Nine "darkly funny, profoundly compassionate" short stories exploring the nature of loneliness and human interaction in contemporary society ( More)."The stories in Daniel Orozco's debut collection convey a sense of workplace alienation that would make Karl Marx cringe. . . . A treat." — The New York Times Book ReviewA Kirkus Reviews Best of 2011 Short Story Collections titleBreakfast's boile...

Orientation introduces a writer at the height of his powers, whose work surely invites us to reassess the landscape of American fiction.A new employee's first-day office tour includes descriptions of other workers' most private thoughts and actions."Orientation" is a story from Daniel Orozco's critically acclaimed collection of the same name, which leads the reader through the hidden lives and moral philosophies of bridge painters, men housebound b...

A young bridge painter is awakened from the hum of daily routine by a face-to-face encounter with a woman in free fall."The Bridge" is a story from Daniel Orozco's critically acclaimed collection Orientation, which leads the reader through the hidden lives and moral philosophies of bridge painters, men housebound by obesity, office temps, and warehouse workers. He reveals the secret pleasures of late-night supermarket trips for cookie binges, exceptional data entry, and an...

A love affair blooms between two officers in the impartially worded pages of a police blotter."Officers Weep" is a story from Daniel Orozco's critically acclaimed collection Orientation, which leads the reader through the hidden lives and moral philosophies of bridge painters, men housebound by obesity, office temps, and warehouse workers. He reveals the secret pleasures of late-night supermarket trips for cookie binges, exceptional data entry, and an exiled dictator's occ...

A triptych chronicling the unexpectedly epic adventures of an ordinary office temp."Temporary Stories" appears in Daniel Orozco's critically acclaimed collection Orientation, which leads the reader through the hidden lives and moral philosophies of bridge painters, men housebound by obesity, office temps, and warehouse workers. He reveals the secret pleasures of late-night supermarket trips for cookie binges, exceptional data entry, and an exiled dictator's occasional piss...

The melancholy, brilliance, passionate lyricism, and torment of Edgar Allen Poe are all well represented in this collection. Here, in one volume, are his masterpieces of mystery, terror, humor, and adventure, including stories such as The Tell-Tale Heart, The Cask of Amontillado, The Black Cat, The Masque of the Red Death, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, and The Pit and the Pendulum, to name just a few, that defined American romanticism ...

She's not your average crime fighter!Ivy Malone has a curiosity that sometimes gets her into trouble, and it's only aggravated by her discovery that she can easily escape the public eye. So when vandals romp through the local cemetery, she takes advantage of her newfound anonymity and its unforeseen advantages as she launches her own unofficial investigation.Despite her oddball humor and unconventional snooping, Ivy soon becomes discouraged by her failure to turn up any sol...

What if a brilliant killer stalks the halls of a Montreal hospital, and you're the only one who knows?Dr. Hope Sze dives into her family medicine residency braced for anything from newborn babies to foot ulcers.The one thing Hope doesn't expect? Murder.Someone killed her supervising physician so cleverly that it looks like an accident.Now Hope fights not only to save lives around the clock, but to unmask the killer, while two different but e...

From New York Times & USA Today bestselling author Gemma Halliday comes a female PI on the run, out of options, and totally unbreakable...Her name is Bond. Jamie Bond. And her life is about to be shaken and stirred in a cocktail of lies, scandal, and one very dead body.When Jamie Bond's father is injured on the job, she leaves her career as a fashion model to take over the family business, the Bond Agency, a PI firm located in Los Angeles that specializes in domestic espion...

In 1947, the U.S. Army left behind a secret when they closed Ft. Miles, Delaware. A threat so deadly, they buried it 1000 feet down in the Atlantic Ocean. Now, sixty years later, an oil rig drilling off the coast of Delaware has hit something.Now one man holds the key to the survival of the planet.

The mysterious death of a journalist pulls Washington fixer Joe DeMarco into a conspiracy of power and politics in “one of the best thrillers of the year” (Booklist).Days after claiming he had a lead on a story that would make Watergate look like a misdemeanor, a mediocre writer from the Washington Post is found accidentally drowned. But Joe DeMarco’s boss—the Speaker of the House—thinks there’s nothing accidental about it. Mostly because the repo...

Vampire bachelor Samson has a problem he never expected to face: he’s lost his appetite for intimacy—and nothing his therapist suggests seems to help.That is, until a chance encounter drops the lovely mortal auditor Delilah straight into his arms during a mysterious attack. From the moment Samson saves her, something inside him stirs—something he thought was long gone.Drawn together by undeniable chemistry, Samson convinces himself that one night will be en...