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From Publishers WeeklyWhen Katey Bruscke's bus arrives in her unnamed hometown, she finds the scenery blurred, "as if my hometown were itself surfacing from...
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"The $2 Million Cough" recounts the brief, incendiary, often bizarre history of what was once the fastest-growing company on the Internet. Nine months...
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A collection of sports-themed stories set at Our Lady of the Gulag parochial school in the 1950's. The stories were originally published in "womenSports...
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Born in seventh century Arabia and married at age nine, A'isha bint Abi Bakr would become the favorite wife of the Prophet Muhammad, and one of the most revered...
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Electric Grace, Richard Peabody ed.
While waiting for her grown children to make a traditional New Year's Day visit, a Korean American mother struggles with difficulties of immigrant life, including...
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Pitch Black
In order to give her newly adopted teenage son, Ethan, a fresh start at life, Madison Wade moves them from Philadelphia to a rural Tennessee town.  Ethan leaves...
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Echoes Upon Echoes: New Korean American Writings, Elaine H. Kim and Laura Kang eds.
A coming-of-age summer at a Peace Corps camp in the Blueridge Mountains, discovering new definitions of identity, friendship and love.
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I Wish That I Were Langston Hughes
"Robert Gray expertly weaves his own words with those of some of the great poets to honor and illuminate their lives. Each poem sparks the imagination and...
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Maria "Pagan"  Miranda Flores leaves her home in California, her lover, and her job to journey to Goa, India, where her grandmother, Dona Gabriela, lies...
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February, 1945. The war is over, but for some the fight for survival is only just beginning. Alix is alone and desperate to flee. But when a ferocious snowstorm...
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A guide for South Africans to American philanthropic organizations.
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Banish Mind Spam! Four Steps For Deprogramming Self-Limiting and Self-Sabotaging Beliefs
In "Banish Mind Spam!" Dr. Sheri Rosenthal explains how our minds are programmed from birth through the domestication and socialization process. She sees...
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Mansfield Park and Mummies by Jane Austen and Ve
Spinsterhood or Mummification! Ancient Egypt infiltrates Regency England in this elegant, hilarious, witty, insane, and unexpectedly romantic monster parody of...
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by Thi Lam
Hardcover: 320 pages Publisher: University of North Texas Press (November 30, 2009) Language: English ISBN-10: 1574412760 ISBN-13: 978-1574412765
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U.G.L.Y.
Meet Blair Hughes, a beautiful, intelligent, and talented young woman who believes her identity is defined by her size 22 waistline. With constant scrutiny about...
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Spoken Silence
This comprehensive collection allows insight into the mind of this young artist. These works range from heartbreak, redemption, and self-esteem, just to name a few.
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Everybody Plays the Fool
For Melody, a twenty four year old graduate of UC Berkeley, being the girlfriend of Major, an ex-college football star turned Medical student, has been the...
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Shoots to Kill,  8th book in the Flower Shop Mysteries
What do you do when your friend and roommate can’t relateto your relationship bliss? I was just trying to help my best friendget her mojo back. But I didn’t know...
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