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The Latke Who Couldn't Stop Screaming: A Christmas Story (... by Lisa Brown Latkes are potato pancakes served at Hanukkah. Lemony Snicket is an alleged children’s book author. Lisa Brown is an alleged illustrator. For the first time in... More about this book »	Nudist on the Late Shift: And Other Tales of Silicon Valley by Po Bronson The Nudist on the Late Shift is the true story of a new generation at the proving point of their lives, written by Po Bronson. This is a defining portrait of young... More about this book »
Bombardiers by Po Bronson The bombardiers in Po Bronson’s novel are bond salespeople at the firm of Atlantic Pacific, grunts who wake up at 4 a.m. to hustle financial products they barely... More about this book »	The First $20 Million Is Always the Hardest: A Silicon Valley... by Po Bronson Andy Caspar is a Silicon Valley research engineer who wants to become an “ironman”—the kind of guy who builds companies that change the world, like Apple, Netscape... More about this book »
Water Music by T. Coraghessan Boyle T.Coraghessan Boyle’s first novel, Water Music is a funny, bawdy, extremely entertaining tale of imaginative and stylistic fancy that announced to the world Boyle’s... More about this book »	Descent of Man by T. Coraghessan Boyle In seventeen slices of life that defy the expected and launch us into the absurd, Boyle offers his unique view of the world. A primate-center researcher becomes... More about this book »
Greasy Lake and Other Stories by T. Coraghessan Boyle As he portrays environmentalists, surrogate mothers and drug dealers, “Boyle proves himself in this second story collection truly a master of that genre. Wide-... More about this book »	If the River Was Whiskey by T. Coraghessan Boyle In sixteen stories, T. Coraghessan Boyle tears through the walls of contemporary society to reveal a world at once comic and tragic, droll and horrific. Boyle... More about this book »
The Road to Wellville by T. Coraghessan Boyle Wellville is a rich plumcake of a book, full of ripely conceived characters, satire both broad and bitter, beautifully integrated period atmosphere and writing that... More about this book »	What It's Like To Live Now by Meredith Maran More about this book »

The Living End: A Memoir of Forgetting and Forgiving by Robert Leleux 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... More about this book »	Missio by Tim Hewtson le 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... More about this book »
Missio by Tim Hewtson le 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... More about this book »	The Geometry of Splitting Souls by Robin Lim "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... More about this book »
Peekaboo Shapes by Tammy Yee Keiki will delight in finding a star hidden in a tide pool (sea star) and a triangle in a lunchbox (musubi). Written in child pleasing rhyme, this fun filled... More about this book »	Desert Blues by Bill Albert 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... More about this book »
Castle Garden by Bill Albert 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... More about this book »	Taking the Shot by Melanie S Hatter 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... More about this book »
DRINKING CLOSER TO HOME by Jessica Anya Blau There is nothing like ten days with one's family to bring forth old obsessions and childhood memories. When Anna, Portia and Emery’s mother, Louise, suffers... More about this book »	THE BRO-MAGNET by Lauren Lise Baratz-Logsted Ebook available for sale at Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Women have been known to lament, "Always a bridesmaid, never a bride." For Johnny Smith, the problem is... More about this book »