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What I See

The Black Flag Photographs of Glen E. Friedman

by Glen E. Friedman, Chuck Dukowski

What I See: The Black Flag Photographs of Glen E. Friedman is an incredible compilation of all of Friedman’s most iconic and recognizable images (from 1980 to 1983), of this seminal American punk band, as well as over one hundred never-before-seen photos made during those phenomenal peak years in the group’s history. The book includes a foreword by Chuck Dukowski, a cofounder and bass player of Black Flag. Friedman’s own introduction to the book takes readers through his journey with the group, from the very first time he saw them play, to his perspectives on the music of the era, to the how, why, and what Black Flag were doing at the time. His words provide additional context to the imagery, explaining what drove him to create his art alongside the band. From the streets around Black Flag’s single-room home base/office, rehearsing for their first album, handing out flyers, wheat-pasting posters, driving for hours to a show and returning the same night, house parties, clubs, to the big stage and the beach, Glen E. Friedman was there with his heart, soul, and most importantly his camera. In What I See, he shares with us and inspires us with these images that were made over an incredibly volatile four-year time span.

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Fiction

Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms

Stories and Essays

by Tim McLoughlin

In Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, Tim McLoughlin draws upon his three-decade career in the criminal justice system with his characteristic wit and his fascination with misfits and malfeasance. A lifetime living and working in New York City feeds short stories that evoke a landscape of characters rife with personal arrogance and misjudgment; and nonfiction essays about toeing the line when the line keeps disappearing. An opioid-addicted catsitter electronically eavesdrops on his neighbors only to hear devastating truths. A degenerate gambler stakes his life on a long shot because he sees three lucky numbers on the license plate of a passing car. In the nonfiction essays, we learn that the system plays a role in supporting vice, as long as it gets a cut. Altar boys compete to work weddings and funerals for tips in the shadow of predatory priests. Cops become robbers, and a mob boss just might be a civil rights icon. McLoughlin shines a light on worlds that few have access to. Always urban, often New York–centric, in his work a recurring theme is chronic displacement, people standing still in a city that is always changing. These are McLoughlin’s ghosts, these casualties of progress, and he holds them dear and celebrates them.

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Fiction

May 2022

CHOCOLATE BURNOUT

Chocolate 4 Life

by Emunah La-Paz

Chantel Reed is a successful human resources professional in Seattle who has a hard time with relationships. She has drifted from her friends Astrid and Serenity after the death of their friend Alison; her oldest sister, Daria, the family’s maternal figure, is prickly and controlling; and she finally breaks up with her slacker boyfriend, Cameron, after she finds him cooking dinner for another woman in her apartment. Astrid and Serenity have different ideas about how Chantel should move on after the breakup. Chantel, who has always dated black men, is initially hesitant when Brandon, a white guy, asks her out. She quickly falls for him, and they come close to marriage despite push back from her family and racism from his. But when Brandon and Daria ask an attractive black man to test Chantel’s loyalty, her trust in everyone is shattered. Chantel enters a self-destructive spiral that wreaks havoc on her professional and personal lives in search of the history behind broken relationships past and pressent, within her secrative family. Emunah La-Paz brings this cast of characters to life on the page, with each one somehow more memorable than the last. They bring to light a comment on interracial relationships that is just as enjoyable to read as it is poignant. An intro to the prequel. Featuring Chocolate Recipe and upcoming chocolate website from the characters. Redvelvetseattle.com

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Biography & True Stories

March 2021

Glorious Birds: A Celebratory Homage to Harold and Maude

by Heidi Greco

Heidi Greco’s Glorious Birds takes us back half a century to when this blackly comic, one-of-a-kind film was released. The 1971 film would eventually go on to build a massive cult following of outsiders, misfits, disaffected youth, and even senior citizens who grew up on the margins, stifled by a world built on the establishments and conventions of a dominant culture. Fifty years later, many of the themes explored within the film are entirely prescient: love, self-acceptance, antiwar, and environmental stewardship.

