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Return of the Stay-at-Home Dad
When his daughter’s mother dies, Arlo flies home from Bali for a funeral in 48 hours—and finds himself back in the fatherhood he thought he’d left behind.
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LSD: I Passed the Test
A candid account of teenage LSD experimentation — the Acid Tests, a hallucinated psychiatric interview, and fifty years of hindsight.
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Grandpa Goes and Gets Some
A lonely widower’s plunge into online dating leads from Cherry Blossoms dot com to Mindanao, a mail-order marriage, and a letter he can’t bring himself to open.
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The Big Top Diaries
A 16-year-old talks his way into a Minneapolis crash pad of self-styled revolutionaries and stolen goods — and walks out with the nickname that became his name.
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The Salesman and a Supernatural Loon
A door-to-door insurance rookie paddles into the Boundary Waters and meets a 92-year-old woman who may have been gone for decades.
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Young Robinson Crusoe
A restless ten-year-old builds spaceships out of moving boxes, runs away to St. Louis by Greyhound, and lands in juvenile court as the ‘kingpin’ of a gang that never existed.
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A Memoir That Has Teeth
A trade-school scam, a distant father, and a welfare case file with ‘ROCK STAR’ typed across the front in bold letters.
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Homeless on the Rock ‘n’ Roll Highway
Renting a dead school bus in a Minneapolis junkyard for $30 a month, and the Christmas Eve that turned a welfare line into something like grace.
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Validation Disorder
A historic corporate co-publishing deal collides with a business partner who was a walking case study in Validation Disorder — and forty years later, the demo tapes get the last laugh.
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