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Even after 13-year-old Max''s spinal surgery leaves him paralyzed and on a ventilator, his prognosis for a full recovery is good-so long as he gets to rehabilitation promptly for the physical therapy he needs.

But his insurance company''s demand for a hefty copay grounds the air ambulance to rehab when Max''s parents (Kate and Luther, with him in New York) and grandparents (Archie and Charlotte, holding down the fort in Louisville) refuse to be extorted. Even as the insurance company''s fingers probe his gut for its pound of flesh, Archie leads the fight!

Inspired by a true story, Save the Max Man! is a gripping and subtle study of how family dynamics play out in an extreme situation.

Two young men fall in love in 90s New York: Can they make a go of it? They come from different worlds: Fatherless Eduardo, a student, was born in Cuba, while suburban-raised Andrew is aiming for an academic career. But with help from Ned, an older master of gay Manhattan, Eduardo and Andrew will give it their best shot!

But though Ned gives hands-on instruction as required, he also sees a way to use first Andrew, then Eduardo for the benefit of his own stalled literary career. He schemes and manipulates in order to get his novel published-because all''s fair in love and war and art.

This compelling (and partly autobiographical) story of young love follows Andrew''s stumbling progress in pursuit of Eduardo as Eduardo flees a pregnant hookup and his mom''s Harlem apartment to flop on his oldest friend''s floor, his best friend''s couch, in Andrew''s bed, at the West Side Y, on a patch of Central Park ivy-and a jail cell or two. Queer''s Progress races towards inevitability in a tale by turns urbane, emotional and dryly witty.

"Comedy is the rock and roll of the Eighties!" proclaims Rolling Stone, and right away Rex Black-who owns New York''s hottest comedy club, the Gag Reflex-realizes the zeitgeist is going to make him rich: Records! TV! Movies! A national chain! Selling stock!

And indeed it rockets Rex on a wonderful trip, along with his wife Perri, A&R Joey, club booker Ashley, club manager Conor and, as his own assistant, Conor''s partner Frank. Wall Street titan Siggy Brewster will handle the IPO. Circling them all, desperate for her break, her fin hardly breaking the water, is comedian Rosetta Stone.

Fast, funny and heartfelt, Good People draws on the author''s 1980s experience working for the original Catch a Rising Star at its peak to sum up an era of triumphs and trainwrecks.

Celebrity kidnappings always breed rumors that the victim is complicit. In the 1934 Lucie Spode White kidnapping case, the rumors are true.

Falls City''s sexy Depression belle is a high-living heiress whose husband expects her to get by on her pin money. Only 25, she won''t come into her inheritance until she turns 30! Generous-if ruthless-with her favors, when she can''t raise the cash for a room at a hot-pillow motel, Lucie enlists her handsome young lover Harry Thrall in a scheme to anticipate part of her inheritance. Just a prank. Can''t be a crime if she''s in on it, right?

Though pants-on-fire Harry worries that one of them (and he knows who) will end up on Death Row while the other lives it up on Easy Street, he enters into the spirit of the thing. After all, Harry needs money if he''s going to get to Hollywood.

So off they go, and in come reality and the F.B.I. Lucie finds herself trapped in a closet with a gash in her head, while G-Men dog Harry across the country.

Inspired by the sensational 1934 kidnapping of heiress Alice Speed Stoll, All That Money is a fast-moving, rollicking ride.

A Family Romance sweeps through more than 40 years serving up tasty—and profoundly true—takes on American life.

In the first part of this family saga, we meet Nat and Viv Handler at their 1959 arrival in Washington, D.C., Viv a devoted mother and wife, Nat a journalist. When he stumbles upon the untold story of President Kennedy’s womanizing, Nat sets out to report on it. But the more he tries to get the facts from the President’s sexiest mistress, the more he puts his job—and his marriage—at risk.

Then we make the acquaintance of Nat and Viv as students in Colorado during World War II. Viv’s involved with J.T.—her handsome bad boyfriend—and Nat is stalking them. It’s a scene of Swing Era dances, steamy backseats and rationed Coca-Cola, as J.T.—dragging Viv and Nat along—works steadily towards his fate.

Years later, in the 1980s, we follow Viv and Nat at the height of their careers through the course of a single day. Living a busy but comfortable life in New York City, Nat’s a magazine editor and Viv runs her own business. Looking forward to the future, but inescapably aware of the past, they walk to work, negotiate their offices and office mates, solve crises, go shopping, see a play. Viv rescues an old friend, while Nat inadvertently brings disaster upon a colleague. Fortunately, art reconciles everything in the end.

With its wonderful characters and inspired and true-to-life action, A Family Romance is an irresistible tour de force.