 | Jana Bibi's Excellent Fortunes: A Novel
Release Date: July 17, 2012Meet Jana Bibi, a Scottish woman helping to save the small town in India she has grown to call home and the oddball characters she considers familyJanet Laird's life changed the day she inherited her grandfather's house in a faraway Indian hill station. Ignoring her son's arguments to come grow old in their family castle in Scotland, she moves with her chatty parrot, Mr. Ganguly and her loyal housekeeper, Mary, to Hamara Nagar, where local merchants are philosophers, the chief of police is a tyrant, and a bagpipe-playing Gurkha keeps the wild monkeys at bay. Settli...
 |  | Valley of Dreams (Wild West Wind)
Publication Date: November 1, 2011| Series: Wild West Wind (Book 1) Exciting New Series by Beloved Author Lauraine SnellingAddy Lockwood's mother died when she was little, so Addy traveled with her father's Wild West Show and became an amazingly skillful trick rider, likened by some to the famous Annie Oakley.When her father died, she continued to work with the show, having nowhere else to go.Now Addy has discovered that "Uncle" Jason, the show's manager, has driven the show into debt, and he's absconded with what little money was left.Devastated, Addy decides to try to find the hi...
|  | The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy, and Other Stories
Release Date: October 25, 2005From breathtaking stop-action animation to bittersweet modern fairy tales, filmmaker Tim Burton has become known for his unique visual brilliance -- witty and macabre at once. Now he gives birth to a cast of gruesomely sympathetic children -- misunderstood outcasts who struggle to find love and belonging in their cruel, cruel worlds. His lovingly lurid illustrations evoke both the sweetness and the tragedy of these dark yet simple beings -- hopeful, hapless heroes who appeal to the ugly outsider in all of us, and let us laugh at a world we have long left behind ...
|  | Dancer from the Dance: A Novel
Release Date: December 18, 2001One of the most important works of gay literature, this haunting, brilliant novel is a seriocomic remembrance of things past -- and still poignantly present. It depicts the adventures of Malone, a beautiful young man searching for love amid New York's emerging gay scene. From Manhattan's Everard Baths and after-hours discos to Fire Island's deserted parks and lavish orgies, Malone looks high and low for meaningful companionship. The person he finds is Sutherland, a campy quintessential queen -- and one of the most memorable literary creations of contemporary fi...
|  | Never Enough
Release Date: September 6, 2011From the national bestselling author of Inside Out--asizzling story of insatiable passion. Gillian Forrester spent her life running...until Miles came along.The moment she held her older sister's unwanted newborn, Gillianstopped running and began building a life for her adopted son. Now,thirteen years later, Gillian's sister reveals the father's identity onher deathbed-a revelation that shakes Gillian to her core.Adrian Brown is the epitome of the successful rock star. It takes alot to shock him-but the bombshell that he has a son rocks his world.And Adrian is ...
|  | Broken Piano for President
Publication Date: February 11, 2012The international bestseller at the center of the "World's Nicest Cease and Desist" from Jack Daniel's. Featured in the New Yorker, New York Times, Forbes, London Telegraph, Esquire, The Atlantic, NPR's Weekend Edition and more. Ever drank too much and forgot what happened? Don't be embarrassed. Deshler Dean faces this problem every day of his life. Dean is far more brilliant and productive when he's blackout drunk. In the last few months alone, he has invented a hamburger more addictive than crystal meth, scored a six-figure record contract ...
|  | The Dog of the South
Release Date: June 5, 2007Ray Midge is waiting for his credit card bill to arrive. His wife, Norma, has run off with her ex-husband, taking Ray's cards, shotgun and car. But from the receipts, Ray can track where they've gone. He takes off after them, as does an irritatingly tenacious bail bondsman, both following the romantic couple's spending as far as Mexico. There Ray meets Dr Reo Symes, the seemingly down-on-his-luck and rather eccentric owner of a beaten up and broken down bus, who needs a ride to Belize. The further they drive, in a car held together by coat-hangers and excesses of oi...
|  | City of Bohane: A Novel
Release Date: March 13, 2012* Shortlisted for the 2011 Costa Book Award in the First Novel category * A blazingly original, wildly stylish, and pulpy debut novel "City of Bohane, the extraordinary first novel by the Irish writer Kevin Barry, is full of marvels. They are all literary marvels, of course: marvels of language, invention, surprise. Savage brutality is here, but so is laughter. And humanity. And the abiding ache of tragedy." —Pete Hamill, The New York Times Book Review (front page) Forty or so years in the future. The once-great city of Bohane on the west...
|  | Fludd: A Novel
Publication Date: June 1, 2000One dark and stormy night in 1956, a stranger named Fludd mysteriously turns up in the dismal village of Fetherhoughton. He is the curate sent by the bishop to assist Father Angwin-or is he? In the most unlikely of places, a superstitious town that understands little of romance or sentimentality, where bad blood between neighbors is ancient and impenetrable, miracles begin to bloom. No matter how copiously Father Angwin drinks while he confesses his broken faith, the level of the bottle does not drop. Although Fludd does not appear to be eating, the food on his ...
|  | Welcome to the NHK (Novel)
Release Date: October 9, 2007| Series: Welcome to the N.H.K. (Book 1) The novel that inspired the manga and anime!Twenty-two-year-old Satou, a college dropout and aficionado of anime porn, knows a little secret--or at least he thinks he does! Believe it or not, he has stumbled upon an incredible conspiracy created by the Japanese Broadcasting Company, N.H.K. But despite fighting the good fight, Satou has become an unemployed hikikomori--a shut-in who has withdrawn from the world....One day, he meets Misaki, a mysterious young girl who invites him to join her special "project." Slowly, Satou ...
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