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Sleeping Where I Fall
Out of the 1960s counterculture explosion came a radical street group called the Diggers who became the heart and soul of the Haight-Ashbury experience. Among its...
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People have questioned how I can publicly support candidates who are running against each other. I do this because supporting a candidate influences civic life in...
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NOT A GENUINE BLACK MAN: OR, HOW I CLAIMED MY PIECE OF GROUND IN THE LILY-WHITE SUBURBS
This memoir offers a candid and funny response to those who question the racial authenticity of successful black men. After receiving a letter asserting that he is...
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The Palace Thief: Stories
The Palace Thief is the story of a dedicated and inspiring classics professor at an elite prep school where an encounter with a student, the son of a powerful...
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Emperor of the Air
Canin’s outstanding debut, winner of a Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship, gathers nine stories originally published in the Atlantic, Esquire and Ploughshares,...
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Blue River
From one of todays most highly acclaimed authors comes Blue River, a tale of love, violence, betrayal and possible reconciliation. When two distant and disparate...
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For Kings and Planets
From the celebrated author of The Palace Thief and Emperor of the Air, comes this stunning novel about the relationship between two very different men. Orno Tarcher...
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Carry Me Across the Water
August Kleinman, the protagonist of Canin’s latest novel, is seventy-eight years old, rich and wise from a life filled with accomplishments and heartache. Yet as...
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The Beheading Game
Flamboyant New York theatre director Ren is passionately in love with Jack, a younger man who is still under the thumb of his conservative CEO father, Malcolm. Jack...
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Eternally Bad
An irreverant tribute to dark goddesses of the Kali and Lilith variety.
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World of Mirrors
World of Mirrors is set on an island off the Baltic coast in the former DDR, and the year is 1990, the “time of the turn.” The Berlin wall has crumbled, but Germany...
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Special anniversary revised edition! Please purchase from Bottom Dog Press. "When it comes to novels written about boot camp life in the United States military,...
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In this new collection of stories, Robert Flanagan again works muscular magic—bobbing, jabbing, and weaving with vivid dialogue and lively movements. We come...
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Zandria and Olena continue their adventures in the land of Empyrean. Zandria discovers a magical crystal that may be the clue to finding their mother, who has been...
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In this third book of The Empyrical Tales, it is a year after the events of The Lost Queen. Zandria and her younger sister, Olena, seem to be growing apart. But now...
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Media psychologist Callahan is a failed Navy Seal, a recovering alcoholic and a loyal friend. He's also a man with a hot temper and a talent for getting himself...
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Co-authored with Steven W. Booth Meet Sheriff Penny Miller of Flat Rock, Nevada. Miller is the kind of woman who will do whatever it takes to protect those she is...
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Hummingbird Review Vol III No. 1
Sing Praise for the Words!  A light breeze floated across Zimbabwe, picked up speed in Botswana darted north over Egypt, sailed west to Morocco, and then blew...
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"This invaluable collection of writing prompts and sage advice should be on every writer's shelf—and used!—alongside Anne Lamott's Bird by Bird and Stephen King's...
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DeMarco is asked to look into the murder conviction of a lobbyist. But he has other worries on his mind: his boss is no longer Speaker,his girlfriend has left him...
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