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Containing six stories and fifty poems, I Made My Boy Out of Poetry, by Savannah poet and author Aberjhani, was ini ...

It was a time of discovery and decadence, when life became a gamble and the gold that poured endlessly into the port of Sevilla devalued money,

Spanish-language Edition. El Cazador De Tatuajes established itself as a new classic of the city by the Bay.

An astonishingly inventive, wonderfully exuberant novel that takes us from the shimmering dunes of ancient Egypt to the war-torn streets of twenty-first-century Lebanon.

With biting humor and a firm sense of place, Albert (The Second Story Man) evokes a scene that was both exciting and dangerous: the New York bohemian subculture in the early 1960s.

London's social season is in full swing, and the Victorian aristocracy can't stop whispering about a certain gentleman who claims to be the direct descendant of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. ...

Los Angeles actress Melanie Ross is in Transylvania to shoot a film. It is the ancient home of her Romanian ancestors and their tortured spirits that stalk her every move.

In 1893-on the run from Scotland Yard-the infamous Jack the Rip­per steals H.G. Wells' time machine and journeys to 1979.

Sara Scott, private eye, discovers that her husband’s murderer is the California state comptr

The Cuban revolution through the eyes and actions of Papa Hemingway and Fidel Castro.In 1957 Cuba, Fidel Castro starts a revolution with twelve men while Papa Hemingway wonders if he's washed up

A back-sliding atheist journeys through Japanese hostess bars in search of her estranged husband Gottlieb.<

When Hali’s father asks her to euthanize him, she reluctantly agrees, brooding upon the idea of the after

Synopsis: When the Girlie Playhouse becomes the subject of a tabloid investigation, tragedy follows romance.Praise for Trixie

Already sloshed from one-too-many drinks at a faculty party, Leah Thornton cruises the supermarket aisles in search of something tasty

The story of Rainer Maria Rilke, author of the beloved "Letters to a Young Poet" and "The Duino Elegies," and one of the most uniquely sensitive artists of the modern age.

A rich gothic tale of a young soul coming of age during the explosive boom and but years of an immigrant coal mining town in 19th-century California. In this powerful debut, M.

Dorothy Allison exploded onto the literary scene in 1992 with Bastard Out of Carolina, her stunning semiautobiographical story of violence an

In 1970's San Francisco there was a brief interlude when sex was more associated with pleasure than with sickness or sin.  This is the story of one woman's search for love, good sex, and happiness wi

Heyday is a brilliantly imagined, wildly entertaining tale of America’s boisterous coming of age–a sweeping panorama of madcap rebellion and overnight fortunes, palaces and brothels, murd

A big, fresh, energetic, hyperrealistic, up-to-the-second comedy of manners set in Manhattan in 2000, Turn of the Century depicts marriage, family, friendship, and business as they are conduc

John Gibson's alcoholic grandmother lived in the northern California, hole-in-the-wall town of Boonville where she was known as the "squirrel lady." In her will, she leaves John her decrepit

If an entire nation could seek its freedom, why not a girl? As the Revolutionary War begins, thirteen-year-old Isabel wages her own fight...for fre

Meet The Crew.

In this darkly humorous thriller, reality television becomes too real when a killer with a message preys on the contestants of America's number one TV show.

HE HAS FOUND HIS SOUL'S DESIRE...

Killian Kendall's life is changing faster than he can keep up. He's graduating from high school, breaking up with his boyfriend, and starting a new job with a private investigator.

 

When Storm Kayama discovers her beloved adoptive attorney uncle, Miles Hamasaki, dead at his desk, her search for his killer takes her on a journey into her own painful past that illuminates the large

Fire Prayer explores the long shadow cast by violence, and ho

When a snowstorm sweeps the canyon during her search for a wounded mountain lion, BLM agent Jamaica Wild must take refuge in an old Indian School, where children were "Americanized" after

A bitter, disillusioned barber uses the occasion of a twelve-year-old boy's haircut to introduce the youngster to the danger and violence inherent in everyday life.

The famous medieval Russian masterpiece, The Lay of Prince Igor’s Campaign, was discovered by accident.

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.

Stories about power and powerlessness, and those moments when the balance of power - between a violent father and his daughter, between a doctor and his smug patient, between an unsuspecting teenager

A charismatic stranger comes into the life of a young mother fearing for her children in a polluted and changing world.

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"My name is Abraham Isaac Lee, and I am my father's son. ...

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Three years after the Revolution, Tehran looks like a boneyard.

Sydney Alexander is a travel writer. She's a very well-dressed travel writer—hasn't yet met a shoe or clearance sale she could pass up. She's funny. She's got a great relationship with her sis.

The first time you met Sydney Alexander, she was a bonafide train wreck in all things dating.

