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Open: Love, Sex, and Life in an Open Marriage by Jenny Block Jenny Block is your average girl next door, a suburban wife and mother for whom married life never felt quite right. She operates from the assumption that most... More about this book »	Cry Uncle by Alan Michael Parker "In the darkness of a May night in the middle of rural Ohio, Ray Stanton is thrown, naked and injured, from a pickup truck. For hours, he struggles to get back... More about this book »
Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System by Raj Patel Half the world is malnourished, the other half obese—both symptoms of the corporate food monopoly. To show how a few powerful distributors control the health of the... More about this book »	Unafraid of the Dark: A Memoir by Rosemary Bray McNatt An inspiring memoir by Rosemary Bray, a former editor of The New York Times Book Review, in which she describes growing up poor in Chicago in the 1960s and becoming... More about this book »
The Black Woman's Guide to Black Men's Health by Andrea King Collier Black women have always been the backbone of their families and communities. Now studies are showing what we have always known—that our love, support, and guidance... More about this book »	The Book of Agreement: 10 essential Elements for Getting the... by Stewart Levine For many people, negotiating an agreement is an adversarial process. But in this book, conflict resolution expert Stewart Levine shows how to design agreements... More about this book »
Ultimate Art: Essays around and about Opera by David Littlejohn Anyone who cares about opera will find The Ultimate Art a thoroughly engaging book. David Littlejohn's essays are exciting, provocative, sometimes even outrageous.... More about this book »	We Plan, God Laughs: How to Find Your Divine Path When Life is... by Sherre Hirsch The old Yiddish proverb, “We plan, God laughs,” expresses a truth everyone can relate to. At every stage of life we make plans, setting out where we want to go and... More about this book »
Chickpea Lover: Not a Cookbook by Donna-Lane Nelson More about this book »	The Game by Derek L Armstrong In this darkly humorous thriller, reality television becomes too real when a killer with a message preys on the contestants of America's number one TV show. A high-... More about this book »

The Atlantic Sound by Caryl Phillips What constitutes "home"? Seen through the historical prism of the Atlantic slave trade, Phillips undertakes a personal quest to come to terms with... More about this book »	The European Tribe by Caryl Phillips Caryl Phillips chronicles a journey through modern-day Europe, his quest guided by a moral compass rather than a map. Seeking personal definition within the... More about this book »
The Shelter by Caryl Phillips The first half of this play takes place on a desert island in the late eighteenth-century where an upper-class woman and a black man in his mid-forties are... More about this book »	Red Mercury Blues by Reggie Nadelson Presenting Artie Cohen, Reggie Nadelson's streetsmart, good-looking New York cop, with a supporting cast that includes Artie's glamorous... More about this book »
Disturbed Earth by Reggie Nadelson Winter 2003: war is looming and New York is paralysed by the worst blizzard in years. Artie Cohen is called in to investigate a case: a... More about this book »	Red Hook by Reggie Nadelson It’s a late summer Sunday in downtown New York City, and Artie Cohen is getting married. Watching the sun rising over the East River, he’s... More about this book »
Fresh Kills by Reggie Nadelson With his wife Maxine out of town, Artie Cohen is alone in Manhattan when his nephew Billy Farone is released for a couple of weeks from the... More about this book »	Sloppy Firsts by Megan McCafferty “My parents suck ass. Banning me from the phone and restricting my computer privileges are the most tyrannical parental gestures I can think of. Don’t they realize... More about this book »
Second Helpings by Megan McCafferty “Knowing that I’ve just done something that will take decades off my parents’ lives with worry, you’ll excuse me for not getting into the fa-la-la-la-la Yuletide... More about this book »	Everything I Needed to Know About Being a Girl I Learned from... by Megan McCafferty Whether laughing to tears or clamoring for more unmistakable "me too!" moments, girls all over the world have been touched by Judy Blume's poignant coming... More about this book »