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In Me Own Words: The Autobiography of Bigfoot
by Graham Roumieu  
Publisher Comments Roumieu, whose illustrations have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Progressive, reveals the hairy hominids's brave struggles with eating disorders, casual cannibalism, and philosophical quandaries ("Me once...
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The Beautiful: Collected Poems
by Michelle Tea
Publisher Comments "Tea writes with a raw-hearted, wry but wide-eyed ebullience, rendering dyke bohemia with intense, gritty, glittering romanticism."-The San Francisco Bay Guardian Before penning her contemporary classic Valencia, Tea wrote wonderfully honest narrative...
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The Insomniac Reader: Stories of the Night
by Kevin Sampsell Publisher Comments People are different at night. More desperate, violent, or sad. Sometimes hunting for adventure, sex, drugs. Cruising around, throwing their bodies recklessly into...anything. The stories in The Insomniac Reader: Stories of the Night examine the dark...
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Gutterboys
by Alvin Orloff Synopsis Gutterboys is a twisted tale of steamy gay sex and unrequited love in Lower Manhattan in the early 1980s. Filled with scenes of debauchery and explicitly depicted gay sex, this wanton outing portrays a carnal world of orgiastic delights that may never...
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From the Inside Out: Radical Gender Transformation, FTM and Beyond
by Morty Diamond Publisher Comments Born female yet little identified with that gender, these transgender, genderqueer, third gender, and gender variant writers offer personal insights into changing gender identity, dating, workplace issues, and more. This book shines light on those who...
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Flashbacks and Premonitions: Stories
by Jon Longhi Synopsis "Flashbacks and Premonitions" is populated by the entire spectrum of contemporary alternative culture: slackers, Goths, punks, hippies, and ravers. Surreal yet strangely realistic, Jon Longhi's carnival is a portrait of modern America in decline, a...
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Wake Up and Smell the Beer
by Jon Longhi Publisher Comments San Francisco's underground unleashes a wild tempest of melancholy and psychodrama on an unsuspecting world. Poets, drag queens, performance artists, musicians, and strippers wander in and out of a yearlong hangover through seedy nightclubs, all-night...
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Monster Fashion
by Jarret Keene Publisher Comments Whether he is writing about Godzilla, Alfred E. Neuman, Ava Gardner, concealed weapons, or X-ray specs, Jarret Keene is always building a bigger world, tearing it down, and then putting it back together, each time creating a new place. As American a poet...
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Monkey Girl: Swingin' Stories
by Beth Lisick Publisher Comments In a new collection of stories, celebrated spoken-word artist Beth Lisick evokes the rollicking world of post-boom America. An impoverished but proud office drone ("I am the reigning queen of the Toshiba BD copy machine") gets a makeover. A teenager...
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Walking Barefoot in the Glassblowers Museum
by Ellyn Maybe Publisher Comments Full title: 'Walking Barefoot in the Glass Blowers Museum'. Chosen as one of the Top 10 Poets to Watch in the Millennium, by Writer's Digest magazine....
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Bite Hard (97 Edition)
by justin Chin Synopsis The first collection by award-winning performance artist/poet Justin Chin In Bite Hard, poet Justin Chin explores his identity as an Asian, a gay man, an artist, and a lover. He rails against both his own life experiences and society's limitations and...
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Color Me Arnold: The Unofficial Arnold Schwarzenegger Coloring and Activity Book!
by Conor Buckley Publisher Comments Created by Santa Barbara artists Conor Buckley and Lawrence Gipe, Color Me Arnoldoffers 64 pages of political satire and ridiculousness inspired by the California governor's own words and actions-resulting in an uproarious, provocative perspective on the...
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Intelligent Jokes
by Sion Rubi Publisher Comments The joke is a literary genre: a folksy interpretation of a short story. Clever readers looking for more than a rudimentary punch line, lovers of "shaggy dog stories,"as well as those who appreciate lighthearted insights into personal relationships, send...
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The Civil Disobedience Handbook: A Brief History and Practical Advice for the Politically Disenchanted
by James Tracy Publisher Comments Non-violent civil disobedience is an American tradition, an essential element of a working democracy. From the Bill of Rights and Henry David Thoreau's classic 1849 essay On the Duty of Civil Disobedience to contemporary direct action tactics utilized...
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Escape from Houdini Mountain
by Pleasant Gehman Synopsis Short Fiction. "Escape from Houdini Mountain" contains twenty-six escapist reveries and scintillating escapades populated by rockstars and wannabes, acid-dropping clowns, aging punk rockers, desperate women, and transvestite-turned-evangelists inhabiting...
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I Married an Earthling
by Alvin Orloff Synopsis In this rollicking send-up of traditional science fiction, an Earth Studies professor from the planet Zeeron decides to increase his university status by visiting Earth accompanied by Veeba 22, a chic hairdresser of the highest social order. What happens...
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This Too Can Be Yours
by Beth Lisick
Publisher Comments In this wholly unpredictable collection of tongue-in-chic short stories, Beth Lisick casts a cool eye on the lost and living dead of offices, nightclubs, shopping malls, and rent-controlled apartments. Pretentious web designers, reality show wannabes...
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Dirty Money and Other Stories
by Ayn Imperato Synopsis In these 23 brilliantly humorous short stories, Ayn Imperato reports on the contemporary urban life of a groovy punk rock gal in search of love, fun, and gainful employment. Along the way, she works at a Goth store ("Mr. Bojangles and the Brain"), poses...
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In the Small of My Backyard
by Matt Cook Publisher Comments In his outrageous debut volume, poetry slam champ Matt Cook tackles American history (President Garfield), personal history (The Way I Tie My Shoes), literary history (James Joyce), and other topics. Quirky and humorous, with a subtext of social...
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Po Mans Child
by Marci Blackman Synopsis A 27-year-old African-American lesbian named Po stars in this narrative of betrayal, kinky sex, religious fanaticism, and the supernatural. After sustaining a serious injury that occurs during an S/M with her lover and receiving a call from her brother...
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