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Dec.21.2011
Walt Whitman referred to a "Mad, naked, Summer Night!" In the pages of Boys of Summer, acclaimed editor Steve Berman's latest anthology, talented authors and fresh voices reveal the allure and excitement of the season for gay teens. June always promises romance. July entices with its raw heat,...
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Jun.27.2011
Multiplex Fandango is subtitled "A Weston Ochse Reader" for good reason. This collection contains a comprehensive representation of short fiction and novellas by the Bram Stoker award winner and Pushcart Prize nominee, including his recent powerful Stoker finalist short story, "...
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Jun.26.2010
What happens when a woman who's realized all her dreams wakes up to a shocking truth? The son she was told was stillborn 30 years ago is alive and now fighting for his life. She is the only person who can help save him. But revealing her 30-year secret to her husband could ruin her marriage and...
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May.29.2010
When Aria Jackson was nine, a car accident killed her father and baby sister, forever destroying her family’s secure middle-class life. The tragedy left her elegant mother, her rebellious sister, and Aria herself wounded by grief, rage, and guilt. Caught between her mother’s bitter dissatisfaction...
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Jan.19.2010
By: V.A. Pinto
The story A Memory Between the Hills is about the lives of students attending a prestigious private high school in southern Vermont. During the story, the lives of two teenage twin brothers change drastically when they move to Vermont from New York to attend the school. The two teens...
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Dec.27.2009
In this collection of touching short stories by Iowa Writers’ Workshop grad Seth Harwood, we are introduced to Adam Berkman, a young man growing up in a world that’s very different from the depictions of American families he sees on TV. Like Boston to Orlando, Adam finds that his life is indeed A...
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Oct.22.2009
Set in a small beachfront Catholic high school, narrated by a beautifully complex heroine–theology teacher Emily Hamilton–All Saints is at once a mystery, a love story, and a powerful rumination on secrets, temptation, and faith.
By life’s midpoint Emily has seen three husbands, dozens of friends...
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Aug.10.2009
When a young girl’s only real joy, music, is suddenly taken away, a strange journey to rediscover her musical gift reaches beyond the stars to an amazing, harmonious world.
Fourteen-year-old Annie Wren’s love of music and her one true talent, playing the violin, kept her sane in a world full of...
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Sep.17.2008
Above Average is the story of a middle-class Delhi boy with an aptitude for science and math but a yearning to be the drummer of a rock band. Both of which necessitate his admission to the premier engineering college of India: IIT. So, in keeping with his high grades and all that is expected of him...
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Aug.17.2008
"You, Me and Morrissey" is a collection of autobiographical short stories capturing snapshots of love, loss, bigotry, violence, artistic birth, and mental illness. Each story is set to the soundtrack of a Smiths or Morrissey title or lyric, and documents the trials of youth and adulthood...
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