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The Ghosts of Bohemian GroveReagan, Nixon, and Goldwater, but the presence of these ghosts transports Allardice's novel into a literary netherworld that is always captivating and every once in a while genuinely spooky. This tale of a young artist lost in the woods of America's political subconscious is...
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R. A. Lafferty Super PackCollected her are eighteen stories that bend time and space by the incomparable R. A. Lafferty. Lafferty was the winner of the Hugo and World Fantasy Award and a six time Nebula Award Nominee. His quirky style made his work hard to pigeonhole and...
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Totally Killer"Smart, unexpected, and wonderfully savage in its humor. Totally Killer nails, without mercy, the mood and minutiae of a weary America at the end of the 20th century."--Brad Listi, author of Attention. Deficit. Disorder. Debut novelist Greg Olear gets nostalgic for a recently bygone...
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The Era of Not QuiteDouglas Watson's debut story collection is chock-a-block with deaths, births, sea and land voyages, excursions to the library, philosophical asides, and things like wolves. People fall in and out of love, walk in and out of buildings, take two steps forward and two steps...
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Hungry GhostOn a cold November night, Howard Moon Deer is walking home through the woods when he is accosted by a ghost from his past: Nick Stanton, his long-ago roommate at college, who makes a seemingly simple request for Howie to take a message to...
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As One Must, One Can"The heartwarming-and heart wrenching-tale of life for pre-World War I Jewish society. . . . Well-researched and a gem of a novel." -Caroline Giammanco, author of Into the NightIn Kansas City, 1907, Havah Gitterman continues her rebellious ways, teaching Hebrew and Humash classes for...
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My Man JeevesWhere would Bertie Wooster be without his man Jeeves? The discerning butler knows all, sees all, and ultimately resolves all problems in this masterpiece of British comedy. Newly designed and typeset in a modern 6-by-9-inch format by Waking Lion Press.Author: P. G. WodehousePublisher: Waking...
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Slaughtered Nursery Rhymes: For Grown-UpsA collection of Nursery Rhymes for all the adults who want to know what really happened to Jack and Jill, Little Bo Peep and Doctor Foster. Not to mention what Mary was actually growing in her garden!When we think of a rhyme, with which...
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MarigoldA thirty-something floral salesman searches for reasons to keep living. "Marigold is a hundred haikus of loneliness, pages torn from Baudelaire's dream journal, the suicide note as high art. Forget your dime-a-dozen writers on the New York Times bestseller list; here is an authentic...
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The Professor's HouseFirst published in 1925, "The Professor's House" is the profound study of a middle-aged man's unhappiness by critically acclaimed American author Willa Cather. The novel tells the story of its central character, Professor Godfrey St. Peter, in three parts. In the first part, the...
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Uncle ShtunklucusA cockatiel flies in through an open window and takes a shit on on some NPR nerd's desk. A street person speaks gibberish to her pocket-sized dog. A mentally disabled man creates a pop band with his brother. A midlife crisis leads to crimes...
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The Paradise GigFACT: In September 1964, the Beatles, their private flight diverted by Hurricane Dora, made an unplanned visit to Key West. FICTION: Poolside at their motel, the Fab Four fell into conversation with a snappy-dressing local named Bert the Shirt, who listened as the band...
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Mary Ann in Autumn: A Tales of the City NovelInspiration for the Netflix Limited Series, Tales of the CityThe eighth novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin's best-selling San Francisco saga.Following the success of his New York Times bestseller Michael Tolliver Lives, Armistead Maupin's Mary Ann in Autumn is...
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Miss Julia's Marvelous Makeover"Yes, Miss Julia is back, and I, for one, am one happy camper." --J. A. Jance In the 15th installment of Ann B. Ross's bestselling series, Miss Julia must teach her cousin's granddaughter some manners--and remake a political campaign. Don't miss the newest, Miss...
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The Rejected Writers' Christmas WeddingSouthlea Bay's favorite sweethearts, Flora and Dan, are getting married and the members of the Rejected Writers' Book Club are excited to help. Especially the group's head honcho, Doris Newberry, who, much to Flora's frustration, wants to control every detail, attempting to strong-arm Flora...
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Lakota Cowboy"Here, manifest destiny collides with native mysticism."Meet the last open range cowboy and the last nomadic Native American. Better yet, be present for their first handshake in the pages of Lakota Cowboy. Their stories become entwined in an unlikely friendship, but cannot change the...
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Wigfield: The Can-Do Town That Just May NotNow in paperback, a hilarious, satirical look at a small town on the verge of extinction, from the comedic team behind Strangers with Candy. In his desperate search for a small town dying in America, intrepid journalist Russell Hokes stumbles upon a quarter-mile stretch...
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Winter of the MordbaumsIt's Christmas 2019 on Long Island, and things have gone very wrong: Christmas trees, the merry and bright creatures everyone celebrates through song, are strangling people to death! It started with two ornery Brooklynites who were choked on the Long Island Expressway while driving...
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Zenobia's BusinessDorothy and Doug of Offrampville Ontario find themselves together in Aleppo on the frontier of a new millennium and decide to join the circus. The fun eventually follows them home again... but things are as odd there as they were away.Author: Michelle ErnstPublisher: FriesenPressPublished:...
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AlterA young man, traumatized by a succession of evil stepmothers and menaced by conscription in the tsar's army, gets the girl of his dreams, loses her, he runs - but he can't hide. Though the author probably thought this was a tragedy, I thought...
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