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Full Circle
In novels such as Last Summer and Looking For It, Michael Thomas Ford has honestly and lovingly explored the intimate details of gay men’s lives, from hot sex and...
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Sweat
"It's a slam dunk...she shoots, she scores...it's a home run...actually, the sports cliches aren't nearly enough praise for Bledsoe's elegant writing about...
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The BLT Cookbook: Our Favorite Sandwich
Crisp wood-smoked bacon. Thick slices of juicy, vine-ripened tomatoes. Leafy lettuce with a slather of creamy mayonnaise. All brought together on toasted sourdough...
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Working Parts
Lori Taylor is a top-notch bicycle mechanic and a smart woman with well-oiled charisma. And, she can't read. Her best friend Mickey is long on literacy but comes up...
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House Rules: A Memoir
At an early age, Rachel Sontag realized there was something deeply wrong with her father. On the surface, he was a well-respected, suburban physician. But...
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This Wild Silence
"I like to tell Liz that I'm her dark side," says Christine, narrator of the novel. And it's true -- she and her sister, Liz, are indeed opposites....
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Unknown Legends of Rock'n'Roll: Psychedelic Unknowns, Mad Geniuses, Punk Pioneers, Lo-Fi Mavericks & More
Unknown Legends of Rock'n'Roll is a 422-page book with in-depth profiles of sixty of the most interesting overlooked cult rock artists of all time, in all cases...
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Just Released
Building Hope tells, from the trenches, what it's like to lead and manage a nonprofit agency. It's filled with insights, tips, lessons learned, and poignant stories...
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ECSTATIC RELATIONS: A Memoir of Love
Ancient Hindu scripture says that some "longing in the darkness" propelled our world into being. Deep bonds with the people we love are an expression of...
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You, Me and Morrissey by Nasseri & Starr
You, Me and Morrissey is a collection of autobiographical short stories capturing snapshots of love, loss, bigotry, violence, artistic birth, and...
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Top 20 Reasons He's a Slimy Jerk Bastard Jessa: To help you get over your train wreck EX, I've enclosed 20 envelopes. Each one has a reason why Sean is a jerk and...
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When a ragtag circus shows up in the town of Buchanan, Kansas, fourteen-year-old Randy Carmichael faces a deep mystery. Why is his alcoholic mother so troubled by...
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Did you ever get the feeling you've NEVER been here before? Once upon a time in Los Angeles, an addled psychiatrist named Hector Glasco was vainly trying to...
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What if Truman Capote's classic true-crime book, IN COLD BLOOD, had gotten it all wrong?  That is what Queens, New York, reporter Jimmy Spacone tries to find out--...
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A Pulitzer Prize winner makes her debut for young readers. Abby Lovitt has been riding horses for as long as she can remember, but Daddy hasn't let her name a...
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In the Name of Revenge
Russian muscle Pavel Ivanovich lends his unique talent in serving Italian mob boss Carlo Mancini. Unfortunately, Carlo’s faith and trust is misplaced with Pavel....
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The Lost Secret of the Green Man
Who's got time for homework when your problems involve evil sorcerers? Wanda should be studying for a quiz, avoiding the bullies at her new school and living a...
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A group of missionaries perform a miracle in a small Zambian village -- but the mother of one of the missionaries claims that she can prove it's all a hoax.
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