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A novel about sexual love, straight and queer, about love between friends, between exes, between parents and children, between lovers old and new, Erik Tarloffs Tell Me the Truth About Love tells the story of Toby Lindeman, a divorced man in San Francisco leading what appears to be an enviable bachelors life. Suave, attractive, somewhat detached from the emotional needs of those around him, he seems to sail blithely above lifes common difficulties as he goes about his duties as chief fundraiser for the San Francisco Opera.But then, to his own surprise, he falls passionately in love with the most inappropriate woman possible, the long-time mistress of the powerful man on whom his own future seems to depend. As Toby navigates the risks of this relationship, encountering heartbreak and professional catastrophe along the way, he also finds himself reconnecting on a much deeper level with all the people in his life. Suspenseful, sexy, and often laugh-out-loud funny, Tell Me the Truth About Love is a very contemporary look at the varieties of human connection.

In the first book of the series, Danger in Plain Sight, Callie James discovers that her bartender, Cash Logan, issmuggling erotic ivory carvings, netsuke, into her restaurant. Callie pitches a fit, has him arrested, thenfamously says, When you get out of jail, dont ever come back here.Two years later, Callies ex-husband, a French investigative reporter, is almost killed when he showsup at her restaurant, after a fourteen-year absence, asking for her help. Callie has no choice but to take onan unlikely ally, Cash Logan. This improbable, incompatible team has to save her ex, her business, andultimately their own lives.Now in Rough Justice, Callie and Cash are back, and their world is about to explode.The scene is set as Callie and Cash are eating a late dinner upstairs at her restaurant, The Bronze Pig.Its been a year since they saved her ex-husbands life and subsequently had to take on unexpected, lethaladversaries. During that processconfronting kidnapping, murder and assassins burning down herrestaurantthey came together, and unexpectedly, they discover that they care deeply, romantically, forone another. Now, theyve grown comfortable together, no, more than that, against all odds, their feelingsfor each other have evolved beyond anything theyve ever knowntheyre wildly in love.So, imagine their surprise when they get an unexpected, half-Algerian female guest, twenty-five-year-old Sara, showing up at the restaurant and insisting on telling them her shocking, unbelievable story.Someone is trying to kill her, and theyve stolen her identity. She needs their help now, and she has astunning, life-changing secret to tell.Yet, again, Cash and Callie assemble their unconventional ragtag familyincluding peg-leggedAndre, and Itzac, The Macher. Together, they go to war with formidable adversaries to save Sara, andultimately their own lives. The fierce battle leads them to Cuba where they have to launch an audaciousoffensive that shocks even themand will absolutely take your breath away.

Ryan Kent and Brett Lloyd played shows together in different unknown bands, each as the respective vocalist. They got along well, and wrote many words that were often shouted over microphones more than they were read. However, contrary to typical next steps musician pals take, they didn't end up collaborating musically. Instead, they co-opted the idea to release split books together-one half dedicated to Brett, the other half dedicated to Ryan-just like two underground bands joining forces to release split 7-inches...and, henceforth, Dead Books was born.Some Of Us Love You is the second volume of a three-part Dead Books split release series by Brett Lloyd and Ryan Kent, featuring short- and long-form works that are not to be mistaken for flowery, poetic musings. This isn't Percy Shelley. This isn't Dylan Thomas. This isn't anything you can put in a vase and display on a dinner table in front of guests. This is a book meant to be read at night, as you feel like garbage, in need of something to bring it all full circle.

This is a collection of contemporary writers talking about Joan Didion's influence on them, their writing, the world, and moreFeaturing authors like Ann Friedman, host of the popular podcast Call Your Girlfriend, Jori Finkel, a regular contributor to The New York Times, and Tracy McMillan, host of Family or Finance on OWNAll contributors will reach out to their family, friends, and networks to help promote the bookEvents in Los Angeles and New YorkAnn Friedman's Call Your Girlfriend podcast has hundreds of thousands of listenersSlouching Towards Los Angeles will be the January book for The Nervous Breakdown book club and Steffie Nelson will appear on The Other PPL Podcast with Brad Listi

In a world filled with trolls, we all need to live life more like a goblin. What does it mean to ¿live life like a goblin¿? It means to give no fucks, but also all the fucks in the world at the same time. It means to be constantly anxiety ridden while also eternally optimistic. A goblin¿s heart, specifically John Goblikon¿s, is filled with love, joy, angst, constant quandary, Chili¿s Southwestern Egg rolls, metal, and empathy. Through the goblin eyes of being an internet-celebrity¿insurance-salesman¿rock and roll-mascot for the Goblin Metal outfit NEKROGOBLIKON, we learn about life, death, business, food, music, travel, culture, dating, school, drinking, compassion, and much more!John walks readers through crucial life steps, from becoming internet famous, to getting dates with special someones, to even correct ordering techniques for the perfect meal at Chili¿s.Have a problem? John Goblikon assumes he knows how to help you solve it¿all in this new, for-sure-to-be-a-New-York-Times-bestseller-and-win-like-a-hundred-awards debut book: John Goblikon¿s Guide to Living Your Best Life.

