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'Compulsive, addictive and gripping – a truly five star read! Diane Saxon is a name to look out for !' Geraldine Hogan A high adrenaline new psychological crime series, introducing Detective Sergeant Jenna Morgan. Perfect for fans of Angela Marsons, Karen Rose and Mel Sheratt. Responding to reports of deadly screams in the Ironbridge Gorge, Detective Sergeant Jenna Morgan is first on the scene to investigate. As the search intensifies, Jenna soon discovers her sister Fliss’s severely injured Dalmatian, Domino and the naked, tortured body of an unknown woman. Who is the dead woman and where is her sister Fliss? 'The characters are well rounded and the story had an excellent pace, I started reading this and became very reluctant to put it down, which is always the mark of a good read.' Caroline Marston, UK Crime Book Club[i][/i] 'The Keeper is a dark, unsettling read that will keep you on the edge of your seat. I couldn’t stop turning the pages.' Sarah Ward ' A nail-biting psychological thriller you won’t forget in a hurry' Cherry Adair What readers are saying about  The Keeper : 'Absolutely loved this book! The story flows, the characters are fascinating and I couldn't tear myself away. Highly recommended.''This book has everything: fear, suspense, murder and deception. This is a book that kept me reading far into the night because I had to find out what the outcome was. It was well worth the lost sleep!' 'I was gripped from the first to the last page and read this book in one sitting only stopping when I really had to. Full of tension and suspense which definitely got my heart racing.'

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“From Susie Wong to Madame Butterfly to Miss Saigon: you might think that we've had enough of American men adventuring, scoring, and coming undone in the Far East. But you'd be wrong. Gammarino's Big in Japan is a shrewd and lively book, sharp-eyed and unsparing in its account of a young American's good and very bad moments overseas. The writing is wired and the ultimate judgement is merciless. It's seductive and it's devastating.” —PF Kluge, author of Eddie and the Cruisers and Gone Tomorrow While playing to lackluster crowds in their hometown of Philadelphia, progressive rock band Agenbite clings to the comforting half-truth that they're doing better in Japan. When their manager agrees to send them over on a shoestring tour, though, they're swiftly forced to give up their illusions and return stateside.All but one of them, that is.Brain Tedesco, the band's obsessive-compulsive nerve center, has fallen in love with a part-time sex worker – the first woman ever to have touched him – and his illusions have only just begun. What ensues is a gritty coming-of-age tale in which Brain, intent on achieving some kind of transcendence, paradoxically (or not so paradoxically) descends into the Hungry Ghost realm of Tokyo’s underworld. He becomes, in effect, a gaki – the insatiable creature of Buddhist cosmology – and must learn how to live even as his outsize desires threaten to engulf him.By turns compassionate and ruthless, erotic and grotesque, riotously serious and deadly funny, Big in Japan is a sparking, gut-wrenching, face-melting debut novel.

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As an author of two previous books, Chicago Stories and Elephants in Our Bedroom, Czyzniejewski has an established following of writers and writing students. A beloved editor and professor, Czyzniejewski has a solid base of supporters and fans and sells very well among AWP types.Author's lifelong love for the Chicago Cubs and Major League Baseball and gig as a beer man at Wrigley endears him to male readers ages 25-50.This collection is a literary experiment exploring the staggering number of ways people fall out of love, making it relatable to a wide audience.As an exploration of stories about love it is similar in tone, inventiveness, and wit to The Magnetic Fields' 69 Love Songs.Teaches writing at Missouri State UniversityEditor currently of Moon City Review and formerly of Mid-American Review.

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"School Board is a total joy to read, as full of sass and subversive brass as its 18-year-old hero, the political neophyte and Houston school board candidate Tucker 'Catfish' Davis … I hope School Board is the first of many more to come from this gifted young writer."-Ben Fountain, author of National Book Critics Circle Award winner Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk and Brief Encounters with Che Guevara“Into the riotous cavalcade of great American literary characters tumbles a new class clown, Tucker 'Catfish' Davis, high school senior and aspiring politician. One part Ignatius J. Reilly from A Confederacy of Dunces, one part Hazel Motes from Wise Blood, and several parts Willie Stark from All the King's Men, Catfish Davis is a singular presence on the page. Mike Freedman hasn't just written the funniest book about a school board election, he's written the kind of David-and-Goliath story that gets all of us 'little people' cheering and laughing in equal measure.”-David Abrams, author of Fobbit Houston, Texas, 1999. Enter Tucker «Catfish» Davis, a high school senior with high-flying political ambitions as the self-proclaimed heir to populist Louisiana Governors Huey and Earl Long. Armed with idealism and a fedora, he embarks on a quixotic campaign to get elected to the local school board in an effort to help the «little people» of Houston.In the wild days that follow, Catfish's long-shot bid gains traction through guerilla campaigning against a questionable tax deal supported by his opponent, a powerful executive at an Enron-esque energy company. With the help of his classmates, an indicted Louisiana governor, a gay journalist with nascent mayoral ambitions and an ex-Green Beret trained to wage unconventional warfare, Catfish makes it a race Houston will never forget.Based on an actual 1999 news story, School Board is an entertaining but satirical debut novel that revels in the diversity, madness and absurdities of the Bayou City.

