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It began innocently enough with Stellar Plains' high school drama teacher choosing 'Lysistrata,' a Greek drama about women who stop having sex with men in order to stop a war. But then something strange happens. One by one, women and girls begin turning away from their husbands and boyfriends, eventually forcing everyone to look at their partners, their shared history, and their sexual lives in a new light.
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"When Paul and Julian meet as university freshmen in early 1970s Pittsburgh, they are immediately drawn to one another. A talented artist, Paul is sensitive and agonizingly insecure, incomprehensible to his working-class family, and desolate with grief over his father's recent death. Paul sees the wealthy, effortlessly charming Julian as his sole intellectual equal - an ally against the conventional world he finds so suffocating. He idolizes his friend...
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"Helen, a jittery attorney with a self-destructive streak, is secretly reeling from a disturbing crime of neglect that her parents recently committed. Historically happy to compartmentalize- distracting herself by hooking up with lesbian couples, doting on her grandmother, and flirting with a young administrative assistant-Helen finally meets her match with Catherine and Katrina, a married couple who startle and intrigue her with their ever-increasing...
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A New Race of Men from Heaven is a collection of stories about characters who wander but are never truly lost. A lonely man on a business trip finds himself in the middle of a search party for a missing boy; a grieving widow leaves India to join family in the United States; a writer finds renewed success when an unknown imposter begins publishing under his identity. In these quiet yet deeply knowing stories of migration, power, and longing, A New...
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"It's in the water where she first sees him: a local man almost twenty years her senior. Adrift in the summer after finishing college, a young woman is on holiday with her mother in an isolated Australian coastal town. Finding herself pulled to Jude, the man in the water, she begins losing herself in the simple, seductive rhythms of his everyday life. As their relationship deepens, life at Sailors Beach offers her the stability she has been craving...
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