TO FOLLOW

The unofficial sequel to Catcher in the Rye! The book Bret Easton Ellis never wished he wrote!

Acclaimed poet and author Stan Rogal’s newest collection of short  stories will drag you into a mesmeric, macabre world of fragile  characters dealing with crippling obsession. Befriend a pitiful  prostitute; watch a man’s curiosity choke out his life; and be part of a  visceral act of voyeurism as you witness passion at its cruelest and  darkest forms in the lives of the breaking and the broken.

In this surreal vision of fleeting youth and sexual ambiguity, a 20-something convenience store employee spends 69 days wondering if he'd ever be normal again. He is the type of guy who spends his day off from work riding trains aimlessly, quietly speculating whether the person sitting across from him has a life story worth writing. He worries about what kind of hairstyle would suit him when he's 50. He is the friend you know so well. Cogina straps him to a roller coaster, slowly ascending...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From Lauren Graham, the beloved star of Gilmore Girls and Parenthood, comes a witty, charming, and hilariously relatable debut novel about a struggling young actress trying to get ahead―and keep it together―in New York City.It’s January 1995, and Franny Banks has just six months left of the three-year deadline she set for herself when she came to New York, dre...

Phoebe West has been head-over-heels in love with her brother's best friend for as long as she can remember.Not that he's bothered to notice.Despite several mortifying attempts at seduction and a decade's worth of unrequited pining, nothing Phoebe does seems to make any impact on the man she's obsessed over since her bra-stuffing days.Until she lands herself in life-threatening danger.After years working in special forces and private security, Nathaniel "Nat...

Boston Detective D.D. Warren faces her most brutal adversaries yet—a class of jaded thriller writers—in this short story from #1 New York Times Bestselling Author Lisa Gardner.Detective D.D. Warren takes on her most intimidating assignment yet: a fifty-minute class meant to educate a horde of bloodthirsty thriller writers on the ways of actual police work. Yet sometimes life really does imitate fiction, as D.D. takes the writers through the reality of one ...

Graham Malone is my roommate, my personal eye candy, the reason I get up in the morning smiling (that could be from the illicit dreams I have about him too, I suppose. Let's move on.). He's also beautiful to look at, but his heart is where his true beauty lies. Take away the exterior and the interior still shines. I love him. I mean, I'm pretty sure I do, having never been in love before. Anyway, it seems legit. And now his brother Blake is here, and, well, he's the complete opposite of Gr...

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...

THE MAN WHO LEFT is about the importance of fathers. It's about the men who leave, and the men who stay. It's a familiar story. Father leaves his wife and children and never looks back. Theresa Weir was five when her father left his family for a better life with a wealthy socialite. Many years passed with only occasional and grudging contact by Theresa's father. When Theresa married into a successful farm family, her father resurfaced, but she couldn't help but be suspicious of h...

BUMPS IN THE NIGHT is a collection of four short stories perfect for either sharing around a campfire or reading while on a vacation or sleepover. It contains two brief tales ideal for after dark storytelling, drawing upon classic motifs captured within campfire tales for generations, as well as two longer stories which inspire similar chills but allow the reader (or listener) to get drawn deeper into the frightening circumstances that unfold.Approximately 10,000 words of fiction, ...

When private investigator Tom Hanlon agrees to help out his elderly neighbor by taking her Maltese to the dog park, he has no idea he’s about to meet semi-psychic, wanna-be-matchmaker Armani Vasquez.Or that the pushy woman will insist on setting him up with quirky dog walker Jane Bly – his main suspect in a string of home burglaries -- and her high-strung, foster mutt, Calamity.Or that he’ll fall head-over-heels for one of them.Will Tom catch the thief, or will it b...