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Nudist on the Late Shift: And Other Tales of Silicon Valley
The Nudist on the Late Shift is the true story of a new generation at the proving point of their lives, written by Po Bronson. This is a defining portrait of young...
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Bombardiers
The bombardiers in Po Bronson’s novel are bond salespeople at the firm of Atlantic Pacific, grunts who wake up at 4 a.m. to hustle financial products they barely...
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The First $20 Million Is Always the Hardest: A Silicon Valley Novel
Andy Caspar is a Silicon Valley research engineer who wants to become an “ironman”—the kind of guy who builds companies that change the world, like Apple, Netscape...
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Water Music
T.Coraghessan Boyle’s first novel, Water Music is a funny, bawdy, extremely entertaining tale of imaginative and stylistic fancy that announced to the world Boyle’s...
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Descent of Man
In seventeen slices of life that defy the expected and launch us into the absurd, Boyle offers his unique view of the world. A primate-center researcher becomes...
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Greasy Lake and Other Stories
As he portrays environmentalists, surrogate mothers and drug dealers, “Boyle proves himself in this second story collection truly a master of that genre. Wide-...
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If the River Was Whiskey
In sixteen stories, T. Coraghessan Boyle tears through the walls of contemporary society to reveal a world at once comic and tragic, droll and horrific. Boyle...
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The Road to Wellville
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...
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Budding Prospects: A Pastoral
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...
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Private Investigator Karl Kane returns to the streets of Belfast investigating the discovery of a severed hand. Karl believes it's the work of an elusive serial...
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World of Mirrors is set on an island off the Baltic coast in the former DDR, and the year is 1990, the “time of the turn.” The Berlin wall has crumbled, but Germany...
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Black Cool explores the ineffable state and aesthetic of Black Cool. From the effortless reserve of Miles Davis in khakis on an early album cover, to the shock of...
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Special anniversary revised edition! Please purchase from Bottom Dog Press. "When it comes to novels written about boot camp life in the United States military,...
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In this new collection of stories, Robert Flanagan again works muscular magic—bobbing, jabbing, and weaving with vivid dialogue and lively movements. We come...
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"A wonderful compendium of interesting subjects and fascinating topics. Will keep you reading just to found out what's going to be covered next. Highly recommended...
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Zandria and Olena continue their adventures in the land of Empyrean. Zandria discovers a magical crystal that may be the clue to finding their mother, who has been...
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In this third book of The Empyrical Tales, it is a year after the events of The Lost Queen. Zandria and her younger sister, Olena, seem to be growing apart. But now...
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Media psychologist Callahan is a failed Navy Seal, a recovering alcoholic and a loyal friend. He's also a man with a hot temper and a talent for getting himself...
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Hummingbird Review Vol III No. 1
Sing Praise for the Words!  A light breeze floated across Zimbabwe, picked up speed in Botswana darted north over Egypt, sailed west to Morocco, and then blew...
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