Chip has hired Gretchen Crary from February Partners to do publicityOutreach to True Crime podcasts that will host authors, and supplying galleys to those that don't host authorsMajor review outreachLA radio outreachEvents (virtual) with Vroman's, Skylight, and Pages, Manhattan BeachTrue Crime book club outreach

This book is about California. Specifically, this third volume is about Joshua Tree¿the dry, sparsely populated landscape known for its strange topography and spiritual pull. Jacqueline Suskin spent winters on a ranch at the far edge of the desert for many years, caring for mustangs and goats, walking the long sand roads in solitude. This book explores the richness of her experience in a place many view as barren, exposing its unique offerings through personal narrative. In this collection, Suskin invites readers into the often unseen magic of the desert, a place where silence and open space bring gifts of potent healing and ancient insight to those who are willing to sit still and listen.

The Fitzgeralds are buttressed by wealth and privilege, but they are also buffeted by crisis after crisis, many of their own creation. Even so, they live large, in love and in strife, wielding power, combating adversaries and each other. The Good Family Fitzgerald is a saga of money and ambition, crime and the Catholic Church, a sprawling, passionate story shaped against a background of social discord.Padraic Fitzgerald is the up-from-nothing, aging patriarch whose considerable business interests appear anything but legitimate, but he has bigger problems than law enforcement. A widower, Paddy becomes enmeshed with a young woman who will force him to re-examine his cardinal assumptions. Meanwhile, he has cultivated thorny relationships with his four children, all of whom struggle over the terms of connection with their father. Anthony-oldest son, principled criminal defense attorney, designated prince of the family-and his cherished Francesca are devastated by tragedy. In the aftermath, Frankie comes to play a vital role in Fitzgerald lore. Philip is a charismatic Catholic priest spectacularly torn between his lofty ideals and aspirations and his all-too-human flaws and longings. Matty has wandered aimlessly, but once he finds his purpose, he precipitates turmoil in all quarters. Colleen, the youngest, is a seeker who styles herself the outsider and the conscience of the clan. Her hands are full, as no Fitzgerald is left untested or unscathed, and by the end the whole family, as well as those venturing into their realm, will be stunned into illumination.

Simpsonistas: Tales from the Simpson Literary Project, Vol. 3 highlights brilliant work by associates of the Simpson Project: Joyce Carol Oates, Anthony Marra, Laila Lalami, Sigrid Nunez, and many others, including Simpson Fellows as well as young writers appearing for the first time in print.Simpsonistas is the anthology of the New Literary Project, which is committed to the proposition that storytelling is the foundation of a literate society: newliteraryproject.org.The New Literary Project promotes storytellers and storytelling across the generations, and across a tremendous spectrum: from incarcerated young men and women to high school-age students to creative writers teaching high school to distinguished mid-career authors. Simpson Fellows from UC Berkeley lead workshops for fledgling writers, Jack Hazard Fellows receive $5,000 in support of an ongoing writing project, and the annual Joyce Carol Oates Prize Recipient receives an award of $50,000 in support of a burgeoning career.

Ryan Kent and Brett Lloyd played shows together in different unknown bands, each as the respective vocalist. They got along well, and wrote many words that were often shouted over microphones more than they were read. However, contrary to typical next steps musician pals take, they didn't end up collaborating musically. Instead, they co-opted the idea to release split books together-one half dedicated to Brett, the other half dedicated to Ryan-just like two underground bands joining forces to release split 7-inches...and, henceforth, Dead Books was born.Tomorrow Ruined Today is the first volume of a three-part Dead Books split release series by Brett Lloyd and Ryan Kent, featuring short- and long-form poetic works that are as personal as they are observational, with "e;depth and careful depictions of the emotions [that] lay on the tip of each word like a serial killer on the balance between fantasy and performing reality,"e; as described by Jeff Forrest of The Universal Hitchhiker after Tomorrow Ruined Today was first published in 2019 as a limited edition paperback prior to Rare Bird's worldwide trade release.

If youre looking for the events that inspired the lyrics to all my songs? Those stories are in this book. If youre looking for what I did when I was younger? Thats in here. What changed me, made me stop hating and hurting? Its all here. This is my story and Im sticking to it. Thats the one thing I have, the truth.Volume three of Black Heart Fades Blue, a three-part memoir by the founder and frontman for one of punk rocks most notorious acts, Poison Idea.In 1980, Jerry A. formed Poison Idea, a Portland-based punk band that gave voice to disaffected and disenfranchised youth for over 30 years. As happened to so many punk bands, Jerry A. and Poison Idea also went all in on drugs and drinking as they toured the country, spiraling out of control and blowing both the band and their lives apart.Black Heart Fades Blue is not an apology or a nostalgic catalog of events, but a true reckoning with one's past and present. A memoir of a time and a place and a movement, as well as a deep conversation about the memories and moments we leave behind, Black Heart Fades Blue is a deep exploration of an unconventional life.

