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The tortilla curtain by T.C. Boyle
The lives of two different couples--wealthy Los Angeles liberals Delaney and Kyra Mossbacher, and Candido and America Rincon, a pair …
White queer lady in San Francisco. Knitter, transit geek, and sometime editor and cyclist. Planting peas and potatoes to prefigure an anarchist future. I listen to a lot of nonfiction audiobooks.
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The lives of two different couples--wealthy Los Angeles liberals Delaney and Kyra Mossbacher, and Candido and America Rincon, a pair …

Crows will fight over a dead man's flesh, and kill each other for his eyes.
Bloodthirsty, treacherous and cunning, the …

This world is trying to kill Lily Proctor. Her life-threatening allergies keep her from enjoying experiences that others in her …

In her hometown of Salem Lily Proctor endures not only life-threatening allergies but humiliation at her first high school party …

Tessa Dare: A Lady by Midnight (2012, HarperCollins Publishers)
A temporary engagement, a lifetime in the making… After years of fending for herself, Kate Taylor, 23, found friendship and …

A temporary engagement, a lifetime in the making… After years of fending for herself, Kate Taylor, 23, found friendship and …

Starship Troopers takes place in the midst of an interstellar war between the Terran Federation of Earth and the Arachnids …

Starship Troopers takes place in the midst of an interstellar war between the Terran Federation of Earth and the Arachnids …

Katy, a quiet French Canadian teenager, reluctantly leaves Montréal to spend time with her estranged father, an aging Los Angeles …

Stephanie Perkins: Anna and the French Kiss (2014, Penguin Publishing Group)
Anna is looking forward to her senior year in Atlanta, where she has a great job, a loyal best friend, …

A new novel by the author of Everything Is Illuminated introduces Oskar Schell, the nine-year-old son of a man killed …