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East Breed's, Pennsylvania, is the sort of blue-collar town that simmers with barely concealed prejudices. One Friday night, in the parking lot of a chain...
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Naked Pictures of Famous People
He's the MTV generation's master of modern humor, a star of film, TV, and the comedy stage. This sultan of savvy serves up a whip-smart, utterly original collection...
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"Beth Kephart's Flow is just a sumptuous book-haunting, poetic, lit up with gems of beauty and history. We engorge ourselves on materialism. The legacy of our...
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UNDERCOVER is the story of a young, nature-loving aspiring poet, during a year fraught with a father's absence and social invisibility. Narrated by Elisa herself,...
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"Riveting . . . twists that will spin you around." -Newsweek   When Beth Cappadora, a suburban mother and photographer, loses sight of her three-year-old son,...
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Named for her father, Henry Marie wants a pet so bad it hurts - a kitten, a horse, even a little sister would do!   But her parents nix every idea Henry has,...
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Edited by Andrea J. Buchanan   About the Anthology It's A Boy, is a wide-ranging, often-humorous, and honest collection of essays about the experience of...
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Edited by Gail Belsky About the Anthology Every Baby Boomer has to confront it: their changing midlife sex lives. Now, Gail Belsky provides an unfailingly honest...
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Edited by Andrea J. Buchanan   About the Anthology The wide-ranging essays in this collection examine the mother-daughter bond and the experience of raising...
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The Imperfect Mom: Candid Confessions of Mothers Living in the Real World Edited by Therese J. Borchard   About the Anthology The supermom is a suburban legend...
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Miracle Boy and Other Stories represents a body of work eighteen years in the making. Benedict's last short story collection was the critically acclaimed The...
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Threads of Life
Enter the astonishingly honest world of American poet Jessica Kristie. Her new book, Threads of Life, is a crushing testament to the pain and anguish surrounding...
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Jack Erickson is the author of mysteries, romantic suspense novels, and short mysteries. He is the former publisher of RedBrick Press and author of several books...
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Autumn in Summer
Percy Peabody has it all, a spectacularly beautiful wife, a well-paying job, two picture-perfect children, a designer house in the suburbs, a ready smile and a firm...
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The King's Agent
To the casual observer, Battista della Palla is an avid art collector, or perhaps a nimble thief. In reality, the cunning Italian is an agent for François, the King...
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To Serve a King
  From her earliest days, Genevieve Gravois has known one fact above all: Francois I, king of France, is her enemy. Raised by her embittered aunt after her...
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Creative and innovative solutions to difficult issues are presented in this practical guidebook for environmentally friendly living. Low-tech exercises for saving...
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My Mother Was An Upright Piano: Fictions by Tania Hershman
My Mother Was an Upright Piano: Fictions builds on the strengths of Tania Hershman's first collection of short stories The White Road and Other Stories, which was...
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THE SEVENTH GATE, by Richard Zimler
By the author of the critically acclaimed international hits The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon and The Warsaw Anagrams, this novel proves Richard Zimler's mastery of the...
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66 Laps
I slipped off my clothes and dove into the pool. We are 96 percent liquid. There is nothing more sensuous than a good splash against naked skin: the initial rush of...
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