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French Women Don't Get Fat: The Secret of Eating For Pleasure
Stylish, convincing, wise, funny–and just in time: the ultimate non-diet book, which could radically change the way you think and live. French women don’t get fat...
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French Women for All Seasons
Mireille Guiliano, author of the immensely popular French Women Don’t Get Fat returns with another book revealing secrets to living the good life. Branching off of...
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The Path of Minor Planets
In 1965, on a small island in the South China Sea, a group of astronomers gather to witness the passing of a comet, but when a young boy dies during a meteor shower...
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How It Was for Me
In the title story of this collection, neighborhood boys crouch in a backyard toolshed and conspire to prove their piano teachers to be witches. In “Cannibal Kings...
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The Confessions of Max Tivoli
“We are each the love of someone’s life.” So begins The Confessions of Max Tivoli, a heartbreaking love story with a narrator like no other. At his birth, Max’s...
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Jack's Book: An Oral Biography of Jack Kerouac
Here, in what has become a classic of its kind since its publication in 1978, is the fascinating story of an American literary legend, recorded through the voices...
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Night People
Gifford (Wild at Heart) never shies away from confrontational fiction even when it strains credulity. Yet these four well-wrought, linked novellas, all dealing with...
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Arise and Walk
It’s time to check in again with Barry Gifford’s gang of New Orleans weirdos. A few of our old favorites from Night People (1992) are back, including Marble Lesson...
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Saroyan: A Biography
Along with Ernest Hemingway, William Saroyan—winner of a Pulitzer Prize in drama for The Time of Your Life and an Academy Award for the screenplay of The Human...
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Murder mystery set in Memphis, Tennessee in the 1940s.  A prominent African American family, owners and operators of a local grocery store, finds itself...
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The Star Wars Craft Book
GIVE IN TO THE POWER OF THE CRAFTY SIDE Chewbacca Sock Puppets. Ewok Flower Vases. AT-AT Herb Gardens. With The Star Wars Craft Book, fans of all ages and...
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Nurse Frosty and the Big Bingo Balooza
Nurse Frosty, Rodney Rabbitsky, and all the residents of the Four Paws Retirement Home return for a fourth adventure. This time the residents are hosting a Fall...
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A collection of my most outrageous Village Voice columns through the years, spanning celebrity events, personal romps, Q&As, terrible parties, and harsh...
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Friends and Magicians
Elsa is shocked and miserable when her husband Morgan announces he wants to move to a zendo many miles from the house they recently bought and which she loves....
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Pleasure's Only Rule
At 40, her son grown and independent, Janet finds freedom exhilarating and terrifying. Her old friend Carlos, an enigmatic sculptor in Los Angeles, offers her...
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The children want revenge. Tech-savvy victims of abuse unite to turn their collective pain into bloody retribution. The group calls itself K.A.R.M.A: Kids Against...
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Bridal shop manager Chloe Rogers will soon marry Richard Foster—so she thinks—until suddenly, she bumps into her childhood sweetheart, Josh Goldman, whom she hasn’t...
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Sedan - an entertainment - the part two
Sedan – the part two is the second part of the trilogy about England in the future, after the ‘big war’ … Battles have been fought and progress (well a bit) has...
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Sedan - an entertainment - the part one
Sedan is the first part of a trilogy about England in the future, after the ‘big war’ that no one won and the subsequent slump. Fossil fuels have run out. The Sedan...
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