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The Art of Leaving

An intimate memoir in essays by an award-winning Israeli writer who travels the world, from New York to India, searching for love, belonging, and an escape from grief following the death of her father when she was a girl. This searching collection opens with the death of Ayelet Tsabari's father when she was just nine years old. His passing left her feeling rootless, devastated, and driven to question her complex identity as an Israeli of Yemeni descent in a country that suppressed and devalued her ancestors' traditions. In The Art of Leaving, Ayelet tells her story, from her early love of writing and words, to her rebellion during her mandatory service in the Israeli army. She travels from Israel to New York, Canada, Thailand, and India, falling in and out of love with countries, men and women, drugs and alcohol, running away from responsibilities and refusing to settle in one place. She recounts her first marriage; her struggle to define herself as a writer...
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Dirty Players, #1

Howard Field had a bad reputation. Too many women. Booze. Drugs and none of the credentials required for a football team player. He decided that quickies were too short for him and he wanted something more permanent. I didn't want the bad boy to get up close and personal. Up close was fine, but personal was another matter. My head kept telling me to stay away and for some reason, I went on a date with him. I started to like him a little too much, and I knew one thing for sure, this running back was nothing but trouble. I decided that life was too short, let the trouble begin...Author's Note:This is a teaser and ends on a cliffhanger for the Dirty Players series. 
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Pirate's Price

An exciting tale about Han and Chewie and their adventures with the pirate Hondo.
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Fresh Pack of Smokes

"This night in Oppenheimer Park Dan asked me to shit-kick this chick in the face as she owed money and I said no because I didn't know who she was and I wasn't about to play with fire so he sat on the bench then stood up and did a flying kick twice to her chin and she convulsed and passed out he said he didn't want to spill blood because she had HIV..." —"Tales" Dissecting herself and the life she once knew living a transient life that included time spent in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside as a bonafide drug addict, Blanchard writes plainly about violence, drug use and sex work in Fresh Pack of Smokes, offering insight into an often overlooked or misunderstood world.
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The Bobcat

"Teeming with lush imagery and mystical settings, and brimming with alluring magical realism, Riley's tale is a beguiling journey of discovery and recovery." — Booklist Haunting and lyrical, The Bobcat is Katherine Forbes Riley's magical debut novel in which Laurelie, a young art student who suffers in the aftermath of a sexual assault, has grown progressively more isolated and fearful. She transfers from her busy city university to a small college in rural Vermont, where she retreats into her vivid imagination, experiencing the world through her art. Most comfortable in the company of the child for whom she babysits, and most at ease in the woods, Laurelie has shunned any connection with her peers. One day, while exploring the woods, she and her young charge encounter an injured pregnant bobcat – and the hiker who has been following it for hundreds of miles. In the hiker and his feline companion Laurelie recognizes someone as...
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