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Frottage and Even as We Speak
Mona Houghton’s debut consists of two novellas that delve into the chaotic lives of characters, their desperation, and the resulting messiness. Although the novella is not a form that is read as popularly as a novel, it can be just as...
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Little Comrades
Gertrude Stein said, “Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.” In "Little Comrades", the author doesn’t fancy she had an unhappy childhood; she did. From birth, Laurie Lewis and her older brother were...
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The Forgotten Waltz
“I was huge! I was horny! I was … careful. When I looked at Séan, and he at me, it was always eye to eye.” This is the compelling and candid voice of Gina Moynihan, the snarky and sensual thirty-four-year-old narrator of Anne...
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Codon Zero
An international terrorist, a young son with a rare blood disease, and a deadly virus that could potentially wipe out the Middle East are just a few of the crises ex-intelligence officer Jason Stouter has to deal with in "Codon Zero"....
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So Good in Black
Although a decade has passed since Sunetra Gupta’s last novel, this lucid and mesmerizing masterpiece shows she has used every minute of that time wisely. Told in memories and fragments, it chronicles the history of a group of friends...
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The Absent Sea
Can a victim be complicit in her own oppression? In this dense and historical novel, Carlos Franz attempts to answer that question through the story of Laura Larco, a philosophy professor residing in Berlin who is called back to her...
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Tough as Nails
Anyone interested in the history of film making and what it takes to write and direct movies that matter should look no further than this book. Escaping the Philadelphia slums in the 1930s to become a journalist in Atlantic City and New...
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The Fragrance of Grass
The Fragrance of Grass is a rare and fascinating foray into a lifestyle that has increasingly fallen out of political fashion with the influence of green living and animal rights. Guy de la Valdene is a consummate huntsman who, having...