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JUNE MAIL

JEAN WARMBOLD

Begin with one freelance journalist hellbent on getting her story. Add one charismatic and internationally renowned genetic engineer who claims to have developed the first viable AIDS vaccine. Mix in a stormy love affair which colors their mutual past, and you have the opening gambits of the fast-paced political thriller June Mail. When Sarah Calloway arrives in California for ...

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THE HOAX

CLIFFORD IRVING

A “fascinating” memoir—and the inspiration for the movie starring Richard Gere—from the man behind the forged autobiography of Howard Hughes (Time). Novelist Clifford Irving’s no-holds-barred account of his faked autobiography of Howard Hughes—one of the greatest literary hoaxes of the twentieth century—is the ultimate caper story. The plan was concocted in the early 1970s,...

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SHOWSTOPPER!

G. PASCAL ZACHARY

This “inside account captures the energy—and the madness—of the software giant’s race to develop a critical new program. . . . Gripping” (Fortune Magazine). Showstopper is the dramatic, inside story of the creation of Windows NT, told by Wall Street Journal reporter G. Pascal Zachary. Driven by the legendary David Cutler, a picked band of software engineers sacrifices almost ev...

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INDIAN KILLER

SHERMAN ALEXIE

A New York Times Notable Book: A series of brutal racially charged murders sets a city on edge in this thriller by a National Book Award–winning author. A serial murderer dubbed “the Indian Killer” has Seattle living in fear. As he scalps his victims and adorns their bodies with owl feathers, the city consumes itself in a nightmare frenzy of racial tension. Then a possible su...

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SOUTH STREET

DAVID BRADLEY

A poet craving authenticity ventures into a gritty Philadelphia neighborhood in this novel by the award-winning author of The Chaneysville Incident. Philadelphia’s South Street is a world of contradiction. The hardscrabble neighborhood is filled with prostitutes and gangsters; working stiffs mingle with winos at Lightnin’ Ed’s bar. But the streetwalkers are nearing retirement...

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THE MOVIEGOER

WALKER PERCY

In this National Book Award–winning novel from a “brilliantly breathtaking writer,” a young Southerner searches for meaning in the midst of Mardi Gras (The New York Times Book Review). On the cusp of his thirtieth birthday, Binx Bolling is a lost soul. A stockbroker and member of an established New Orleans family, Binx’s one escape is the movie theater that transports him from ...

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OTHER PEOPLE'S LIVES

JOHANNA KAPLAN

Finalist for the National Book Award and winner of the Jewish Book Award: A collection of five stories and one novella from Johanna Kaplan exploring the private worlds of Jewish families in New York in the middle of the twentieth century In her first published literary work, Johanna Kaplan, acclaimed author of O My America!, examines the lives of other people with heart, humor,...

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A DAY, A NIGHT, ANOTHER DAY, SUMMER

CHRISTINE SCHUTT

A powerful and vibrant collection of stories offering an intimate look into the souls of unforgettable characters, confused and oppressed by the realities of their lives Time passes relentlessly in the lives of the fragile characters populating the pages of Christine Schutt’s outstanding collection of stories, revealing much but often changing nothing. Whether it brings a grand...

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MIND BLOWER

MARCO VASSI

“The fact that the ad was in the Times and not one of the sex journals made its wording all the more seductive. Wanted. Sensitive male to serve as personal valet and assistant to master in arcane studies.” When Michael answers a peculiar classified ad in New York, he senses he is in for a sexual adventure. What he does not expect is the Institute for Sexual Metatheater, a secre...

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THE OTHER HAND CLAPPING

MARCO VASSI

“Larry felt something he hadn't experienced for years—the sharp clutch of jealousy twisting his stomach. In all the years they’d been together, he’d never doubted Eleanor’s fidelity in the slightest.” In this striking, startling novel, Vassi turns his talent to a tale that blends Zen and jealous passion into a suspenseful, erotically charged thriller. For Larry, he wonders if t...

