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Just
the Way You Want Me 216 pp.
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"What a good
read!" Michael Lee is a New England literary treasure—and until now, a secret. In this moving and often quite humorous debut collection, Mike Lee enters the territory of Richard Russo and Russell Banks, the New England of forgotten mill towns and abandoned hopes, of people with few illusions trying to put their losses behind them. "Solid work from a writer who should have been
recognized long ago." |
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The German Money 216 pp.
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"What a good
read!" Michael Lee is a New England literary treasure—and until now, a secret. In this moving and often quite humorous debut collection, Mike Lee enters the territory of Richard Russo and Russell Banks, the New England of forgotten mill towns and abandoned hopes, of people with few illusions trying to put their losses behind them. "Solid work from a writer who should have been
recognized long ago." |
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The Red Thread 216 pp.
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"What a good
read!" Michael Lee is a New England literary treasure—and until now, a secret. In this moving and often quite humorous debut collection, Mike Lee enters the territory of Richard Russo and Russell Banks, the New England of forgotten mill towns and abandoned hopes, of people with few illusions trying to put their losses behind them. "Solid work from a writer who should have been
recognized long ago." |
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The Devil and Daniel
Silverman 216 pp.
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"What a good
read!" Michael Lee is a New England literary treasure—and until now, a secret. In this moving and often quite humorous debut collection, Mike Lee enters the territory of Richard Russo and Russell Banks, the New England of forgotten mill towns and abandoned hopes, of people with few illusions trying to put their losses behind them. "Solid work from a writer who should have been
recognized long ago." |
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Paradise
Dance 216 pp.
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"What a good
read!" Michael Lee is a New England literary treasure—and until now, a secret. In this moving and often quite humorous debut collection, Mike Lee enters the territory of Richard Russo and Russell Banks, the New England of forgotten mill towns and abandoned hopes, of people with few illusions trying to put their losses behind them. "Solid work from a writer who should have been
recognized long ago." |
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. . . Here
. . . 107 pp.
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Thirty years of the best published poems by one of our finest African-American Poets Everett Hoagland is a poet of witness. Well Known by the African-American community for blending language with musical form through sound, image, and rhythm, his poetry is a passionate examination of history, which allows us to neither look away nor forget. Hoagland is a poet whose sensibility has
been seasoned in the rich loam of the black folk heritage. . . ." |
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The War at
Home 250 pp.
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—Robert Olen Butler Click here for more info |
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Shadows and
Elephants 224 pp.
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A sensuous historical novel with totally contemporary resonance, for indeed, Spiritualism has survived for over 130 years; reshaped today in eclectic New Age beliefs. ". .
. a sympathetic
and wonderfully readable study of a brilliant fraud and her chief
accomplice." |
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So You Want
to Write, 1st. Ed. 224 pp.
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How To Master the Craft
of Writing Fiction and the Personal Narrative For over ten years, Marge Piercy and Ira Wood have been teaching two popular master classes in the crafting of fiction and memoirs. Now, for the first time, they present two complete writers' workshops in book form. "Piercy and Wood
have a fundamental audience in mind: anyone who has a good story to tell
but isn't quite sure how to tell it. Put this on the shelf right beside
Strunk and White." |
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Burnt Umber 282 pp.
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Burnt Umber
is a novel on the grand scale about the passionate
lives of artists. It unfolds through the intertwining stories of the
German painter Franz Marc, the American sculptor Harry Baer, and the
strong-willed women they loved.
". . . a
beautifully written account of the lives of artists caught up in turbulent
times." |
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look at me 204 pp.
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Mixing urban edge with magic realism, this
lyrical first novel is the frank story of a young woman trying to come to terms with her
promiscuity and fear of falling in love.
"High intensity sex scenes staged
with Madonna-esque attitude set the tone for Lauren Porosoff Mitchell's provocative
. . . first novel. Dana, the heroine of Look At Me leads a double life:
by day she's a successful young Washington, D.C. scientist; by night, she's a sexual
predator." |
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Rookie Cop 200
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In the heady summer days of 1970, an
untrained police recruit, recently returned to Brooklyn from a tour in the air force,
was secretly assigned by the NYPD to infiltrate an up-and-coming urban terrorist organization
described only as "a black cloud on the horizon." Administered his oath of office
in an empty building, stripped of his badge, forbidden to attend the police academy or
mingle with other officers at any time, Richard Rosenthal advanced through the ranks of
the Jewish Defense League, culminating in his assignment as bodyguard to the notorious Rabbi Meir
Kahane.
"A remarkable look into a
hidden world of Jewish militancy; Richard Rosenthal's story reads like a trip through the
looking glass." |
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Adult Education 230 pp.
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A rediscovered gem about women's friendship
and the shared longings of young wives and mothers.
The story of the attraction of
opposites, of the friendship we all once had and wish we had held onto. Now back in print with an AfterWord by the
author.
"An engaging, engrossing, sometimes
wallopingly funny novel. . . ." |
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Leonora (Leo) is an Italian Asian
American teenager with a rotten attitude and a genius I.Q. Thrown out of twelve schools
and fluent in as many languages, she's sent to live with her grandmother in the
Philippines, where she spends all her time in a computer environment called Apeiron—a
parasitic virtual reality program which drove its mad creator to dive headlong into a
gorge.
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The 'Grrrl' phenomenon is a contemporary
expression of young women's humor and rage exploding in books and zines, concerts, films,
and the internet. In homage to a new generation of tough young feminists, Marge Piercy
presents a gathering of poems that reveal the poet as an early 'Grrrl.'
"It is obvious from
the bright, saucy and shrewd early poems collected in Early Grrrl that Piercy's
gift . . . is the truth of both nature and nurture." |
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The
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The author of two exuberantly praised novels, Annette
Williams Jaffee returns with a wise and sensual tale about pursuing the one great passion
of our lives, not in our youth, but at that last dangerous moment when everything we own
and everyone we love is at risk.
"The pages turn themselves." "How glorious to give oneself up to a great
late-in-life passion." |
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Well known by readers of gay and lesbian fiction for
her award-winning short story collections and novels; notorious in the legal profession as
the nation's "foremost authority on lesbians and law" (Village Voice), a
professor at the City University of New York, a young mother raising a son, Ruthann
Robson's breadth of experience is unique among American poets.
"Robson covers terrifying, white
hot terrain with unflinching honesty and a poet's heart. . . . |
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"In this delightful, laugh-out-loud first novel,
Gabe Rose, the brash Jewish waiter with a play in his pocket, is looking for his big
chance. Where else to find it but at the gilded, overpriced tables of Boston's fanciest
restaurant, where crooked politicians, tight Old Money, preppies, parvenus and, of course,
the stars come to dine on yesterday's fish under tonight's hollandaise? Under-30 Gabe
contrives to meet over-40 Cynthia Kagan, a tough, sexy playwright-director, big in
feminist circles. . . . Besides the fun, The
Kitchen Man is about love and loyalty outside conventional categories of age, gender
and body proportions. . . ." —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Click here for more info |
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Known for his powerful readings and unusually warm
and compassionate voice, Charles Coe's poems speak to the heart and mind as well as the
ear.
"Deep, wise and beautiful ... Charles Coe gives poetry
readers many fine examples of an old, worthy craft. A volume for the permanent
shelf!" "Charles Coe's poems move and touch people. His voice
is direct, honest, never forced or false in its note of intelligent humane awareness. We hear and
believe." |
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