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Here's the diary of a man who in mid-life found himself uprooted and dumped into West Hollywood, an unfamiliar place not exactly known for stability White explores his neighborhood ? "queens: 6 percent; cranky 70-year-old Russians who give you the evil eye when you walk past: 2 percent; blonde girls with big, round, hard fakeys who think Jennifer Anniston just got lucky: 10 percent; miscellaneous cool kids, hustlers, and actual crazy people: 5 percent."

White gets gigs as a freelance writer, goes to the grocery store where his Russian neighbors ask him questions because they think he's from the old country; and encounters Sara Gilbert at the Laundromat, Leonard Maltin at the movies, and Ben Affleck driving a Rolls-Royce so ridiculously conspicuous he might as well be driving Chitty-Chitty, Bang-Bang.

What began as weekly diaries emailed to out-of-state family and friends evolved into a blog called "Dave White Knows" and in 2003 became a monthly column in Instinct called "Exile in Guyville." Alyson Books now presents White's blogs in expanded form with loads of new material that will be even more irritating to the Instinct readers who didn't like his column. "They requested more fashion and skin-care features in its place, which makes me kind of proud."

Dave White is a freelance journalist specializing in music. His reviews and features have been seen in E! Online, IFILM, LA Weekly, Dallas Observer, Instinct, The Advocate, Glue, Cybersocket, Total Movie, Unzipped, and Frontiers. White lives in West Hollywood with his boyfriend, the Morocco Mole, and is locally esteemed as the "King of Pancakes."

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The story of Rocky Marciano, who remains today the world's only undefeated heavyweight boxing champion Marciano didn't turn to boxing until age 25, and was considered too small to get into the ring with heavyweights This compelling portrait is enhanced with 50 photographs..
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Sevek and the Holocaust: The Boy Who Refused to Die

A Unique and Powerful Memoir about a Young Boy's Journey During the Holocaust and His Effort Later to Make Peace With The Past.

Written by Sidney Finkel

Biography - Historical / Self-Published / Paperback / January 2005.
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Special-education teacher Torey Hayden's first book, One Child, was an international bestseller, thrilling readers on every continent Their hearts were captured by Sheila, a silent, troubled girl who had been abandoned on a highway by her mother and abused by her alcoholic father, and who refused to speak. As Hayden writes in the prologue to this book, "This little girl had a profound effect on me. Her courage, her resilience, and her inadvertent ability to express that great, gaping need to be loved that we all feel -- in short, her humanness -- brought me into contact with my own."

Since then Hayden has gone on to write books about many of her students, but her fans continue to ask her, "What happened to Sheila?" The Tiger's Child is her response. Here Hayden tells how Sheila, now a young woman, finally came to terms with her nightmare childhood.

When Hayden was working on One Child, she showed the manuscript to Sheila, then a teenager, and was astonished to find that Sheila remembered almost nothing of her troubled younger years. She had no recollection of her many clashes with her teacher as Hayden tried to break through her emotional pain. And although Hayden had managed to get Sheila to communicate and become an active and lively child, Sheila's home life was still very troubled. Her father had been sent to prison when she was eight and Sheila had run away from a series of foster homes until finally she was placed in a children's home.

But as Hayden continued to renew her relationship with the teenage Sheila, the memories slowly came back, bringing with them feelings of abandonment and hostility. Overwhelmed by the intensity of her awakening emotions, Sheila was driven to suicidal despair. The Tiger's Child is the touching, inspiring story of how a maturing Sheila came to perceive her mother not as a monster who willfully cast off her eldest child, but as a weak, forlorn, ordinary human being. Able to appreciate her own strength and resilience, Sheila at last is free to overcome the haunting legacy of child abuse..
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In this new edition of All the Presidents’ Pets you’ll find:

• Presidents: 42
• Poops on White House rug: 1
• References to President Chester Alan Arthur’s hip muttonchops: 1
• Press corps reporters still wearing Ugg Boots: 2
• Scenes taking place in Wolf Blitzer’s Japanese garden: 2
• Cartoon beagles packing heat: 1
• References to the Sacred Feminine: 0
• References to the Sacred Animal: 12
• Near-death escapes by Fox News’ Alan Colmes: 3
• Vulgar LBJ animal expressions: 6
• Secrets of the universe from Stephen Hawking: 1
• Body count: 57 (plus one slug pumped into Dr. Phil’s backside)
• Fox News hotties: 8
• Appearances by evangelist Pat Robertson in a tank top: 1
• Sports practiced by Condi Rice each day before 5 a.m.: 3
• Plus . . . a long-awaited debunking of the Jimmy Carter killer rabbit story!.
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AAAIIIEEE!!! presents to the horror enthusiast twenty of the best dark fantasy tales of authorJeffrey Thomas (PUNKTOWN), culled from their original appearances in the independent press.

From subtle stories of ghosts and encroaching madness to extreme tales of erotic and visceralterror, this collection's contents span the breadth of the horror spectrum. In these pages one willencounter: a mysterious channel on a hospital room's television...a concentration camp wherethe dead may seek retribution...a music star's unearthly and distasteful approach to fame...awoman in love with a dangerous fallen angel...the ghost of an insane parent resurrected by anotherworldly force. Whether one's appetite runs from the traditional to the experimental,AAAIIIEEE!!! has a dark confection for every trick or treat bag..
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The Stone that the Builder Refused is the final volume of Madison Smartt Bell’s masterful trilogy about the Haitian Revolution–the first successful slave revolution in history–which begins with All Souls' Rising (a finalist for the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award) and continues with Master of the Crossroads.  Each of these three novels can be read independently of the two others; of the trilogy, The Baltimore Sun has said, “[It] will make an indelible mark on literary history–one worthy of occupying the same shelf as Tolstoy’s War and Peace.”.
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