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Armstrong, Jennifer L: The Society For The Betterment Of Mankind

What do you do when your boyfriend wants to be a rabbi (even though he's not Jewish), your best friend wants to be Harry Connick Jr. (even though she's a girl) and you want nothing more than to be married to the aforementioned soon-to-be rabbinical scholar?Well, if you're Ellen Waller, for starters you come up with a plan guaranteed to get your boyfriend's mind off of his yowds and tavs, then you take a summer side trip to scenic New Orleans and fall in love with someone else, and when that's all done you make some bizarre new friends and form a Society for the Betterment of Mankind. You're going to need it...

Braken, Oris: Thirteen Histones MSR

Prose novelette, messages from X to You, sometimes surreal.  Cult following.

C.T.: Chatham

This is the story of coming into one's power as a woman through a devastating violent act and the ensuing mysterious aftermath.

dissanayake, daya: the saadhu testament

A novel about how faith is made big business. The setting is sri lanka and india

Henderson, Tanya: Defeating Silence

A free novel that the reader can really get into: You play a part in the story. Take an active or passive role--either way, it's a new experience in reading. So, what's it about? That's up to you!

Hughes, Ira: Seeds of Light

A story about racism during the Civil Rights Movement. A young Klansman's world is turned upside down when he finds himself inside the body of a legendary black man called Kane. His only hope for survival lies with the people he's hated his entire life.

James, Kevin: Shadows Hold Their Breath

Part literary, part suspense, and part fantasy — weekly chapters follow the descent of Joe Jones into petty crime, alcoholism, and psychotic depression.

Knox, Mary Ellen: Momma's Eyes

A story of love and forgiveness in the delicate mother-daughter relationship . . . where love means learning to say I'm sorry and forgiveness means giving first.

Kruitof, Frits: Patina And The Fallen Angels

Serious, dramatic fiction, exploring the intrinsic conflict between love & pride,within the context of a folie-a-deux romance.

Laing, Robert: Men A Gay Novel

A free contemporary gay novel (General, non-erotica). Romantic, funny and free. When Michael Carr returns to his home town an old infatuation is rekindled in Chance Brandt.

Meyers, Stephen Key: Good People

Comedy is the rock and roll of the '80s, and Rex Black means to build his New York comedy club--the Gag Reflex--into an empire, whatever the human cost. It's his shot! But how? Three little letters: IPO. The Gag Reflex is a savagely funny story for the '00s

Meyers, Stephen Key: Queer's Progress

In which young Edward flees Harlem and his pregnant girlfriend for the East Village, only to be seduced by Andrew, who is learning the ways of the gay world from Ned, a counselor on the prowl for a protégé to carry his novel into print.

Meyers, Stephen Key: Springtime in Siena

A group of American students spends a semester in Italy while back home Watergate plays out. Jack, Briana, Michael, Katie, and their professor, Garry, play with love and ambition and ambivalence.

Norris, Robert W: The Many Roads to Japan

"The Many Roads to Japan" is an ESL (English as a Second Language) reader that tells the story of a Vietnam War conscientious objector's 14-year search for identity. Aimed at intermediate level ESL students and teachers, it is also a good read for native speakers of English.

Pollock, George: State Kid

Story of a 15-year-old foster child who overcomes abuse and juvenile prison through sheer literacy, media, savvy, and interpersonal skills. His adult adversaries find it very, very scary. Instead of an action hero, he is a hero of literacy.

Schulz, Karla: The Artist and The Jock: A Love Story

This novel tells the story of Ethan and Jeremy, 2 highschoolish aged boys who meet randomly in the summer and instantly feel a connection. The book, which once completely posted on the net should be about 13 or more parts, follows their lives as they try to be together despite problems and people who want to get in their way. It all ends well. How? It's a mystery.

Shipp, Jeremy C: After School Special

Opening up a restaurant in a haunted house with a man-eating fridge, a giant rat, a mute hobo, etc… has never been so strange.

Shipp, Jeremy C: Spirit Masters

Set in contemporary Japan, a bunch of teenagers are given the power to save the world. Like Power Rangers, only not horrible.

Shipp, Joshua & Jeremy C: Coyote

A contemporary tale of cryptozoology and Native American mythology. Oh, and nudity. Lots of nudity.

Spence, Jim: Herman

Herman is a simple, ordinary man; some would call him Every Man. He works in an ordinary office, doing an ordinary job, living an ordinary life filled with ordinary things and always wishing that he was somebody special ... that he could someday make a difference. Herman goes through each day of his life wanting so badly to make a difference that he never opens his eyes to the possibility that he makes a difference every single day. There's a little bit of Herman in everybody.

Straine, Lyn: The Claris Project

The story of a girl and her best friend (who just happens to be a purple-haired psychopath living in her backyard).

Wills, Jim: Second Coming

Simply by changing his point of view, a famous writer enters a universe where past and future events are always happening. Should he use his view to revive his failing career if doing so will also cause the end of time, destroy free will, and start the Last Judgment?

Yang, Jeffrey: Angel's Quest

There are epic tales of romance, of climactic battles, of a force that threatens to engulf the world, and the heroes who stand up against it.This is not it. Angel's Quest: where everything is not as it should be.

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