"The stories are fast with page-turning addictiveness, filled with gems of street-smart dialogue…Noir collections don't get much better than this."— New York Journal of BooksThis volume includes the two underground cult-classic novels By the Balls and Five Shots and a Funeral, along with two brand-new short stories, a new introduction, and over a dozen short essays by industry luminaries. The tales follow the exploits of Ben Drake, a detec...

Cottons is a graphic novel trilogy with epic worldbuilding from Jim Pascoe and breathtaking art from Heidi Arnhold. For the first time, the complete adventure is available in a gorgeous hardcover!To her neighbors, Bridgebelle is an ordinary rabbit. She has a ho-hum life working at the carrot factory and caring for her ailing aunt. But Bridgebelle is anything but ordinary. She has the uncanny ability to create thokchas, objects of art that seem to work like magic. B...

In Cottons, rabbits and foxes inhabit a world where magic, technology, and art are used as weapons of war. Written by Jim Pascoe, with bold illustrations from Heidi Arnhold.To her neighbors in the Vale of Industry, Bridgebelle is an ordinary rabbit. All day long, she toils at the carrot factory. After a hard day, she returns home to care for her ailing auntie. And whenever she's out, she's watchful of the murderous foxes who prey on her kind.But Bridgebelle is not ...

In a world where art is both coveted and feared, one rabbit's passion for creation may change everything.In Cottons: The White Carrot, the second volume in Jim Pascoe and Heidi Arnhold's epic graphic novel trilogy, we are taken deeper into a rich fantasy world. For the rabbits of the Vale of Industry, cha is the fuel that lights their homes, powers their factories, and makes modern life possible. But to Bridgebelle, cha means so much more. It's the vital i...

Meet Sama, a 10-year-old boy who is so sad that tears have literally stained his cheeks. Sama's father has had a heart attack, and doctors give him a month to live. With his teddy bear in tow, Sama crawls under his bed and finds a magical portal to a strange realm called Undertown. What is this dark new world? To find out, Sama begins a journey through the depths of Undertown, where he searches for The Sugar Stone, a magical object that might be able to save his dad! This is volume 1 of th...

Will Sama find the Sugar Stone, or will the Cloud prevent him from finding what his father needs? The Undertown saga continues.

In "Look Homeward, Angel," Thomas Wolfe weaves a poignant tapestry of life in early 20th-century America through the lens of the Gants, a fictional family in the town of Altamont, North Carolina. Employing a vivid and lyrical prose style, Wolfe combines stream-of-consciousness narration with rich, impressionistic descriptions that evoke both the beauty and hardships of his characters' lives. The narrative follows young Eugene Gant as he grapples with his identity against the backdrop of fa...

“The Star Rover” is a book by Jack London, an American novelist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction.The Star Rover is a science fiction novel by American writer Jack London. A framing story is told in the first person by Darrell Standing, a university professor serving life imprisonment in San Quentin State Prison for murder. Prison officials try to break his spirit by means of a torture device called "the ...

"Seeds reads like the best of a roundtable discussion amongst John Muir, Bill Bryson, and David Sedaris. From the fields of Gettysburg to the home of Kerouac, Horan takes an unlikely premise and weaves it into a story that's poignant, insightful and unexpectedly humorous. This is more than a book about seeds—it's about literary heroes, forensic forestry, and self-discovery." —Spike Carlsen, author of A Splintered History of WoodThe Orchid Thief meets Botany of Desire meets Driving ...

The debut collection of a poet whose savage, hilarious work has already received extraordinary notice.Since his poems first began to appear in the pages of The New Yorker and Poetry, there has been a lot of excited talk about the fresh and inventive work of Michael Robbins. Equal parts hip- hop, John Berryman, and capitalism seeking death and not finding it, Robbins's poems are strange, wonderful, wild, and completely unlike anything else being wr...

"Twilight Sleep" is Edith Wharton's superb satirical novel of the Jazz Age, a critically praised best-seller when it was first published in 1927.Sex, drugs, work, money, infatuation with the occult and spiritual healing -- these are the remarkably modern themes that animate "Twilight Sleep".The extended family of Mrs. Manford is determined to escape the pain, boredom and emptiness of life through whatever form of "twilight sleep" they can devise or procure. And though the c...

This book, newly updated, contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure!The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the beginning of that work, where you'll find a new TOC that lists all the chapters and sub-chapters of that specific work.Here you will find the complete novels and nove...