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FEAR OF FLYING

ERICA JONG

The “extraordinary” #1 New York Times–bestselling classic about women and marriage, “at once wildly funny and very wise” (Los Angeles Times). After five years, Isadora Wing has come to a crossroads in her marriage: Should she and her husband stay together or get divorced? Accompanying her husband to an analysts’ conference in Vienna, she ditches him and strikes out on her own,...

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FIVE MILES FROM OUTER HOPE

NICOLA BARKER

An instant classic of teenage self-discovery by prize-winning Nicola Barker, an “anarchic and lovingly perverse writer” (Ali Smith) Summer, 1981. Medve, sixteen years old and six foot three in her crocheted stockings, is marooned in a semi-derelict hotel on a tiny island off the coast of Devon, England. There’s nothing to do but paint novelty mugs, dream of literary murders,...

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FLORIDA

CHRISTINE SCHUTT

Finalist for the National Book Award: Christine Schutt’s masterful novel—hailed by John Ashbery as “an amazing achievement”—about a remarkable little girl who comes of age, adrift, in the care of a rotating cast of indifferent relatives Alice Fivey is seven years old when her father dies, and ten when her mentally fragile mother is institutionalized. So begins the “sleepover li...

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THE EROTIC COMEDIES

MARCO VASSI

In this ribald, titillating, exciting book, Marco Vassi exposes the human animal in all its absurdity. He spares no one and nothing in his ironic X‑ray of our exalted obsessions. Capturing the sizzling vitality of our current erotic upheaval while grasping its peculiar pretensions, Vassi creates a gallery of unforgettable characters who are only ourselves in a form larger than ...

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SLICE

REX MILLER

Everyone thought the killing spree was over; were they wrong! Jack Eichord, a less-than-fearless murder detective, must now come up against the most deadly serial killer of his lifetime. How can this detective with fear in his soul free the city from the fear that grips each citizen? He must go beyond the law to stop this heinous criminal and all while he has a bull's-eye right...

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SENSUAL REJUVENATION

JUDITH SACHS

Did you know that sex can dramatically boost your overall well-being? If you, like many people, are hitting midlife and feeling that sex is just not what it used to be, think again. While you are experiencing a variety of physical and emotional changes, sex can still be one of the enduring pleasures you can enjoy through midlife and on to your golden years. Now this unique guid...

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FRIEND OF MY ENEMY

BENJAMIN ERIC HILL

Arab or Jew? Either way, they were damned. Alone and in secrecy, a pair of star-crossed lovers battle for survival in a world seething with spies and informers. Israel's greatest fear becomes a reality in Benjamin Eric Hill's audacious and thrilling debut, FRIEND OF MY ENEMY. Vividly portraying the characters behind Mideast headlines, this story shows why the conflict is so int...

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ARIOSTO

CHELSEA QUINN YARBRO

In an alternate-world Italian Renaissance where the Italian states have formed a federation, the great epic poet Ludovico Ariosto is writing a fantasy adventure set in the New World that reflects the difficulties besetting his patron, Damiano de? Medici. While the Cerrochi in Ariosto?s fantasy battle the evil wizard Anatrecacciatore with the help of a heroic version of Ariosto ...

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FALSE DAWN

CHELSEA QUINN YARBRO

False Dawn, one of the first post-apocalyptic science fiction novels to deal with an environmental collapse instead of war, tells a compelling story of two people thrown together by chance, striving to stay alive in a world that can no longer support a vast human population. Seeking refuge in the Sierra Nevada, Thea and Evan have to keep moving to stay ahead of raiding gangs an...

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A BAROQUE FABLE

CHELSEA QUINN YARBRO

This novel takes readers on a romp through a fantasyland of star-crossed lovers, bumbling heroes, wicked witches, and dragons (one of whom, our heroine, Esmeralda, started out as a human but got caught up in a witch?s curse.) Lighthearted adventure with a seemingly never-ending cast of strange and whimsical characters working at cross-purposes and together creates a world of li...

