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For a Croyant, Felix Valasay lives a charmed life of blender drinks and pleasuring women, so he’s less than thrilled to be interrupted mid-hookup by notorious...
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Mothers Who Think: Tales of Real-life Parenthood
Inspired by the daily conversation taking place on Salon.com's cutting-edge, wildly popular website Mothers Who Think, this first collection by coeditors Camille...
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Midori By Moonlight
From Publishers Weekly Aspiring Cinderella Midori Saito does not heed her mother's warning-"Running off with a foreigner will bring you nothing but trouble...
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Wintering, A Novel of Sylvia Plath (U.S. hardcover edition)
This engrossing debut novel depicts Sylvia Plath's feverish artistic process in the bitter aftermath of her failed marriage to Ted Hughes -- the excruciating yet...
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Delicious
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Welcome to sunny Hawaii, where the palm trees sway, the tropical breezes blow, and a gangland-style turf war is erupting. Joseph is one of the best chefs in...
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Moist
by former member
“Smith’s energetic thriller is an ode to the hard-boiled Los Angeles of Raymond Chandler and James Ellroy, spun out in brighter-than-life Starburst colors.” —Los...
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Salty: A Novel
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It’s rock stars vs. pirates in Thailand in the latest comic thriller by Mark Haskell Smith, a man who “writes like Carl Hiaasen’s oversexed cousin” (Booklist).“[...
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Women In Praise of the Sacred
From Publishers Weekly Edited by poet Jane Hirshfield, this anthology collects poetry by women from 43 centuries and many countries that speaks to matters of the...
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More than an autobiography of an extraordinary woman, it is also the story of a century of French history as lived through the experiences and fates of three...
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Death’s Excellent Vacation
The editors of Wolfsbane and Mistletoe and Many Bloody Returns deliver a new collection. New York Times bestselling authors Charlaine Harris, Katie MacAlister,...
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For gay New Orleans private eye Chanse MacLeod, it seemed like a simple case: find out who was blackmailing his pretty-boy client's rich, closeted boyfriend,...
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Who Dat Whodunnit
The Saints’ victory in the Super Bowl just prior to the start of Carnival season has everyone in New Orleans floating on Cloud Nine. But for Scotty Bradley,...
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Vieux Carre Voodoo
Former go-go boy turned detective Scotty Bradley is back! When an old family friend apparently commits suicide from his French Quarter balcony, Scotty’s life...
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Sleeping Angel
Eric Matthews survives a near-fatal accident only to find his whole life has changed. Eric Matthews wakes up in the hospital with no memory of how he wound up there...
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Of Words & Music is the story of Lilah Kimball, a sixty-year-old widow who has pretty much given up on life. Bethany Freemont is Lilah’s twelve-year-old...
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When Allie Grainger inherits her aunt's Cape Canaveral beach house, she wants time to mourn her aunt's death and her own failed marriage, but she hasn't been back...
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When Homer Pudding receives a mysterious note emblazoned with the letters L.O.S.T., he knows the moment he has been waiting for has arrived. It is time to meet...
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Meet Homer Pudding, an ordinary farm boy who’s got big dreams—to follow in the footsteps of his famous treasure-hunting uncle. But when Uncle Drake mysteriously...
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PROSTITUTION IN THE DIGITAL AGE: Selling Sex From the Suite to the Street
For those without direct experience with the seamy, real-life world of prostitution, it can be easy to accept the glamorized depictions of the sex-for-sale industry...
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