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Crime & mystery

December 2015

Twisted

by Babs Morton

Jack Miller's been playing a dangerous game--and the stakes are about to be raised A spate of audacious bank robberies leave police frustrated and crime boss Otto smiling, but for ruthless robber Jack Miller it's simply the means to an end. Wounded while making his escape, Miller has half a million in used notes and a hostage that wasn't part of the plan. As police close in, Otto wants his cash and the mysterious McKenzie wants Miller silenced--forever. With a deadly agenda of her own, misfit Spook, isn't your typical hostage. Unstable and fearless, she'll go to any lengths to get what she wants. When judge's daughter Jazz O'Hanlon also disappears and evidence points at Miller, the manhunt escalates and Miller discovers just how crazy Spook really is. Amid the tabloid frenzy, DI John Samuels realizes he must catch his man alive before the game ends in disaster.

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June 2023

The Pumpernickel-Daffodil

by Galia Bernstein

A misfit pup faces his first competitive dog show in this heartwarming and hilarious tale about family, friendship, and being yourself, from the author-illustrator of I Am a Cat Wodehouse Chili Pepper Pumpernickel the Third has an important family: His mother is the famous Mathilda Lily-Rose Daffodil, and his father is the celebrated Wodehouse Chili Pepper Pumpernickel the Second. It’s a family of champions, blue-ribbon winners, and Bests in Show galore, and all of them agree that one day, he will be the best of them all! After all, he IS a Pumpernickel-Daffodil . . . But when he gets his own human, neither feels so sure that they’re blue-ribbon material. Will they be top dog at their first competition? From acclaimed author-illustrator Galia Bernstein comes a charming and hilarious story that celebrates kindred spirits and forging your own path.

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Fiction

Betamax. A Comedy with Super Powers

by J. Olloqui

Welcome to the world of Max Betamax, a grumpy, selfish, apathetic and somewhat macho porn photographer. Max suspects that his girlfriend is having an affair with his boss, and shares an apartment by force with his friend Junior, a social misfit. But it turns out that Max has superpowers, so he's the only one who can save the world from a major threat. A threat that, by the way, he himself has helped to create.What would happen if an ordinary guy acquired superpowers overnight? J. Olloqui describes a story where epic deeds, heroic acts, exotic supervillains, or tight suits are rare. On the contrary, there are many petty and lazy individuals who seek their own interests or avoid their responsibilities, which makes Betamax, a superpowered comedy much more realistic, but also infinitely more fun.Promotional video: https://youtu.be/Gc70m-fCiKI

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January 2014

Conventional Love

Out of Print

by Lex Chase, Paul Richmond, Paul Richmond

Sequel to Cashing the Reality CheckCheckmate: Book ThreeThree years ago, superhero Memphis Rook saved Hogarth Dawson’s life, and now the two can’t imagine being apart. Sort of.By day, they’re a loving couple. By night, they’re the superhero duo Checkmate. Since that’s too much time in each other’s personal space, Rook and Garth decide they need friends outside of each other. Garth finds friendship with a D&D group comprised of the social misfits Chad—who has crammed himself so far in the closet he might never find the door again, Jackson—who’s so mysophobic he’s afraid of his own germs, and El Jefe—who has all the social grace of a brick.With an epic dose of peer pressure, the group urges Garth to go to Tolkicon, the biggest comic convention in Axis City. When the supervillain league the Coalition of Calamity appears and takes the convention hostage, as the only real superheroes around, it’s up to Garth and Rook to save the day. With Rook as one of the hostages, Garth knows it's time to nut up or shut up about being a hero. ;

