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10 best books like Fake Liar Cheat (Tod Goldberg): Thin Skin, Dreamworld, Is Sex Necessary? or Why You Feel the Way You Do, Poems Between Women: Four Centuries of Love, Romantic Friendship, and Desire, Writing Mysteries, Don't Sleep With Your Drummer, Sisters in Crime, Floating, Tunnel Vision, Dogrun

Thin Skin
AuthorEmma Forrest
ISBN0743464818
From the author dubbed "a literary Lolita" by Vanity Fair comes the perfect portrait of a young actress caught in a downward spiral of self-destruction. Edgy and funny at the same time, Thin Skin provides a realistic glimpse into the dark and inviting world of fame from the writer who penned Namedropper...
Dreamworld
AuthorJane Goldman
ISBN0671787209
When it comes to crime in Dreamworld, the sprawling Florida vacation resort might as well be never-never land. That's because the bad things that happen there never reach the press. As an ambitious rookie cop on the community's security force, twenty-five-year-old Sylvia Avery toes the company line,...
Is Sex Necessary? or Why You Feel the Way You Do
AuthorJames Thurber
ISBN0060733144
“If this book isn’t a minor classic—and one uses the term ‘minor’ only because it is so gorgeously funny and not ponderous enough to be a major—well, one doesn’t know what book is. Let’s compromise and just call it a classic.”  --Will Cuppy, New York Herald Tribune

The first...
Poems Between Women: Four Centuries of Love, Romantic Friendship, and Desire
AuthorEmma Donoghue
ISBN0231109253
The collection Poems Between Women explores many facets of female-female relationships in poems not only about love or affection between or inspired by women but also about the moments that complicate and call into question the nature of sexuality and intimacy between women. Including women married...
Writing Mysteries
AuthorSue Grafton
ISBN1582971021
Here's your ticket to the greatest mystery-writing workshop ever!In this extraordinary compilation, more than three dozen members of the Mystery Writers of America share insights and advice that can help make your writing dreams a reality.

You'll learn how to:


Develop unique...
Don't Sleep With Your Drummer
AuthorJen Sincero
ISBN0743453913
At twenty-eight, Jenny Troanni has decided to become the rock goddess she was always meant to be. Items on her new to-do list include:
1) Quit going-somewhere copywriting job and get going-to-band-practice job.
2) Break up with Hootie and the Blowfish-lovin' boyfriend.
3) Hang out in...
Sisters in Crime
AuthorMarilyn Wallace
ISBN0425115828
Contents:
Role model / T. White --
Crime scene / C. Wheat --
The sentence / M. Wallace --
Blood types / J. Smith --
A terrible thing / S. Singer --
He loved her so much / S. Scoppettone --
Hog heaven / G. Roberts --
Afraid all the time / N. Pickard --
The locked tomb mystery...
Floating
AuthorRobin Troy
ISBN0671024493
Winner of the MTV Fiction Contest
Marking the debut of a vibrant new voice in American fiction, Floating is a poignant and sharply original novel about the fragile boundaries between desire, love, and betrayal. For most people, Whitticker, Arizona, population 641, is just a rest stop on a highway...
Tunnel Vision
AuthorKeith Lowe
ISBN0743423526
Andy's obsession with the London Underground is interfering with his life. On the eve of his wedding, he makes a drunken bet that challenges him to travel through every single Tube station in just one day. Only by completing the entire map will Andy retrieve the Eurostar tickets he needs to get to his wedding...
Dogrun
AuthorArthur Nersesian
ISBN0671775421
mary bellanova came home to her east village apartment, cooked dinner, and fought with her boyfriend, primo. but soon mary realized that primo's silence in front of the tv set was more than just one of his bad moods: primo was actually dead.
other guys had abandoned mary before,but primo's exit was...
Pieces: A Collection of New Voices
AuthorStephen Chbosky
ISBN0671001957
MTV has discovered the authors of tomorrow. Read them today in Pieces.

