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What Book!?: Buddha Poems from Beat to Hiphop (edited by Gary... by Peter Coyote Peter Coyote wrote the foreword and contributed to this anthology of modern, mindful poetry on Western Buddhism. Edited by Gary Gach, it features selections from... More about this book »	Japanese by Spring by Ishmael Reed Reed’s satire of academia as cultural battleground takes on targets ranging from Eurocentrism to antiporn feminists. – Publishers Weekly More about this book »
The Freelance Pallbearers by Ishmael Reed More about this book »	New and Collected Poems 1964-2006 by Ishmael Reed First poetry collection in nearly twenty years. In language that is pointed, innovative and profoundly optimistic, Reed weaves politics and war with Nigerian poetry... More about this book »
Ten Days in the Hills by Jane Smiley A glorious new novel from the Pulitzer Prize winner: a big, smart, bawdy tale of love and war, sex and politics, friendship and betrayal—and the allure of the... More about this book »	Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie Set in an exotic Eastern landscape peopled by magicians and fantastic talking animals, Salman Rushdie’s classic children’s novel Haroun and the Sea of Stories... More about this book »
The End (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 13) by Daniel Handler Picking up from the final pages of the Pentultimate Peril, this farewell installment to the ridiculously (and deservedly!) popular A Series of Unfortunate Events... More about this book »	The Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature: The Collected... by Neal Pollack It should come as no surprise that the Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature is the inaugural title from McSweeney’s Books, the publishing arm of Dave... More about this book »
Saints and Sinners by Lawrence Wright In this fascinating book about religion in America, one of this country’s most probing yet sympathetic journalists puts forth stories not only of real grace but of... More about this book »	City Children, Country Summer: A Story of Ghetto Children Among... by Lawrence Wright City Children, Country Summer is the story of black and Latin kids from the ghettos of New York who spend the summer with Amish and Mennonite farm families in... More about this book »

Breathless by J.P. Smith What does grief taste like? What does it weigh? How does it quietly curve around your heart, begging long-kept secrets to become unburied? When history... More about this book »	The Discovery of Light by J.P. Smith Divorced American academic David Reid teaches English by day and spends his free time writing mystery novels that nobody reads. In London he meets his new... More about this book »
The Blue Hour by J.P. Smith When Adam Füst’s wife, Honnie, suddenly vanishes, the couple’s friends assume she was just unhappy and skipped town. Wracked with worry and confusion, Adam... More about this book »	The Man from Marseille by J.P. Smith For years, Alex Ostroff churns out unsuccessful, unpublished manuscripts. His rejection is complete when he’s rebuffed by London’s literary set and... More about this book »
Dodging Machetes: How I Survived Forbidden Love, Bad Behavior,... by Will Lutwick PROFESSIONAL REVIEWS "In his beautifully written memoir . . . he relays these memories with neither bitterness nor self-serving pity--just a good dose of humor... More about this book »	The Nature Of Reiki Energy by Dr. Tami Brady The Nature of Reiki Energy delves more deeply into what Reiki energy does and how it works. The goal here is to explain Reiki energy to the average person, without... More about this book »
Meditations For Uprooting Depression by Dr. Tami Brady Depression is much more than a simple emotion or feeling. It's more than an expression of being sad, going through a period of grief, or feeling discouraged with... More about this book »	The Never Realized Republic: Political Economy and Republican... by Peter O'Lalor The Never Realized Republic begins with the what the colonists' brought with them to the North American continent, vis-à-vis, English jurisprudence, the Age of... More about this book »
The History of Virtue and Corruption: Western Civilization, from... by Peter O'Lalor The History of Virtue and Corruption: Western Civilization, from Athens to America, demonstrates the meaning and incomplete record of American scholarship; (... More about this book »	The Watchmaker's Daughter by Sonia Taitz The Watchmaker's Daughter tells the story of a child of two refugees: a watchmaker who saved lives within Dachau prison, and his wife, a gifted concert pianist... More about this book »