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Campus Sexpot, A Memoir! by David Carkeet (that's David on the jacket, standing tall...)
In 1962 David Carkeet’s drowsy hometown of Sonora, California, snapped awake at the news that it had inspired a smutty potboiler titled Campus Sexpot. Before leaving town on short notice, the novel’s author had been an English teacher at the local high school, where Carkeet was a hormone-saturated sophomore. Leaving was a good idea, it turned out, for most of the characters in Campus Sexpot had been modeled after Sonora’s citizens.
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of our Ways by David Carkeet
For Ben Hudnut, the hero of Carkeet's delightful new novel, life has been good. A self-made business success and a happily married father of four, he cannot fathom that he is about to become a modern-day suburban Job. A casual affair that happened a decade ago is about to return to haunt him; his gourmet nut business is in unsuspected jeopardy; and his eldest daughter just may be involved with one of her high school teachers. Across town, unemployed linguist Jeremy Cook is stumbling through his own version of life, wondering just where he belongs - certainly not in Ben Hudnut's world, which he is about to enter. What follows is a rich comedy of errors, a literary entertainment that will only enlarge Carkeet's devoted following. <<buy the book now>>
The Day Before, New Poems by Dick Allen
Dick Allen has received the Robert Frost Prize for Poetry and The Hart Crane Poetry Prize. His books include Ode to the Cold War, Flight and Pursuit, Overnight in the Guest House of the Mystic, Regions With No Proper Names, and Anon and Various Time Machine Poems. He recently retired from his position as Charles A. Dana Endowed Chair Professor at the University of Bridgeport and lives in Trumbull, Connecticut. <<buy the book now>>
Ode
to the Cold War: Poems New and Selected by Dick Allen
From Small Presses Expert Editors: "Finding a poet to admire is like Christmas. Dick Allen is a tremendous talent . . . . The thoughtfulness and gentility of the poems, the generosity of Allen's gift for turning the idea over and over to see it from all sides, enables our 90s version of transcendence: We escape from the grind of this world into Allen's inspired vision. . . . Sarabande Books has a talent for publishing exceptional poetry. Dick Allen's Ode to the Cold War rates with the very finest in poems that are intellectually stimulating and deeply passionate. <<buy the book now>>
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Than They Could Chew by Rob Roberge
Nick Ray lives in a world where everything is for sale. University Ph.D.s, pig fetuses, bomb shelters, and vending-machine-dispensed live bait, to name just a few. But for the first time in a long time, Nick Ray finally has something to sell." "Determined to be covert about an affair he's having with a woman already spoken for (by another woman), Nick buys the cheapest computer he can find at a local pawn shop, only to discover that the hard drive contains the names and addresses of dozens of members of the Witness Protection Program." Partnering with a hulking Russian gangster with the world's worst fashion sense and a disbarred lawyer who drinks rocket fuel, Nick decides to take advantage of his unique discovery. Yet despite the impressive credentials of this entrepreneurial dream team, Nick soon learns that having something to sell can end up simply making you a valuable commodity to someone else wanting to make a big score. <<buy the book now>>