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On a Night Like This
In Sussman’s heart-wrenching debut, two former high school classmates take a second chance at love, despite one partner’s terminal cancer. Resisting the impulse to...
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The Time of Our Time
Norman Mailer’s The Time of Our Time is a giant retrospective, a rich, boisterous portrait of our times seen through the fiction and reportage of one of America’s...
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Ghosts No Horse Can Carry
More than 400 pages of poems by Barry Gifford spanning two decades.
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An Unfortunate Woman
An Unfortunate Woman is an extraordinary and curious book: It is fiction written as autobiography or simulated oral history; a “woman’s story”—intensely individual...
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Beautiful Phantoms
Eighty pages of Barry Gifford’s poems, spanning a little more than a decade.
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Wyoming
A woman and her young son travel by car through the southern and Midwestern United States in this heartbreakingly spare novel-in-dialogue. As the mother drives, she...
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These Are My Rivers: New and Selected Poems, 1955-1993
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, one of our ageless radicals and truebards, has gathered four decades of poetry in his inimitable everyman’s voice, including more than fifty...
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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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Clover Doves
Emma thought Eric was her soul mate. The power between them was undeniable-they could sense each other's presence and feel each other's emotions even when they were...
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WINNER OF THE 2013 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST • LONGLISTED FOR THE AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION’S ANDREW CARNEGIE...
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Dragon Fae
Seeking to save Cassie from the dark fae, Princess Alicia runs into trouble in the form of dangerous fae seers. A dragon fae, who is different from all the rest,...
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Bound by Danger
Army officer Deidre Roux has hidden her psychic abilities until now. But ominous visions plague her and between the martial arts tactics her twin brother taught...
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Knocking on Heaven's Door
An exquisitely written, expertly reported memoir and exposé of modern medicine that leads the way to more humane, less invasive end-of-life care—based on the author...
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  New book guides pet lovers in selecting and welcoming 'Your Ideal Cat'     Authors Ben and Lynette Hart give advice on how to choose a new feline...
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'This agency stands flat-footed upon the ground and there it must remain. The world is big enough for us. No ghost need apply.' - Arthur Conan Doyle, The...
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The Same Tapes contains the taped disclosures of Joseph Same; a man who used a false moniker to re-experience events in backward time. And it recounts those events...
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The Same Tapes contains the taped disclosures of Joseph Same; a man who used a false moniker to re-experience events in backward time. And it recounts those events...
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The Souls of Her Feet (a novel cinderella)
What if Cinderella didn’t have dainty little feet? What if Cinderella’s fairy godmother was kind of a drag? What if Cinderella actually found her voice?...
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