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Graphic novels

November 2020

Tales of the City

by Isabelle Bauthian, Sandrine Revel, based on Armistead Maupin

A CLASSIC OF GAY LITERATURE THAT HAS BECOME CULT San Francisco, 28 Barbary Lane, Anna Madrigal runs a boarding house. She welcomes people who have nowhere else to go: the misfits. This matriarch is known for her unending kindness and her superb marijuana crop. The novel starts with the arrival of Mary Ann Singleton, a prude, naive young woman who escaped her dull Ohio hometown for San Francisco. She settles in with her other fellow tenants: Michael « Mouse » a personable young gay man, Brian Hawkins, an inveterate Don Juan and Mona Ramsey, a young hippyish bisexual. Mary Ann finds work as a secretary in an advertising agency run by Mr. Halcyon’s whose family is as colorful as the tenants of Barbary Lane. His wife is a socialite and his daughter is sleeping with the Asian delivery boy because her husband is being unfaithful to her. What she doesn’t realize is that he is with her gynecologist, Jon Fielding! And now in graphic novel for the first time !

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Mystery

December 2014

Bringing in the Thieves

The Joyful Noise Mysteries: Book One

by Lora Lee

Frankie Lou's back and Poppy's madder than a wet hen.Create a church choir filled with teenage misfits?Over Poppy's dead body.Minister's daughter Frankie Lou McMasters has come back to Ruby Springs, Texas with her daughter, Betsy, eleven years after running off to marry the town bad boy. Her mild notoriety as a bad girl is prime gossip for her childhood enemy, Poppy Fremont, now choir director of Faith Community Church-where Frankie Lou's daddy, now retired to Florida, was the preacher. When Frankie Lou comes to the deacons with a request to add a youth choir of at-risk teens she's been coaching, Poppy throws a fit. A few hours later, Frankie Lou finds her dead in the baptistery pool. And Poppy's not playing possum. Frankie Lou sets out to clear her name as the main suspect, and tries to locate the real killer. Could he be sexy Joe Camps, the father of one of her teen singers? In the meantime, her momma shows up from Florida to take charge of Frankie Lou's life. Bless her heart.

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Historical romance

August 1995

Imagine

by Jill Barnett

After years imprisoned on Devil's Island for a murder he never committed, escaped convict Hank Wyatt knows how to survive and believes his luck has finally changed. But when he stows away on board a ship destined to sink, his luck turns bad. He doesn't know if he can last an hour when he is marooned on a deserted island with a beautiful, know-it-all blonde attorney and three orphaned children. Suddenly looking out for number one doesn't seem to be enough. San Francisco attorney Maggie Smith wants to have a good cry. Thoroughly modern, wealthy, and bright, her unwanted holiday turns bad when she is suddenly cast in the role of mother and forced to battle wits and hearts with the most arrogant, pig-headed man she's ever met. Fate has thrown this makeshift family Robinson together, and kismet tosses in a 2000 year-old floating bottle filled with magic. So now is the chance for a love more powerful than they could ever imagine is only a wish away? Father Goose meets Donovan's Reef in this funny and tender historical romance about misfits who find that life might not be so bad after all...if they can do the impossible, and find a way to be family.

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Fiction

May 2023

My Poems are Not for your Ad Campaign

by Aruni Kashyap

In a recently liberated economy characterized by speed, the commodification of women’s bodies and consumerist culture, Bhashwati is an increasingly disillusioned misfit who has, ironically, just started working in an advertising firm. But her life changes one day when she finds out about the mysterious Mohua Roy, a former copywriter with the company, whose desk Bhashwati now uses. The company employees remain tight-lipped about Mohua, who had left abruptly for reasons unknown. On finding a poem written by Mohua, Bhashwati decides to search for her. This takes Bhashwati to Calcutta’s lanes, where she meets people who sacrificed immensely for the same values that she finds eroded in a developing India. Who is Mohua Roy? Why is there a net of silence around her very existence? Will Bhashwati find Mohua? Will she leave her job, just like Mohua? Hriday Ek Bigyapan, first published in Assamese in 1997, was an instant bestseller, going into tens of reprints in the next two decades. By taking a close look at the newly globalized India of the 1990s from a feminist lens, it poses questions about modern urban life that few Indian novels have been able to-questions that are still relevant today. Aruni Kashyap’s seamless translation from the Assamese makes this book a must-read.

