Temping

Binding	EAN	ISBN-10	Pub Date	PAGES	Language	Size	Price
Hardcover	9780930773762	0930773764	2010-01-01	240		0.00 x 5.50 x 8.50 in	$22.95

The Burg and Other Seattle Scenes

by Gold, Jerome

The Burg and Other Seattle Scenes is a short collection of nine stories and one poem. Eight of the stories—all except Arf—are true, and the poem, Icarus, also relates a true story. The stories range from satirical to deadly serious, from empathetic to, well, less empathetic...

The Bohemians

by Blauner, Laurie

In 1924 New York, Lil (short for Lillian) Moore, an artist, and Leon Shaffer, an accountant, narrate this Jazz Age story of triangular love, art and its future, willing and unwilling sacrifices, heroes and heroines, dreams, visions and illusions, music, insanity, insomnia, fame and the lack of it, and how each era is similar and different from our own. Lil's patrons, Mr. and Mrs...

The Moral Life of Soldiers

by Gold, Jerome

The Moral Life of Soldiers�comprises a novel and five stories. The title story, the novel, is told by an elderly officer retired from the People's Army of Viet Nam (North Vietnam), recalling his experience in the American army's Special Forces in Central America before he joined the PAVN.One one level, the story is about what causes a soldier to take up arms against his comrades...

Flesh

by Ha, Khanh

The setting is Tonkin (northern Vietnam) at the turn of the 20th century. A boy, Tai, witnesses the beheading of his father, a notorious bandit, and sets out to recover his head and then to find the man who betrayed his father to the authorities. On this quest, Tai's entire world will shift...

The Cleveland Indian

by Salisbury, Luke

It's the end of the 19th century and the basepaths are alive with legendary players such as John McGraw and Honus Wagner. Cy Young is on the mound and King Saturday (the Cleveland Indian) is at bat. The "kranks," or fans, are rooting for action. "The Cleveland Indian" brings to life the bawdy, often sinister, final days of the Gay Nineties...

Mantids

by Dakron, Ron

Mantids is an update on the world's oldest novel--Petronius's Satyricon--with a twist. In Satyricon, the hero can't get an erection; in Mantids, the narrator can't get rid of one...

Hammers

by Dakron, Ron

A young woman geneticist perfects a serum made from both human and shark DNA. In her hurry and ambition, she skips biotech protocol and tries the serum on herself. But she makes a mistake: instead of shooting up a fraction of shark DNA, she pops the entire hammerhead genetic code. Oops! Hammers is a comic science fiction novel about people turning into sharks...

Anna Begins

by Davenport, Jennifer

"Anna Begins" is a pair of Young Adult novellas, each about a girl and a boy around seventeen years old. In the title story, Melissa has an eating disorder, an absent best friend, a disconnected mother, her first sexual experience, and a story to write about all of it. Finding peer support in telling her own story, she decides to try to live the plot she is trying to write...

Sergeant Dickinson

by Gold, Jerome

Sergeant Dickinson is the radioman of a Special Forces A-team in the Central Highlands of Viet Nam. The camp is encircled and attacked for nine days by the North Vietnamese Army which wants to lure larger American units into combat for the first time...

Early Pleasures

by Kohner, Frederick

A fictionalization of the author's adolescent sexual adventures in Austria and Paris in the years following World War I, they are for the most part adventures in sexual frustration. The four women he encounters are as different from one another as they could be...

Exit Blue

by Goldman, Ivan G.

Ivan Goldman envisions a riotous near future in which the Blue States have seceded and formed their own union following a disastrous US invasion of Denmark, now deemed the central front in the war on terror...

The Fruit 'N Food

by Chang, Leonard

When Thomas Pak is hired as a clerk at a Korean grocery, he isn't prepared for the searing racial tensions that threaten to destroy the neighborhood in which he lives and works...

New Light

by Gilson, Annette

Beth Martin wakes up one day feeling she has wasted years of her life. She goes to St. Louis to visit her college roommate and take some time to get her bearings. But at a party she experiences a vision, which she finds disconcerting, but also compelling. Also compelling is her seemingly chance meeting with neuroscientist who is researching the vision phenomenon...

by Olson, Kirby

Temping is about a no-longer-so-young man who is a temporary secretary, then returns to graduate school, and gets a job teaching the theory of humor--in Finland, where he also manages a circus. The book opens in Seattle and encompasses Hong Kong, France and Finland. It has a love story, rivalries between the hero and other academics, religious ecstacy and several attempted murders...

Mekhti

by Bassan, Amy

Mekhti is a coming-of-age story and a novel of obsession. Reminiscent of Kathryn Harrison's The Kiss, Mekhti is a story of a girl trying to fill an emptiness in her life, and of how that experience changes her. A teenage girl is seduced by a man 20 years older than she. What does he mean to her? She to him? The force of this novel is carried by the girl's emotions...

The Crazy Dervish and the Pomegranate Tree

by Moshiri, Farnoosh

Awarded the Black Heron Press Prize for Social Fiction. In the dozen stories in The Crazy Dervish and the Pomegranate Tree, Farnoosh Moshiri combines social and political insight with the mythology of her native Iran. Her earlier books, The Bathhouse (which also won the Black Heron Press Prize for Social Fiction) and At the Wall of the Almighty, were set in Iran...

The Odd Puppet Odyssey

by Gold, Richard

The Odd Puppet Odyssey is an illustrated (six four-color illustrations) series of narrative poems. Reading as parables, they are poems for adults about the voyage of two puppet characters, Pongo and Rico. In the course of their journey, they explore identity, sexuality, adulthood, relationships and some of the social forces that affect them and their world...

