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Book cover for "A calling for Charlie Barnes"
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Book cover for "Four squares"
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"A tender, funny, and fresh novel about a gay writer in New York City whose life is irrevocably altered, and then again thirty years later."--
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"When a former speechwriter for President Obama starts surfing at the age of thirty-five--the rough equivalent of beginning guitar lessons on your deathbed--he is taken on an unexpected journey in which he has to learn from the only other surfer he knows: his brother-in-law Matt, a Joe Rogan superfan"--
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"A poet's life is turned inside out by a sudden, wrenching pain. The pain brings him to his knees, and eventually to the ICU. Confined to bed, plunged into the dysfunctional American healthcare system, he struggles to understand what is happening to his body, as someone who has lived for many years in his mind. This is a searching, sweeping novel set at the furthest edges of human experience, where the forces that give life value--art, memory, poetry,...