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"Shaquille O'Neal"
NBA star-turned-rapper Shaquille O'Neal talks about how "a big man with rhythm is a dangerous big man."
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A bitter, disillusioned barber uses the occasion of a twelve-year-old boy's haircut to introduce the youngster to the danger and violence inherent in everyday life...
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An audio of the author reading this, his existential bachelor-party story, may be found in the Media section of this website.
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Morgan, a contributing writer at Essence and former contributor to the Village Voice, brings iconoclastic, often vituperative gusto to 10 previously unpublished...
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Rhoda's memoir covers almost nine decades of a life exuberantly lived. A first generation American, born in Chicago in the Year of the Horse, 1918, she lived and...
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This novel is a brilliant fiction, originally published in 1969, about being Jewish, gay, and part of the psychedelic era of the late 1960s. A spaced-out kid from...
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Are you living the life you imagined? Is there anything you’d have done differently if you could? Those are the questions asked in Kristina Riggle’s unforgettable...
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No matter how you see things, life is always about relationships. We're constantly learning and growing. It's a process that helps us understand ourselves and...
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Irene dreams of owning a fashionable salon in L.A., but reality is harsh: She's just been fired from her mom's beauty parlor, and now she's stuck...
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Eleven-year-old Ben and his older brother Dustin have never been close. In fact, they could not be more different. Ben's always had an easy...
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Danny's mother has always been a little dramatic. Evidence: Danny's name is short for Dandelion. How embarrassing! Her mother never seems to leave the stage,...
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Twelve-year-old Lane watches and worries over her brother, Charlie, who's always acting crazy. And lately, news of unrest in the Zone--the area around the...
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Claire and Luna's father is getting remarried! The problem is that Fluffy, their step-mom-to-be, is from Texas. Does that mean their father is moving?...
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It's summertime, and that means camp for the twins! While Claire loves-loves-loves all sports, Luna would rather hide out in the infirmary. Luckily,...
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Tales of Addiction and Inspiration for Recovery
Tales of Addiction contains true grit tales told by people you will never meet but whose words will haunt you for months, years maybe. The contributors are not well...
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