Paul is asked to drive his wife's 93-year-old Grandpa "Bud" all the way from Calgary to his retirement trailer in Mesa, Arizona. Paul hopes to find strange, roadside diners and sleep out under the stars. Bud wants Denny's and Motel 6. Paul and Bud spend five days together, navigating the predictable turnoffs on the Interstate while discovering their need for each other, sharing their lives and experiences, their hopes and dreams. This will be Bud's final year in Mesa, and Paul is his chauf...

Sherman Alexie's darkly humorous story collection weaves memory, fantasy, and stark reality to powerfully evoke life on the Spokane Indian Reservation.The twenty-four linked tales in Alexie's debut collection—an instant classic—paint an unforgettable portrait of life on and around the Spokane Indian Reservation, a place where "Survival = Anger x Imagination," where HUD houses and generations of privation intertwine with history, passion, and myth.We follow T...

11,260 miles, 25 days, 5 bears, 4 tires, 3 close encounters, 2 oil changes, 2x out of gas, 1 crash, 1 fire, 1 blizzard, 1 dog fight, 1 thousand mile day, and 1 conversation with God! "Alaska by Motorcycle – are you sure you know what you are doing?" is the story of one man's experience braving the unknown on a motorcycle journey into the remote regions of the Yukon, the Northwest Territories, and Alaska. With many years of motorcycling experience but new to long distance Adventure Touring,...

A trade paperback collection of 16 short stories, some new, some published before, all together for the first time, featuring Tess Monaghan, New York Times Bestselling author Laura Lippman’s acclaimed private eyeFor the first time together in one collection is a mix of brand new Tess Monaghan short mysteries as well as previously published, award-winning short stories.Split into three parts—Girls Gone Wild (seven stories about girls behaving badly); Other Cities, Not My Own...

When your life plan explodes, you ask yourself the big questions: What do I really need in life? How can I make my life a work of art? Should I buy a house? Have kids? What is a life? Following in Kerouac and Steinbeck's tire tracks, a 32-year-old, post-breakup Brendan Leonard hits the road in search of healing and a new, post-economic-downturn American Dream. Sleeping in the back of a beat-up station wagon, he seeks answers—and hopefully, the occasional shower—in the postcard-worthy place...

"Stunning" short stories by the National Book Award–winning author of The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven ( The Atlanta Journal-Constitution).In this bestselling volume of stories, National Book Award winner Sherman Alexie challenges readers to see Native American Indians as the complex, modern, real people they are. The tender and tenacious tales of The Toughest Indian in the World introduce us to the one-hundred-eighteen-year-...

It's hard being a rookie police officer when your training officer is insane. A humorous story about what it was really like to become a police officer back in 1970.

"This is an absolutely spell-binding read. I can't imagine anyone not enjoying this!--Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, Author of "When Elephants Weep" and "Assault on Truth"After raising her "4+2+1" brood—four kids, two stepkids and one unofficially adopted Ethiopian daughter— Diana Bletter faced an empty nest. What would she do now? And more importantly, who was she now?With nothing left to call her own, she decided to ride a motorcycle (with her husband on his motorcycle)...

A would-be serial killer prepares to begin his reign of terror as the Hatchet Man! He has a hatchet! He has a mask! He has a plan, more or less! What could possibly go wrong? Author Dan McGirt offers his somewhat skewed look at the perils of launching a career in mass murder. It isn't as easy as you think. One thing is certain--this night will not end well. But for whom? A comical tale of terror.

The Coquihalla Pass and the Trans Canada Highway from Hope B.C. to the Alberta border are a fifty year insult to the taxpayers of B.C. and Canada. Even worse it recklessly endangers the lives of drivers who leave their homes and families to deliver the goods we produce. Ted Campbell worked as a construction dump truck driver on the Field Hill and Rogers Pass and the Blueberry Paulson Pass during the 1950's. He became a long-haul driver and ended up with 14 over-the-road rigs carrying every...

Where am I? What is going on? Who are all those people outside?Joni replied, You are in a bicycle race. The race is called RAAM..Baby, you just need to get on your bike and ride. "Em screamed, "Oh my God! Oh my God! He's been hit!" "There is a dark side to RAAM, a side only those who have been there know exists." My RAAM is over. I have let everyone down.. I dont deserve to finish RAAM "What I saw, I still get chill bumps thinking about it, because the man took off. I mean, whoosh, he stoo...

Follow Don and Paul as they dive headlong into the deepest of human questions and find answers outside words?answers that have to be experienced to be believed.Day 1: "Trips like ours are greener grass left unknown for fear of believing trite sayings; sayings that are sometimes true. But our friends back home live an existence under the weight and awareness of times; a place we are slowly escaping; a world growing fainter by the hour and the mile."Day 13: "It feels again th...