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The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream by Barack Obama Ilinois's Democratic senator illuminates the constraints of mainstream politics all too well in this sonorous manifesto. Obama (Dreams from My Father) castigates... More about this book »	The Bedside Orgasm Book: 365 Days of Sexual Ecstasy by Cynthia W. Gentry 365 ways to spice up your sex life, from games and toys to foreplay techniques, positions, and tantric tips. Bound in a secret diary-like package, The Bedside... More about this book »
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as... More about this book »	MVP: Magellan Voyage Project by Douglas Evans Twelve-year-old Adam Story is challenged to become the youngest person to travel around the world, taking only surface transportation. Not only must he do it alone... More about this book »
Your Erotic Personality by Sage Vivant With this ultimate sex quiz and in-depth analysis, seasoned sexual-personality expert and customized erotica entrepreneur Sage Vivant shows readers how to identify... More about this book »	Ciphers Of Uncommon Origin: Poems By Ana Elsner, Volume I by Ana Elsner -:- A Selection of Poems by Ana Elsner -:- San Francisco Public Library - Main. SFPL Collection, 3rd Floor. Library Catalog: Elsner, Ana. Call No. 811.54EL77p... More about this book »
Books I've edited or contributed text to by Barbara Alexandra Szerlip Contributing Writer: Los Angeles Restaurant Guide: 2008, Michelin Publications, Greenville, SC, 2007 Guide to Weekend Getaways: 74 Mini-Vacations Across... More about this book »	Lost in the Grooves: Scram's Capricious Guide to the Music... by Kim Cooper Lost in the Grooves is a genre-surfing Smithsonian of overlooked musical marvels. Without fetishizing obscurity for its own sake, the Guide sidesteps cynical cool... More about this book »
Neutral Milk Hotel's 'In the Aeroplane Over the Sea... by Kim Cooper Of all the recordings to emerge from the Athens-via-Denver collective called Elephant 6, Neutral Milk Hotel’s second album is the one that has worked its way under... More about this book »	Billions of Virgins in Ecstasy: The Memoirs of Strange de Jim by Strange de Jim A simple San Francisco town-fool/masseur finds the key to the tingly portions and then the much larger secret of True Love. After peddling capital-O Orgasms to... More about this book »

The Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus by Margaret Atwood Margaret Atwood returns with a shrewd, funny, and insightful retelling of the myth of Odysseus from the point of view of Penelope. Describing her own remarkable... More about this book »	The Blind Assassin: A Novel by Margaret Atwood The Blind Assassin opens with these simple, resonant words: "Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge." They are spoken by Iris,... More about this book »
Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood In Alias Grace, bestselling author Margaret Atwood has written her most captivating, disturbing, and ultimately satisfying work since The Handmaid's Tale. She takes... More about this book »	The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood Margaret Atwood's The Robber Bride is inspired by "The Robber Bridegroom," a wonderfully grisly tale from the Brothers Grimm in which an evil groom lures three... More about this book »
Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood Cat's Eye is the story of Elaine Risley, a controversial painter who returns to Toronto, the city of her youth, for a retrospective of her art. Engulfed by vivid... More about this book »	The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood It is the world of the near future, and Offred is a Handmaid in the home of the Commander and his wife. She is allowed out once a day to the food market, she is... More about this book »
The Disenchantments by Nina LaCour Colby and Bev have a long-standing pact: graduate, hit the road with Bev's band, and then spend the year wandering around Europe. But moments after the tour kicks... More about this book »	Bodily Harm by Margaret Atwood A powerfully and brilliantly crafted novel, Bodily Harm is the story of Rennie Wilford, a young journalist whose life has begun to shatter around the edges.... More about this book »
Life Before Man by Margaret Atwood Imprisoned by walls of their own construction, here are three people, each in midlife, in midcrisis, forced to make choices--after the rules have changed. ... More about this book »	Lady Oracle by Margaret Atwood Joan Foster is the bored wife of a myopic ban-the-bomber. She takes off overnight as Canada's new superpoet, pens lurid gothics on the sly, attracts a... More about this book »