Our heroine not only wants to assimilate, she desperately wants to find Mr. Right. That special man who will make her and her daughters lives complete. In The Other Side of Mr. Right, our heroine meets a pot pourri of men. But instead of filet mignon, most turn out to be sauerkraut in more ways than one. Our heroines (mis)adventures are hilarious and some are downright scary. But all teach her invaluable lessons about the human male animal especially the Russian breed!

A young girl lives in fear of her abusive father....A powerful short tale. Based on a true story.

“Shukert's sharp comic turns careen smack into the middle of our hearts."— Los Angeles TimesEverything Is Going to Be Great, is performer, playwright, comedian, and author Rachel Shukert’s hilarious memoir of traveling through Europe in her twenties. She chronicles her youthful navigation through the haphazard fun and debauchery of new freedoms, and the growing pains that ultimately accompany “adulthood.” Fans of Sloane Crosley and David Sedaris are going t...

This joint memoir details one mother's childhood struggle to escape the Holocaust and the effect it has on her daughter."A memoir that takes us through many worlds, through heartache and noble hopes, through the mysteries of family love . . . Read Bending Toward the Sun and enrich your life."—Rabbi David Wolpe, author of Why Faith MattersA miraculous lesson in courage and recovery, Bending Toward the Sun tells the s...

I had been dreading this day for more than a year.Everyone’s favorite Idiot Girl, Laurie Notaro, is very close to wearing out her welcome in her hometown of Eugene, Oregon. Just a year ago, she was eighty-sixed from the local satellite post office for buying too many two-cent stamps (“The post office lady looked at me like I had just asked her if she wanted to buy my sex tape”).Now Notaro, needing to send an important care package to her nephew, returns to the scen...

A woman, disgruntled with her husband’s addiction to the Internet, is shocked beyond belief when she discovers that he has been having an affair with a girl younger than his daughter. She plans her revenge and his demise in ways that are both enlightening and shocking in their brutality.Feeling that she has lost everything in her life and, with no other recourse, decides to exact on him a punishment she deems fit for his transgressions. What she does to him and his lover is beyond ...

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...

Alison Espach, acclaimed author of The Adults, brings her razor sharp insight and storytelling magic to bear in this entrancing tale.

**“Pitch-perfect, dry, and smart, this is a vivid portrait of New York, our lives, our loves, and our hearts.” — Susan Orlean, author of Rin Tin Tin and The Orchid Thief“I loved Triburbia, loved dropping in on these wonderful characters with their outsized appetites and ambitions, the lithe and lively prose, the way the book swirls in and out of these lives and maps perfectly a place and a moment in time. Most of all, though, I loved Karl Taro Greenfeld’s...

A short story by the Edgar-, Shamus-, and Anthony-winning author of GHOST HERO. In "Chin Yong-Yun Takes a Case," Lydia Chin's mother does some detecting of her own.

Cupid launched herself into organizing a branch of Legal Aid only to meet a handsome lawyer who sends her senses into disarray.Watching the families who needed help and those who were paid to help them was an education. No one stayed unless they had a feel for the job and all of those working with her want nothing more than relief of stress for their clients.When Tyr arrives as holiday relief, he sweeps through their caseload like magic. His interest in late-night takeout and...

Sergei Dovlatov's subtle, dark–edged humor and wry observations are in full force in The Suitcase as he examines eight objects—the items he brought with him in his luggage upon his emigration from the U.S.S.R. These seemingly undistinguished possessions, stuffed into a worn–out suitcase, take on a riotously funny life of their own as Dovlatov inventories the circumstances under which he acquired them, occasioning a brilliant series of interconnected tales: A poplin shirt evokes th...