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Recently published October 6, 2009 by HarperCollins
A women’s studies professor I had in graduate school once suggested that the real problems of sexism were not caused so much by the ways we...
Published May 2009 by St. Martin’s Griffin.
H.P. Newquist and Rich Maloof don’t mess around.
We’re not here to talk about the metaphysics of dying or to ponder the mysteries of the Great Beyond. We’re here to talk about...
Published April 2009 by Seal Press
I finished this book almost two weeks ago, and it has taken me that long to wrap my head around writing this review. Purge:Rehab Diaries is Nicole John’s multi-format memoir of living with and seeking treatme...
Set for publication January 27th, 2009 from Ballantine Books
When we first meet Henry Lee, it is 1986, and he is walking past the Panama Hotel in Seattle, which has been boarded up since World War II. Henry notices a crowd gathering on the steps of t...