This unique short-story collection is more than a good read—it's an exciting glimpse into the future of fiction. The winners of MTV's "Write Stuff" competition share their voices and visions in tales that are endearingly...
Princess of Gossip
AuthorSabrina Bryan
ISBN1416570659

Who knows better than Sabrina Bryan of The Cheetah Girls what it's really like to be famous? In this addictive new novel, Sabrina teams up with popular author Julia DeVillers to tell the story of an ordinary girl with an extraordinary secret....

Life in southern California is not at all...
Get Your Tongue Out of My Mouth, I'm Kissing You Goodbye!
AuthorCynthia Heimel
Forget Faludi--Cynthia Heimel has been telling her readers about the "backlash" for years, and about its pernicious effects not only on the psyches of women but also on the lives of men, children, cats, and dogs. This collection confirms how indispensible she has become as a guide through the maelstrom...
The Withdrawal Method
AuthorPasha Malla
ISBN0887842151
Winner of the Trillium Award

Pasha Malla's extraordinary stories grant us entry into fascinating worlds: the complex world of children acting out half-understood fantasies of adulthood; the modern world of young couples navigating hairpin emotional turns; a near future world where Niagara...
An American Holocaust: The Story of Lataine's Ring
AuthorKerry L. Barger
ISBN1466201967
On March 18, 1937 one of the most modern public school buildings in the U.S. exploded in a rural community decimating the student population and destroying innocent lives. Considered the worst public school disaster in U.S. history, controversial theories surrounding this tragedy are still debated...
EVER
AuthorBlake Butler
ISBN0979808065
Fiction. "Within the psychic architecture that is EVER, Blake Butler explores the way bodies swell and contract, going from skin to house and back again. And the way houses too shrink to fit us first like clothing and then like skin and then tighter still. The result is a strange, visionary ontological...
Their Heads are Green and Their Hands are Blue: Scenes from the Non-Christian World
AuthorPaul Bowles
ISBN0061137375
Their Heads are Green and their Hands are Blue is an engaging collection of eight travel essays. Except for one essay on Central America, all of these pieces are concerned with locations in the Hindu, Buddhist, or Islamic worlds. A superb and observant traveler, Paul Bowles was a born wanderer who found...
Lit Riffs: Writers "Cover" the Songs They Love
AuthorMatthew Miele
ISBN0743470265
Following in the footsteps of the late great Lester Bangs -- the most revered and irreverent of rock 'n' roll critics -- twenty-four celebrated writers have penned stories inspired by great songs. Just as Bangs cast new light on a Rod Stewart classic with his story "Maggie May," about a wholly unexpected...
Crooked
AuthorLouisa Luna
ISBN0743439953
Melody is just out of prison. Faced with the absence of her brother, who's serving life in San Quentin, and hardened by her own experiences in lock-up, Mel sturggles to adjust to the harsh realities of life on the outside. She quickly discovers that freeedom is relative...she has no money, no prospects,...
The Hidden Legacy of World War II: A Daughter's Journey of Discovery
AuthorCarol Schultz Vento
Daughters, fathers and war – three words seldom used together. In "The Hidden Legacy of World War II: A Daughter’s Journey of Discovery", Carol Schultz Vento weaves life with her paratrooper father into the larger narrative of World War II and the homecoming of the Greatest Generation. The book...
Heroes of the Holocaust: True Stories of Rescues by Teens
AuthorAllan Zullo
ISBN0439676088
Heroes Of The Holocaust
The Heroes Of The Holocaust by Allan Zullo and Mara Bovsun is 6 different true stories about teens that put their lives in jeopardy for others. One of the stories is about a girl named Maria Andzelm, a Catholic teenager who is growing up in a part of Poland that is crawling with...
Generation S.L.U.T.: A Brutal Feel-up Session with Today's Sex-Crazed Adolescent Populace
AuthorMarty Beckerman
ISBN0743471091
The first exploration of the sex lives of modern teens, as reported from the frontlines by twenty-year-old Marty Beckerman.
Innovatively combining fact and fiction, the book is filled with mind-shattering stats, news reports, and confessions from adolescents nationwide about the new American...
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