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"Kate McDermott has choices to make: Should she stick with her teaching job or return to her family's neglected Las Vegas business? Meanwhile, Kate must juggle two loves: ex-husband Keith and her new business partner, CJ Clemons. "Things unravel when Kate learns that she is pregnant, then discovers Keith has hidden a relationship with his new partner, too. What road will she take? After all, she divorced him following a fling with another partner. "The past is turned on its ear at warp speed. Kate's parents reluctantly keep her hidden revelation and Kate herself is shocked to find out that Aunt Didi has kept a powerful secret for 30 long years. "As with all tales, this one involves twists, turns and plenty of surprises - not the least of which reveals the unknown ally Keith has acquired when he tries to reconnect with Kate."

"Simply put, Gina Frangello is a fearless writer, unafraid to show us the raw and real ways we deal with each other, and with ourselves, and the stories in slut lullabies are no exception. Her richly developed characters are alive and breathing in these beautiful, sometimes brutal stories, and her powers of observation about the human psyche are alarmingly dead on"

"Shane Bowermaster reaps the land to sustain the family pastime and habit; whiskey. Inspired to try his hand at brewing the beverage of choice, new trade consumes the Bowermaster family, leading them down a path toward one wild and wicked toast. A new legendary drink spreads throughout the region."

Sixth annual literary supplement to the Feminist Writers Guild

Selections From The Serial Killer Cookbook (The Handbook For America's Youth) takes a hard look at the society in which we are raised. J. Coburn asks the questions everyone is afraid to ask and leaves the reader's mind open to explore those questions. Here there are no limits, no rules, and no morals...here there is only REALITY!

The Chicago Police Department is a mythical and legendary law enforcement unit as well as a closed-door society. This book reveals the officers and their personal stories. The author explores the juxtaposition of work and life for these men and women who don the Chicago Police Star.

Short stories from west side neighborhoods of Chicago. "The force of each writer's vision and language carries you into the living rooms and kitchens where the real folk of the West Side go about the business of living. 'West Side Stories' presents the everyday, the brutal, the glorious."

With wry humor and a 1990s perspective on the 1970s, On Lill Street follows Margaret through her evolution from city-dwelling absolutely politically-correct lesbian feminist separatist to a suburban mixed-gender in which mutual infatuation leads to love with a (formerly?) straight woman, all the while retaining a wide-eyed sense of people, politics, and love.

&quot;Bleeding Sheep is a quarterly magazine of poetry, fiction, arts, images and culture published in Chicago.&quot;<br />

A collection on poems on Judaism and related themes.<br />