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Keyhole Factory

Set in an alternate present that is a slightly, if dangerously, skewed version of our own, Keyhole Factory tracks the interwoven destinies of disparate characters up to and beyond the end of the...

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Jamestown

Jamestown A Novel Matthew Sharpe Set in the indeterminate but not too distant future, Jamestownchronicles a group of “settlers” (more like survivors) from the ravaged island of Manhattan, departing...

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Iris Has Free Time

The end of youth: when childhood is behind you, and adulthood remains just out of reach

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How the Dead Dream

How the Dead Dream Lydia Millet Devoted to money and to ideas of power and political ambition, entrepreneur and former frat boy T. wants to establish himself in real estate in Los Angeles, having spent...

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Heredity

Heredity Jenny Davidson Heredity tells the story of Elizabeth Mann, a young woman plagued by self-destructive habits, who thinks leaving New York will solve her problems. Taking a travel-writing...

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Gone and Back Again

Gone and Back Again Jonathon Scott Fuqua Caley’s family is on the move again, dragging Caley, his brother Fulton, and his sister Louise all over the country. With each new home, Caley loses another...

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Ghosted

Ghosted A Novel By Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall Growing up, Mason Dubisee had a hundred future selves: Jedi. Cowboy. Jedi-cowboy, explorer, rock star, Sandinista-Gandhi-Hemingway-Indiana-Jones type thing....

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Fight Song

When his bicycle is intentionally run off the road by a neighbor's SUV, something snaps in Bob Coffin. Modern suburban life has been getting him down and this is the last straw. To avoid following in...

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Everyone’s Pretty

Everyone’s Pretty A Novel Lydia Millet Dean Decetes, a pornographer with messianic delusions, spins out of control in Los Angelese, where he spends his time drinking himself into a stupor, getting...

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Cool for You

Cool for You Eileen Myles Cool For You traces the downbeat progress of an Irish-American girl through a series of stuttering efforts to leave home. Cool For You‘s tough-girl narrator wants to be an...

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Confessions of a Teenage Jesus Jerk

Confessions of a Teenage Jesus Jerk Tony DuShane Gabe is a teenage Jehovah’s Witness convinced God is going to kill him at Armageddon for masturbating.But Gabe’s not alone: there’s his best friend...

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Complication

A serial killer with a penchant for severed hands. A watch that runs backward and forward – at the same time. An Eastern European gangster known only as Rumplestiltskin. The Nazi invasion of Prague,...

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Choir Boy

Choir Boy Charlie Anders A gonzo Confederacy of Dunces mixed with Sarah, Choir Boy combines off-kilter humor and its own brand of modern day magic in a rollicking, bittersweet story about growing up...

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Children of the Sun

Children of the Sun A Novel Max Schaefer 1970: Fourteen-year-old Tony becomes seduced by Britain’s neo-Nazi movement, sucked into a world of brutal racist violence and bizarre ritual. It’s an...

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Candy In Action

by Matthue Roth • Candy always had a million guys after her. Only, before, they never used GPS tracking and surveillance helicopters...

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Burn, Christmas! Burn!!

Burn, Christmas! Burn!! Brian Gage Illustrated by Jeff Petersen Burn, Christmas! Burn!! is a humorous Christmas book about Santa’s Elves who are tired of being third-rate drones in his oppressive...

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Broken Glass

Broken Glass Alain Mabanckou Alain Mabanckou’s riotous novel, BROKEN GLASS, centers on the patrons of a run-down bar in the Congo. In a country that appears to have forgotten the importance of...

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Black Flies

Black Flies A Novel Shannon Burke A gritty and melancholic novel about a paramedic seeking both to escape from and dive deeper into the seamy world of nighttime Upper Manhattan in the early 1990′s....

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At Dawn

Caught in a riptide of haphazard underemployment, at turns violent and unpredictable, suffering under a bad economy with no family or friends to speak of, Stratton Brown longs for the chance to escape...

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American Genius, A Comedy

American Genius, A Comedy by Lynne Tillman Pub date: October 2006 List price: $15.00 ISBN: 1-933368-44-6 Paper • 6″x8.25″ • 320 pages Ebook: 978-1-59376-333-6 This is what we’d get if Jane Austen were...

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