Carroll and Graf has been in the forefront of producing books about the Kennedy assassination. It has come up with a winner in this mammoth study of one of the most mysterious figures on the fringes o
In 1967, Peter Bart, then a young reporter for the New York Times, decided to upend his life and enter the dizzying world of motion pictures. Infamous Players is the story of Bart’s remarkable journey
A movie star relates her struggle to age gracefully in Hollywood and face the challenges of menopause, all while maintaining a successful acting career, in a book where she also divulges the secrets f
The New York Times bestseller and media sensation, now in paperback, is a candid and inspiring book that helps women confront personal and professional challenges in the key moments of their lives
Explores the human capacity to survive extreme conditions, noting a phenomenon in which people in life-endangering circumstances often sense an unseen presence who offers encouragement and guidance.
Glasgow, 1492: Gil Cunningham returns to his old university for a night of food, theater, and revelry, only to find one of the actors dead in the coal house, and becomes tangled in a web of espionage
Biting the Apple is the story of Eve Glass, once an Olympic sprinter and now a motivational speaker. She's the author of two books, Going the Distance: Endurance for Achievers and If Grace is the Goa
A young boy's body is washed from a river and forensic examination reveals he has been abused and murdered. The accidental discovery that a convicted paedophile lives in the nearby village of Rendcom
His hopes for a restful life shattered by the realities of parish life, Reverend Francis Oughterard finds himself entangled in an overwhelming murder case in which he is unwittingly aided by his super
John Ceepak and Danny Boyle returns with the hunt for a long-dormant serial killer who might be ready to strike again. An innocent discovery on the beach in Sea Haven pits Ceepak against a killer wit
Lonely and miserable after losing his girlfriend and both parents, high-school dropout Earl Mulvaney receives wayward support from his eccentric neighbors in small-town 1970s Georgia and consoles hims
A Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist fallen from grace, Hardwick ends up in the Hollywood paparazzi pack, surviving from get to get, a half-step ahead of the loan sharks, as he tries to escape a
For 34-year-old Eve Weston, life couldn't get much bleaker. Her con artist father recently committed suicide and her younger brother Terry was sent to jail. Then she lost her job too, because a close
In the picturesque northern parish of Tarnfield, feuds and rivalries lie hidden behind a genteel facade. But the arrival of a new vicar with modern, reforming ways soon shakes things up, and not enti
Francesca, a disgruntled nineteen-year-old lesbian, tries desperately to pull together the pieces of her scattered life. This hilarioius, heartfelt novel opens with Francesca newly arrived in San Fra
Hex opens in Miami in the near future, where celebrations roil the city after the announcement of Castro’s death. Amid the chaos and debauchery, two visiting graduate students, Langston and Azaril, se
The annual that has included the likes of Joyce Carol Oates and Max Allan Collins is back with another array of traditional mysteries and tales of crime and suspense from its usual roster of luminari
Scott Wilkinson is a successful young advertising executive on his way to the top. Christopher Miller is an FBI legend who has been willing to do whatever it takes to see that justice is done. Howeve
Set in the early 1970s, A Separate Reality is the story of Mark Grosfeld, a twelve-year-old growing up in Phoenix with politically active liberal Jewish parents. Mark, who is lonely and unhappy, meets
In Late and Soon, a host of characters confront their confusions in love. Claire, an art specialist at Sotheby's, lives in a world of glamour and achievement — but after she runs into Toby, the
It's 1926, and Joe Sandilands is back from Ranipur, enjoying the frantic pleasures of Jazz Age London. Yet there is a darkness behind all the postwar gaiety. A woman has been discovered bludgeoned to
Draws on fifty years of interviews, profiles, reviews, and memories pertaining to the iconic literary figure, from Eudora Welty's 1953 review of Nine Stories and John Updike's review of Franny and Zoo
There isn’t much sun in the fun when a billionaire real estate tycoon is found murdered on the Tilt-A-Whirl at a seedy seaside amusement park in the otherwise quiet summer tourist town of Sea Haven. J
For years Gerald lived for his twin passions, acting and sex. As a handsome young actor, he found plenty of opportunities to perform in both arenas. But that was years ago, long before AIDS hit the th
Christian Lang, a famous novelist and television show host, wants to keep secret his affair with the enchanting Sarita, but she has her own reasons for keeping quiet too.Lang finds himself caught up i
During the 1970s and '80s, attorney Bob Cooley bribed judges, juries, and coppers for his Chicago Mob clients. Yet, without a pending conviction, he became the star witness in nine federal trials in
A gay 12 year old boy begins his first year of junior high with the vow that this will be the year that he kisses a boy. Like The Tragedy of Miss Geneva Flowers—only lighter, brighter and more
Left for dead in a dumpster, private investigator Benny Cooperman becomes his own client in his most puzzling mystery yet.Benny is recovering in a Toronto hospital from a serious blow to the head. He
In spare, honest, and picturesque language, Rick Steber sets this Spur Award-winning novel on the Klamath Indian reservation in 1961 just days before the tribe's "termination" by the U. S. government
Until his death in 1992, author Isaac Asimov would write more than 120 ingenious tales of detection and deduction, and in 66 of them he would present his armchair detectives, the Black Widowers, with
When adult entertainment first appeared on the pop culture radar as an underground film phenomenon, women were little more than starlets, who—for the most part—answered to men. But as por
Calling Sam Fuller a mere filmmaker would be like calling Muhammad Ali a mere boxer or Jimi Hendrix a mere guitar player. He was, and remains, a singular American visionary, a cult god, and the king
Cornell Woolrich reinvented suspense fiction for the twentieth century. His unnerving tales of the psychological terrors lurking on the underside of the commonplace earned Woolrich epithets like "our
Over the past three decades, Tom Waits has achieved the kind of top-shelf cult status most artists only dream about. In his varied career, he has acted alongside Jack Nicholson, Meryl Streep, and Lil
A rich compendium of information on Irish fairies covers a wide range of related issues, including clothes and appearance, immortality, personality, and demonic powers of cluricauns, leprechauns, Silk
Faith Fox has led a life full of heartbreak and abandonment, lacking in simplicity and love—and she’s not even one week old. She has suffered the unexpected and inexplicable loss of her m
In a crafty new novel featuring the world’s greatest literary detective, Alan Vanneman extends the boundaries of the Sherlock Holmes canon with an investigation that takes the celebrated sleuth and hi
In this debut collection of eight compulsively readable stories, Vestal McIntyre combines honesty and compassion with hilarious dialogue?bringing together the comic milieu of David Sedaris with the sp