Underground legends Blag Dahlia and Mad Marc Rude join forces to present Armed to the Teeth with Lipstick, a hardboiled tale of sex, death, dope, and violence on this world and beyond. Originally independently released by Blag Dahlia and the Dwarves' Greedy label in 1998, Rare Bird is pleased to reissue one of the lost gems of the art and literary worlds, Armed to the Teeth with Lipstick by Dwarves' founder and frontman, Blag Dahlia, and the legendary Mad Marc Rude.Featuring dozens of exclusive illustrations, this is the novel that NASA and the American Heart Association might have branded “too shocking for human consumption,” if they had ever read it. Enjoy the thrill of shameless exploits from characters Lucifer Doolan, the Equalizer, Natasha Romilar, and the rest as they fight, fornicate, and defy physics in the Time/Space Warp. Armed to the Teeth with Lipstick returns readers to the halcyon days of 1998 with aural terrorist Blag Dahlia and the late great skin artist Marc Rude as they invite you to experience the ultimate in glorious black and white.

A photographic accompaniment to On the Road by Jack Kerouac. Carl M. Moore was itching to go on a photographic road trip. He decided to go on the road with On the Road. To see things Jack Kerouac saw and to try and capture images that compliment his metaphorical vision. Trips to Denver, New Orleans, San Francisco, and a car road trip with his son from Santa Fe to New England, along with a few existing images in his photo archive, provide the photos in the book.

God of Sperm tells the remarkable story of Dr. Cappy Miles Rothman, the son of notorious gangster Norman Roughhouse Rothman, who went on to become a trailblazer in the field of reproductive medicine.Rothman started the California Cryobank, one of the world's largest repositories of reproductive genetic material and cord-blood stem cells. Among other achievements, Rothman also pioneered the use of microsurgery in urological procedures, postmortem sperm retrieval techniques, and was one of the first practitioners of andrology, a specialty dealing with male reproductive biology and medicine.How Cappy Rothman went from Mafia scion and man-about-town during the postwar Miami Beach--Havana era of gangster chic to one of the most consequential figures in modern medicine is an epic, only-in-America tale that is also a fine reminder of the broad horizons and wild possibilities life in the U.S. can offer.

Truth and Beautiful Meaningful Lies is a collection of memorable quotes from one of the most quoted writers in American literature.One of the most celebrated writers in American literature, Jack Kerouac helped an entire generation of post-WWII Americans explore a purpose beyond the standard narrative values, spiritual ideologies, and economic materialism that was rampant throughout pre-war America. Alongside prominent beat writers like Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs, Kerouac crafted a magnum opus that would later be connected to counterculture movements throughout the 1960s.His extensive collection of novels, short stories, poetry, journals, letters, and other writings are often littered with long-winded reflections, observations, proclamations, and other mad ramblings about life, love, loss, loneliness, and the search for a new American identity. Constantly pivoting from a recluse searching "...once and for all what is the meaning of all this existence and suffering and going to and fro in vain," to a seasoned road-warrior exploring the country and sifting through the profound philosophies of Zen Buddhism, Taoism, and the meaning of Dharma, Kerouac's spontaneous style of prose generates a kind of unpolished wisdom that leaves a lasting impression long after reading.The insights and quotes assembled in this book have been woven into a patchwork of reoccurring themes found throughout Kerouac's writings, such as adventure, life, self-reflection, and spirituality are heavily featured, but more niche quotes around topics like cats, coffee, music, and sports can also be found. This collection pulls from prominent novels such as Big Sur, Desolation Angels, The Dharma Bums, On the Road: The Original Scroll, The Subterraneans, Tristessa, Vanity of Duluoz, and Visions of Cody, as well as some of his selected short stories, poems, letters, and journals.Whether you're new to Kerouac, searching for inspiration in his words, or are a self-proclaimed "mad one" looking to make sense of it all, this quote book will undoubtedly serve as a go-to reference for the discerning Kerouac reader.

A book of letters revealing the inner desires and turmoils of Jack Kerouac after his rise to literary acclaim in the 1960s. In 1960, Jack Kerouac began a correspondence with a New York artist by the name of Jacques Beckwith. The basic subject of their letters was always the same. They each longed to build a cabin in the forest which would serve as a retreat from the pressure and disappointment of the outside world. "I want to live in the woods where I don't even have to think about this evil world of wars and dishonesties," Kerouac wrote. Beckwith offered to help Jack design and build his retreat, but after years of planning only Jacques realized the dream. The world was too much with Kerouac. Alcoholism, a paternity suit, travel, the demands of a writing career, marriage, and eventually his mother's declining health kept him from making his break. These letters document all these distractions and frustrations and reveal Kerouac's desire for the solitude which Beckwith found in the New England woods.