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WAKE
For seventeen-year-old Janie, getting sucked into other people's dreams is getting old. Especially the falling dreams, the naked-but-nobody-notices dreams, and the...
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Accepting Ourselves and Others
An estimated 10 million addicts and alcoholics in the U.S. are homosexual or bisexual. In fact, the rate of substance addiction rises from one in ten in the general...
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The Pathology of Lies
Gloria Greene is young, beautiful, brilliant, and dead serious about what she wants. She's used her many charms to fuel her blazing rise from intern to editor in...
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Химеры Хемингуэя (Lighter Than Vanity)
Anastasia Lawrence is a 20-year-old college student whose ambition in life is to be a scholar of American literature. Taking a job at the school library to earn...
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Running Book Discussion Groups
This unique manual shows you step-by-step how to build, improve, and maintain successful, engaging book discussion groups. Chapters answer the fundamental questions...
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San Francisco Bizarro
San Francisco. The very name may bring to mind anything from Sam Spade dodging bullets to drug experimentation at Fillmore West to the first openly gay community in...
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Finding Your Writer's Voice
An illuminating guide to finding one's most powerful writing tool, Finding Your Writer's Voice helps writers learn to hear the voices that are uniquely their own....
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Two or Three Things I Know for Sure
Bastard Out of Carolina, nominated for the 1992 National Book Award for fiction, introduced Dorothy Allison as one of the most passionate and gifted writers of her...
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Hallelujah! The Welcome Table: A Lifetime of Memories with Recipes
Readers familiar with Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings will find what may be the secret ingredient of her success in this collection of tear- and laughter-...
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Mother: A Cradle to Hold Me
Poet, writer, performer, teacher, and director Maya Angelou was raised in Stamps, Arkansas, and then moved to San Francisco. In addition to her bestselling...
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In 1996, this handwritten manuscript was found, tied up with twine, on a kitchen table of an abandoned one-bedroom apartment in Helsinki, Finland. The only...
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Still reeling from divorce and feeling estranged from her teenage son, Trish Taylor is in the midst of salvaging the remnants of her life when she uncovers a...
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Skin Deep
Nina Moore's ivory skin and blue eyes make her stand out conspicuously in her African-American family, but until now, she has never had to wonder if she belonged....
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Deadly Decisions
"Deadly Decisions" is crime-driven novel interwoven with drama, suspense, wit and edge-of-your-seat action. Trouble and misery can be part of life's...
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THE BRAHMS DECEPTION
In her highly intriguing new novel, Louise Marley masterfully intertwines the past and present with a mystery surrounding one of the world's greatest composers...
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As a smoker, you know how comforting stepping out for a smoke can be. Smoke breaks are relaxing rituals that can help you cope with stress, keep perspective, and...
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