INDIE
Released: May 4, 2011
"A moving, effective tale that urges readers to place greater importance on environmental conservation."
INDIE
Released: April 15, 2011
"A beguiling blend of high-concept narrative and old-school literary chops."
This scintillating collection of a novella and eight short stories uses offbeat character studies to wrestle with snaky issues of identity and self-knowledge.
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INDIE
Released: April 8, 2011
"Teaches and informs while remaining a compelling, nonexploitative read."
INDIE
Released: April 4, 2011
"A lucid, powerful argument for letting dying patients go gentle into that good night."
Orfali's compelling manifesto explores the fraught ethics and surprisingly convenient practical details of physician-assisted dying.
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INDIE
Released: March 31, 2011
"Lively, informative and thoroughly beguiling."
The English language gets pulled up by its roots for purposes of entertainment, enlightenment and vocabulary building in this sprightly linguistic romp.
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INDIE
Released: March 21, 2011
"Lawrence does a masterful job of drawing readers into his fully realized, morally complex vision of the future."
INDIE
Released: March 2, 2011
"Deserves to be a cult classic."
A crazy, wild journey up an Appalachian Trail paved with the stones of a philosophical quest.
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INDIE
Released: Feb. 18, 2011
"A tour de force in breadth and depth."
Schaefer's debut is an in-depth critical assessment of the Russo-Chechen conflict that reflects a deep understanding of counterinsurgency in general and how it relates to that region specifically.
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INDIE
Released: Feb. 14, 2011
"A provocative romp that pits men against women and goddesses against God to remind us that lust is with us, maybe to the end of times."
When two Wiccan goddesses bring their unfettered sexuality and eco-feminist fervor to Atlantis Springs, Mont., the town's ruling Christian patriarchy are unamused--until our witchy heroines expose what's really going on under the local covers.
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INDIE
Released: Feb. 14, 2011
"An erudite look at disease from within and without, digressive but ultimately a convincing argument for a paradigm shift in the way we treat what ails us and position ourselves in our eco-political communities."
A detailed brazening out of big questions via a discourse on sickness and heath, mind and body, and human society and the environment.
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INDIE
Released: Feb. 7, 2011
"A wonderful, quick-witted alternative to the typical romance novel."
INDIE
Released: Feb. 6, 2011
"Fast cars, fast women and fast thinking comprise this solid, utterly entertaining thriller."
Driving a Volkswagen Beetle with an alternative engine-technology, an engineer races from New York to Paris and tries to outwit those bent on stealing the car.
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INDIE
Released: Jan. 27, 2011
"A delightfully playful cross-genre novel whose science fiction is every bit as enjoyable as its historical fiction."
A French journalist encounters the American Civil War--and something even stranger--in 1861 Kentucky.
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INDIE
Released: Jan. 15, 2011
"A rollicking, complex read.
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A densely plotted, gay coming-of-age novel starring the talented Erik, whose lengthy history is half hard-boiled Jim Thompson mayhem and half Martha Grimes youthful fantasia, heavily laden with crime, war (both international and domestic), alcoholism and, ultimately, personal triumph.
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INDIE
Released: Jan. 14, 2011
"A triumphant and eloquent collection that never shies away from the emotional and intellectual entanglements of love and lust, connection and manipulation, the momentary and the eternal.
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A compact yet thematically and stylistically wide-ranging verse collection that contains lyrical and nuanced explorations of love, power, impermanence and aging.
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INDIE
Released: Jan. 13, 2011
"A fine disaster tour-guide, replete with interesting factoids and vivid reportage."
The many varieties of natural and manmade catastrophe are catalogued and mined for sightseeing opportunities in this absorbing compendium-cum-travelogue.
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INDIE
Released: Jan. 12, 2011
"At times laugh-out-loud funny, occasionally just weird for the sake of weird, but consistently entertaining."
A drug trial participant blogs about his experiences on an experimental medication and questions whether the strangeness in his life is a side-effect or just weirdness as usual.
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INDIE
Released: Jan. 1, 2011
"A deftly crafted tale of an absorbing character in dire straits; readers will be pulling for Rebecca Plotnik."
The grinding tribulations of a promising young woman breaking from the bad habits sewn by her upbringing.
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INDIE
Released: Jan. 1, 2011
"Gorgeous illustrations, humorous dialogue and a moving narrative make this a stunning debut."
As the seasons pass, a wise and beautiful tree must persuade a jolly woodcutter not to chop her down.
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INDIE
Released: Dec. 31, 2010
"Unpolished but intricate and fun, even as the plot turns tragic."
A terrorist sleeper agent has fallen in love with his adoptive country, but the arrival of other jihadists threatens to place him back on a dangerous path.
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