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Cartoons & comic strips

Strike Four!

The Crankshaft Baseball Book

by Tom Batiuk (author/artist), Chuck Ayers (artist)

“It is somehow fitting that the pinnacle of Crankshaft’s baseball career was pitching for the only team in the world named after a sort of misfit duck.”—Jamie Farr, from the ForewordThe Toledo Mud Hens—a farm team for the Detroit Tigers—once had a budding pitcher named Ed Crankshaft. At least that’s how partners in cartooning, writer Tom Batiuk and artist Chuck Ayers, scripted the main character in Crankshaft. This enjoyable volume collects all of Crankshaft’s baseball-themed exploits. Fans will enjoy revisiting Crankshaft’s reminisces about his minor league pitching career and his comic attempts to recapture his youthful successes on the diamond. Strike Four! portrays Crankshaft’s greatest triumph when, on a sultry summer night in 1940, the Tigers came to town for an exhibition game against the Mud Hens. Pitching for the Mud Hens, Ed faced the top of the Tigers lineup—Hank Greenberg, Charlie Gehringer, and Rudy York—and struck out all three. The next year, the Tigers called Ed up to the major leagues, but unfortunately, so did Uncle Sam. After his service, Crankshaft returned home, but not to play baseball. He married and had two daughters. His grandson Max was his last chance to reprise his baseball career, but it was not meant to be. Strike Four! The Crankshaft Baseball Book allows Batiuk and Ayers to explore a man’s life and humorously and touchingly to examine how only barely touching the brass ring shaped it—and left him a little cranky.

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Biography: general

Simply Dirac

by Helge Kragh

Paul Dirac (1902–1984) was a brilliant mathematician and a 1933 Nobel laureate whose work ranks alongside that of Albert Einstein and Sir Isaac Newton. Although not as well known as his famous contemporaries Werner Heisenberg and Richard Feynman, his influence on the course of physics was immense. His landmark book, The Principles of Quantum Mechanics, introduced that new science to the world and his “Dirac equation” was the first theory to reconcile special relativity and quantum mechanics. Dirac held the Lucasian Chair of Mathematics at Cambridge University, a position also occupied by such luminaries as Isaac Newton and Stephen Hawking. Yet, during his 40-year career as a professor, he had only a few doctoral students due to his peculiar personality, which bordered on the bizarre. Taciturn and introverted, with virtually no social skills, he once turned down a knighthood because he didn’t want to be addressed by his first name. Einstein described him as “balancing on the dizzying path between genius and madness.” In Simply Dirac, author Helge Kragh blends the scientific and the personal, and invites the reader to get to know both Dirac the quantum genius and Dirac the social misfit. Featuring cameo appearances by some of the greatest scientists of the 20th century and highlighting the dramatic changes that occurred in the field of physics during Dirac’s lifetime, this fascinating biography is an invaluable introduction to a truly singular man.

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Fiction

May 2019

SAHA MANSION

by Cho Nam-joo

There are two classes of people in the Town: L and L2. The ones with citizenship are referred to as Ls, or Citizens. They are above a certain level of financial status with knowledge or skills that the Town requires. The L2s are people without citizenship but have a clean criminal record. After interview and physical examination, they can stay and work for two years in this safest and richest corporate nation on earth. Then there are those below even the L2s, illegal aliens called the saha. They are the immigrants, the disabled, the misfits, victims of violence and poverty who dwell in the decrepit Saha Mansion and are named accordingly. So what happens when a respected young pediatrician is found dead in a parking lot, with evidence of drug overdose and sexual assault, and the prime suspect is her saha boyfriend? A major police crackdown ensues, with the boyfriend quickly arrested and executed, but is he really behind the murder? His sister, Jinkyung, vows to find out the truth, only to discover the disappearance of a saha girl who has been the test subject of the Town Medical Lab. What lies behind the impenetrable walls of the Town, and who are the mysterious seven Premiers who rule it? Eight years in the making, SAHA MANSION is a powerful tale of dystopia and a battle cry for the dispossessed. Cho gives voice to the marginalized and often unseen minority: They are all Kim Jiyoung, every single one of them.

