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A young guitar player from Michigan is summoned to join a band in the seedy L.A. punk scene of the late 1970s, only to learn that his brilliant childhood friend, the lead singer, has disappeared. Before long, he is pulled into a noir-meets-leather world of sketchy characters on both sides of the law.

One morning in Los Angeles, a noted homeless drunk wanders into a local market bragging that he killed a man the night before. When the store regulars dismiss him, he leaves and returns five minutes later with the severed head of the victim. The store owner places it in the meat counter and waits for the police. (This actually happened, in 1993.) During the hours that lapse, the head becomes something of magic. The store regulars recount their...

A middle-aged Anglo professor becomes obsessed with an "Asian Lolita" on his campus. Told as a self-help book for sufferers from a certain "syndrome, " this darkly satirical novel explores romantic obsession, cultural collision, love or a variant thereof, and the utterly absurd farce called academia.

A collection of sonnets honoring rescue dogs from award-winning poet B.D. Love.

B. D. Love writes eloquently of troubled lives and troubled loves, capturing as well as anyone writing today the ways in which we both crave and fear intimacy. Two practical-joking school friends betray each other, a man battles his pitifully irascible neighbors, a professor grows infatuated with an immigrant B-girl, a grieving widow becomes obsessed with helping a homeless man, two Vietnamese students learning English struggle with Swift's "A...

A young boy of mixed ancestry, abandoned by his parents, comes to live with his wildly eccentric aunt and uncle in rural Michigan. Despite the Anglo mother's insistence that the boy be raised "American, " the aunt and uncle ingeniously teach him his Chinese culture in subtle, sweet, and often hilarious ways. Through adventures great and small, the boy overcomes his loneliness, and comes into this, his world -aided by his wonderful dog, Skip.