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What do men wish women knew about sex? The answer's not as simple as you think! In What Men Really Want in Bed, 200 men from all backgrounds and walks of life...
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I Want To Destroy America
Directed by Peter I. Chang and produced by Mitch Cullin, I WANT TO DESTROY AMERICA documents the singular career of Hisao Shinagawa, a Japanese musician who has...
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From Publishers Weekly Though the millennium frenzy may have passed, this collection of outstanding gay fiction is anything but. The editors have amassed a bevy of...
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From Library Journal In his first novel, Cullin takes a look at rural Texas and creates a voice in Willy Keeler that both defies and typifies stereotypes. Willy is...
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A smalltown West Texas sheriff is the antihero of Cullin's quietly chilling short novel in verse. Pacing the desolate, burnt-out ruins of his boyhood home 22 miles...
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“Beautifully written. Perfectly paced. Sad. Magical. Funny. Excellent woodworking.... images kept tumbling off the page and into my eyeline-beautifully, clearly,...
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Middle-aged astronomy professor Bing Owens has had it hard. Assuming the singer's popularity would proliferate generations of namesakes, his mother named him after...
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Whompyjawed: 1.Askew, out of place 2.Off-center or crooked 3. (informal) a person of eccentric or questionable character; odd.................... Football is Willy...
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After four novels, including the intriguing novel-in-verse Branches (2000) and the bittersweet Cosmology of Bing, Cullin rounds up eight short stories. They...
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Cullin's latest (after The Cosmology of Bing) is a brief but incisive account of a Tucson teacher's descent into the lurid, furtive world of illicit gay sex, which...
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The Color of Night
Mae, a blackjack dealer in a Las Vegas casino, spends her free time wandering the desert with a rifle, or sitting in her trailer obsessively watching replays of...
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A Vagabond World
Many years ago as a younger man, I spent two years circumnavigating the globe primarily by sea, bus, and train. This around-the-world travel odyssey indellibly...
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Two Southern soldiers, recently back from Vietnam, struggle to resume their lives amid dangerous and deep-rooted prejudice Thomas Laidlaw returns home from Vietnam...
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Eve Weldon has just moved to New York hoping to make a new life for herself in the city her late mother loved, and mysteriously left, decades before. Eve’s...
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Sugar Zone
Fierce, surreal, ecstatic, and passionately transcendent, the sixty-two beautifully-crafted poems in Mary Mackey's Sugar Zone offer depth and complexity while at...
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Eden Newman must mate before her 18th birthday in six months or she'll be left outside to die in a burning world. But who will pick up her mate-option when she's...
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Fire, paradoxically, is an integral part of healthy forest ecosystems. The biggest problem with wildland fire is suppression, not burning. After a century of...
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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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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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