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Talk Talk by T. Coraghessan Boyle In his eighteenth book of fiction, T. C. Boyle wildly impresses some critics (as he often does) but leaves a few critics wanting more. The slick, page-turning plot... More about this book »	Roy Blount's Book of Southern Humor by Roy Blount, Jr. There may be no funnier species in the literary universe than a Southern writer on a roll. The richest vein of American humor - the broadest, the earthiest, the... More about this book »
If Only You Knew How Much I Smell You: True Portraits of Dogs by Roy Blount, Jr. A delight for dog lovers and, until dogs learn to talk, the best way to remember that the “inner dog” is probably much like the outer one, this winning collection... More about this book »	Hot Rod by Barry Gifford With the grace and style of a souped-up Seville—and published to coincide with the annual race extravaganza at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah—Hot Rod captures... More about this book »
The Face of Poetry (edited by Zack Rogow) by Maxine Hong Kingston From the explosion in creative writing programs and workshops to the poetry slams and open mikes in every city to the reading groups venturing beyond prose for the... More about this book »	I Am the Cat, Don't Forget That: Feline Expressions by Roy Blount, Jr. What would cats say if they were of a mind to talk? Valerie Shaff and Roy Blount, Jr. have a good idea ... On the heels of their hugely successful I Am Puppy, Hear... More about this book »
Be Sweet: A Conditional Love Story by Roy Blount, Jr. Roy Blount, Jr., Georgia boy turned New York wit, lover of baseball and interesting women, bumbling adventurer, literary lion, salty-limerick virtuoso and... More about this book »	About Three Bricks Shy... and the Load Filled Up by Roy Blount, Jr. Any number of writers could spend an entire season with an NFL team, from the first day of training camp until the last pick of the draft, and come up with an... More about this book »
Crackers by Roy Blount, Jr. To get at the heart of being Southern, one should turn to Crackers. Roy Blount, Jr., puts readers in touch with possums, heterosexist dancing, men named Junior, a... More about this book »	I Am Puppy, Hear Me Yap: The Ages of Dog by Roy Blount, Jr. When puppies yap, people listen—especially when the message is as entertaining and enlightening as I Am Puppy, Hear Me Yap. Valerie Shaff and Roy Blount Jr., have... More about this book »

What Dreams Are Made On by Helen Fischer WHAT DREAMS ARE MADE ON tells the story of Lillian an Australian Lady, who spontaneously packs her bags and takes a holiday on the QEII where she meets Winston,... More about this book »	Highland Rake by Terry Spear Dougald MacNeill is the next to youngest MacNeill brother and he's not about to settle down, until Lady Alana Cameron is placed squarely in his lap...and then,... More about this book »
The Mounting Storm by William Thompson Ong While tracking down a stolen painting, investigative reporter Kate Conway begins to suspect America’s most powerful media czar is not the Cambridge graduate and... More about this book »	BETTER ANGELS by Geoffrey Thorne It was supposed to be so simple: just scam the local Russian mobster out of some money and drugs, then skip out of town before he knows he's been fleeced. It looked... More about this book »
Messages from Mother.... Earth Mother by Mare Cromwell <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:Cambria; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch... More about this book »	An Elastic State of Mind: D.L.D.'s Autobiography in Poems by Ren Powell From the introduction: "I performed the character of D.L.D. while writing. Like and actor using Stanislavski's Magic If, I inhabited the mind of the character and... More about this book »
Geographies of Light by Lisa Suhair Majaj This collection spans geographies of war, homelessness, homemaking, longing, and hope as it travels through Palestinian, Lebanese, Jordanian, American and... More about this book »	For the City That Nearly Broke Me by Barbara Jane Reyes These 28 poems are Barbara Jane Reyes at her urban political and poetic best. Of the collection, M. Evelina Galang, author of HER WILD AMERICAN SELF and ONE... More about this book »
When I Remember by Sharon Edwards He was the love of her life. And he had turned his back on her when she had needed him most. She had tried to hate him—and convinced herself that she did. So then,... More about this book »	Depth of Deception (A Titanic Murder Mystery) by Alexander Galant The year is 1982, and a beautiful young woman, dressed in Edwardian clothing, is found floating unconscious in the North Atlantic with a 1912 boarding pass... More about this book »