Literary

Big Ray: A Novel

by Michael Kimball

Big Ray's temper and obesity define him. When Big Ray dies, his son feels mostly relief, dismissing his other emotions. Yet years later, the adult son must reckon with the outsized presence of his father's memory....

Black Jesus

by Simone Felice

The story of a young American war veteran returned to his hometown after being blinded in Iraq by a homemade bomb and the unexpected love he finds with a mysterious dancer who is fleeing darkness and violence...

Shooting the Fox

by Marion Halligan

On love and loss, sex and death, food and gardening ... a new collection by Australia's most assured short-story writer.

The Salt God's Daughter

by Ilie Ruby

Set in Long Beach, California, beginning in the 1970s, The Salt God’s Daughter follows Ruthie and her sister, Dolly as they carve out a life in a place filled with natural beauty, meteorological myths, and...

Mother and Child: A Novel

by Carole Maso

A mediation on life and death, being and non-being, and the intense mystery and beauty of existence, Maso’s new novel follows a mother and child as they roam through wondrous and increasingly dangerous psychic...

The Fall of Alice K.: A Novel

by Jim Heynen

Seventeen-year-old Alice Marie Krayenbraak is beautiful, witty, a star student, and a gifted athlete. On the surface, she has it all. But in Alice’s hometown of Dutch Center, Iowa, nothing is as it seems....

The Divine Economy of Salvation

by Priscila Uppal

When Sister Angela receives an anonymous package containing an ornate silver candlestick, an object she hasn't seen in twenty-five years, her safe and secure life begins to shatter. Suddenly, she must confront...

A Brief Lunacy

by Cynthia Thayer

Jessie and Carl have made a terrible mistake. They should have been more careful. When Jonah came to their cabin in the Maine woods, asking to use the phone, they should never have let him in. But he told them...

Last Bite: A Novel of Culinary Romance

by Nancy Verde Barr

After ending a bad relationship, Casey Costello, an executive chef at a morning television show, swears off men. Who has the time anyway? She's busy overseeing a rambunctious food-prep crew in a kitchen the...

An Affair of Honor

by Richard Marius

In this powerful novel—the capstone to Richard Marius’s illustrious career—a gripping double murder propels the small, Bible-obsessed town of Bourbonville, Tennessee, into connection with the wider society...

Dead Stars

by Bruce Wagner

Dead Stars is Bruce Wagner’s (I'm Losing You) most lavish and remarkable translation yet of the national zeitgeist: post-privacy porn culture, a Kardashianworld of rapid-cycling, disposable narrative where...

Pearl of Great Price: A Literary Translation of the Middle English Pearl

by David Gould

The Middle English poem Pearl is an elegy on the death of a child, written to provide consolation for the loss of a loved one through Christian theology. This translation is accompanied by a reproduction of...

Triburbia

by Karl Taro Greenfeld

Thrown together by circumstance, a group of fathers—a sound engineer, a sculptor, a film producer, a chef, a memoirist, a gangster—meets each morning at a local Tribeca coffee shop after walking their children...

You & Me

James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction 2011

by Padgett Powell

The cult hit The Interrogative Mood—a Best Book of the Year selection by Amazon.com, GQ, The Believer, Time OutNew York, and elsewhere—reminded readers that Padgett Powell is one of the enduring stars of...

The Early Stories: 1953-1975

PEN/Faulkner 2004

by John Updike

Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

A harvest and not a winnowing, this volume collects 103 stories, almost all of the short fiction that John Updike wrote between 1953 and 1975. “How rarely it...

The Soledad Crucifixion

by Nancy Wood

This gripping novel tells the story of Father Lorenzo Soledad from his boyhood in a Texas bordello to his final day in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains.

Meeting the Minotaur

by Carol Dawson

An audacious modern-day retelling of an ancient Greek myth. "A sinister, slapstick thriller."--USA Today; "An abundant feat of imagination deftly executed."--The Dallas Morning News; "An exhilarating, self-assured...

Body of Knowledge

by Carol Dawson

Carol Dawson's outrageous second novel chronicles the decline and fall of a strange dynasty--from post-frontier Texas to the present day. It's the story of a secret war, of obsession, fear, loathing, and betrayal....

Atlas: The Archaeology of an Imaginary City

by Kai-cheung Dung, Anders Hansson & Bonnie S. S. McDougall

Kai-cheung Dung is an inventive and prolific author whose internationally-acclaimed, genre-bending work defies traditional acts of representation and narrative. This absorbing novel best exemplifies his versatility...

Chris Cleave eBook Boxed Set: Little Bee, Incendiary, Gold

by Chris Cleave

Three novels from the #1 New York Times bestselling author Chris Cleave.

Little Bee

This haunting, New York Times bestselling novel tells the story of an African refugee, nicknamed Little Bee, whose violent and...