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Throat of the Night

Andon Press
248 pages
$9.99


“Lies, Deceit, Kidnapping, Treason. When friends can’t be trusted, and courage becomes costly, can Malai and Trevin trust their love to hold?

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Throat of the Night

Midnight, Jesus, & Me

ECW Press
324 pages
$17.95


“Gorgeous, brilliantly written, deeply moving, funny as f-bomb, life-affirming and just plain stunning. J.M. Blaine’s debut will blow you away.”

Augusten Burroughs, author, Running with Scissors

Midnight, Jesus, & Me

The Nigger Factory

Grove Press
256 pages
$15


“For more than two decades [Gil Scott-Heron] has been committed to examining those facets of the human condition that most of us would rather forget . . . he is an artist who has crafted witty but crucial insights for black America.”

Washington Post

The Nigger Factory

Memphis Going Down

Sartoris Literary Group
286 pages
$20.95


Memphis Going Down is told in the words of the record producers, performers, and songwriters themselves as they reflect on their lives and music and its impact on popular culture.”

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Memphis Going Down

British and Irish Women Writers and the Women's Movement: Six Literary Voices of Their Times

McFarland & Company
220 pages
$53.50


“In the third wave, Irish writers express the frustrations of their cultural identity. Nuala O’Faolain’s My Dream of You takes her protagonist back to Ireland to heal her psychic wounds. In England, Thatcherism had created a materialistic culture that eroded many feminists’ socialist values. Fay Weldon’s Big Woman satirizes the demise of second-wave idealism, asking where feminism can go from here.”

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British and Irish Women Writers and the Women's Movement: Six Literary Voices of Their Times

Sum It Up: A Thousand and Ninety-Eight Victories, a Couple of Irrelevant Losses, and a Life in Perspective

Crown Archetype
416 pages
$28


“Basketball legend Pat Summitt recalls her life in vivid detail, describing its triumphs, both on and off the court…. With her trademark honesty and grace, Summitt reveals her fears, her early anger and astonishment, her diminishing abilities, her decision to retire, and how her faith sustains her.”

USA Today

Sum It Up: A Thousand and Ninety-Eight Victories, a Couple of Irrelevant Losses, and a Life in Perspective

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