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Поэзия и проза всегда существовали вместе, под единым крылом литературного мира. Едва ли между ними можно провести четкую границу, поскольку любой текст может быть поэтичным – даже без идеальной рифмы. Эти понятия никак нельзя рассматривать обособленно, что и показывает новый сборник Михаила Рэйвхарта. Загадочные и мистические баллады, романтические оды, фантастические рассказы и истории на грани вымысла и реальности – все они собрались здесь, под одной обложкой. Каждое стихотворение и каждый рассказ – будто деталь пазла. Это элементы, из которых складывается новый образ современной русской литературы.

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Set in Hollywood, California, Sex, Cheese and French Fries is a witty look at relationships, using as premise an American woman&#39;s life with an irreverent Frenchman named Pierre Bonsoirno. <br><br>Beautifully illustrated by noted Los Angeles artist Jeannie Winston Nogai, each chapter of this book takes the reader on a journey of adventure, comic miscommunication, and ultimately the sublime rewards of falling &mdash; and staying &mdash; in love, as long as the partners are willing to work for it.

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An inventive novel, Make It, Take It sneaks the reader past the press conferences, locker rooms, and huddles of college basketball. Without judgment or sentimentality, Rus Bradburd lays bare the web of conflicts between players and coaches, blacks and whites, revealing the complex humanity of a team&#8217;s inner circle. Here, every choice has a very real cost.Steve Pytel is an assistant coach and top recruiter for a university basketball program. His goals are simple. He wants to keep his job and be a head coach someday. Keeping his wife barely makes the list. The team staggers; everyone&#8217;s days are numbered. Pytel was responsible for landing prized recruits Leonard Redmond and Jamal Davis. Pytel&#8217;s duties now? Keep Leonard out of jail. Make sure Jamal ignores the advice of his preacher, sidesteps his girlfriend&#8217;s pregnancy, and puts the ball in the basket. Good thing Pytel doesn&#8217;t carry around a bagful of scruples.Rus Bradburd is the author of the controversial Forty Minutes of Hell: The Extraordinary Life of Nolan Richard (HarperCollins/Amistad) and a memoir, Paddy on the Hardwood: A Journey in Irish Hoops (University of New Mexico Press). He spent fourteen years as a college basketball coach, working for legends Don Haskins and Lou Henson. A regular contributor to SLAM Magazine, his essays have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, Houston Chronicle, and Chicago&#8217;s SouthtownStar. He is married to poet Connie Voisine. They live in New Mexico and Chicago, Illinois.

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Since the publication of <i>Love and Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere</i>, with an introduction by Cheryl Strayed, legions of Poe Ballantine fans have been waiting for his new book.<p>


Poe Ballantine is touted as the most «under known» writer by Tom Robbins and many other writers and reviewers such as Cheryl Strayed, Seth Marko, MINNEAPOLIS STAR TRIBUNE, UVU REVIEW, Marion Winik on NPR.</p>


Poe Ballantine is a frequent contributor to <i>The Sun Magazine</i></p>


Isaac Fitzgerald of Buzzfeed is a staunch Poe Ballantine fan and will give both a blurb and support through his organization as well as his books segment on <i>Good Morning America</i>

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&#147;Brontez is a raw tongue of flame blazing through all the blatant fakery and insincere bullshit of today&#8217;s gay/music/human scene. This audacious non-memoir burnt the hair off the back of my neck and had me rolling with glee.&#8221; &#151;S.F. Bay GuardianA dirty cult-classic put out in a small batch by an underground publisher (Rudos and Rubes) in 2015, Johnny Would You Love Me If My Dick Were Bigger recounts the life of an artist and &#147;old school homosexual&#8221; who bears a big resemblance to author Brontez Purnell. Our hero doesn&#8217;t trust the new breed of fags taking over San Francisco, though. They wear bicycle helmets, seat belts, and condoms. Meanwhile, he sabotages his relationships, hallucinating affection while cruising in late night parks, bath-houses, and other nooks and crannies of a newly-conservative, ruined city.Furiously original, vital, and messy, this funny &#147;non-memoir&#8221; uncovers a revelatory truth for the age: there are things far scarier than HIV.

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Named a Best Book of 2015 by NPR and Vanity Fair «Rifles through fear, identity, meaning, and cultural memory in forty-four short, surreal stories.» &#151;Vanity Fair"By turns moving, funny, and maddening&#133;. very much in the key of Donald Barthelme." &#151;The New York Times Book Review"Somehow both grounded and absurd, each one of the stories trying get at that heart of the confusion and sadness at the core of contemporary life." &#151;VICEFrom the highly acclaimed author of Edisto and The Interrogative Mood, Padgett Powell&#8217;s new collection of stories, Cries for Help, Various, follows his mentor Donald Barthelme&#8217;s advice that &#147;wacky mode&#8221; must &#147;break their hearts.&#8221; The surrealistic and comical terrain of most of the forty-four stories here is grounded by a real preoccupation with longing, fear, work, loneliness, and cultural nostalgia. These universal concerns are given exhilarating life by way of Powell&#8217;s &#147;wit, his . . . dazzling turns of phrase&#8221; (Scott Spencer).Padgett Powell&#8217;s language is both lofty and low-down, his tone cranky and heartfelt, exuberant and inconsolable. His characters rebel against convention and ambition, hoping to maintain their very sanity by doing so. Even the most hilarious or fantastical stories in Cries for Help, Various ring gloriously, poignantly, true.

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