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The Literary Picture Show
South Side Trilogy: A Literary Picture Show, which follows the unexpectedly creative and culturally curious lives of characters from a fictional, toilsome...
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Baby Bear Sees Blue
Explore the world of color with Baby Bear! Baby Bear has so much to learn about the world! From the moment he wakes until it’s time to curl up and go to sleep, he...
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A Highland Werewolf Wedding
On The Run...   After werewolves Elaine Hawthorn and Cearnach MacNeill almost have a head-on collision on a foggy Highland road, they're pretty well stuck with...
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Writing Picture Books
Note: Amazon link is for 1991 paperback version. Updated e-book available for purchase on author's website. In this authoritative guide for novice and advanced...
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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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saints + sinners 2013
The winner of the Fourth Annual Short Fiction Contest is “In a Chamber of My Heart” by Sandra Gail Lambert. The two runner-ups (in alphabetical order) are “Sky...
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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 book cover.jpg
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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'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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MoveOn's 50 Ways to Love Your Country: How to Find Your Political Voice and Become a Catalyst for Change
With more than two million members, the flourishing online activist group MoveOn—co-founded by Joan Blades—is at the cutting edge of a new model for political...
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Starting from San Francisco
Starting From San Francisco, first published in 1961, is the third collection of Lawrence Ferlinghetti's poetry.
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Black Friday
The breathtaking suspense of Kiss the Girls and the authenticity of N.Y.P.D. Blue: Welcome to James Patterson’s classic superthriller, Black Friday. A courageous...
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Mary, Mary
FBI agent Alex Cross is on vacation with his family in Disneyland when he gets a call from the director. A top actress has been shot outside her home in Beverly...
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The Motown Album: The Sound of Young America
When Motown Records founder Berry Gordy coined the term “the sound of young America” in 1960, he believed that his new sound would break down the barriers between...
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Days and Nights in Calcutta
Days and Nights in Calcutta is a candid look at the dizzying complexities and contradictions of Indian life told from two very different points of view. In 1973,...
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White Like Me: Reflections on Race From a Privileged Son
White Like Me is one-part memoir, one-part polemical essay collection, addressing racism and white privilege in the United States. Herein, Wise examines what it...
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A new father struggles to care for his mysteriously ill wife, calling on her estranged sister for help. "Leavitt's devotion to her characters, and to a...
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A Great Memoir, August 1, 2002By Paula Sharp, author (New York) - See all my reviewsThis review is from: Pagan Time: An American Childhood (Hardcover)Whenever...
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Murder in the Marais
The first installment in the Anthony Award-nominated series set in Paris, featuring Detective Aimee Leduc. Other books in the series, also available from Soho:...
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