THE DOWRY BRIDE tells the poignant and explosive story of a young bride victimized by India’s controversial Dowry System and Arranged Marriag

The FORBIDDEN DAUGHTER takes the reader into a world where the corrupt and covert practice of gender-selective abortion still thrives and femal

The genre of fiction known as "chick-lit" has been a lightning rod for debate in the world of literature, raising questions such as Is chick-lit really literature or just harmless fluff?

When Delilah "Baby" Sampson, a window washer with obsessive-compulsive disorder, develops a passion for Jimmy Choos, she turns to her father's profession, casino blackjack, to feed her expen

From the author of the acclaimed memoir In the Wilderness (finalist for the Pulitzer Prize): a luminous novel of youthful idealism, of faith and madness, of love and family.

In just three years, CEO Robbie Case has grown Core Communications, a data technology company, from 30 people to over 5,000.

Lucy Pescitelli is a virgin pushing 30, working part-time at a funeral home and still living with her mother Marge.  A woman so domineering that she forces Lucy to help her commit suicide by followin

Born into slavery in 1831 on Retreat Plantation, St.

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In the Hollywood movie storms of 1977 where films like Star Wars and Close Encounters spawned a maelstrom of epic adventure and wonder for kids everywhere, such streets also spawned another breed of c

"In this first novel, Benedict continues his exploration of rural West Virginia life begun in his two short story collections, The Wrecking Yard ( LJ 1/91) and Town Smokes ( LJ 5/15/87).

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Margo Berdeshevsky's Beautiful Soon Enough is a collection of hypno

When twenty-five-year-old Mary Stuart learns she inherited a farm from her recently murdered grandparents-grandparents her father claimed had died before she was born-she becomes obsessed with find

"Cyberpunk glitz and biotechnology blend with warped Eastern mysticism in Alexander Besher's loosely linked Rim sf series. ...

Few regions in the United States confound and fascinate Americans like Appalachia, and yet no other region has been so misrepresented by the mass media.

'How Perfect Is That': Sarah Bird is perfectly hysterical in this poke at Texas high society 12:00 AM CDT on Sunday, June 15, 2008

Based on the popular "BLACK TIDE" comic book series (also created and authored by Bishop), that combines science, history, technology, mysticism, metaphysics and fantasy.

Thousands of years ago Atlantis suddenly crumbled apart and sank into the sea. Its existence is now a mere legend and the Atlanteans would like to keep it that way.

Just prior to WWII, a publicly-humiliated Air Force test pilot, court-martialed for a stunt that endangered President Roosevelt, takesthe only job he can get: flying an experimental plane from the Sou

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The year is 1763 and the British have defeated the French, putting an end to the intercontinental war that had ravaged the American Colonies for seven long years. 

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A Richer Dustby Amy Boaz When Doll, a British painter just out of art school at the Slade,arrives in New Mexico in 1924, she is certain only of her faith in the

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Acting Alone opens at a cow college in Kansas, proceeds to holiday doings in Kiev, Nebraska, home of a disturbed young Marine recently released by the Revolutionar

Damnation and Salvation in the American Food Services Industry!

ONE . . . TWO . . . THREE STRIKES . . . YOU’RE DEAD . . . (At the Old Ball Game) For more than 30 years, Jon L. ...

"A treat for any fiction lover...a poignant, lovely read."--Library Journal

A Chicago Tribune Favorite Book of the Year 

August Adams has failed his family before. He's sacrificed relationships in pursuit of adventure, fame, and money.

Angie Howard has one ambition - to escape from her home in the idyllic Essex countryside and set up he

Angie Howard has one ambition - to escape from her home in the idyllic Essex countryside and set up he

A short story about art, love, obsession and the mysterious power of the sea

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A GLBT romantic thriller about religion, murder and the shadows of the past.

When Craig Robertson's religious fanatic father disappears, Craig is forced to return to the home he'd

This is an unusual collection of stories for older children and adults that retells some

Told through the eyes and experience of Brother August, this disturbing tale of megalomania and submission takes place as a spiritual community in the sparse Arizona desert prepares for the Great Days

"Change one thing. The sanctioned family memory, even the police report, states that the gun went off by accident.

Dorky New England teenager Holly Baker meets fashionable Stacy Goldfarb and is invited to New York City.

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For mothers who write or aspire to, who find meaning and humor in the demanding but wondrous daily experience of raising children, and who value the sharing of these varied experiences, comes a wonder

The Day the Falls Stood Still beg

This semi-autobiographical debut novel chronicles the life of Alex, raised in Siberia in 1950, and his dreams of becoming a writer and of meeting Annie, his distant American cousin.

Love, death, fantasy, and foreign lands, told with brevity and style by the best writers in the short-short fiction genre.

A supernatural mystery, shweetheart. Two private detectives who only work from dusk 'til dawn become aware of a conspiracy being hatched by a cabal of local occultists. ...

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