John Allen wants to be a wrangler more than anything else in the world. He has toiled in Kansas coal mines and worked as a gunsmith's apprentice, but nothing draws him like the notion of being called
Left for dead when the wagon master and his band of owlhoots massacre a wagon train, Matt Fields awakens to find his partner, Cotton Wills, murdered. He discovers a young woman and two boys who also s
Mitch Ellsworth wants a new, uneventful life. With a history that includes Civil War service with the notorious Quantrill raiders, post-war banditry and a consequential stretch in a Missouri prison, h
Had Josh Barkley known the trouble he would soon face, he and his sidekick, Mike Gray-Eyes, would have never tied up in front of the sheriff's office in Junction Flats. But they did, and faster than
Wrongly kicked out of the Confederate Army for dereliction of duty, JD Thornton sets out to run down Hugh Garrett, the corporal who accused him. In the middle of his search, he encounters Lucy and Flo
Young James Whipwell believes there is more to life than working on his father's farm in Indiana. The Civil War has been over for five years, the transcontinental railroad is opening the West, and he
Despite his best efforts, gun-for-hire Matt Logan is unable to stop the brutal murder of an innocent man. Logan prefers to keep to himself but feels obligated to warn the man's partner that he was unf
When the remnants of a ruthless outlaw gang invade the peaceful desert setting Montana Dawn shares with her gentleman husband, little does the girl suspect that her long-dormant spirit for a life far
From the intimacy of small town America to big city life, from World War II to 9/11, In the Meantime vividly encapsulates an unforgettable era.On a hot summer's day in 1931, three five-year-olds m
Failing Paris is the story of a week in the life of Sabine Wilcox, the 19-year-old student who has left the stifling rural existence of the American Southwest in exchange for a year in Paris. But the
This work brilliantly fuses travel narrative with history and cultural studies—yet reads like a novel. It’s also a love story that is in no way fictional. A fan letter to the author from a woman named
A long overdue retelling of New Grub Street—George Gissing’s classic satire of the Victorian literary marketplace—Grub chronicles the triumphs and humiliations of a group of young novelists living in
United States of Banana takes place at the Statue of Liberty in post-9/11 New York City, where Hamlet, Zarathustra, and Giannina are on a quest to free the Puerto Rican prisoner Segismundo. Segismundo
"In the Hispanic American classic Empire of Dreams, Giannina Braschi calls for a revolution in poetry--a revolution against the Latin American Boom. New York City becomes the site of liberation for it
This groundbreaking novel, set in New York City during the 1990s, is guaranteed to be unlike any literary experience you have ever had. Acclaimed Puerto Rican author Giannini Braschi has crafted this
"In the Hispanic American classic Empire of Dreams, Giannina Braschi calls for a revolution in poetry--a revolution against the Latin American Boom. New York City becomes the site of liberation for it
Famed alt-country artist Annie Walsh has more than enough reason to sing her version of the blues, including a broken heart, a stalled career, and a troubled family. Annie seeks refuge from an upended
With is the sensual, suspenseful and irresistible tale of Robin Kerr, a young girl abducted from her family and brought to a remote Ozark mountaintop, where she is left to fend for herself. Over the c
For decades, Donald Harington has delighted readers with ribald, colorful adventures from Stay More, Arkansas, an imaginary Ozark enclave where shrewd and sexy hill folk mingle with reclusive milliona
There are good people and bad on both sides of the tracks that divide Laureate from 'Colored Town'. Our instruction in that hard truth comes as we follow two African-American teens, Cilla Handsom and
Ekaterina has just arrived in an unnamed city at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela with a pasteboard suitcase, a kerchief that covers her lack of hair, and little more than a rudimentary
Latha Bourne, the attractive postmistress of Stay More — a small town in the Arkansas Ozarks — didn’t expect to see Every Dill again. More than ten years before, he had raped her, robbed the bank, and
Every time Hoppy enters a town in his truck, he is greeted with delight and anticipation, showered with warmth, offered meals, and more often than not, pretty girls trying to catch more than just his
It is June. Diana Stoving's new Porsche has just broken down on the Garden State Parkway, and Diana, twenty-one, freshly graduated from Sarah Lawrence, sits in a dealer's showroom, waiting for repairs
During World War II, real news is a rare commodity in the hamlet of Stay More, Arkansas. But twelve-year-old Dawny - inspired by his hero Ernie Pyle - finds enough local color to keep the townsfolk re
After her law firm becomes embroiled in an international scandal and her boyfriend begins asking questions, Mimi Sean Young, once known as Mimi Suong Giang, must confront the life-changing traumas she
After the Germans invade Belgium in 1940, Jewish chemistry professor Andre Severin, his brother and their families flee south to the French countryside where they are welcomed and protected by the Heg
In a sweeping family saga, teenager narrator Simone enters into a forbidden, all-too-adult relationship, in a book that looks back at four of Simone's Vietnamese ancestors. Reissue.
After breaking off her engagement, thirty-something Andi Cutrone yields New England to her ex and flees home to Long Island. There, she devotes her time to teaching in the writing program at Brooklyn
Do-a Luz must abandon her aristocratic life in nineteenth-century Madrid and begin anew in rural Andalusia. But what she cannot leave behind is her history: her illegitimate birth that defines who she
I see I am soaring too high, so I shall descend and speak more plainly. So writes nineteenth-century Spanish author Juan Valera in "Cordovan Woman," one of a literary sextet found in the translation o
After she wakes up in a storage locker, bound and gagged, Jacqueline "Jack" Daniels soon comes to realize that she has been abducted by her arch nemesis, a twisted serial killer known only as "Mr. K."
In 1986, the universe suddenly bifurcated. Thirty-five years later, Felix spends his days lunching at Coconut Cafae and dreaming of a successful writing career. Everything changes when his Aunt Henrie
The author describes the political and economic conditions in Argentina during the time he was the head of the country's central bank, the circumstances behind his resignation, and the effects of the
Stalina Folskaya leaves behind her painful past as she flees St. Petersburg, Russia, where she was trained as a chemist, and tries to begin a new life in Hartford, Connecticut, where she takes a job a
-Generations ago, eating was much less complicated. We tended to shop more often at markets that provided fresh, locally produced foods. Families ate together, and most meals were cooked and eaten at
A few months after doctors tell him he has only a year to live, a precocious fifteen-year-old from a small town in Virginia has an intense reaction to The catcher in the rye. Deriving inspiration from
In sci-fi author Sam Landstrom MetaGame, he creates a believable but disturbing world with fewer than six degrees of separation. In fact, every single person, product, pastime, and proclivity humans t
Paul, a Chinese American detective, and his eccentric sidekick Nelson seek redemption in Wilmington, Delaware, as they hunt for the person behind a series of brutal serial murders that seem to have no
