments in "Dream House" through the "…lazy moonlight" as the sound barrier is broken, warning us, Ozzy... More about this book »	The Search for Sana by Richard Zimler In February 2000, Richard Zimler went to the Perth Writers’ Festival and met a talented dancer who told him how much his novel The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon had... More about this book »
Angel With A Bullet by Grant McKenzie Wisecracking reporter Dixie Flynn thinks fast and talks even faster—it’s the only way to survive the San Francisco crime beat. When she’s assigned to look... More about this book »	Magical Alienation by Kris Neri When fake psychic Samantha Brennan heads to Sedona, Arizona, as the spiritual adviser of the aging bad boy of rock, Rand Riker — she never expects to uncover the... More about this book »