Larry Smith

• Jan-1994
• / General Fiction
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• Feb-1995
• / Literary
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The novella "Beyond Rust" is joined by three creative nonfiction pieces, and six short stories. Literary realism comes to Ohio River Valley. "I like Beyond Rust and find it very affecting--Good, strong language, and a big heart shining through." Sy S...

• Jan-1998
• / General Fiction
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• Jan-2002
• / General Fiction
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40 writers and photographers present a revealing portraint of America's Working Poor in Stories, Poems, and Photos. It is an important document of our times done by writers of vision and craft, making witness....

• Feb-2002
• / General Fiction
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Cultural Writing. This new book by the publisher of Bottom Dog Press is a memoir of a midwest town and family, a time and place, and a life. "It is Smith's simple directness, human scale, and respect for reality that makes his MILLDUST AND ROSES such...

• Oct-2003
• / Fantasy
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"Cloud Realm" is a coming-of-age story set against an epic fantasy background. It is one story thread in an amalgam of activities in the world of Ingarde.

I have been a lifelong fan of deeply detailed worlds--what Tolkien called "subcreations." In...

• Oct-2006
• / General Fiction
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Real people talking their lives: waitresses, store clerks, veterans, rock musicians, exchange students, cooks, hair dressers, cancer survivors, artists, gas station attendants, red caps, prostitutes, retirees, seniors...All reaching for the truth the...

• Jun-2008
• / General Fiction
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Plunging straight into the grayish, faintly understood area of the art world that involves oddly drawn objects coupled with uncertainly spelled text, McSweeney's Issue 27 brings together a previously uncategorized cadre of pithy draftsmen, genius doo...

• Aug-2009
• / General Fiction
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Larry Smith's fourth book of fiction is set in his homeland of Ohio's rural and industrial Appalachia along the Ohio River. It is a story of four generations of family moving from the Civil War times to the 1950's in the Panhandle area of the Ohio R...

• Sep-2009
• / General Fiction
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From the editors of the international phenomenon and New York Times bestseller Not Quite What I Was Planning comes a collection of six-word memoirs created by and for teens.From cancer to creativity, prom dates to promiscuity, and breaking hearts to ...

• Oct-2011
• / General Fiction
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Forbidden love. Counter-culture. The shadow of Vietnam. Sexual revolution. Social unrest. Marijuana and LSD. In Larry Smith's intriguing coming-of-age novel, The Free Farm, we journey back to America's turbulent late 60s and early 70s. Lee McCall lea...

• Nov-2011
• / General Fiction
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• Jun-2016
• / Literary
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Inspired by the lives and careers of Cardinal Francis Spellman and Cardinal Richard Cushing, Larry Smith's Patrick Fitzmike and Mike Fitzpatrick evokes the political turmoil, sexual torment, and moral crises that have beset the Catholic Church and de...

• Jan-2017
• / Erotica
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• Mar-2017
• / General Fiction
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• Dec-2017
• / Action Adventure
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Anatomy of the Soul is the lifelong journey of a man searching to find himself. It speaks of his struggles, his imaginations, and his dreams. While every one of us is unique, these are issues we all face in life. After years of questioning and intros...

• Apr-2019
• / Literary
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A Shield of Paris is built around the theme of power and love, and the transformation of the former into the latter. Mirroring this is the transformations of voice and style, from irony to elegy. The first story is ironic and obtuse, the last story b...

• Jan-2020
• / Literary
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The stories in Floodlands are very loosely tied together by a water motif, its destructive as well as reformative impact. Actual floods, semen, alcohol, and so forth…In the stories where actual water images are not apparent, a sense arises of c...

• Mar-2022
• / General Fiction
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After coming from a club one night in Killeen Tx, A guy sold me a pill that changed my life forever, After trying ecstasy for the first time, My experience was not like other people who have taken the drug, After almost taking my own life I just want...

• / Fantasy
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An eager young boy named Marcus Akim, sets out to sea on his journey to find apprenticeship in the world but gets dragged into a plot by Immortal cultivators. The immortal cultivation world is one where strength rules supreme, a rule obeyed by man an...