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The Road to Wellville
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...
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Budding Prospects: A Pastoral
All Felix Nasmyth and friends have to do is harvest a crop of cannabis sativa ... and half a million tax-free dollars will be theirs. But they haven’t reckoned on...
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Without a Hero
A critic once said of T. Coraghessan Boyle, “More happens in one of Boyle’s stories than in most post-Victorian novels.” This is precisely the case in Without a...
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World's End
Haunted by the burden of his family’s traitorous past, woozy with pot, cheap wine, and sex, and disturbed by a frighteningly real encounter with some family ghosts...
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The Tortilla Curtain
Men and women with brown faces and strong backs who risk everything to cross the Mexican border and invade the American Dream are the Okies of the 1990s. Two of...
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Before the Scarlet Dawn
On a windswept night in April of 1775, Eliza sat at her father’s bedside hoping he would recover. Forced to leave the home she grew up in, Eliza grows...
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All You Bastards Can Go Jump Off a Bridge! is a 224-page collection of short comics by J Marc Schmidt. Many of the comics were originally published on J Marc's...
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Part memoir, part handbook, part survey of the contemporary literary scene: a walking tour of the writing life. "A knowledgeable and trustworthy guide: original,...
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The King of Good Times
Dr. Vijay Mallya is not your typical everyday CEO. He has made it to the Forbes billionaires’ list many number of times but he doesn’t care if he is on the list...
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As a medical examiner, Samantha Owens knows her job is to make a certain sense of death with crisp methodology and precision instruments. But the day the Tennessee...
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There’s nothing quite like a hot, soothing bowl of soup. It’s a leisurely meal—a purposeful one that offers pause for reflection between every savory spoonful....
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Heartbreaker is the memoir of John Meyer's thrilling, harrowing months working with Judy Garland in the late 1960s.
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1943: Twenty-one year old JUDY GARLAND is dropped behind enemy lines to bring back a photograph of German physicist FRANZ KINTNER -who poses a serious threat to...
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Invisible Mink by Jessie Janeshek is a book of poetry. The poems deliver verses on seductive female stars from the films of the 1930s and beyond.
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Jean Kendrick, a champion billiard player taught by DeadSTRoke, a grandmaster at billiards, was unable to win on the Women's Professional Billiard Tour: something...
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