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Just as animal rights are one of the most significant issues of our time, so it must be with the literary imagination. With Releasing the Animals, Brooke Biaz takes the lead in fashioning an unforgettable zoo of reversals where Dr. Doolittle would dare not go." -Stephen Kuusisto, author of Have Dog Will Travel: A Poet's Journey "One of Brooke Biaz's best jokes in Releasing the Animals is "no pun intended." It's good precisely because it's re...

Accepted to be apprentices at Mr. Kishimoto's famous International Culinary Institute, Japanese teenagers Akio, Masami, Keiko, Yuko, Nobuko, and their American friend Koji will soon leave Shimura Junior High School to compete with each other for a permanent place as a renowned Kishimoto Institute cook. As with much that happens at the Kishimoto Institute, the event will be nationally televised, part of a familiar company advertising strategy t...

A doctor, her bats, some remote islands, their expectant people: THE INVENTION OF DYING is a novel about human curiosity and reinvention, an exploration of the arrival of medicine where medicine has never been before, the discovery of possibilities for bright new life when confronted with the darkness of our own mortality. The Invention of Dying is all about the taming of death, one bold living day at a time. "THE INVENTION OF DYING hums with ...

This new collection of fiction from Graeme Harper, writing as Brooke Biaz, investigates the meanings attached to events in place, and then the tourism of time bound to places, with bountiful humor and wit SMALL MAPS OF THE WORLD unearths the bonds between individuals and location but also wonders on the underlying connections between people and their sense of belonging. Inspired by events in places from Europe and Great Britain to Australas...

This new collection of fiction from Graeme Harper, writing as Brooke Biaz, investigates the meanings attached to events in place, and then the tourism of time bound to places, with bountiful humor and wit SMALL MAPS OF THE WORLD unearths the bonds between individuals and location but also wonders on the underlying connections between people and their sense of belonging. Inspired by events in places from Europe and Great Britain to Australas...

Being born in the 1960s can take ten years of your life. . . . Sometimes the universe and our lives entwine. In the era of the space race, as JFK sent us rocketing toward The Moon, a family, a life, a love, was being created in a tropical beach house. MOON DANCE is the story of a decade, a conception, a family, a birth. One small step for man, one giant leap for womankind! ABOUT THE AUTHOR Graeme Harper (writing as Brooke Biaz) is a fiction wr...

DESCRIPTION Being born in the 1960s can take ten years of your life. . . . Sometimes the universe and our lives entwine. In the era of the space race, as JFK sent us rocketing toward The Moon, a family, a life, a love, was being created in a tropical beach house. MOON DANCE is the story of a decade, a conception, a family, a birth. One small step for man, one giant leap for womankind! ABOUT THE AUTHOR Graeme Harper (writing as Brooke B...

I crouch in Modern Film Classics while Karen, coming in from the backroom, and from the left, ten minutes after opening, makes some comment about some writer or another looking like Rene Russo. To which I call out: "Oh, right, who exactly?" I phone shoot her in medium shot with a wall of films by Scorsese behind her." "On the seventh floor all is pretty quiet. The corridor is long, dog-legging at half way. A TV somewhere is playing what sou...