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Zoe Zolbrod  |
Piv and Robin are not such an unlikely match. Piv, a small-time hustler in Thailand, and Robin, a twenty-something backpacker from the United States, have always dreamed big dreams. What begins as a traveler's affair in Sukhothal quickly intensifies, and the young lovers envision an idyllic future together, traveling the world. Their plans are thwarted in Bangkok, however, when Robin runs out of money, her credit is denied, and she may have to leave Asia and Piv behind. Desperate, Piv turns to Abu, a charasmatic businessman acquaintance, for help. Thus, Piv and Robin become embroiled in the dangerous world of international animal trafficking in this exotic literary thriller. Currency - Trade Paperback amazon |
| Other Resort Cities -
Tod Goldberg  |
In ten seductive new stories, the author of Simplify and Living Dead Girl encounters the ruthless, vulnerable people who inhabit resort cities, along with their felonies and misdemeanors. A mobster hides out in Las Vegas posing as a rabbi; a casino cocktail waitress adopts a Russian teen in an attempt to outrun her loneliness; a disturbed husband sets up a Starbucks in his living room; a retired sheriff looks for his first wife's remains in the Salton Sea. Other Resort Cities - Trade Paperback $16.95 (price includes shipping) |
| How to Hold a Woman -
Billy Lombardo  |
An emotionally powerful book; it is organic, surprising, and edgy in a way that will appeal to male readers as well as female readers. It has the potential to be groundbreaking in its raw, honest portrayal of a just-barely-functioning family. Billy Lombardo is interested in the beauty of words. He is also a great observer of the world around him, and he is exquisite and precise in getting that world onto the page. How to Hold a Woman - Trade Paperback $16.95 (price includes shipping) |
Things That Pass For Love -
Allison Amend 
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An incisive, poignant, hilarious exploration of contemporary relationships, Things
That Pass for Love goes way beyond the dating scene to include portrayals of fractured families, urban schools, small towns, book clubs, cults, academia, golf culture, and—yes—sex in modern life. Whether a cybererotica writer whose would-be suitor is in love with her dog, an aging professor obsessed with the student destined to surpassed him, or a man meeting his illegitimate son for the first time on a pumpkin picking excursion, Amend’s characters are more than whip-smart and laugh-out-loud funny, they are real, lonely, memorable people looking for love—or what passes for it—in a world where tenderness is elusive, yet sometimes achieved against all odds.
Things That Pass For Love - TP $16.95 (price includes shipping) |
| A Stranger Among Us IPPY Gold Medal Winner 2008 
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Thirty acclaimed writers of international fiction explore the stranger in tales of cultural clashes and bonds. These stories of disparate experience travel beyond politics and multicultural manners to become an essential discussion of otherness. Contributors include Nathan Englander, Laila Lalami, Ana Menendez, Josip Novakovich, Wanda Coleman, Tony d'Souza, Samrat Upadhyay, Mary Yukari Waters, Roy Kesey, Luis Alfaro, and Amanda Eyre Ward, as well as other accomplished writers from Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Iran, Israel, Pakistan, and Zimbabwe, some published for the first time in the United States.
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Simplify - Tod Goldberg Southern California Booksellers Association Award Finalist 2006 
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From the author of the acclaimed novel Living Dead Girl, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, come 12 haunting stories about people caught somewhere between love and madness. Simplify, winner of the Other Voices Short Fiction Contest is the first collection of short fiction by Tod Goldberg, and portrays a world where redemption, hope and violence are never too far apart.
Simplify - Hardcover $26.99 (price includes shipping) Simplify - Trade Paperback $16.99 (price includes shipping) |
| O Street -
Corrina Wycoff Lambda Finalist 2008 
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Raised in poverty by a schizophrenic single mother who self-medicates with heroin, Elizabeth Dinard’s childhood was fraught with emotional and financial insecurity and dark exploitations. Now living a fragmented and desperate adulthood, Elizabeth continually attempts to outrun her brutal past, but proves unable to let go of her love for the charismatic, lawless mother who continues to haunt her. This debut collection of tightly linked stories introduces two of the most memorable characters in contemporary fiction, and Elizabeth’s gritty determination to survive—to simply exist—is an enormous, if bittersweet victory.
O Street - Trade Paperback $17.95 (price includes shipping) |