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THE STONED APOCALYPSE

MARCO VASSI

There is no better introduction to the world of Marco Vassi than his autobiography, The Stoned Apocalypse, a stirring and sensual work that is both unflinchingly honest and erotically charged. Did the sixties happen so Vassi could exist, or did Vassi define the decade? His journey across the country at the moment when the Woodstock generation was discarding conventions—and clot...

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LOVE, ETC.

BEL KAUFMAN

In the wake of a difficult divorce, a woman seeks solace by transforming her life—and her heartbreak—into fiction Jessica is divorced, but on the verge of a great romance. Isabel—the lead character in the novel that Jessica is writing—is married, but on the verge of a terrible divorce. While grappling with heartache, the two women, author and creation, plunge into the unpredict...

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THE ALIBI BREAKFAST

LARRY DUBERSTEIN

Eight years ago, readers were invited to accompany Maurice Locksley on his rounds, as he paid court to his wife, his ex-wife, and his mistress in dizzying succession. The Marriage Hearse, his account of that wild winter’s night, was judged “one of the funniest, smartest, and most generous novels about marriage from a male point of view.” (Phyllis Rose, The Nation) Now, eight ...

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HARRY'S ABSENCE

JONATHAN SCOTT

A “moving memoir of son in search of his father,” recounting the life of a psychologist and pacifist who died climbing New Zealand’s highest peak (Publishers Weekly). On February 1, 1960, Harry Scott, conscientious objector, psychologist, and mountaineer, was killed while climbing Mt. Cook. Thirty-five years later, his son set out to look for him. Funny, moving, and beautifully...

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LIVING DOLL

JANE BRADLEY

Little Shirley lives in a bewildering home inhabited by her mother, her sister, a younger brother, relatives, a number of "Daddies" and an assortment of people who pass through her house. Retreating from this world of exploitation and pain, she pretends that she is a living doll, a perfect Shirley Temple. She carefully constructs an inner life of Barbie dolls, pet cemeteries, a...

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FIRST TIGER

GEORGE HARRAR

When a car crash takes a life, to whom does the tragedy really happen—the wife who dies? The husband who was driving? Or the six-year-old son sitting in the backseat? Author George Harrar explores this provocative question in his debut novel, set in the arts colony of New Hope, Pennsylvania, on the Delware River. The book begins 10 years after the accident when Jake Paine, now ...

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NATURAL MEDICINE FOR WEIGHT LOSS

DEBORAH MITCHELL

Don?t just change your diet; change your mind: The holistic way to weight loss through nutrition, stress reduction, and life-affirming activities. ? You want to lose weight. You?re tired of feeling hungry and wasting your time. You want to be in control again. Follow medical writer Deborah Mitchell?s sound and simple straight talk, and this could be the last diet book you?ll ev...

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UNCLE MAX

CHRIS KENRY

Meet fourteen-year-old Dillon: a self-described nerdy band fag in too-small clothes accessorized by a clarinet case and orthodontic headgear with a robin’s egg–blue satin strap. Fresh from the rigors of junior high school gym class and daily torment by studly jock Aaron Lewis, Dillon is in desperate need of a three-month reprieve. Alas, that isn’t to be—not after Dillon’s mothe...

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CHAINGANG

REX MILLER

The man is a hulk of angry, flabby, flesh, housing a genius intelligence that is ever inventing new and twisted ways to inflict pain on others. Torturing and killing innumerable victims with impunity, he still was not clever enough to keep himself out of prison forever. They drugged him, beat and muzzled him, then restrained him within the tight walls of a maximum?security soli...

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FRENZY

REX MILLER

If killing could be a profession, Frank Spain would be a master. He knows how to deal out death better than any specialist in the business, but when his daughter Tiff becomes a sex object in a nasty porno flick game, Frank is out to seek revenge like never before. Homicide Detective Jack Eichord has never been dealt such a grisly case, but as he traces evidence cross-country in...

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