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His name was Rob Castor. Quite possibly, you've heard of him. He became a minor cult celebrity in his mid-twenties for writing a book of darkly pitch-perfect stories set in a stupid sleepy upstate New York town. Several years later, he murdered his writer girlfriend, and then committed suicide. . . .

With extraordinarily luxuriant and evocative prose, award-winning author Eli Gottlieb takes us deep into the human psyche, where the most profound of secrets are kept. Now You See Him is a wrenching and enthrallingly suspenseful story that mines the explosive terrains of love...

This epic, enthralling debut novel--in the vein of Nicole Krauss' The History of Love--follows a postwar love triangle between an American rabbi, his wife, and a German-Jewish refugee.

Spanning seventy years and several continents--from a refugee's shattered dreams in 1938 Berlin, to a discontented American couple in the 1950s, to a young woman's life in modern-day Jerusalem--this epic, enthralling novel tells the braided love story of three unforgettable characters. In 1946, Walter Westhaus, a German Jew who spent the war years at Tagore's ashram in India, arrives at the...

The product of a lifetime immersed in the literary, performing arts, and entertainment worlds, Lives and Letters spotlights the work, careers, intimate lives, and lasting achievements of a vast array of celebrated writers and performers in film, theater, and dance, and some of the more curious iconic public figures of our times.

From the world of literature, Charles Dickens, James Thurber, Judith Krantz, John Steinbeck, and Rudyard Kipling; the controversies surrounding Bruno Bettelheim and Elia Kazan; and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and her editor, Maxwell Perkins.

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As a real estate broker greets a classy, well-dressed visitor at an Open House in upscale Hudson Hills, she has no idea that minutes later he will pin her against the wall, yank up her skirt, and clamp his gloved hand over her nose and mouth. The unwitting victim is only saved from a catastrophic fate by the young couple who abruptly appear at the door. When another broker is found beaten, raped, and left for dead in the basement of a vacant house she had been showing to a prospective buyer, the peace and tranquility of the picturesque Hudson River Valley is shattered and suddenly becomes...

"I wish to be the thinnest girl at school, or maybe even the thinnest eleven-year-old on the entire planet," confides Lori Gottlieb to her diary. "I mean, what are girls supposed to wish for, other than being thin?"

For a girl growing up in Beverly Hills in 1978, the motto "You can never be too rich or too thin" is writ large. Precocious Lori learns her lessons well, so when she's told that "real women don't eat...

History, effects, uses, pleasures, dangers
Avoiding abusive side effects
Determining quality
Substances used to cut coke and thier effects
Testing for purity and removing impurities
Improving appearance
Inside look at dealing
Cultivation of coca plants
Coca leaf botany

Although it reads like a novel a funny, touching, and absolutely gripping novel Stick Figure is, astonishingly, the diary of Lori Gottlieb in 1978, when, at age 11 and all evidence to the contrary, she decided she was too fat and simply stopped eating
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Growing up in Beverly Hills in the 1970s, Lori Gottlieb learned the lessons her culture had to teach her for example, that no one could ever like a girl with thunder thighs. Lori took those lessons seriously, and saw...