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The Breakaway Japanese Kitchen
The Breakaway Japanese Kitchen, released in October 2003 by Kodansha International, is my modernist/contemporary interpretation of...
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All Will Be Revealed
At the close of the nineteenth century, wheelchair-bound Augustus Auerbach’s only interest is his extraordinarily lucrative business: the manufacture and marketing...
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How to Be Hap-Hap-Happy Like Me
Perpetually interested in self-improvement, the author of What the Dogs Have Taught Me is back and funnier than ever. "By reading my book, you can become...
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Ohio Angels
In this lyrical story of marriage and friendship, painter Hallie Greaves arrives at her mother’s bedside and her pregnant friend Rose Haas’s porch one hot July in...
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The Women Who Hate Me
Allison (Trash) writes poems that brim with emotion, sometimes focused and tender, but more often confused and enraged. The subject in this expanded edition of her...
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The Hellbound Heart
Frank Cotton’s insatiable appetite for the dark pleasures of pain led him to the puzzle of Lemarchand’s box, and from there, to a death only a sick-minded soul...
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Cavedweller
Dorothy Allison exploded onto the literary scene in 1992 with Bastard Out of Carolina, her stunning semiautobiographical story of violence and incest in a rural...
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Trash
Trash, Allison’s landmark collection, laid the groundwork for her critically acclaimed Bastard Out of Carolina, the National Book Award finalist that was hailed by...
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Galilee
Galilee is Clive Barker's horrific version of a trashy nighttime soap opera (think Dynasty in particular). In a surprisingly romantic tale, a beautiful woman...
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The Thief of Always
In a tale that manages to be cute as well as horrifying, bestselling novelist and screenwriter Barker puts the dark side back into childhood fantasy, recalling the...
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Briar Rose
From the moment Briar Rose sets eyes on Lord Gareth Hawke 's magnificent Saxon face-his golden hair gleaming in the sunlight-she is captivated. She has found her...
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Pembroke Welsh Corgi
Information on the Pembroke Welsh Corgi, including care and feeding and training tips.  
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Hotel Angeline
Thirty-six of the most interesting writers in the Pacific Northwest came together for a week-long marathon of writing live on stage. The result? Hotel Angeline, a...
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Detroit: A Biography takes a long, unflinching look at the evolution of one of America’s great cities, and one of the nation’s greatest urban failures. It tells how...
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Ernst Vogler is twenty-four years old in 1938 when he is sent to Rome by his employer--the Third Reich's Sonderprojekt, which is collecting the great art of...
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When Father O’Boyd befriended a once-Catholic vampire, he was merely providing an unorthodox confessional service to a lost soul. He never dreamed he would be...
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The Bastard Year
When Zain’s father is fired from the CIA in March of 1980, it creates a tremor that threatens to upend the family’s precarious balance. Zain’s awakening to a world...
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Autumn in Summer
Percy Peabody has it all, a spectacularly beautiful wife, a well-paying job, two picture-perfect children, a designer house in the suburbs, a ready smile and a firm...
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The King's Agent
To the casual observer, Battista della Palla is an avid art collector, or perhaps a nimble thief. In reality, the cunning Italian is an agent for François, the King...
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To Serve a King
  From her earliest days, Genevieve Gravois has known one fact above all: Francois I, king of France, is her enemy. Raised by her embittered aunt after her...
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