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“geoffrey becker”

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  • Hot Springs

    by Geoffrey Becker ...
    Compelling and darkly comic, Hot Springs is the road-trip love story about a young woman who gave up her child for adoption and her quest, five years later, to steal the child back.Vibrant, sexy, and quite possibly crazy, Bernice is determined to reclaim the child she gave up for adoption five years ago. She convinces her boyfriend, Landis, to help carry out her plan, but once the abduction is ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • A Perfect Souvenir

    Stories about Travel from the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction

    by Gail Galloway Adams, Geoffrey Becker, Daniel Curley, Philip F. Deaver, Dennis Hathaway, Mary Hood, Tom Kealey, Peter LaSalle, E. J. Levy, Susan Neville, Dianne Nelson Oberhansly, Lori Ostlund, Anne Panning, Melissa Pritchard, Margot Singer, Sandra Thompson ...
    Series series
    Travel, and the exhilarating experiences it offers us, is the shared concern of these stories, which have been chosen from among the hundreds that have appeared in the prestigious Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction series.More than seventy volumes, which include approximately eight hundred stories, have won the Flannery O'Connor Award. This stunning trove of always engaging, often ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • Black Elvis

    Stories

    by Geoffrey Becker ...
    Series series
    In this funny, touching collection about music, identity, liars, and love, Geoffrey Becker brings us into the lives of people who have come to a turning point and lets us watch as they take, however clumsily, their next steps.In the title story, an aging black singer who performs only Elvis songs despite his classic bluesman looks has his regular spot at the local blues jam threatened by a newly ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Dangerous Men

    by Geoffrey Becker ...
    Series series
    Geoffrey Becker's Dangerous Men was selected by Charles Baxter as the winner of the fifteenth annual Drue Heinz Literature Prize. His manuscript was selected from nearly three hundred submitted by published writers.In these tightly drafted stories, Becker creates a wide variety of distinct voices, peculiar characters, and odd stettings, with tantalizing emphasis on lonliness, loss, and the ever ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

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  • Gwendy's Button Box

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  • I Hate Everyone...Starting with Me

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  • The Secrets You Keep

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  • My First Five Husbands...And the Ones Who Got Away

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  • Long Way Gone

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  • Love Is a Mix Tape

    Life, Loss, and What I Listened To

    by Rob Sheffield ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A “humorous, heartbreaking, and heroic” (Entertainment Weekly) memoir of one man’s passionate relationship with an unforgettable woman, from their first meeting to her untimely death, told through the songs on fifteen mix tapes“The happiest, saddest, sweetest book about rock ‘n’ roll that I’ve ever experienced.”—Chuck Klosterman“A memoir that manages, no small feat, to ... Read more

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  • No One Tells You This

    A Memoir

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    No One Tells You This is “sharp, intimate…A funny, frank, and fearless memoir…and a refreshing view of the possibilities—and pitfalls—personal freedom can offer modern women” (KirkusReviews**)****.**When a successful woman in New York City approaches her fortieth birthday without a partner or baby, what then? This question plagued Glynnis MacNicol. Despite a successful career as a writer and an ... Read more

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