Miracles & Misfits offers the reader a variety of characters, from a seven-year-old spiritual savant to an army ant named Kivoruty (Yes, you heard right). You'll travel to Paris and Prague. You'll visit a small southern town. You'll even catch a glimpse of the next life. You'll follow a top-secret courier on her mission. You'll share a private jet with a young billionaire voyeur. Relax and enjoy the magical journey of Miracles & Misfits.

Humble beginnings in Philadelphia do not prepare our hero for the dangerous minefield that is Show Business. When his girlfriend betrays and publicly humiliates him, he heads to New York City to find his true calling. A miraculous lucky break propels him to Hollywood, where a string of wild and crazy women, along with ruthless power brokers attempt to destroy his new-found happiness. A few kind Samaratins try to help him along, but the brutal reality of Tinseltown is too much for a sensiti...

In 1960, Cathy McClure, age 12, is thrown out of Catholic school. Her father’s drugstore, faced with a superhighway and encroaching chain stores, has fallen upon hard times. So the family decides to leave Lewiston, New York, for a fresh start in suburban Buffalo. But even as Cathy embraces the tumultuous sixties and throws herself into a new life as cheerleader, Hojo Hostess, and civil rights advocate, trouble — as usual — isn’t far behind. Fiesty and resolute as ever, Cathy soldiers on, b...

This is the original and rough first installment of a unique memoir of a woman who suffered unmentionable abuse at the hands of her parents. Recalling memories from her early years and dropping you into the mind of the child, O'Sullivan brings the reader on an intimate life journey through the eyes of this child’s confusion, misunderstanding, will to persevere and desire to seek goodness in the world. It is the true story of careening through her life with her dysfunctional family as she e...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In this moving, poignant novel by the bestselling author of Birds of America—and a master of American fiction—we share a grown woman’s bittersweet nostalgia for the wildness of her youth."An enchanting novel." —The New York TimesThe summer Berie was fifteen, she and her best friend Sils had jobs at Storyland in upstate New York where Berie sold tickets to see the beautiful Sils portray Cinderella in a...

Emmy Award-winning actress Kirstie Alley’s candid and audacious memoir about her life and the men she has shared it with—for better and for worse.John Travolta.Parker Stevenson.Ted Danson.Maksim Chmerkovskiy.Kelsey Grammer.Patrick Swayze.Woody Allen.Woody Harrelson.And many others. . . . In three decades in Hollywood, Kirstie Alley has lived with, worked with, loved, or lost all of these men, and in th...

From the headline-making, New York Times bestselling author of I Hate Everyone...Starting With Me comes another intimate glimpse into the delightfully hilarious mind of Joan Rivers.When her daughter Melissa gives her a diary for Christmas, at first Joan is horrified—who the hell does Melissa think she is? That fat pig, Bridget Jones? But as Joan, being both beautiful and introspective, begins to record her day-to-day musings, she realizes she has ...

Fifty remarkable short stories from a range of contemporary fiction authors including Junot Diaz, Amy Tan, Jamaica Kincaid, Jhumpa Lahiri, and more, selected from a survey of more than five hundred English professors, short story writers, and novelists.Contributors include Russell Banks, Donald Barthelme, Rick Bass, Richard Bausch, Charles Baxter, Amy Bloom, T.C. Boyle, Kevin Brockmeier, Robert Olen Butler, Sandra Cisneros, Peter Ho Davies, Janet Desaulniers, Junot...

From Monty Python legend Eric Idle comes this wicked and enthralling comedySet during the glorious days of the Bush Empire before they finally invaded and killed irony, The Writer's Cut follows Stanley Hay, a joke writer. He has a girlfriend, a writing partner and a career going nowhere in particular. Wisecracking, ambitious and horny, Stanley decides that he is going to change that by writing a novel. This is where things start to spiral out of control.Caught up i...

This ebook bundle present all four of the Ladies Killing Circle's wicked collections of twisted and witty crime fiction.IncludesFit to DieBone DanceWhen Boomers Go BadGoing Out With a Bang

Read Julie Klausner's posts on the Penguin BlogIn the tradition of Cynthia Heimel and Chelsea Handler, and with the boisterous iconoclasm of Amy Sedaris, Julie Klausner's candid and funny debut I Don't Care About Your Band sheds light on the humiliations we endure to find love--and the lessons that can be culled from the wreckage.I Don't Care About Your Band posits that lately the worst guys to date are the ones who seem s...

The Glass Castle meets The Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother in this dazzlingly honest and provocative family memoir by former child actress and current Fox Business Network anchor Melissa Francis.When Melissa Francis was eight years old, she won the role of lifetime: playing Cassandra Cooper Ingalls, the little girl who was adopted with her brother (played by young Jason Bateman) by the Ingalls family on the world's most famous primetime soap opera, Little House...