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Body Shoppe by Allen Lucarelli
Click here to read this hilarious screenplay
What if the world's greatest invention was developed by its most dysfunctional company?
Trinity: A Haydn & Speaker Mystery
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from the author of Cy Young: A Baseball Life and Baseball's Greatest Season: 1924.
Across the Green Line: Cyprus Portraits — Peter Rutkoff
In this intimate visit with the complex people of a divided island, Peter Rutkoff explores both sides of the contentious issues that comprise Cyprus, while taking us on a ground-level tour of this fascinating place. Includes over 35 photographs of people and places along the way. Own this book $14.95 |
Allerton Bywater: A Yorkshire Boyhood — Bruce Haywood
This is a charming and thoughtful gaze back across the Atlantic at a specific place in time -- the author's home ground, an English coal mining town of the 1930's and 40's. The peculiar human ways of that place and its people come across clearly and endearingly in this lively memoir. The process of becoming American and seeing his old home ground anew, through American eyes, is an insightful thread throughout. Own this book $12.95 |
Flowering Bruno — Charlene FixIllustrated by Susan Josephson Poetry and illustrations tracing the life of an extraordinary dog — "a beloved companion, teacher and muse." FINALIST FOR OHIOANA BOOK OF THE YEAR, NATIONAL POETRY DAY POET OF THE YEAR. $12.00 |
Shiraz — Robert Hamburger
This deft novel depicts a group of young Americans in mid-1970's Iran, amid the crumbling of the Shah's reign — a decisive turning point for the U.S. in the Middle East. It reveals cracks and shadows in that time that have since deepened and widened, providing a vivid back story to present disasters. $10.00 |
But That Didn't Happen to You — Harry Marten
Living, remembering, imagining and telling-these are inventive acts that create what we share as reality. Here, life happens comically, verbally, with a clear sense of what we know, and shape, as story and as history. Own this book $10.00 |
The Essential College — Bruce Haywood
"At once an affectionate memoir, an eloquent sermon, and an incisive lament…
for the enterprise of liberal education."
$12.95 |
Ecology of Being — Peter White
"…A critically important book, perhaps a modern masterpiece… deeply moving and important… it needs to be widely read." $22.95 |
Final Exam — P.F. Kluge
"Like some of my favorite movies,
Final Exam
uses a classic genre and twists it into something
new and compelling and memorable." $14.95
Special Offer — add Kluge's Biggest Elvis |
Last/First Stories — Fielding Dawson
The last short story collection of his lifetime, and his first posthumous collection. "A prominent book editor stopped me on the street to comment, bitterly, that no one in the big press had seen fit to remark on the passing of Fielding Dawson, a local NYC resident and one of the last survivors of the literary era that is associated with Black Mountain, the Beats, and their contemporaries in other forms of art — Abstract Expressionism, Pop, Shaped Canvas — as well as early Rock." Wally Dobelis Stream Audio Own these books $20.00 for the pair |
The Events at Vista Bay — August Franza Own this book $10.00 |
The Wrath of Grapes — Patrick Meanor "Rich & hilarious" meditation on music, food, art, film, literature & the hangover. Own this book $10.00 
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Coming to You from the Blue Room — Loranne Temple Own this book $10.00 |
The Next Hedgerow — Peter RutkoffThe voice of a father lost to war returns through these letters, V-mails and stories.
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$10.00 |
To Be a Man: Johnny Wilson, Jr. —Susan Rothenberg "Rural black America, baseball, the waterfront… an 'ordinary' story I found simply extraordinary." Fay Vincent
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Littlewood Farm 5 AM — Ed Schiebel
Rising sounds of sunrise on a central Ohio farm… an amazing soundscape that transports you into America's heartland at dawn. Own this CD $10.00 |
Dear Bert — Grace Kull
Letters that paint a lively & intimate picture of small-town life in Cooperstown, NY 1958 to 1968
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Traces — John E. Rames
A young GI's letters home from World War II Europe… "evocative, funny, heartbreaking."
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$15.00 |
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