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The Art of the Knock Phillip Graham
In the three-part title story of The Art of the Knock, a travelling salesman knocks with inventive delight on the stubborn, closed doors of his prospective customers – people who find themselves on the wrong side… More
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Lifelines Caroline Leavitt
A beautifully wrought and sharply detailed story of the intertwining lives of two women: Duse, a strong-willed psychic and Isadora, her daughter, who struggles to find her own identity. A masterful evocation of the… More
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Lookout Cartridge Joseph McElroy
It is a novel of dazzling intricacy, absorbing suspense, and the highest ambition: to redeem the great claim of paranoia on the American psyche.… More
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Love and Will Stephen Dixon
20 well-crafted tales. Highly charged, insistent, often expressing themselves in gritty urban vernacular, his narrators emerge as ironic, sensitive, self-deprecating losers and loners.… More
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Make Me Work Ralph Lombreglia
Short stories by the author of Men Under Water show thoughtful, conflicted protagonists pushing for balance in their personal relationships and finding hints of meaning in the acutely perceived oddities of contemporary… More
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Meeting Rozzy Halfway Caroline Leavitt
An inspired story of growing up ordinary–and extraordinary–in the Boston suburbs. Meeting Rozzy Halfway follows a family falling apart at the seams when one daughter descends into madness and the second… More
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Nirvana Bites Debi Alper
Fast-paced and witty, Nirvava Bites features numerous sub-cultures – from New Agers to new technology buffs, from anarchists to fascists, from animal rights activists to abattoir workers, from media executives… More
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Old Mother, Little Cat Merrill Gerber
Old Mother, Little Cat is a highly readable memoir of Gerber’s mother’s decline in health and how their relationship grew during this time, blended in with Gerber’s finding a kitten and her developing… More
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Out West Fred Leebron
Taking a job as a night desk clerk at a seedy San Francisco hotel, ex-convict Benjamin West meets up with Amber, an L.A. fugitive on the run after torching her ex-boyfriend’s apartment, an encounter that leads … More
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Pagan Babies Greg Johnson
From the fleeting optimism of Kennedy’s Camelot to the fearsome specter of the age of AIDS, this impressive, powerfully written debut novel follows the lives of two young people and their stormy relationship… More
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Ryan Seacrest is Famous Dave Housley
Mysterious, tender and sometimes frightening, these stories are fueled by the conviction that what moves us most in our lives are our deepest secrets, and that our most intense adventures in life are the ones we create… More
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Secret Lives Catherine Browder
Browder’s second collection is characterized by the wide range of narrative voices she brings forth–a bilingual Hispanic social worker, an immigrant Russian Jewish chemical engineer, a young Japanese… More
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Seeing Eye Michael Martone
A collection of short stories, most of them set in Indiana, focuses on the meddling of fact and fiction and includes a dozen satiric – but also sympathetic – tales written in the persona of Indiana’s… More
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Six Figures Fred Leebron
A disturbing novel of domestic unease, part thriller and part psychological drama, from a young American writer of exceptional talent… More
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Slipstream Rachel Manley
Slipstream is a shining portrait of one man’s – prime minister Michael Manley – enormous heart and undying spirit, and a testament to the ways in which courage and love can inspire us all to soar.… More
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Some Girls Kristin McCloy
Claire moves from New Mexico to New York City hoping to find independence and some direction for her life. It’s not until she meets her next door neighbor, the dazzling Jade, and begins to follow Jade’s lifestyle… More