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When fourteen-year-old Allie's mother, Mae, mysteriously disappears in the dark waters of the harbour, Allie begrudgingly sets off with Julia, an aunt she barely knows, to stay at the dairy farm where her mother grew up. As the days pass and the heat of the wet season swells, Allie waits for her mother's call, certain that she will reappear. While Julia -- determined to undo the damage her family has inflicted upon the land -- replants the tre...

Captain Salvatore Piracci has sailed along the Italian coast for the last twenty years, intercepting boats with clandestine immigrants who have risked everything in the hope of reaching the new Eldorado. But when Piracci is confronted by a woman haunted by the death of her son, killed during an illegal crossing, he is forced to question the validity of his border-patrolling mission. Meanwhile, two brothers prepare to leave Sudan and make the d...

When a severed leg is found on the banks of the Thames, Dr George Barnabas, female forensic pathologist and determined investigator, is summoned to the macabre scene. But with no sign of the rest of the body, she cannot say how the man died. Her next case is equally bizarre: a terribly burned woman in a first-floor flat -- and the fireman thinks the fire started in the body itself. George, despite budget battles with the hospital boards and sq...

Trevor is the most amazing tortoise you could ever hope to meet. In the darkest part of night, he fires up his rocket boots and blasts off on a secret, dangerous mission in to the jungle! Will he be able to complete his task while avoiding the sharp claws of a ferocious lion? Join him on his hairy adventure to find out!

Sixteen-year-old Cora Moon arrives in New York and quickly becomes entrenched in a tight-knit group of girls who roam the steamy streets and fluorescent alleyways of' Koreatown. But everything comes to a halt when Cora watches her best friend leap off a rooftop in the heart of K-town. Now, ten years older, Cora returns to Manhattan where she obsessively studies physics and begins an affair with "the Monk", a stranger who lives upstairs, all th...

A daring novel about present-day Bombayand the individual lives that spark the city's consciousness. Fast-paced and innovative, "No God in Sight" captures the seething multiplicity of Bombay through first-person accounts of an abortionist, a convert, a pregnant refugee, a gangster in hiding, a butcher, and an apathetic CEO, among others. As the reader is hurled from monologue to short story to anecdote, disparate lives collide in tantalising w...

Cormac -- a dark-red Golden Retriever who has always been afraid of thunderstorms and lightning flashes -- runs away one stormy night while his master is away. So begins a strange adventure that lands Cormac in the back of a red pick-up truck driven by a mysterious woman, takes him to a series of dog pounds and rescue shelters, and ultimately brings him to the suburbs of Connecticut. Meanwhile, his owner, devastated and trying to juggle his fa...

Tim Gautreaux. Fannie Flagg. Diane McWhorter. Charles Simic. Daniel Wallace. Steve Yarbrough. These are just a handful of the acclaimed writers whose work has appeared in the Blue Moon Café series since its 2002 inception. Now in the fifth instalment of the series, Sonny Brewer has selected a new crop of stories, essays, and poems that promise to satisfy even the most discerning of tastes. In these contributions from up-and-coming writers and ...

You've met the characters in "The Mysterious Secret of the Valuable Treasure". They are the quirky visionaries and misguided dreamers we all know... and might even be. From the self-appointed historian of the title story to the frustrated wage slaves of "Our Spring Catalog" and "The Pipe" these are individualists far removed from mainstream ideals. Pendarvis draws his humour from the world of high school ambitions and misunderstood intentions ...

These are not, I should say from the outset, tales written for the benefit of good and well-behaved girls..." Rosie Little knows better than most that some men are wolves at heart and that fairy-tale endings are often, in the end, only fairy tales. And yet stout-hearted Rosie reassures us -- with her playful wit and directness that there are ways out of the deep dark forests of our own making, offering survival tales of teenagers deflowered at...

A Life without Consequences" is about Paul, a ward of the court stuck in various juvenile institutions. He meets Tanya when they are fourteen and locked up in Chicago's Henry Horner Adolescent Psychiatric Unit, a psychiatric facility pri-marily for runaways and the very poor. Because it costs the state the same whether the children are in locked facilities or specialised fos-ter homes, there is very little impetus for the state to move the chi...

In 1955, fourteen-year-old Emmitt Till is murdered in Mississippi, an event that sends young Elizabeth Lacey deep into madness. Consumed by guilt as the unwitting architect of another cruel lynching, she takes her own life and leaves her four-year-old daughter, Kansas, in the care of her extended family. Seven years later in south Georgia, Kansas Lacey feeds her precocious curiosity with National Geographic magazines and endless questions. As ...

A fearless, unsettling story collection that captures its characters on the verge of vital decisions and follows their twists and turns into regret, loneliness, oblivion, and solace. Uncompromising, often dark, and always insightful, Dying Light explores the mysteries of duty, forgiveness, power, and love through a broad range of narrative voices. We meet a football coach who seeks to avenge his wife's affair, a delusional poet who escapes fro...

This is a dazzling debut collection about the secret lives of girls and women. Told with irresistible humour and remarkable grace, these stories illuminate the search for love, friend-ship, connection, and identity. From the fierce bonds among sisters, to the discoveries of a girl who roams her neighbourhood in the wee hours of the morning, to the allure of a tropical paradise where anything feels possible, "Beautiful Girls" explores what it m...

After nearly fifteen years in a childless marriage, Michael Brace and his beautiful wife, Suzanne, live separate lives under the same roof. Suzanne suffers crippling headaches and is haunted by childhood memories of her father and the bloodlines of mental illness. Michael, meanwhile, sleeps on the couch, hiding in the shadows of his wealthy family and thinking about the novel he has always wanted to write. In a twisted desire for revenge again...

Gabriel Black finds himself sentenced to prison for life without the possibility of parole for a murder he did not commit. In a twisted expression of honor, he takes responsibility for the action of a woman he loves and pays for it with his freedom. One day in the prison library Gabriel reads about a man with a wonderful family and a successful career who finds that he has been cured of cancerthus proving, the author says, the existence of God...

A man kills his wife's loveralmost. The criminal is Gideon Banks, a sculptor of modest success who has finally realized that he is incapable of repairing his broken marriage. Now on the run from the law, Gid is joined by Merithis adopted, introverted sonand John Frederick White, and old turnip grower, the singer of a thousand songs, and Merit's best friend. For the length of a college football season the unlikely trio embarks on a quest along ...

In March of 1948, Jackie Robinson and the Brooklyn Dodgers came to Mobile, Alabama, for an exhibition game. While the city's black population was thrilled to see the man who broke Major League Baseball's color barrier, Robinson's brief appearance did more for one man than fuel his excitement for the game. Thirty-year-old Jesse Norwood had no baseball experience, but, through the game, he saw a way to help the scrawny youngsters that would cong...

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