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by Kelly Huddleston
With a cast of eccentrics that rivals “The Royal Tenenbaums”, ALONE IN THE COMPANY OF OTHERS is about people and their treasured possessions—a running tape recorder, a collection of diplomas, an attic full of disfigured mannequins, or shelves and shelves of books in an all but abandoned public library—and the distinctive role that each of us plays as part of a group dynamic. The book questions where each of us essentially exists—within the singular, the plural, or both.
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Donald O’Donovan is an optioned screenwriter and voice actor with film and audio book credits. He was born in Cooperstown, New York. A teenage runaway, O’Donovan rode freights, traveled the US, joined the army to get off the street, lived in Mexico, and worked at more than 200 occupations including long distance truck driver, undertaker and roller skate repairman. The first draft of Night Train was written on 23 yellow legal pads while the author was homeless in the streets of LA. Donald O’Donovan recently narrated the documentary film, The Forgotten, produced and directed by Sarem Yadegari. His screenplay, Cutter’s Woods, is a semi-finalist in the 2009 FilmStream Screenplay Competition.
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by Donald O'Donovan
Originally written on 23 yellow legal pads while the author was homeless in the streets of LA, Night Train follows the exploits of Jerzy Mulvaney, homeless and broke in the streets of America's City of Angels. Jerzy may be a bit down on his luck, but he is forever engaging, and he offers a mirror to those members of American society living more fortunate lives. Night Train is an honest and penetrating look at America's vast homeless culture; it is not for the faint of heart, or for those who would deny the obvious. Night Train is a rare and unique opportunity to see this pertinent issue from the inside out.
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Coming Earth Day 2010
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by Teri Louise Kelly
The first collection of poetry from Teri Louise Kelly showcases the methodology of an author whose life has been lived both within, and beyond, the borders of the binary system.
A volume that is simultaneously coy, overt, reflective and sentimental. Featuring collaborative works with four of Adelaide’s leading poets, Girls Like Me is an ethereal eulogy to fifty years of having to suck in oxygen, and, more critically, an anthology that delivers an unequivocal declaration of independence from an independent entity still kicking after all those strange years.
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by Keith Ainsworth
Due to be published on the 40th anniversary of Earth Day on April 22, 2010, The Loyal Opposition by environmental attorney Keith Ainsworth focuses our attention on the day's most critical environmental issues, addressing them in contemporary verse as well as poignant prose.
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by Teri Louise Kelly
By the author of Girls Like Me, Last Bed on Earth and Sex, Knives & Bouillabaisse, Teri Louise Kelly's American Blow Job is audacious, ribald, honest, outrageous, frantic, sexy, irreverent, furious, funny and finally extinguishes any mainstream or alternative media fantasy about transgendered writers.
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by David A. Ross
In this whimsical novel, a star-crossed weekend sailor is shipwrecked on a wayward South Seas island. Accompanied only by his sagacious parrot, Julian Crosby eventually meets the island’s only other human resident, a soft-spoken siren who alludes time and again to a past that seems to suggest a solution to one of the century’s inimitable mysteries – the disappearance of 1930s flying ace Amelia Earhart
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