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I Am the Cat, Don't Forget That: Feline Expressions
What would cats say if they were of a mind to talk? Valerie Shaff and Roy Blount, Jr. have a good idea ... On the heels of their hugely successful I Am Puppy, Hear...
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Be Sweet: A Conditional Love Story
Roy Blount, Jr., Georgia boy turned New York wit, lover of baseball and interesting women, bumbling adventurer, literary lion, salty-limerick virtuoso and...
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About Three Bricks Shy... and the Load Filled Up
Any number of writers could spend an entire season with an NFL team, from the first day of training camp until the last pick of the draft, and come up with an...
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Crackers
To get at the heart of being Southern, one should turn to Crackers. Roy Blount, Jr., puts readers in touch with possums, heterosexist dancing, men named Junior, a...
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I Am Puppy, Hear Me Yap: The Ages of Dog
When puppies yap, people listen—especially when the message is as entertaining and enlightening as I Am Puppy, Hear Me Yap. Valerie Shaff and Roy Blount Jr., have...
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Am I Pig Enough for You yet?: Voices of the Barnyard
We have all gazed at sheep and cows in fields by the side of the road. And we have seen them gazing back. What are they thinking? And what about those funny looks...
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Feet on the Street: Rambles around New Orleans
“Betcha I can tell ya / Where ya / Got them shoooes. / Betchadollar, / Betchadollar, / Where ya / Got them shoooes. / Got your shoes on your feet, / Got your feet...
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Robert E. Lee
Iconic Virginian, brilliant general, and complex human being—it is this last facet of Robert E. Lee that is rarely seen. But now Roy Blount, Jr. combines acute...
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Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs
My first and most difficult book project. The world according to John...
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The posters and highlights of 50 years of the Monterey Jazz Festival.
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Freya and James Archer live the high life in a luxury home in Sydney’s poshest suburb, with money, matching Jags, two beautiful teenage kids … and they couldn’t...
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The Shogun's Scroll
In the tradition of The Art of War and The Book of Five Rings, Stephen Kaufman's The Shogun's Scroll offers timeless advice on success in war and life. Written in...
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In an explosion of love's metaphors, Fowler's debut collection of stories, SUSPENDED HEART, takes on American fabulism with a cast of unexpected heroines in the...
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Jonah and his younger brother, Simon, are on their own. All they have left in the world is ten dollars, a backpack full of dirty clothes, and a stack of letters...
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The Marbury Lens
It’s a place worse than Hell. And Jack keeps going back to it. He can’t help himself. Nobody can. Jack has his reasons. He has his doubts, too. See for yourself....
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Stick
Stark McClellan (“Stick”) hears the world in a different way. He is surrounded by cruelty and ugliness, but holds on to a powerful sense of wonder, faith, and...
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TWO MURDERS REAPED is the fourth in a series of four books about Cecylee Neville (1415-1495), mother of Richard III and Edward IV, Queen by Right and Abbess. To...
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"The Curse of the Crimson Dragon" by Tony Piazza
Gifted pilot Ryan lives in a Hawaiian paradise, running his own charter service and occasionally helping the Honolulu Police Department. His idyllic world changes...
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Easter, 1872. Fires burn in St Petersburg, a prelude to the revolutionary turmoil that will shake Russia a generation later. As the springtime thaw begins, a...
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It was a time before England’s Golden Age; before Chaucer’s poetic tales; before the revered Lionheart took the Crusader Cross; before the legend of Robin Hood....
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