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  • Minnesota Boy - A Memoir

    by Mark Abramson ...
    "I think you should write a book about that trip you took to Europe when you were right out of high school, playing your saxophone with that band, you know?" It started out with that phone call from my mother on her death bed, or so she thought. It turned into a longer story about college, being different, trying to fit in, and slowly coming out, in more ways than one. Then it turned into a story ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cold Serial Murder

    by Mark Abramson ...
    Tim Snow expected to show his visiting Aunt Ruth the wonders of San Francisco, but never expected one of the sights of the city would be the body of his ex-lover. A killer is on the loose in the Castro district. Meanwhile, Tim's cadre of quirky friends and neighbors makes life all the more interesting with their drama of weddings and lost (and found) loves. Cold Serial Murder continues the story ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • California Dreamers

    by Mark Abramson ...
    Tim Snow is recruited along with other HIV patients for an experiment with Neutriva, an AIDS drug with the peculiar side effect of enhancing dreams and expanding latent psychic abilities. The team enters a trance-like state ostensibly in order to predict and prevent suicides from the Golden Gate Bridge. But is something sinister going on with these trials? Warnings come from all directions, ... Read more

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  • Wedding Season

    by Mark Abramson ...
    When San Francisco's cattiest television personality Rosa Rivera sponsors a gay wedding contest, Tim Snow's boyfriend begins pressuring him to get hitched. Life for his friends in the Castro becomes comic and chaotic as the lavish ceremony is promised to be held at the restaurant where Tim works. Meanwhile, his beloved Aunt Ruth has been harboring a homeless woman. Is she protecting her nephew ... Read more

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  • Love Rules

    by Mark Abramson ...
    "Always toward absent lovers love's tide stronger flows," wrote the Roman poet Sextus Propertius two thousand years ago. Tim Snow is faced with temptation and mystery in the latest volume of Mark Abramson's Beach Reading series when his boyfriend goes traveling. But is it absence he's feeling or hormones?The entire cast of quirky characters is back for Book Seven. Artie's performing career has him ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Russian River Rat

    by Mark Abramson ...
    Tim Snow is sure he's finally found the perfect man, a handsome guy with a successful greenhouse business by the Russian River. With his beloved Aunt Ruth now moved to San Francisco, his life should be worry-free.But San Francisco Chronicle's best-selling author Mark Abramson can't stop with telling lively mysteries—Tim starts having troubling dreams; a drowned body haunts his boyfriend, who may ... Read more

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  • Beach Reading

    by Mark Abramson ...
    The first book in an exciting mystery series!San Francisco has never been more romantic or adventuresome as portrayed by this popular novelist. A bit of magic and a lot of local lore makes for an exciting and fun read.Gay tourists are arriving in San Francisco by the planeload for the party of the decade at the Moscone Center, a tribute to a late disco star. On the same night as the dance festival ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sex, Drugs & Disco — San Francisco Diaries From the Pre-AIDS Era

    by Mark Abramson ...
    In the 1970s, thousands of young gay men flocked to San Francisco. Mark Abramson, author of the best-selling "Beach Reading" mystery series and the AIDS memoir "For My Brothers," was one of them. In a time and place where sex was free, drugs were cheap, and the driving disco beat felt like it would go on forever, he landed in the great gay Mecca fresh out of college, reconnected with his old ... Read more

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  • Snowman

    by Mark Abramson ...
    In the fourth release in the Beach Reading series of mysteries by San Francisco Chronicle's best-selling author Mark Abramson, all not is well in the City by the Bay. Tim Snow, recently recovered from a debilitating accident, finds himself aimless and troubled over waning feelings for his boyfriend. And just when he wants to escape all the troubles in his life, new complications arise... three M's ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • What Government Does

    How Political Executives Manage

    by Mark A. Abramson, Paul Lawrence ...
    To understand the challenges of political leadership and how top executivessucceed in accomplishing an Administration’s objectives, business-in-governmentexperts Paul R. Lawrence and Mark A. Abramson present the findingsof a four-year study of top political appointees in the Obama Administration.The 42 participants—Deputy Secretaries and agency heads—provide casestudies of how each approaches the ... Read more

    $55.79 CAD

  • Succeeding as a Political Executive

    Fifty Insights from Experience

    by Mark A. Abramson, Paul R. Lawrence ...
    Succeeding as a Political Executive: Fifty Insights from Experience is based on the real-life experience of 64 high-level executives who served in the Obama Administration. Most were at the agency head level. From 2009 to 2015, the authors conducted a series of interviews with these individuals, gaining insights into running government organizations. This book is aimed at those interested in the ... Read more

    $45.39 CAD

  • Government for the Future

    Reflection and Vision for Tomorrow's Leaders

    by Mark A. Abramson, Daniel J. Chenok, John M. Kamensky ...
    Series series IBM Center for the Business of Government
    In recognition of its 20th anniversary, The IBM Center for the Business of Government offers a retrospective of the most significant changes in government management during that period and looks forward over the next 20 years to offer alternative scenarios as to what government management might look like by the year 2040. Part I will discuss significant management improvements in the federal ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD