Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisherA collection of great travel writing by authors from around the globe, including original stories set in Scotland, Thailand, Malaysia, Moldova, Tanzania, Austria and beyond, edited by long-term Lonely Planet collaborator Don George.The 35 impassioned stories included in this collection - of fortune tellers, tribal baboon hunters, a friendly Japanese family, and other notable characters - span a worldwide spec...

A deep-dive into human behavior in an epic story of science, society, sex, and survival, from one of the greatest American novelists today, T. C. Boyle, the acclaimed, bestselling, author of the PEN/ Faulkner Award–winning World's End and The Harder They Come.It is 1994, and in the desert near Tillman, Arizona, forty miles from Tucson, a grand experiment involving the future of humanity is underway. As climate change threatens the earth, eight scientists, four men...

Boyle, a virtuoso of the American short story, creates daring imaginative leaps as he affirms the sheer joy of storytelling in this propulsive new work.A timely masterpiece, The End Is Only a Beginning underscores T. C. Boyle’s reputation as “one of the greatest storytellers in this country” (Ron Charles). As readers have come to expect, Boyle’s range is wide in these twelve new stories, which are cast in a number of voices and modes and set not just in th...

**NATIONAL BESTSELLEROne of the New York Times' “Novels We’re Excited About This Spring”David Lynch meets Fight Club in T.C. Boyle’s No Way Home, an obsessive psychological study that illuminates the darkness that lurks inside all of us.**Terrence Tully, work-obsessed and a naif in the arenas of sex and love, is at work when he receives news that his mother has died. A third-year medical resident in a gritty community hospital in downtown ...

WINNER OF THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD • In this stunning novel, one man traces the tangled histories of three very different families—from the New York Times bestselling author of The Tortilla Curtain“Boyle has emerged as one of the most inventive and verbally exuberant writers of his generation.”—The New York TimesHaunted by the burden of his family’s traitorous past, woozy with pot, cheap wine, and sex, and disturbed...

An “irresistible” (Los Angeles Times), “riotous” (The Seattle Times) novel about the adventures of three men growing marijuana in Northern California, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Tortilla Curtain“Consistently, effortlessly, intelligently funny.”—The New York TimesAll Felix Nasmyth and friends have to do is harvest a crop of Cannabis sativa and half a million tax-free dollars...

In sixteen stories—“writing at its very, very best” (USA Today)—the New York Times bestselling author of The Tortilla Curtain tears through the walls of contemporary society to reveal a world at once comic and tragic, droll and horrific.“Boyle is a consummate entertainer, a verbal showman, an explosively gifted satirist.”—The New York Times Book ReviewIn If The River Was Whiskey, T.C. Boyle intro...

The size and severity of the global climate crisis is such that even the most committed environmentalists can drift into a state of denial. The award-winning writers collected here have made it their task to shake off this nagging disbelief, bringing the incomprehensible within our grasp and shaping an emotional response to mankind's unwitting creation of a tough new planet. From T. C. Boyle's account of early eco-activists, to Nathaniel Rich's comic fantasy about a marine biologist haunte...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the award–winning author of The Tortilla Curtain comes “a fascinating, fictional rendering of what life might have been like doing research for infamous sex professor Alfred Kinsey” (Chicago Tribune).“A biting satire of emotional manipulation, sexual indiscretion, and scientific hubris.”—The Boston GlobeA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, The Wa...

A powerful, gripping novel that explores the roots of violence and anti-authoritarianism inherent in the American character.Set in contemporary Northern California, The Harder They Come explores the volatile connections between three damaged people—an aging ex-Marine and Vietnam veteran, his psychologically unstable son, and the son's paranoid, much older lover—as they careen towards an explosive confrontation.On a vacation cruise to Central Americ...

A provocative new novel from bestselling author T.C. Boyle exploring the first scientific and recreational forays into LSD and its mind-altering possibilitiesIn this stirring and insightful novel, T.C. Boyle takes us back to the 1960s and to the early days of a drug whose effects have reverberated widely throughout our culture: LSD.In 1943, LSD is synthesized in Basel. Two decades later, a coterie of grad students at Harvard are gradually drawn into the inn...

"Boyle’s satire has lost none of its edge over the course of a nearly half-century literary career . . . [Blue Skies is] an expert blend of suspense, terror and, occasionally, very black humor . . . this fiercely honest writer shows us what he sees and invites his readers to draw their own conclusions." —Wendy Smith, Washington PostFrom best-selling novelist T. C. Boyle, a satirical yet ultimately moving send-up of contemporary American life in th...