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Oral Traditions
Jewelle Gomez offers poems of finding home, making love, learning history; they tell the tales of women and satisfaction, regret, love, danger, death and eternal...
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Sleepin in Velvet
I'm always impaling myself on silver things, things my lover gives me when I'm not looking. He buys me silver rings and puts them on me when I'm asleep. He buckles...
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A Brief History of Camouflage
In the spell-like, poetic fiction of Thaisa Frank, the fantastic is never far from the ordinary: her characters glimpse other worlds in their rear-view mirrors,...
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The Frugal Book Promoter
Whether your publisher assigns zero dollars to your book's promotional campaign or thousands, The Frugal Book Promoter assures it the best possible start in life....
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Praise for Hold Me Close, Let Me Go"The thrilling level of honesty and discovery burned into every line  of  Hold Me Close, Let Me Go is something that rarely...
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Taking Flight
It was a simple plan: engage in some innocent flirtation, feel desirable again. But finding happiness is never that easy . . . Not even close. Professor Julia...
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Wild Women's Weekend
They are four lifelong friends, with challenging careers and demanding families. And for one weekend each year they let their hair down and are as bad as they want...
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Slow Hands
We pay to get our hair done, our houses cleaned, our cars waxed. Why not pay for something we really need? I am leaving you a nest egg. Let it take you someplace...
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Drive: The First Quarter
A major collection of poetry by a walking legend in Chicana / Latina literature. Her first book in 15 years.
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Creative Acts of Healing: after a baby dies
Memoir about infant loss, grief and recovery, and the role of creativity during the healing process. The author's baby daughter died during the last five minutes of...
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Nurse Frosty and the Big Bingo Balooza
Nurse Frosty, Rodney Rabbitsky, and all the residents of the Four Paws Retirement Home return for a fourth adventure. This time the residents are hosting a Fall...
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The release of Blacklight's double CD, Book of Days, looks like business as usual. The relaxed tour showcases a revolutionary new set design, as well as ...
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A collection of my most outrageous Village Voice columns through the years, spanning celebrity events, personal romps, Q&As, terrible parties, and harsh...
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Faithful Friends
Through personal accounts, Susan Bulanda has compiled a collection of stories about the pets of the Holocaust victims. This is a unique look at a part of history...
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Friends and Magicians
Elsa is shocked and miserable when her husband Morgan announces he wants to move to a zendo many miles from the house they recently bought and which she loves....
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Red Velvet and Absinthe explores love and lust with otherworldly partners who, by their sheer fantastical nature, evoke passion and desire far beyond that...
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The Good Place
The Good Place is a moving testimony of a childhood in Chemnitz, Germany, which ends abruptly in 1933 with the onslaught of the Nazi reign of terror. It ends with...
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Bridal shop manager Chloe Rogers will soon marry Richard Foster—so she thinks—until suddenly, she bumps into her childhood sweetheart, Josh Goldman, whom she hasn’t...
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The author's photographic journey through Zimbabwe and southern Africa from 2009 to 2011, with photos of people, animals, and places that are unforgettable. The...
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