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Set in Chandler, Arizona, during the city's infamous 1997 migrant sweeps, this riveting tale brings to life the social issues that arise from border policy and...
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Set in Chandler, Arizona, during the city's infamous 1997 migrant sweeps, this riveting tale brings to life the social issues that arise from border policy and...
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In Tapped Out, Polly chronociles his grueling yet redeeming two-year journey through an often misunderstood sport. From Thailand to Russia, Manhattan to Las Vegas,...
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The raucously funny story of one young American's quest to become the baddes dude on the planet (and possibly find inner peace along the way) Growing up a ninety-...
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In the heat of the jungle, love can change lives... When freelance photographer Diana Lee Ross is taken hostage by Colombian drug runners, they think her American...
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This is an updated and revised edition of the memoir Fighting Fire, first published by St. Martins Press in 1998. That edition covered my first eight years as...
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In Tapped Out, Polly chronicles his grueling yet redeeming two-year journey through the often misunderstood sport of mixed martial arts (MMA). From Thailand to...
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Being blond and blue-eyed, having a Jewish mother and a Mexican father are more than enough to saddle David Rodríguez with a severe identity problem. Then there...
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He had arrived in America in 1887, but we first met him in 1906 when it seemed he may be approaching the end of his story, for he has been arrested from blowing...
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When a car accident makes sixteen-year-old rock and roll freak Harold an orphan and sends him to live with his Aunt Enid in the Californian desert, he and she...
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The Road Out Of Hell
  The Road Out Of Hell is the true story of the infamous Wineville Chicken ranch murders of 1926-1928, focusing on the kidnapped thirteen-year-old boy, Sanford...
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  " I wish I would have read this when I was a teen.  It would have encouraged me to let go and be me. Individuality is crucial in life.  This book helps...
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ADVANCE PRAISE  "The Murderer’s Daughters is the unforgettable tale of Merry and Lulu, little sisters in sorrow, seared by their father's violence. Their...
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At thirty-nine, movie critic Mary Pols knew she wanted to have a baby. But never—not in a million years—on her own. When she finds herself unexpec­tedly expecting...
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In Voodoo Dreams, Marie Laveau invents her self; cut off from her mother, from her past, and from her faith, with only her visions to guide her, Marie grows into...
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Let's get one thing straight. I'm not. I'm out and proud. When I'm out and it's raining I carry an umbrella. I used to be in but I hate the smell of mothballs. My...
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Looking to the East with Western Eyes, 4th edition
Leah Maines traces with delicate poetic brush strokes moments of love and tenderness, images of nature, feelings of joy, sometimes of sadness and slight unease--...
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Beyond the River, 2nd edition
"Maines conducts a poet's inquiry into the meaning of life. Readers of this chapbook will discover some curious answers through these 20 often understated, at...
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