The award-winning author of The Leavers offers a visionary novel of friendship, art, and ambition that asks: What is the value of a meaningful life?In the early 1980s, Giselle Chin, Jackie Ong, and Ellen Ng are three teenagers drawn together by their shared sense of alienation and desire for something different. "Allied...
Work for a Million
Author: Amanda Deibert
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When Helen Keremos, Private Detective, is hired by a beautiful recording artist who has just won a million dollar lottery prize, her plan for a quiet life on the West Coast is quickly diverted. Helen is fiercely loyal, an independent woman whose magnetic personality and storied career make her the city's premier private...
Ms. Marvel Epic Collection: The Woman...
Author: Chris Claremont
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Chris Claremont weaves complex plots and compelling characterization in the conclusion of Ms. Marvel's original adventures. The highlights are many: Ms. Marvel meets the Avengers for the very first time. Mystique makes her first appearance. A battle with Ronan the Accuser brings Ms. Marvel and Captain Marvel together and leads...
We Are Only Ghosts
Author: Jeffrey L. Richards
Publisher: A John Scognamiglio Book
An exhilarating, brutally candid saga about sexuality and war, tenderness and trauma, young desire and fierce hate, as a teenage boy's unexpected, complicated relationship with a Nazi officer in a WWII death camp is resurrected in 1960s New York City.. We Are Only Ghosts depicts queer love against the horrors of death...
Hook's Tale: Being the Account...
Author: JOHN PIELMEIER
Publisher: Scribner
A rollicking debut novel from award-winning playwright and screenwriter John Pielmeier reimagines the childhood of the much maligned Captain Hook: his quest for buried treasure, his friendship with Peter Pan, and the story behind the swashbuckling world of Neverland.Long defamed as a vicious pirate, Captain James Cook (a.k.a...
The King of Nothing Much
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Publisher: PAUL DRY BOOKS
Jean Harley Was Here: A Novel
Author: Heather Taylor Johnson
Publisher: Arcade Publishing
Finalist for the Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction For readers of Everything I Never Told You and When I'm Gone, a profoundly moving, heartwarming debut about family, relationships, and what we leave behind. Jean Harley - wife, mother, lover, dancer - is a shining light in the lives of those who know...
Collected Millar: The Dawn of Domestic...
Author: Margaret Millar
Publisher: Soho Syndicate
Collected for the first time: Five novels that defined the domestic crime story and announced Margaret Millar as a writer for whom no subject was taboo. A grim locked room mystery doubles as brilliantly funny comedy; a nuanced portrait of a marriage rocked by paranoia and loneliness; an examination of a deeply flawed mother's...
There Was a Young Zombie Who Swallowed...
Author: Kaye Baillie
Publisher: Kane Miller Books / EDC Publishing
Watch out for the hungry little zombie! This gruesomely delightful Halloween take on the saga of the old lady who swallowed a fly will have readers cackling with glee.A classic song becomes a new favorite with these holiday adaptations, sure to generate gobs of giggles.
Assassin's Orbit
Author: John Appel
Publisher: Solaris
Golden Girls meets The Expanse with a side of Babylon FiveOn the eve of the planet Ileri's historic vote to join the Commonwealth, the assassination of a government minister threatens to shatter everything. Private investigator Noo Okereke and spy Meiko Ogawa join forces with police chief Toiwa to investigate - and discover...