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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
by former member
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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Nurse Frosty Saves the Day
In this second book in the Nurse Frosty series, there is great excitement at the Four Paws Retirement Home. The residents and staff have worked hard to spruce up...
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This is the original Nurse Frosty book. I wrote it after talking to an administrator at an assisted living/nursing home. When I complimented her on how nice the...
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Daisy herself
Daisy is a Scottish Fold cat that came to us with some baggage. Very skittish and fearful. Funniest thing, though, is the face she makes if she is displeased or...
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Creative Expressions
Just Leave Me Alone is for all of you smothering parents out there that worry about every little thing when it comes to your children. Many parents don’t realize...
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Creative Expressions
This is a short story about a only child having to come to terms with the fact that there is now a new family member in the house. All the attention gets focused on...
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Catch Her in the Rye by Wodke Hawkinson
Catch Her in the Rye contains the tragic love story by that name plus thirty other short stories in a wide variety of themes, from the surrealistic "I Wish...
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This collection highlights the fluidity of masculinity in American popular culture at the turn of the new millennium and beyond by examining possibilities for...
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Rose Gardens and Minefields - A Literary Bhel Puri
Rose Gardens and Minefields is a compilation of my finest poems, short stories and essays which focus on such topics as the menace of terrorism, the Maoist...
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First Girl Scout, The Life of Juliette Gordon Low
When Juliette Gordon was growing up in the late 1800s, she climbed trees, swam in rivers, and hiked on tall cliffs. With her cousins and friends, she sewed costumes...
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It Rains In February: A Wife's Memoir of Love and Loss is the true story of a husband's depression and obsession, not only with another woman, but also with...
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