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The Time of Our Time
Norman Mailer’s The Time of Our Time is a giant retrospective, a rich, boisterous portrait of our times seen through the fiction and reportage of one of America’s...
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Ghosts No Horse Can Carry
More than 400 pages of poems by Barry Gifford spanning two decades.
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An Unfortunate Woman
An Unfortunate Woman is an extraordinary and curious book: It is fiction written as autobiography or simulated oral history; a “woman’s story”—intensely individual...
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Beautiful Phantoms
Eighty pages of Barry Gifford’s poems, spanning a little more than a decade.
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Wyoming
A woman and her young son travel by car through the southern and Midwestern United States in this heartbreakingly spare novel-in-dialogue. As the mother drives, she...
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These Are My Rivers: New and Selected Poems, 1955-1993
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, one of our ageless radicals and truebards, has gathered four decades of poetry in his inimitable everyman’s voice, including more than fifty...
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Pictures of the Gone World, Vol. 1
Published to celebrate forty years of City Lights publishing, which began with the letterpress printing of this book in 1955. It was Lawrence Ferlinghetti's first...
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How to Paint Sunlight
This collection of recent poems is graced with a short introduction by the poet in which he says, “All I ever wanted to do was to paint light on the walls of life...
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Ringolevio: A Life Played for Keeps
Peter Coyote wrote the introduction to this memorable tale of Emmett Grogan and the Diggers, the irreverent urban guerrillas and masters of street theater who made...
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A Free Library in This City: The Illustrated History of the San Francisco Public Library
Peter Coyote’s contribution to this illustrated history of San Francisco Public Library is called “Time to Be Savored Not Saved.” The book was researched and...
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Two startling murders that replicate the death of a mediaeval English king and the discovery of a mysterious ancient tapestry lead Belinda Lawrence and her...
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A SEAL Wolf Christmas
They start out in the Amazon on a mission with hot SEAL Bjornolf ghosting the mission. When they return, Hunter's got another for them--all to do with Christmas--...
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Jaguar Fever
Jaguar shifter Maya Anderson learns about a secret jaguar society through underground social networking sites. She wanted to discover others like her, but now she's...
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Veratarts (Return)
Veratarts (Return) is a collection of poems dedicated to the emotional and spiritual rollercoaster associated with returning to a lost and then rediscovered...
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Kids Are Worth It!
(This synopsis describes the 2002 revised version.) The parenting classic, now revised with new chapters, checklists, and information about today's most pressing...
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Parenting Through Crisis
In this companion to her bestselling Kids are Worth It!, parenting educator Barbara Coloroso shows how parents can help children find a way through grief and...
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Just Because It's Not Wrong Doesn't Make It Right
We live in a world where children so often are given the message that the ends justify the means; where harmful, even violent behavior in families, in communities,...
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Extraordinary Evil
From best-selling author Barbara Coloroso comes a timely and essential book about genocide. Through an examination of three clearly defined genocides — the...
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  A powerful new collection from an award-winning poet Robert Wrigley has become one of his generation's most accomplished poets, renowned for his irony,...
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Listening
  Enlightenment, it can be said, is a stringing together of momentary blissful connections. Each of these poems is indeed such a moment. As a book they string...
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