How I Learned That I Could Push the Button

by Gold, Jerome

These essays compose a compact history of the effects of the war in Viet Nam on American life. Colored by the impact of the war, they portray some of the ways in which we looked at later events...

Lightbearer, The

by Cox, Bonnie

After a failed marriage, Bonnie Cox fell in love with Michael Jenkins, a sport parachutist--a skydiver--and photographer who earned his living photographing other skydivers. On assignment for a TV show, he was killed on a jump. The Lightbearer is the story of Bonnie's and Michael's love. Bonnie had had psychic ability since childhood...

Bathhouse, The

by Moshiri, Farnoosh

During the fundamentalist revolution in Iran, a 17-year-old girl is arrested by the Revolutionary Guards. She is not political, but her brother and sister-n-law are, so she is suspect too. She is confined in a former bathhouse with several other women ranging in age from adolescence to elderly, whose mental states vary from the stoic and care-giving to the insane...

Obsure in the Shade of Giants

by Gold, Jerome

Obscure in the Shade of the Giants follows the path of a hypothetical book, through interviews, from its author to its availability to readers. In this, Volume II of Publishing Lives, writers, publishers, distributors and booksellers talk about their or profession and what keeps them at it...

Prisoner of the Word

by Tri, Le Huu

Prisoner of the World is a recounting of Le Hu'u Tri's years in Vietnamese reeducation camps. A young officer in the South Vietnamese army in 1975, he turned himself in to the new authorities following the fall of Saigon. He believed he would be freed within a few weeks...

Moses in the Sinai

by Zelitch, Simone

Moses in the Sinai rewrites the books of Exodus and Numbers by way of The Arabian Nights, Nikos Kazantzakis, and Cecil B. DeMille. It makes generous use of myth and history, ancient and contemporary. The Hebrews of the novel are a varied mob of outlaws, magicians, sorcerers, aristocrats, and idolators, all content with being slaves...

Gently into the Land of the Meateaters

by Sallis, James

Essays about the author's life in writing and music, and working as a respiratory therapist. James Sallis is the author of the widely reviewed and highly regarded Lew Griffin detective series, as well as books of jazz criticism and a new biography of Chester Himes. Gently into the Land...

Life of the Bones to Come

by Laurence, Larry

Highly accessible, these are poems about love and work. They are bawdy and sublime, loving and carnal. Each poem suggests its own story, yet, taken together, they off entrance to the world in all its depth and mystery...

Remains of River Names, The

by Briggs, Matt

The novel is told in twelve linked stories, each of which is a chapter told in turn by the members of a counter-culture family in the process of destroying itself. The novel takes place over twenty years, from the '70's to the 90's, from the beginnings of familial disintegration to its individual members coming to terms...

Master of Fate, The

by Mun�var, Gonzalo

The Master Of Fate is a coming of age novel of a different sort. It is not about the building of chacter but about its erosion. It is not about the traumatic experiences that the protagonist must learn from as a part of growing up, but about the accumulation of small events and pressures that result in the unraveling of a life...

Time for Robo

by Plagens, Peter

A painting that alters itself, or is altered, while the artist sleeps. A computer that may be God and quacks like a duck. A basketball forward who disappears in the middle of a drive, then reappears. An evangelist who screams himself out of the moment as his wife and childrean are blown to smithereens by a bomb dropped from a balloon.The evangelist's former wife who becomes "Axis Sally...

Story, Story, Story

by Schumoch, Jim

Interviews with 18 significant American writers. The interviews were conducted by the author on his radio program, "Between the Covers," on KBOO in Portland, Oregon over a seven-year period. More conversational than interview in style, they focus on the interaction between the authors' lives and their literary work...

Shiloh Renewal, The

by Woodruff, Joan L.

Two teenage girls, sisters a year apart, are in a terrible auto accident near where they live, a few miles from the Civil War battlefield at Shiloh. The older is killed outright. The younger is badly brain-damaged. In a coma, she meets people who are dressed oddly, who speak English but not quite the English she speaks...

Undesirables, The

by Smith, Mary C.

In the early 22nd century a benign bureaucracy, located in the city of Alternative Four, is bringing economic development to a world that has eliminated war, racial and sexual discrimination, and engineered an ideal society through drugs and genetic mating. Three regional chairmen share nominal executive power over the planet...

Charlie and the Children

by Scott, Joanna

Charlie and the Children is a novel about an American soldier who goes to war, fathers a son, and abandons him. He is taken captive by the Viet Cong and held in a cave in a tunnel underground. Sick, starving, and alone, he grdually loses his grip on reality and becomes convinced that one of his captors is his lost son...

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The Burg and Other Seattle Scenes

The Bohemians

The Moral Life of Soldiers

Flesh

The Cleveland Indian

Mantids

Hammers

Anna Begins

Sergeant Dickinson

Early Pleasures

Exit Blue

The Fruit 'N Food

New Light

Temping

Mekhti

The Crazy Dervish and the Pomegranate Tree

The Odd Puppet Odyssey

How I Learned That I Could Push the Button

Lightbearer, The

Bathhouse, The

Obsure in the Shade of Giants

Prisoner of the Word

Moses in the Sinai

Gently into the Land of the Meateaters

Life of the Bones to Come

Remains of River Names, The

Master of Fate, The

Time for Robo

Story, Story, Story

Shiloh Renewal, The

Undesirables, The

Charlie and the Children

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