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Best New American Voices 2000 (Edited) by Tobias Wolff Culled from over one hundred prestigious writing programs around the United States and Canada, Best New American Voices 2000 offers a remarkable panoply of writing... More about this book »	American Vulgar by Robert Grudin Defining vulgarity as any action that is at once ignorant, popular and harmful, American Vulgar runs the gamut of American culture from Fast Foods to NPR, exploring... More about this book »
The Most Amazing Thing by Robert Grudin A blockbuster adventure tale in the tradition of Rabelais, Cervantes and Swift. More about this book »	Back in America by Barry Gifford Barry Gifford’s spare eloquence considers such diverse topics as his friend Allen Ginsberg’s death, the art of Vermeer, a cowboy wino, and September 11th in this... More about this book »
Harmless Medicine by Justin Chin Marked by maturity and poetic vision, Harmless Medicine is fiercely devoted to the margins of queer life in the generation after the first wave of the AIDS epidemic... More about this book »	Origin by Diana Abu-Jaber This literary thriller concerns Lena Dawson, a fingerprint analyst who is trying to get to the bottom of a series of mysterious infant deaths. Along the way, Lena... More about this book »
Why Are We in Vietnam? by Norman Mailer When Why Are We in Vietnam? was published in 1967, almost twenty years after The Naked and the Dead, the critical response was ecstatic. The novel fully confirmed... More about this book »	The Spooky Art: Thoughts on Writing by Norman Mailer “Writing is spooky. There is no routine of an office to keep you going, only the blank page each morning, and you never know where your words are coming from, those... More about this book »
Advertisement for Myself by Norman Mailer An essential guide to the life and work of one of America’s most controversial writers, Advertisements for Myself is a comprehensive collection of the best of... More about this book »	Tough Guys Don’t Dance by Norman Mailer A dark, brilliant novel of astonishing pitch, set in Provincetown, a “spit of shrub and dune” captured here in the rawness and melancholy of the off-season, Tough... More about this book »

Awaken Your Senses: Exercises for Exploring the Wonder of God by Brent Bill Perhaps you've been missing out. God has given us five senses and a brain with two sides. Yet we often approach God in one way only: through words that are... More about this book »	Carve This Body into Your Home: Poems and Collages by Judith... by Judith Tannenbaum A book of poems and collages that, as J Ruth Gendler writes in the Foreword, "illuminate our condition, point toward the mysterious and the real, name sufferings,... More about this book »
Play at the Center of the Curriculum, Ch 12 "Outdoor Play... by Jane P Perry In this fifth edition of Play at the Center of the Curriculum, we reaffirm our commitment to play in the early childhood classroom. The natural link between... More about this book »	The Uglies: A Crime Saga by Thomas Burchfield The place: America. The time: closer than we may like to think. Unemployment is in high double-digits. The stench of violent discontent smokes the air. The 1930s... More about this book »
The Custom-Fit Workplace: Choose When, Where, and How to Work... by Joan Blades Cowritten with Nanette Fondas. Ideas for transforming the workplace to fit today’s workforce In this book, Blades and Fondas offer business professionals an... More about this book »	Pure by Julianna Baggott We know you are here, our brothers and sisters . . . Pressia barely remembers the Detonations or much about life during the Before. In her sleeping cabinet behind... More about this book »
Tahoe beneath the Surface: The Hidden Stories of America's... by Scott Lankford Lake Tahoe transformed America, and not just once but many times over from the earliest Ice Age civilizations, to the mysterious death of Marilyn Monroe. It... More about this book »	Love Aboard the Titanic/Billy the Kid's Wife (Timeless... by R. Barri Flowers LOVE ABOARD THE TITANIC & BILLY THE KID'S WIFE (Timeless Romance Shorts) are two heartwarming love stories that transcend time and place by bestselling novelist... More about this book »
But Inside I'm Screaming by Elizabeth Flock But Inside I'm Screaming is one woman's unforgettable story about what it is to lose control as the world watches, to figure out what went so very wrong and... More about this book »	Everything Must Go by Elizabeth Flock Compared to some, Henry Powell's life has been lucky, if inauspicious. Yet Henry is impossibly stuck, unable to reconcile the dreams and expectations of his... More about this book »