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Hey Lew (edited by Magda Cregg) by Peter Coyote Peter Coyote contributed to this homage to Beat poet Lew Welch, friend of Kerouac, Ginsberg and Cassidy, to name a few. Edited by Magda Cregg, it's a collection of... More about this book »	European Poems and Transitions: Over All the Obscene Boundaries by Lawrence Ferlinghetti More about this book »
The Secret Meaning of Things by Lawrence Ferlinghetti These poems show a progressive continuity and clarity of perception that apprehends the hard reality and luminous irreality in everyday phenomena. More about this book »	The Language of Threads: A Novel by Gail Tsukiyama Readers of Women of the Silk never forgot the moving, powerful story of Pei, brought to work in the silk house as a girl, grown into a quiet but determined young... More about this book »
Ordinary Love and Good Will by Jane Smiley Two novellas: Ordinary Love At a reunion with her grown children, a woman recalls the long-ago affair that ended her relationship with their father—and changed all... More about this book »	Good Faith by Jane Smiley The introduction, discussion questions, suggested reading list, and author biography that follow are designed to enhance your group’s reading of Jane Smiley’s Good... More about this book »
The Last Song of Dusk by Siddharth Shanghvi When the astonishingly lovely Anuradha moves to Bombay to marry Vardhmaan, a charming young doctor, their life together has all the makings of a fairy tale. But... More about this book »	Old School by Tobias Wolff The protagonist of Tobias Wolff’s shrewdly—and at times devastatingly—observed first novel is a boy at an elite prep school in 1960. He is an outsider who has... More about this book »
Space Between The Stars by Deborah Santana In this beautiful, haunting memoir, Deborah Santana shares for the first time her early experiences with racial intolerance, her romantic involvement with musician... More about this book »	Ultima VII--the Black Gate by Raymond Benson Raymond was responsible for Story Direction and Screenplay for this entry in the popular ULTIMA role-playing computer game series. More about this book »

Benedict Hall by Louise Marley In 1920s Seattle, a young woman physician struggles to succeed in a male-dominated profession, against the wishes of her wealthy family. The inhabitants of... More about this book »	K.I.S.S. Begins at Home by Ida Byrd-Hill Worried today’s school will not deliver your children to their big career leaving them unemployed in the future? Today's, children go crazy during their tween and... More about this book »
River of Dust by Virginia Pye On the windswept plains of northwestern China in 1910, Mongolian nomads swoop down upon an American missionary couple and kidnap their young child. In this story of... More about this book »	Fire on the Mountain by Terry Bisson Presenting an alternative version of African American history, this novel explores what might have happened if John Brown’s 1859 raid on Harper’s Ferry had been... More about this book »
Yoga Wisdom at Work: Finding Sanity Off the Mat and On the Job by jamie showkeir Co-authored with Maren Showkeir Yoga’s Ancient Wisdom Can Transform Your Work Life Everyone knows that yoga helps reduce stress and increase the body’s... More about this book »	No Character Limit: Truth & Fiction from WriteGirl by Keren Taylor Between texting and tweeting, it may seem that real writing has gone out the window. But it hasn't, and the girls and women of WriteGirl prove it. No Character... More about this book »
The Embroidered Corpse by Brian Kavanagh Two startling murders that replicate the death of a mediaeval English king and the discovery of a mysterious ancient tapestry lead Belinda Lawrence and her... More about this book »	Jaguar Fever by Terry Spear Jaguar shifter Maya Anderson learns about a secret jaguar society through underground social networking sites. She wanted to discover others like her, but now she's... More about this book »
Listening: New and Selected Works by Charles Entrekin Enlightenment, it can be said, is a stringing together of momentary blissful connections. Each of these poems is indeed such a moment. As a book they string... More about this book »	Choice of Weapons--A James Bond Anthology by Raymond Benson This anthology contains three James Bond 007 novels: ZERO MINUS TEN, THE FACTS OF DEATH, and THE MAN WITH THE RED TATTOO, plus two rare short stories, "Live at Five... More about this book »