Mia Barron
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The Deadly Streets Raw, vital, uncompromising here are portraits of the lost, the damned, the helpless, trying to get a handle on life. A startling collection of hip stories by an impressive young writer, torn from the shadows of the twilight world. Muggers, slashers, street gangs, lurkers in the shadows: no need to read Lovecraft to be thoroughly terrified. Just read these 16 violent tales or take a walk in the park tonight. No Doors, No Windows...
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In Your Sexual Health, Kate White, M.D., one of the nation's leading gynecologists, helps you get in touch with your body in new ways and learn things about your sex life you never thought to ask. This book shines a light on the facts everyone with a vagina should know.
• Know when your vagina is sounding an alarm-and when it isn't
• Have periods that don't ruin your life-or your clothes
• Protect yourself from STDs and STIs
• Learn what...
104) Better When He's Bad
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Welcome to the Point . . . There's a difference between a bad boy and a boy who's bad. . . . Meet Shane Baxter. Sexy, dark, and dangerous, Bax isn't just from the wrong side of the tracks, he is the wrong side of the tracks. A criminal, a thug, and a brawler, he was the master of bad choices, until one such choice landed him in prison for five years. Now Bax is out and looking for answers, and he doesn't care what he has to do or who he has to hurt...
105) Vicious Grace
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When you're staring evil in the eye, don't forget to watch your back...?/B For the first time in forever, JaynE Heller's life is making sense. Even if she routinely risks her life to destroy demonic parasites that prey on mortals, she now has friends, colleagues, a trusted lover, and newfound confidence in the mission she inherited from her wealthy, mysterious uncle. Her next job might just rob her of all of them. At Grace Memorial Hospital in Chicago,...
106) Killing Rites
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The fourth book in M.L.N. Hanover's acclaimed Black Sun's Daughter series featuring "smooth prose and zippy action sequences" (Publishers Weekly). JaynE Heller has discovered the source of her uncanny powers: something else is living inside her body. She's possessed. Of all her companions, she can only bring herself to confide in Ex, the former priest. They seek help from his old teacher, hoping to cleanse JaynE before the parasite in her becomes...
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A dynamic mother-daughter team offers methods for creating life-enhancing relationships, healing damaged ones, and preventing connection breakdowns before they happen We are social beings, who celebrate our most significant relationships, Mother's Day, Father's Day, Valentine's Day, and so on. Then why do we so often mess them up? And in our time of nonstop global connectivity, why are more of us suffering from isolation and disconnection than ever...
109) Darker Angels
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In the battle between good and evil, there's no such thing as a fair fight. When JaynE Heller's uncle Eric died, she inherited a fortune beyond all her expectations-and a dangerous mission in a world she never knew existed. Reining in demons and supernatural foes is a formidable task, but thankfully JaynE has vast resources and loyal allies to rely on. She'll need both to tackle a bodyswitching serial killer who's taken up residence in New Orleans,...
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In That Thing You Do With Your Mouth, actress and voiceover artist Samantha Matthews offers, in the form of an extended monologue, prompted and arranged by New York Times bestselling author, and Matthews' cousin once removed David Shields, a vivid investigation of her startling sexual history. From her abuse at the hands of a family member to her present-day life in Barcelona, where she briefly moonlighted as a dubber of Italian pornography into English,...
111) Completeness
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A play about love between gun-shy young scientists! Just how does a computer scientist romance a molecular biologist? Elliot offers to build a computer program to help Molly with her latest research project, but they discover that love just might be the winning formula - if they can only move beyond their fear and past heartbreak.An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring:Jason Ritter as Elliot;Mandy Siegfried as Molly;André Sogliuzzo...
113) A Caller's Game
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"I'm going to offer you a choice." Controversial satellite radio talk show host, Jordan Briggs, has clawed her way to the top of the broadcast world. She doesn't hold back, doesn't spare feelings, and has no trouble sharing what's on her mind. Her rigorous pursuit of success has come at a price, though. Her marriage is in ruins, she hasn't spoken to her mother in years, and she's distanced herself from all those close to her. If not for her young...
114) 13 Rue Therese
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French-born author Elena Mauli Shapiro vividly recreates Paris during World War I in this captivating novel. 13 rue Therese follows Trevor Stratton, an American academic working in Paris who discovers a keepsake box dated back to the Great War. The box, Trevor discovers, belonged to a piano teacher named Louise Brunet. Inside it are mementos that give Trevor clues to Louise's life, including the love she lost in the war and her affair with a neighbor....
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A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE A LOS ANGELES TIMES FICTION FAVORITE FOR 2009 A SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE BEST BOOK OF 2009
Lydia Davis is one of our most original and influential writers, a storyteller celebrated for her emotional acuity, her formal inventiveness, and her ability to capture the mind in overdrive. She has been called " an American virtuoso of the short story form" ( Salon.com ) and " one of the quiet giants . . . of American...
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Describes how author Truman Capote became obsessed with the true crime story of a Manhattan socialite who shot her banking heir husband in 1955, and discusses how publication of his book led to her suicide and his own scandalous downfall.
In 1955, Anne Woodward, a former showgirl turned society wife, accidentally shot and killed her husband Billy when she mistook him for a midnight prowler. But was it accidental? The case never went to trial, and...
117) Cities of Women
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A disillusioned history professor pushes past the point of obsession to prove the existence of the female artist who illustrated Christine de Pizan's manuscripts. In the twenty-first century, we meet Verity Frazier, a disillusioned history professor who sets out to prove that the artist responsible for the illuminated artwork in Christine de Pizan's medieval manuscripts was a remarkable woman named Anastasia. As Anastasia's story unfolds against the...
118) Dark One: Forgotten
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From Hugo Award winning, New York Times Best-Selling author, Brandon Sanderson (The Mistborn Trilogy, The Stormlight Archive series) comes DARK ONE, a new graphic novel series from Vault Comics. Dark One examines the dual roles we often take on in life - the ability to be a savior. The story takes places both on Earth and in an alternate world called Mirandus, with the two worlds influencing each other, even though only some in each are aware of the...
119) Sand Cove 2
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"Some secrets you have to be prepared to take to the grave, but if you truly want to keep a secret, you must hide it from yourself." From the outside looking in, the residents of Sand Cove are perfect, but their countless secrets and lies are under the guise of expensive perfumes and honey-sweet smiles. Summer has come around again, yet it doesn't feel like summer. The sky isn't blazed in blue, and the sun isn't a celebration of oranges and yellows....
120) Star Bringer
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2023
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Firefly meets The Breakfast Club in this snarky, new adult romance.
The sun is dying...and it's happening way too damn fast.
With the clock ticking, the Nine Planets' only hope of survival rests on a fancy space station and the alien artifact it's carrying. Which is why it really sucks when some jackass doesn't want the universe saved and blows that station up—while you're still on it.
So if your