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Here I was, doing ninety on the Santa Monica Freeway with a quart of whiskey shoved into my crotch and my dead neighbor in the trunk. It had come time to leave Los Angeles..." Thus begins the pre-apocalyptic, cross-country race with death to bury the murdered past in Joseph Mattson's urgent, beautifully reckless debut novel of transgressive loss and hunted redemption, culminating in a shotgun fight with God. Includes an open-road, open-whiske...

From the award-winning author of Golden Boy comes a riveting novel thattraces one girl's journey to understand what happened to her best friend, andwhat it might mean to be a girl.

From the author of Welcome to Paradise, Now Go To Hell, a finalist for the PEN Center USA Award for NonfictionOne of Pearl Jam's Jeff Ament's Top 10 of 2018It's no surprise that surfers like to party. The 1960-70s image, bolstered by Tom Wolfe and Big Wednesday, was one of mild outlaws-tanned boys refusing to grow up, spending their days drinking beer and smoking joints on the beach in between mindless hours in the water.But in the 1980s, as s...

This edition presents the story of how Giguere and his fellow band members in the legendary and influential pop group The Association came together to create unparalleled music, unique to the time and place, and never again to be repeated.

Mere weeks before his 40th birthday, Lunt Moreland checks in at Hollywood's infamous Hotel Ofotert for the upcoming "Sharonfest, " a gathering of obsessive, lifelong devotees of the 1960s movie starlet and Charles Manson murder victim. Comic, wistful, and perverse, this inventive novel tackles the nature of reality and the dehumanizing elements of fame and celebrity.

This is a genuine Rare Bird book"--Title page verso.

Robert Vaughan, a former TV scientist turned nightmare angel of the expressway, has gathered a collection of alienated crash victims and experiments with a series of autoerotic atrocities, each more sinister than the last. But Vaughan craves the ultimate crash--a head-on collision of blood, semen, engine coolant, and iconic celebrity. First published in 1973, Crash remains one of the most shocking novels of the 20th century.tury.

Son of the City goes behind the scenes of the Golden Age of Hip Hop with esteemed producer and music industry veteran, Dante Ross, one of the top-25 greatest A&Rs, as named by Complex Magazine. Ross pulls no punches as he details his time growing up on the pre-gentrification Lower East Side as the child of political activists, his devotion to punk rock, and his eventual discovery of a brand new art form, which landed him at Tommy Boy Records, ...

They will use the flashing patrol light to force the sky-blue Honda to pull over-an old trick, but it often worked. They will manacle their captives and switch license plates. They will drive the four men back toward the dunes. In the first instance, there will be knives and bludgeons. Then gasoline to incinerate the bodies and the Honda. Dirty work, but someone had to do it."Permanent Removal is a beautifully written political thriller focusi...

Tom loves Nina.Nina loves Tom.She only has a few days left to live.The biggest love story since Love Story.Barcelona, 1983: Tom has never seen anyone like Nina. She looks like a thirteen-year-old boy and has the stare of a hardened gangster. She's stubborn, bitchy and self-confident. She's also aimless, and much more sensitive than she wants to admit. He falls in love with her at first sight, and doesn't budge from her side until she takes pit...

Reba does interviews on Hollywood star cruises and will be promoting the book thereShe will be promoting to her networkEvents in Los Angeles and New York

Follow up to Barnes's first novel The BellmanContinuation of the cast of characters from the first book, who work and stay at the Maycliffe Inn in Bar Harbor, MEHeidi Barnes's family owns a hotel in Bar HarborWe'll be doing events at the Vancouver Writer's Festival, in Los Angeles, Tiburon, CA, Houston, TX, and Bar Harbor, MEHeidi was with us and gave out galleys of the book at Book ExpoShe'll be joining us at Winter Institute, as well

In this elegant but pocketable edition, passionate bibliophile Michael Ross has curated 106 favorite literary quotes from the collection of over 1500 well-read books on his shelves-but this isn't your typical rehashing of Bartlett's quotations. Michael Ross brings together quotes from such a new perspective even the authors themselves will probably find this book useful and insightful.Authors quoted include Tom Robbins, John Gardner, A.A. Miln...

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Bold, colorful, and dangerously seductive, Eutopia is a new breed of hi-tech city. Rising out of the American desert, it's a real-world manifestation of a social media network where fame-hungry desperados compete for likes and followers. But in Eutopia, the bloodier and more daring posts pay off the most. As one stars' popularity wanes, she'll do anything to avoid obscurity.

A classic spy novel from the bestselling author, Trevanian, about a westernerraised in Japan who becomes one of the world's most accomplished assassins.

Longlisted for the Sunday Times Barry Ronge Fiction PrizeShortlisted for the 2019 Ilube Nommo Award for Best Novel Finalist for the 2019 Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science-Fiction NovelEnver Eleven is twenty-five years old and ready for adventure.He's the Agency's newest recruit, eager to leap through his first gate into an unfamiliar time. In Enver's home city of Johannesburg, fair-skinned people are a rarity and have been for centurie...

In celebration of the 50th anniversary of Woodstock, this photo book goes behind the scenes of the hit documentary film Woodstock and offers a collection of remembrances and perceptions from the filmmakers who created, and for performers and festival producers who appeared in, the Academy Award-winning film.

This is a book about California. Specifically, this first volume is about Northern California, the wet part of the state, the green part, a place where redwoods reign and fog is common. From 2009-2013, Jacqueline Suskin lived in Humboldt County, on the edge of the continent, writing poetry. In this collection, we come to know her as a lover of land, a steward, and an ecstatic earth worshiper. This book is a personal narrative, a selection of f...

This is a Genuine Vireo Book"--Title page verso.