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Arise and Walk
It’s time to check in again with Barry Gifford’s gang of New Orleans weirdos. A few of our old favorites from Night People (1992) are back, including Marble Lesson...
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Saroyan: A Biography
Along with Ernest Hemingway, William Saroyan—winner of a Pulitzer Prize in drama for The Time of Your Life and an Academy Award for the screenplay of The Human...
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Hotel Room Trilogy: Tricks/Blackout/Mrs. Kashfi
Plays in three episodes, which take place in the same New York City at three different times.
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Baby Cat-Face
From Barry Gifford comes a “wild, wacky, funny, well-written, and surreal” novel (Kansas City Star) about a woman struggling to make her way in “a New Orleans so...
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Wild at Heart
In the visual equivalent of sound bites, novelist and poet Gifford (Ghosts No Horse Can Carry, Port Tropique) cuts to the heart with sharply focused shots of young...
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The Sinaloa Story
Employing a strange and bountiful cast of characters, The Sinaloa Story bobs and weaves as if challenging the reader to follow a spectacular, if often incoherent,...
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Perdita Durango
In Perdita Durango, Gifford brings us the uniquely villainous Perdita, born as a minor character in Wild at Heart and reincarnated here as the killer-lovely queen...
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My Last Martini
From the author of Night People, Wild at Heart, The Sinaloa Story, and more than a dozen other works of award-winning fiction and nonfiction comes this piquant...
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Lost Highway
Screenplay of Lost Highway, co-written with writer and director David Lynch
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My Father In The Night tells the story of three generations of men living in the North Beach section of San Francisco in an Irish-American family. Eleven year-old...
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Medicare fraud, drug trafficking, a hired killer, a crooked cop, it's a nightmare scenario PI Sid Chance finds himself in when he takes a tough assignment—prove a...
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A unique collection. The only anthology of short-short stories to focus on youth. In these stories of no more than 1000 words, well-known and emerging American...
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Deb Henry’s The Whipping Club, a classic book club title, is set in 1960s Dublin and follows the travails of Marian McKeever, a feisty, young Catholic school...
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Blogging Through Life
Blogging Through Life is a collection of daily blogs written by Evan Pullins. Almost defeated by a mental illness, Pullins places the reader into his mind. From the...
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La Novena Viuda
Ocho adolescentes se convierten en viudas tras liberar a ocho guerrilleros comunistas de una muerte segura a manos de los japoneses. La novena viuda, Wang Putao, no...
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The Living End (Cover)
The Living End is a tribute to an unforgettable woman, and a testimony to the way a disease can awaken an urgent desire for love and forgiveness. Told...
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Missio by Tim Roux
'A magical journey that sparkles with wit and shimmers with intelligence', Genevieve Graham, author of 'Under The Same Sky'. Walking the rundown streets of his...
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Hedy's Folly
What do Hedy Lamarr, avant-garde composer George Antheil, and your cell phone have in common? The answer is spread-spectrum radio: a revolutionary inven­tion...
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The first few weeks and months after a baby's birth can be a wonderful and confusing time. While trying to discover the best ways to care for her child, new (and...
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"Robin Lim is a woman of staggering energy, passion, goodness and talent. Her poems take all four of those traits, and weave them into wonder." -Elizabeth...
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