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Sleeping Where I Fall
Out of the 1960s counterculture explosion came a radical street group called the Diggers who became the heart and soul of the Haight-Ashbury experience. Among its...
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People have questioned how I can publicly support candidates who are running against each other. I do this because supporting a candidate influences civic life in...
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NOT A GENUINE BLACK MAN: OR, HOW I CLAIMED MY PIECE OF GROUND IN THE LILY-WHITE SUBURBS
This memoir offers a candid and funny response to those who question the racial authenticity of successful black men. After receiving a letter asserting that he is...
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The Palace Thief: Stories
The Palace Thief is the story of a dedicated and inspiring classics professor at an elite prep school where an encounter with a student, the son of a powerful...
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Emperor of the Air
Canin’s outstanding debut, winner of a Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship, gathers nine stories originally published in the Atlantic, Esquire and Ploughshares,...
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Blue River
From one of todays most highly acclaimed authors comes Blue River, a tale of love, violence, betrayal and possible reconciliation. When two distant and disparate...
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For Kings and Planets
From the celebrated author of The Palace Thief and Emperor of the Air, comes this stunning novel about the relationship between two very different men. Orno Tarcher...
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Carry Me Across the Water
August Kleinman, the protagonist of Canin’s latest novel, is seventy-eight years old, rich and wise from a life filled with accomplishments and heartache. Yet as...
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The Beheading Game
Flamboyant New York theatre director Ren is passionately in love with Jack, a younger man who is still under the thumb of his conservative CEO father, Malcolm. Jack...
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Eternally Bad
An irreverant tribute to dark goddesses of the Kali and Lilith variety.
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  Yesterday's regret; today's deadly fix.  Impulsive acts during emotional upheavels from the past return to haunt, ending in the death of a photo-...
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  Yesterday's regret; today's deadly fix.  Impulsive acts during emotional upheavels from the past return to haunt, ending in the death of a photo-...
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Ever since her mother passed away, Katie's been alone in her too-big house with her genius dad, who restores old paintings for a living. Katie takes a summer job...
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A group of dull, miserly teachers accept an invitation to attend a movie premier event at the mysterious, relatively new ThrillPlex Theater. Their experience...
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Juno meets Under the Tuscan Sun It's senior year, and while Kenzie should be looking forward to prom and starting college in the fall, she discovers she's...
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The End of the Point
  For the Porter family, summers at Ashaunt Point – a mile and a half long finger of land on Buzzards Bay in Massachusetts – have anchored life, providing...
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Searching for treasure at the shore, a chest is found that opens the doors to endless surprises and journeys. It's the first of a twelve book series that is full...
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In typical Soup form, the book contains 101 personal stories of families. My story, "Off Course" is about my sister who was estranged from our family for many years...
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REACH FOR THE STARS
From earliest childhood I saw my guardian angels.  I saw God and His Blessed Mother and the saints.  I also saw Satan and the devils.  I saw the...
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The First Dragon has Ysolde de Bouchier in his sights demanding that she right past wrongs. So, with the help of some familiar friends, Ysolde sets into motion an...
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