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 A Brief History Of Time Shaindel Beers Salt Publishing, 2009http://astore.amazon.com/contrary-20/detail/1844715051http://astore.amazon.com/contrary-20/detail/1844715051http://astore.amazon.com/contrary-20/detail/1844715051http://astore.amazon.com/contrary-20/detail/1844715051shapeimage_6_link_0shapeimage_6_link_1shapeimage_6_link_2
 Fort Red Border Kiki Petrosino Sarabande Books, 2009http://astore.amazon.com/contrary-20/detail/1932511741http://astore.amazon.com/contrary-20/detail/1932511741http://astore.amazon.com/contrary-20/detail/1932511741http://astore.amazon.com/contrary-20/detail/1932511741shapeimage_7_link_0shapeimage_7_link_1shapeimage_7_link_2
 One World, Our World Grace Wells Irish Aid, 2009http://www.irishaid.gov.ie/article.asp?article=1420http://www.irishaid.gov.ie/article.asp?article=1420http://www.irishaid.gov.ie/article.asp?article=1420http://www.irishaid.gov.ie/article.asp?article=1420shapeimage_8_link_0shapeimage_8_link_1shapeimage_8_link_2

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 The Adventures of Cancer Bitch S.L. Wisenberg University of Iowa, 2009http://astore.amazon.com/contrary-20/detail/1587298023http://astore.amazon.com/contrary-20/detail/1587298023http://astore.amazon.com/contrary-20/detail/1587298023http://astore.amazon.com/contrary-20/detail/1587298023shapeimage_10_link_0shapeimage_10_link_1shapeimage_10_link_2
TOO CLOSE TO HOME SHAINDEL BEERS The inside of the dust jacket says, “Penn County, Indiana, 1986: Eleven-year-old Trudie Brice is strangled to death in her home two weeks before Christmas. The crime goes unsolved.” I read this book because Trudie Brice is really Brandie Peltz, and Brandie was my friend.... MOREBrandie.htmlBrandie.htmlBrandie.htmlshapeimage_12_link_0shapeimage_12_link_1shapeimage_12_link_2
GIRLS ON BIKES TRACY OLIVER A white panel-van rolls by too slow and the driver turns his head. He’s white, thirty-something with a short dark beard. We lock eyes and the place just between my stomach and lungs feels like it is being squeezed. His stare is deep and gray and some old part of my brain knows that he doesn’t just want my tits and ass, he wants my soul.... MORE TALES OF THE DEVIL’S WIFE CARMEN LAU When I give birth it is to monsters. They do not have souls. My husband, the Devil, told me so after my first child was born. When they die, my husband said, that is it. There is no Heaven or Hell for them..... MORE EPITHALAMIUM A POEM BY KARA CANDITO SILENT LAMBS D.E. FREDD Nathan has been diagnosed with Selective Mutism syndrome. He has not spoken in public since kind-ergarten. Lori and I have been to three meetings. All have ended with the following question: “Are you sure there is nothing more you want to tell me about Nathan’s home life?”.... MORE CITY OF THE MILLION LIGHTS RE’LYNN HANSEN I was looking out the picture window thinking of the way of things, and how breathing is the only way out of it. I was thinking of how someday I wouldn’t be at that picture window staring out at the KFC sign lighting up Halsted street, and how my brother was out cruising the misty night in his big gold car, and how someday he wouldn’t be there either. I wondered if Cherise was my friend, or if perhaps, I only thought that she was—and how love might come to fruition.... MOREBikes.htmlBikes.htmlBikes.htmlDevils.htmlDevils.htmlDevils.htmlEpithalamium.htmlEpithalamium.htmlLambs.htmlLambs.htmlLambs.htmlLights.htmlLights.htmlLights.htmlshapeimage_13_link_0shapeimage_13_link_1shapeimage_13_link_2shapeimage_13_link_3shapeimage_13_link_4shapeimage_13_link_5shapeimage_13_link_6shapeimage_13_link_7shapeimage_13_link_8shapeimage_13_link_9shapeimage_13_link_10shapeimage_13_link_11shapeimage_13_link_12shapeimage_13_link_13
SALUMAIO PAUL REDMAN From a young age Enzo Sorrento was groomed by his father in the old ways of curing pork. As the only son of a salumaio, or salami maker, Enzo learned not only how to slaughter the pig, which in the thirties was something that people like his father, Paolo, still did themselves, but how to take the miles of intestines and tenderly flush them by hand before packing them in salt to be used later as natural casings for the salami.... MORE WHEN I SAY LOVE A POEM BY MEREDITH MARTINEZ PREPARE TO BELIEVE DANE CERVINE My daughter gasps now and then, says this isn’t right. She’s studying biology and history at school, sputters that they can’t just ignore science, gets herself all worked up. I playfully hush her, say “don’t make a scene, they might put us in some kind of Creation Museum purgatory till we come to our senses.” And as if on cue, a security guard with a large German-shepherd dog comes patrolling down the hallway.... MORE PART OF THE MOON A POEM BY GREGORY LAWLESS ON GOYA STREET EDWARD MC WHINNEY I wandered the streets of Barcelona, sometimes enchanted, sometimes suffering from what Luis called catatonic stupor, as though one way or another the world was a magical place, and democracy worked in the sense that you could die alone here and no one would care. You could live alone in a closed-in world, the attic poet as it were, the poor garret dweller stretched out with an interior world that needed no real intruders, just ghosts and spectres..... MORE LOST CLASSIC: WINGED VICTORY Outside of the small and dwindling ranks of World War I aviation enthusiasts, the novel has largely been forgotten. Those who read it, however, know that Winged Victory is more than an object of historical interest; it is a beautiful work of literature.... A Lost Classic Renewed by David M. SmithSalumaio.htmlSalumaio.htmlSalumaio.htmlLove.htmlLove.htmlBelieve.htmlBelieve.htmlBelieve.htmlMoon.htmlMoon.htmlGoya.htmlGoya.htmlGoya.htmlYeates.htmlYeates.htmlshapeimage_14_link_0shapeimage_14_link_1shapeimage_14_link_2shapeimage_14_link_3shapeimage_14_link_4shapeimage_14_link_5shapeimage_14_link_6shapeimage_14_link_7shapeimage_14_link_8shapeimage_14_link_9shapeimage_14_link_10shapeimage_14_link_11shapeimage_14_link_12shapeimage_14_link_13shapeimage_14_link_14
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