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  • Tecopa Cocoa

    by Peter Jacoby ...
    Tecopa Cocoa is a fanciful, realistic, funny, insightful, scholarly and uniquely optimistic coming of age tale. During his fifteenth summer, his dad sends him west to visit his eccentric Uncle Henry, in the tiny Mojave Desert town of Tecopa. There he finds home amongst a ragtag crew of mind readers. It's also where he undergoes a bizarre metamorphosis. ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Leaves: Collected Poems

    by Peter Jacoby ...
    This is the first digital publication of of some of Mr. Jacoby's finest poetic work. Mr. Jacoby is (mostly) of the Modernist School, and uses poetry to examine the little and often overlooked things in life . . . and in people. His work, then, gives us a sometimes unique view into our world, and especially into ourselves. ... Read more

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  • Crows In the Birches: Collected Poems

    by Peter Jacoby ...
    A second and arguably darker collection of some of Mr. Jacoby's finest poetic work from the years 1963 to 2007. ... Read more

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  • The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid

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  • An American Childhood

    by Annie Dillard ...
    "An American Childhood more than takes the reader's breath away. It consumes you as you consume it, so that, when you have put down this book, you're a different person, one who has virtually experienced another childhood." — Chicago TribuneA book that instantly captured the hearts of readers across the country, An American Childhood is Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard's poignant, vivid ... Read more

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  • The Brief History of the Dead

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    by Kevin Brockmeier ...
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    From Kevin Brockmeier, one of this generation's most inventive young writers, comes a striking new novel about death, life, and the mysterious place in between.The City is inhabited by those who have departed Earth but are still remembered by the living. They will reside in this afterlife until they are completely forgotten. But the City is shrinking, and the residents clearing out. Some of the ... Read more

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  • Building a Home in a Silo

    by Glenn W. Worthington ...
    The author found an abandoned, 50-year-old grain silo and made it into a 5-story round house. In this true story he tells his challenges and triumphs in completing this difficult task of transformation without any blueprints. Numerous photographs from the project are shown so the reader can visualize this unique building project. ... Read more

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  • Truck

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    by Michael Perry ...
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  • T.C. Boyle Stories II

    The Collected Stories of T. Coraghessan Boyle, Volume II

    by T.C. Boyle ...
    The second volume of collected short fiction from the New York Times bestselling author of The Tortilla Curtain, featuring fifty-eight short stories that “mix brilliance with high-concept pyrotechnics” (Los Angeles Times), including fourteen never-before-published tales“Whether he’s writing about survival in a wasted environment or people and animals coming unhinged, Boyle never fails to captivate ... Read more

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  • Slow Sculpture

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    by Theodore Sturgeon, Spider Robinson ...
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    Theodore Sturgeon was a model for his friend Kurt Vonnegut’s legendary character Kilgore Trout, and his work was an acknowledged influence on important younger writers from Harlan Ellison and Robert Silverberg to Stephen King and Octavia Butler. His work has long been deeply appreciated for its sardonic sensibility, dazzling wordplay, conceptual brilliance, memorable characters, and unsparing ... Read more

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    by Stanley Elkin ...
    A radio host's rise is the fodder for this "funny, melancholy, frightening . . . absolutely American" National Book Award finalist ( The New York Times Book Review).Since childhood, Dick Gibson has longed for a successful radio career to make him a household name. Seeking to hone his craft, Dick travels from stations in Nebraska and New Jersey to the Armed Forces Radio in the Pacific Theater ... Read more

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