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December 2013

Maid Marian and the Lawman

by Deb Stover

Sometimes the simple goodness of a dream reminds us how to fall in love. 1896 Oklahoma Indian Territory Mary Goode has spent nearly a decade hiding her sweetly off-kilter brother, Robin, and two fellow misfits after she rescued them from a brutal institution. But unknown to Mary, the trio's fascination with Robin Hood and their hero's crusade to "steal from the rich and give to the poor" may have led to a few actual robberies. U.S. Marshal Shane Latimer is on the trail of the inept Robin Hood and his shabby band of not-so-tough Merry Men when his rattlesnake-spooked-horse lands him in the care of Robin’s fiercely protective sister, Mary, aka Maid Marian. He’s instantly charmed by Mary’s devotion to her whimsical brood but worries that she may be hiding the truth. Still, for a cynical loner like Shane, the appeal of their family affection, love, and loyalty, combined with Mary’s growing hold on his heart, is hard to resist. Mary is equally torn. This wounded stranger could be the man of her dreams, and for the first time in her life she has someone to share the challenges of keeping her brigands out of trouble. But will her quest for happiness forever shatter the idyllic life she's forged for her special family? And how will Shane reconcile his duties as a lawman with his love for Maid Marian and her outlaws? Since publication of her first novel in 1995, Deb Stover has received dozens of awards for her cross-genre fiction, including ten RT Book Reviews nominations and a Career Achievement Award. Visit her at www.debstover.com.

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Memoirs

My Call to the Ring

by Deirdre Gogarty & Darrelyn Saloom

Although in the late 1980s boxing is socially frowned upon and illegal for women in Ireland, a girl named Deirdre Gogarty has one dream: to be the first Irish woman to become world champion. Unable to fit in at school and in the midst of her parents’ unraveling marriage, she plans her suicide. Death hovers in the back of her mind but boxing beckons as Gogarty defies the odds and finds a gym and coach who is willing to train her. Her fierce determination leads to underground bouts in Ireland and Britain. But how can a shy, young misfit become a professional boxer in a country that bans women from the sport? Gogarty follows her calling to compete and journeys from the Irish Sea to the Gulf of Mexico, from outcast to center ring, from the depths of depression to the championship fight of her life. Deirdre Gogarty is a native of Drogheda, Ireland who moved to the United States to pursue her dream to become a champion boxer. Her journey led her from illegally boxing with men in Drogheda and Dublin Boxing clubs to training in a shack in Louisiana, USA and, to eventually being crowned WIBF featherweight champion.

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July 2013

Dead (A Lot)

by Howard Odentz

Last Friday night, the world changed—and not for the better. Zombies are among us. School’s out for the foreseeable future, and with Mom and Dad at the lake house, my twin and I are on our own in this mess. Which is fine as long as we can avoid being on the menu. Tripp Light’s teenage world is suddenly filled with “poxers”—the infected ones, the ones that have the Necropoxy virus. In an entire world gone mad and bad, Tripp’s only hope of survival is to clear a path through zombie land with his sister and head for the hills (aka his aunt’s farm) to rendezvous with his parents. Success clearly favors the fittest and the fastest. Survival demands the twins make hard, ruthless decisions, but that all changes when Tripp and his twin hear a distress call via the radio. Prianka Patel, a girl Tripp loves to hate, is trapped and surrounded in a bakery. Soon, the twins have quite a collection of misfits and survivors and miles to go before anyone can sleep safely again. No matter where Tripp looks, everyone everywhere is dead. Like really dead . . . a lot. Howard Odentz is a life-long resident of Western Massachusetts, where he divides his time between writing and tending a small farm. His love of animals, along with the lore of the region, often finds its way into his stories. The supernatural plays a major role in Mr. Odentz’s writing. He is endlessly fascinated by the psychological aspects of those who are thrown into otherworldly circumstances. In addition to Dead (A Lot), he has penned two full length musical comedies, including “Piecemeal,” which tells the backstory of Victor Frankenstein’s Hollywood-created protégé, Igor.

