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Normal0falsefalsefalseEN-GBX-NONEX-NONEMicrosoftInternetExplorer4 It's the summer of 1995, and in the heat of the hills above Los Angeles, Riley Oliver is trying to find redemption in rock ân' roll. Fifteen years have passed since his band flamed out at CBGB, and Riley sees the life his former guitarist Will Taylor has built â successful producing career, the lovely Lena for a wife, a gated home â and he wants some of that luck for himself. Ju...

It was a fire that could be seen for miles, a fire that split the community, a fire that turned families on each other, a fire that it's still hard to get a straight answer about. A quarter of a century ago, someone held a match to Greenwood, Texas's cotton. Stephen Graham Jones was twelve that year. What he remembers best, what's stuck with him all this time, is that nobody ever came forward to claim that destruction. And nobody was ever caug...

When Yuvi's wife finds him in his underwear, standing on top of his desk, she isn't terribly impressed with him and his writing habits. But Yuvi worries. He has a wife who wants things he can't give, an editor who wants a book he can't deliver, a brother-in-law with a gut disease that he can't fix, and dead parents who stubbornly remain dead. As the structure of Yuvi's novel falls apart, so does his life. His novel and his life blend together ...

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A young man longing for personal connection poses as a missing woman's grief-stricken boyfriend in postâ9/11 New York. Stoop-shouldered and balding beneath a porkpie hat, Jonah Soloway is an old man before his time. Estranged from his astrophysicist father and effectively orphaned when an SUV took his mother's life, Jonah longs to make a human connectionâeven if it means lying to get it. When he calls the phone number on Rose Oliveri's 9/11 mi...

Abigail Crabtree's imaginary world is precious to her, an escape from the waking world. That is until one wintry night, when a sinister horseman appears and threatens to wrest it from her in the name of the King of Traumund. Desperate to save her realm from asion, she turns to her godfather - the enchanting Mr Montefiore - for help.

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This volume features new Southern fiction, poetry, and essays by acclaimed veterans of the popular "Blue Moon Café" series, handpicked by editors Beth Ann Fennelly and Tom Franklin. Contributors: Matt Brock, Bev Marshall, Brock Clarke, Jack Pendarvis, Joe Formichella, Michelle Richmond, Juliana Gray, Donald Hays, Brad Vice, Bret Anthony Johnston, Daniel Wallace, Suzanne Kingsbury and David Wright.

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From the author of "The Locklear Letters", this is an irreverent and hilarious story collection about the lives we lead. And the lives we wish we led. In tales filled with off-beat characters, we meet the proud winner of an inter-office e-mail contest, a mysterious, one-armed, Texaco attendant with a penchant for reading car manuals, and, in the title story, a misguided autobiographer with a tendency toward fabrication. With a voice that is bo...

In this book, O T Bennett, MD describes some remark-able cases from his forty years as a doctor in a small-town practice, a major HMO, and a rural hospital. His extraordinary understanding of how our minds can work to bring on even terminal diseases will cause readers to re-examine their every attitude about sickness and health. Even the processes of ageing, Dr Bennett teaches us, are largely in our heads. This book is a combative and provocat...

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For twenty years, Alex Chapman has been at war with his great-uncle James, a man known in his community as "The Tyrant". So when Alex runs into the local auto mechanic, who claims he has just given James a winning lottery ticket worth thirteen million dollars, Alex sees his chance for revenge. A chilling exploration of what happen when our moral questions become matters of life and death, "The Lost Highway" is a page-turning tale of small-town...

This is a farcical look at celebrity worship in today's society through the eyes of Sid Straw, an affable, if not boring, software salesman who tries to rekindle an acquaintanceship with his former college classmate turned Hollywood star, Heather Locklear. His innocent letter requesting an auto-graphed picture begins a bizarre series of events that eventually costs him his job, foils his romantic intentions toward a co-worker, drains his finan...

Three o'clock and all is not well. Sleep has abandoned him again. He sits bolt upright in his bed, panic rising from his stomach like bile. In the past eight months he has crossed oceans and whole continents from Bombay to London, New York, Vancouver, Yokohama, and halfway back and now, dislocated by the darkness and the hour and the jumbled swirl of distances he's come, he does not know where he is". With this beginning, Victoria Vinton trans...

The Hallorans cheat at cards. For generations they have known ow to deal, when to fold, and how not to get backed into corners. They communicate with signs and quiet symbols, and what they say is not what they mean. Like his father and brother, Charlie has spent his young life manipulating everyone he meets into handing over just what he needs of them. But he's still playing in the kinds of games that leave scars. And he has just pushed one ma...

In his richest and most intimate literary adventure to date, Speer Morgan takes us back to the hot summer of 1934, when Prohibition has ended and FDR is cruising the Caribbean for his one-month vacation. Tom Freshour, the controversial assistant prosecutor, is about to speed out of western Arkansas for a long- overdue holiday. His plans are modest. Freshour wants only to fish and relax, to ease the heat and escape the swarm of cases he is expe...

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...

With a mix of traditional, literary prose and bold -- some might say irresponsible -- experimentation, Ben Greenman explores the ins and outs of modern romance. Expect tears, nudity and recrimination.