Stress-eating after a breakup?Frustrated by the cost of a good cocktail?Stymied by the weirdness of abstract art?These penguins share your pain. The "random penguins" are a lineup of quirky, lovable weirdos with minds of their own. They understand the agony of social awkwardness, the power of the perfect...
The Lost Fleet: Beyond the Frontier:...
Author: Jack Campbell
Publisher: Ace Books, 2015.
"One of the best military science fiction series on the market," (Monsters and Critics) The Lost Fleet delivers thrilling combat on a grand space opera scale. Now, Admiral John "Black Jack" Geary embarks on a brand new mission - to defend the Alliance from itself - in New York Times bestselling...
The Hour of the Innocents
Author: Robert Paston
Publisher: Forge Books
. Vietnam. Social turmoil. Drugs. Music.Four young musicians are determined to escape a ravaged industrial landscape by playing rock and roll...and they play it with a passion and brilliance that contrasts with their poverty. Music is the only hope they have.Set against a fleeting age when music seemed about to change the world,...
Margaret Truman's Allied in Danger:...
Author: Margaret Truman
Publisher: Forge Books
PI Robert Brixton is back in Margaret Truman's Allied in Danger, Donald Bain's next installment in the New York Times bestselling Capital Crimes seriesDavid Portland works security for America's British Embassy in London. His life is upended when his son Trevor dies mysteriously in Nigeria, while employed by a suspicious...
The Hairdresser of Harare: A Novel
Author: Tendai Huchu
Publisher: Ohio University Press,...
In this delicious and devastating first novel, which The Guardian named one of its ten best contemporary African books, Caine Prize finalist Tendai Huchu (The Maestro, the Magistrate, and the Mathematician) portrays the heart of contemporary Zimbabwean society with humor and grace. Vimbai is the best hairdresser in Mrs....
Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy...
Author: Marvel Comics
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Brace yourself for 2017's most cosmic movie with an awesome mix of stories new and old, hand-picked to whet the appetite for Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2! The comic-book adaptation of the first blockbuster will get you hooked on that Guardians feeling as Star-Lord, Gamora, Drax, Rocket and Groot are thrown...
Close to Home: A Chicory Inn Novel...
Author: Deborah Raney
Publisher: Abingdon
Bree Cordel Whitman is a Whitman by marriage, but sometimes she forgets she wasn't born into Grant and Audrey's family. Her late husband, Timothy Whitman, gave his life for his country on a windblown hill in Afghanistan. Bree has let the love of Tim's family keep her ties to him strong--in the same way she keeps...
Firefly Summer
Author: Nan Rossiter
Publisher: Kensington Pub Corp
A little light can guide you home ... New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Nan Rossiter's touching new novel reunites four sisters at their childhood vacation spot on Cape Cod - where they uncover the truth about a past tragedy to find their future as a family ... The close-knit Quinn siblings enjoyed the kind...
Diary of a Triflin' Bitch 2
Author: Platinum
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent...
Now that Brandy's diary has been found and all of her secrets are let out of the bag, what will happen to her and her friendships? Tracy is now living her life with this horrible disease given to her by her first and only true love. How will she overcome the depressing thoughts of knowing she will die? Diamond finally...
Kiss My Boots
Author: Harper Sloan
Publisher: Pocket Books
In this second of the sultry, Western-set Coming Home series from New York Times bestselling author Harper Sloan, Quinn Davis might finally have a shot at her own happily-ever-after - but will she let love in, or will she tell it to go ahead and kiss her boots?Quinn Davis prefers to live her life quietly. She's the stereotypical...
The Revolutionaries Try Again
Author: Mauro Javier Cardenas
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Extravagant, absurd, and self-aware, "The Revolutionaries Try Again "plays out against the lost decade of Ecuador's austerity and the stymied idealism of three childhood friendsan expat, a bureaucrat, and a playwrightwho are as sure about the evils of dictatorship as they are unsure of everything else, including...
The Good Life
Author: Marian Thurm
Publisher: The Permanent Press
In this powerful new book from an esteemed novelist and acclaimed short story writer, Marian Thurm expertly draws a chilling portrait of a marriage and the downward spiral of a loving husband and father who has bought a handgun as the novel opens.Stacy and Roger seem to have it all: a wonderful marriage, a luxury Upper...
The Devil's Rosary: The Complete...
Author: SEABURY QUINN
Publisher: Night Shade Books
Today the names of H. P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, August Derleth, and Clark Ashton Smith, all regular contributors to the pulp magazine Weird Tales during the first half of the twentieth century, are recognizable even to casual readers of the bizarre and fantastic. And yet despite being more popular than them all during...
The Unknown Bridesmaid
Author: Margaret Forster
Publisher: Europa Editions; Reprint...
Margaret Forster's twenty-sixth work of fiction is a subtle, psychologically probing of personal history, guilt, and redemption. Julia, a troubled and isolated child with few friends, is tormented by the irreperable damage she believes she has caused her family during a seemingly innocuous outing with her cousin's...
The Villa
Author: Rosanna Ley
Publisher: Quercus
Set against the rugged coast of Sicily, debut novelist Rosanna Ley creates a lush multi-generational story in The Villa; an epic journey of love lost, family secrets, the road to self-discovery and the meaning of home and family. When Tess Angel receives a letter informing her she has inherited the Villa Sirena, perched...
