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Quirky & Clever — Cute & Bizarre
Smart Cookie is a micro-press producing strange and compelling handmade books.
 Sink into the sublime short prose of C. E. Coughlan.
The Wigmaker is a collection of sharp observations and lucid insights in a neat compact hardcover book with artwork by Sonja Ahlers. Each micro-story is crafted to perfection and each confident word takes us closer to the joys and tragedies of being human. Lonely composers, unlikely friendships and rural girls hog-calling and bailing hay for the right to be crowned Bindertwine Queen. Coughlan always knows which detail will bring a place or character to life and her prose moves with a wonderful cadence, always coming to a remarkable conclusion.
Order a copy or read more about it.
 The stork has delivered a brand-spanking-new deluxe edition of deliciously odd stories from Portland's brilliant writer and performer Frayn Masters.
Pants All Night is both surprising and compulsively readable. Her
narrations shift easily from the realistic to the fantastical—a fetus is
traded from womb to womb via cooler, a surly Guatemalan bullies her family
and a dish sponge hooks a wife. Bite through a vision that is
twisted, sublime and heart-warming all at the same time. Order a copy or read more about it.
 Enjoy the dark comedy of the The Mitford Diaries, fictional diaries from the most infamous family of the British aristrocracy. Jessica is a tough teenaged Communist. She dreams of
running away to fight Fascists like her sisters Unity and Diana who hang
around Berlin cafes trying to meet Hitler.
 Number One Fan delves
into obsessions both popular and obscure. Margaret Sullivan examines rabid Jane Austen readers while Brian Joseph Davis discovers the zen mastery of Don Knotts. Read excerpts and the table of contents here. Only 110 copies were made and no two are alike.
Saugus to the Sea
is a brilliant novel by author, musician and filmmaker Bill
Brown. It's available as a very nifty-looking trade paperback.
Bill's
novel chronicles life in underground L.A. Amid the glitz of Tinseltown
is a hidden world of critical mass bike rides, straight-edge punk
gigs, guerrilla gardening, time traveling monkeys and desert towns
where the Blessed Virgin Mary still puts in an appearance.
Saugus to the Sea features illustrations by Stay As You Are
creator, Brad Yung.
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