Three strangers from different walks of life confront unsettling realities as they grope their way through one confounding day.Maggie Dodge, a suburban housewife with a self-assured husband she usually defers to, feels her sense of self teetering when she learns that her cognitively impaired mother and son are both missing.Billy Nee, a young inner-city grocery worker who has given up on himself after an adolescence of abuse and loss, hits rock bottom while begrudgingly help...

A dreamer, a talker, a merrymaker, and a moralist, Tim Cadigan is classic Boston Irishjust the kind of local color that writer Mitch Goldberg is looking for when he moves to a working-class Dorchester neighborhood. Mitch soon learns that his elderly neighbor is both a prolific storyteller and a fascinating character, hilarious and neurotic, open-minded and self-righteous, kind and thoughtless, honorable and cagey, forgiving and grudge holding. After hearing dozens of stories from Tims fami...

She’s hot, well read, and absolutely mad—and she won’t let him goBank robber Cooper picks her up at the supermarket, where he spies her shoplifting and warns her that the store detective is watching her. She puts the stolen food back, and he buys her lunch. It’s the worst mistake he’s ever made.What this pretty young American girl is doing in South London is a mystery to him. Her name is Cassie, and she acts sane until they get home. She’s normal as he take...

Fancy a slice of lemon with that, love?As you can tell, I'm a good-looking guy and quite a hit with the ladies...some proper bang tidy lasses too. I've been honing my game for a few years and now, at last, I reveal all. In my book, I reveal the 69 rules of being a succ-sex. Clever, right?So why not slip into something a little more comfortable, take my hand and I'll guide you through the rules of attraction, chat-up lines, first dates and relationships Lemo...

Scudder is back, tracking a killer through the alleys of Hell's Kitchen and mapping the darker regions of the human soul.Glenn Holtzman sits on top of the world, watching the sun set from his penthouse . . . half and hour later he's just another statistic, gunned down in a phone booth on Eleventh Avenue.When the cartridge casings of the fatal shots turn up on a well-known local Vietnam Vet the whole of the Big Apple knows it's an open and shut case. But not...

Printz Honor-winning author Adam Rapp spins a raw, gripping, and ultimately redemptive story about three disaffected teens and a kidnapped child.Three teenagers — a sharp, well-to-do girl named Bounce and two struggling boys named Wiggins and Orange — are holding a four-yearold girl hostage in Orange’s basement. The little girl answers to “the Frog” and seems content to play a video game about wolves all day long, a game that parallels the reality around her. As th...

Please note: This is a novelette. Shorter fiction is a fun and quick read, not a full length novel.In the second installment of the Star Kissed series, Melrose is back and determined to get to know her superstar singer better.Cole invites Melrose to his hometown so she can see the real guy behind the cameras. Seeing him in his natural habitat, she quickly realizes how much they have in common.Private jets, late night Skype chats, and charity events, it is all in a d...

This new collection by one of America’s premier performers and most innovative and provocative artists includes 100 monologues from his acclaimed plays and solo shows including: Drinking in America; Men Inside; Pounding Nails in the Floor with My Forehead; Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll and more. Also included are additional pieces from Talk Radio and Notes from Underground.

How well do you know your noughties music? Do you think you can recognize a song from a single line of lyrics? If so, then this is the book for you! This eBook features 120 questions ranging from basic ones (to get you into the swing of things) all the way through to those that will have you scratching your head saying 'I KNOW this one!'. Perfect for all the family, this book is great fun for any occasion.

Love … and jealousy … are in the air in the second hilarious diary from Remy Louise BennetDespite being loved-up with new boyf Stephen Campbell, Remy’s relationship insecurities continue to plague her. Will he turn out to be just another lying cheating scumbag, like Robbie Wilkins? Meanwhile, Remy’s pregnant sister Malibu has love troubles of her own: like whether or not to tell her fiancé that her baby might not be his. At least Remy – aka Boss Lady – has her salo...

The "shocking" and "suspense-packed" bestseller about one teacher's stand against student violence, and the basis for the Academy Award–nominated film ( The New York Times Book Review).After serving his country in World War II, Richard Dadier decides to become an English teacher—and for the sin of wanting to make a difference, he's hired at North Manual Trades High School. A tough vocational school in the East Bronx, Manual Trades is home to angry, unruly t...

From the bestselling, award-winning author of You Can't Drink All Day If You Don't Start In The Morning among others, comes three wickedly irreverent essays that will resonate with women, mothers, and girlfriends everywhere.In these essays, Celia Rivenbark reviews the many oddities in stranger-than-fiction news story, chronicles her transition into the Twitter-sphere, and laments a missed opportunity to be a guest on a certain national talk show.These essays and ma...