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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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Rock and Rol Heaven Tom Boyle
A trio of uncollected stories from early in TC Boyle’s career, Rock and Roll Heaven shows all of the qualities that have people excited about Boyle from the beginning–great ideas, dazzling writing full… 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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Garden of Fools Greg Logsted
A Garden of Fools, a comic novel set in 1970, introduces the over-the-top character of Bartholomew W. Prickett, a larger-than-life thirty-something native of Atlanta who has transplanted himself to New York City.… More
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Ghost Dance Carole Maso
This haunting, often surreal first novel vividly captures the struggles of a young woman, Vanessa Turin, as she attempts to recover her family and her past… More
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Glimmering Girls Merrill Gerber
Glimmering Girls tells the story of three extraordinary American women during a time of sexual and cultural repression.
Francie and her friends Liz and Amanda are college students, coming of age intellectually, emotionally,… More
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Gould Stephen Dixon
Draws a portrait of an American man through a collection of shorter stories documenting his romantic and sexual encounters over the course of forty years, showing the pain and wonder of love that are such a part of life… More
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Harry Kaplan’s Adventures Underground Steve Stern
Harry finds himself transplanted from staid and steady Brooklyn in the 1930s and discovers a world that eclipses anything that the Scarlet Pimpernel or Captain Horatio Hornblower could conjure before his inexperienced… More
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Hitting into the Wind William Meissner
A collection of stories about baseball, Hitting Into the Wind contains the tale of a minor league player who fears that he will never make it, an umpire experiencing marital problems, and a man who collects old baseballs.… More