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Short stories set in Southern California, a place of dislocation, where law does not mean justice.
Conversational prose and macabre with zero in on a Mexican women detained indefinitely by immigration authorities, isolating her from her American family; a zoo employee charged with transporting the frozen head of a euthanized antelope; a lonely woman riding buses all day who cannot avert the violence building inside her.
Carole Maso, in selecting this collection as winner of the Mary McCarthy Prize, wrote: "From the world that could not be saved, the storyteller salvages small, strange stuff and assembles it into a narrative of alarming beauty and mystery and sadn | |  | | Confessions of a Carnivore
A wild romp through a minefield, a comic novel about animal behavior, endangered species, endangered democracy, and love.
After Rae's ear is shot off by a jittery security guard at the health food store, the insurance settlement allows her to take a year off from teaching. She spends it volunteering at the Los Angeles Zoo. Except for her best friend Jennie, Rae has little use for human beings. She loves cats–lots of cats. The refugee she cares for, airlifted from Afghanistan to safety, is not a person but a mountain goat.
p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">As the US goes to war and baboons fall deeply, tragically, in love, Rae's involvement with Gorilla Theater--street agitators raisin | |  | | Nobody Wakes Up Pretty
"Let’s get this out of the way," says Holly. "I’m a white woman who likes black men." But that doesn't explain why she's caught up in the web connecting crime families across the lines of race. Or why her friends are getting shot. Or whether there's anything she can do to stop the killing.
New York City, 1992. There goes the neighborhood!
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New York City, 1992. For Holly, it's the summer when the city she’s lived in all herl ife changes past recognition. And the funerals are about to begin.br />
"Let’s get this out of the way," she says. "I’m a white woman who likes black men." That includes her lover Samps. Once a young artist of promise, he's now homeless, living in a Harlem squat, and maybe, Holly fears, clinically insane.br />
But that doesn't explain why she's caught up in a web that connects Jewish, Italian, and black organized crime. | |  | | Radiant Hunger
Two households headed for a violent intersection: a devastated farm family and an apocalyptic cult. Here are people driven to the edge, forced to draw the line that can't be crossed and learn what happens after you cross it.
span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt">Albert Stille has brought his wife Ingrid and their children to a family home on the North Dakota prairie after an accident on-the-job left him disabled and unable to work. He's been denied any compensation or disability benefits, and his sense of injustice along with his head injury have left him subject to periods of uncontrolled rage. Little annoys him more than the nearest neighbors--a bunch of hippies, as far as he's concerned. But in fact something more sinister is happening down the road where a cu | |  | | The Blessing Next to the Wound: A story of art, activism, transformation
Hector Aristizabal came of age in Medellin, Colombia when it was the most dangerous city in the world. His memoir tells how he turned away from revenge and channeled his passion instead into nonviolent work for justice in his adopted home in California and abroad.
Hector Aristizábal grew up in the barrios of Medellin, Colombia, where he and his siblings had to use all their wit, wiles, and wherewithal to survive poverty, the ever-present allure of cheap drugs and very dangerous money, and the endemic violence from leftwing guerrillas, rightwing death squads, cocaine cartels, and the armed power of the State. As a young actor and psychology student, Hector was seized by the military, held in secret, and tortured. He survived and went on to find meaning in his ordeal as he channeled his desire for revenge into nonviolent activism both in h | |  | | The Fiery Alphabet
It's dangerous for a girl to be a mathematical prodigy in 18th-century Rome. Daniela and her father withdraw themselves from the world until Balsamo (known to history as the occultist Cagliostro) arrives, claiming Daniela has inherited the secrets of a longdead Jewish mystic who announced himself as the Messiah.
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by Odin odin@aflx.com
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 What causes America's mainstream media to fear and try to destroy a group of artists and their work? What happens when such a creative movement grows in strength and threatens media's bottom line? Why would extremists find it necessary to take acti |
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Pieces of Eight
by Jay Dubya
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 Pieces of Eight is an eclectic collection of eight imaginative novellas/short stories. Themes represented in the work are science fiction, paranormal, psychological drama, humor, murder/revenge and astrological fulfillment. Pieces of Eight is the com |
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