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Fiction

January 2021

The Stranger Times

by C.K. McDonnell

The international 6-figure/6-way auction comic fantasy thriller by bestselling author CK McDonnell. There are dark forces at work in our world so thank God The Stranger Times is on hand to report them... A weekly newspaper dedicated to the weird and the wonderful (but mostly the weird), The Stranger Times is the go-to publication for the unexplained and inexplicable . . . At least that’s their pitch. The reality is rather less auspicious. Their editor is a drunken, foul-tempered and foul-mouthed husk of a man who thinks little (and believes less) of the publication he edits. His staff are a ragtag group of misfits, each with their own secrets to hide and axes to grind. And as for the assistant editor… well, that job is a revolving door - and it has just revolved to reveal Hannah Willis, who’s got her own set of problems. It’s when tragedy strikes in Hannah’s first week on the job that The Stranger Times is forced to do some actual investigative journalism. What they discover leads them to a shocking realisation: that some of the stories they’d previously published but dismissed as nonsense are in fact terrifyingly real. Soon they come face-to-face with darker foes than they could ever have imagined. It’s one thing reporting on the unexplained and paranormal but it’s quite another being dragged into the battle between the forces of Good and Evil . . . The Stranger Times combines Caimh McDonnell’s distinctive dark wit with his love of the weird and wonderful to deliver a joyous celebration of how truth really can be stranger than fiction.

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The '63 Steelers

A Renegade Team's Chase for Glory

by Rudy Dicks (author)

How a team of vagabonds made a charge at football historyThe year 1963 percolated with dreams—big dreams. Martin Luther King Jr. had one, and he articulated it to an audience of a quarter of a million people assembled in a commitment to civil rights. President John F. Kennedy had his own dreams, one of which involved sending a man to the moon. Prosperity and new technology fostered the belief that in the USA anything was possible. In western Pennsylvania, the Pittsburgh Steelers, their fans, and the Irish American family that owned the team also had a dream: to end 30 years of futility on the field and bring the city its first NFL championship.Author Rudy Dicks recreates the Steelers’ 1963 season game by game and profiles the ragtag squad of rejects, misfits, and scalawags that coach Buddy Parker jury-rigged into a contender. He shows how a group of unsung players banded together to overcome tough breaks, injuries, and a losing tradition, challenging the more glamorous Cleveland Browns and New York Giants for a conference title and a berth in the NFL Championship Game.Dicks details the travails of the team as they staged weekly dramatic comebacks and rebounded from painful losses, complementing his tale with reminiscences and insights from former Steelers. He traces the individual stories of players like Buddy Dial, who became a star receiver after being cut by the Giants; kicker and defensive end Lou Michaels, who escaped a life in the coal mines; and Andy Russell, who disdained a career in pro football but turned into a perennial Pro Bowl linebacker and a Super Bowl champion.The year 1963 became one of the most tumultuous years in American history. Children died in an Alabama church bombing, the conflict in Vietnam worsened, and the country would be forever scarred by an assassination in Dallas. Dicks places the 1963 Steelers’ quest in the context of a nation admiring a young boxer named Cassius Clay, a music phenomenon in England called The Beatles, and the switch from black-and-white to color TV sets. Game photos and training camp shots round out the text.

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Chocolate 4 Life

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The Crankshaft Baseball Book

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