Before he can solve a brutal murder, a small-town police chief/preacher battles the town council, who wants to fire him, a hit man posing as Jerry Lee Lewis, who wants to kill him, a bar owner, who gets drunk every Christmas Eve and climbs the town water tower so the chief will climb up and retrieve her, and a squeeze-happy python named Beverly.

Four male teens fall to their knees in front of an altar—of breasts. A breast cult? Pop art? Smart-alecs and idiots clash and hash out the consequences in Last Step GA and when mammalian fantasies enslave the four boys, an orthodox Jew, the only orthodox Jew in Last Step, reminds them that the flesh is never the final measure of love.

Charles Cash is addicted to the mayo-drips and brown buns of a Big Mac, so he undergoes a colonoscopy. Under anesthesia he dreams about his advanced high school history class (three African American super stars) and the sometimes-salacious diary they’re reading from the Civil War. The diary concerns Charles’s own ancestors, specifically the picaresque adventures of Cato Cincinnatus Cash (“CC”), med school failure and dope addict, and his paramour, Lulu Hartmann, German bi-sexual chanteuse....

Steal Away, my 70,000-wd. Christian/magical realism novel, takes place in early nineteenth century Middle Georgia when teaching slaves to read the Bible was against the law. Jacob Wells, a twenty-year-old slave, knows how to read and wants to free the souls of his people, even if their bodies are trapped in chattel bondage.The novel opens with the death of his mentor, Mr. Alan Cudjoe, a free black, murdered for doing what Jacob aspires to. Beside Sarah, his sweetheart, his only fri...

What an odyssey! A man who believes he caused his wife’s three miscarriages learns to love himself again.--Start with a lawyer drowning himself in the river--Add a film critic catfish who rescues said lawyer and nudges him back to sanity by discussing auteur theory and dissing Deniro--Throw in the lawyer’s sign-wearing crusade to squash sex (thus eliminating the possibility of anyone having another miscarriage)--And don’t neglect the three meth makers from the u...

**"One Good Dog is a wonderful novel: a moving, tender, and brilliantly crafted story about two fighters—one a man, one a dog— hoping to leave the fight behind, who ultimately find their salvation in each other. Susan Wilson's clear and unflinching style is perfectly suited for her story that strips away the trappings and toys we all hide behind, and exposes our essential need to give and accept love in order to thrive."—Garth Stein, New York Times bestselling author o...

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTIONNew York Times Readers’ Pick: Top 100 Books of the 21**st** Century • An Oprah’s Book Club Selection • An Instant New York Times Bestseller • An Instant Wall Street Journal Bestseller • A #1 Washington Post Bestseller • A New York Times "Ten Best Books of the Year""Demo...

The New York Times bestselling author of This Present Darkness and “master storyteller” (Karen Kingsbury, New York Times bestselling author) crafts a stunning thriller about a grieving husband who encounters a mysterious teen identical to his dead wife. Is this magic at work or something darker?After a car wreck tragically claims the life of his wife and magic partner, Mandy, Dane Collins finds himself in a quaint coffee shop transfixed b...

**Nebula, Locus, and Alex Award-winner P. Djèlí Clark returns with Ring Shout, a dark fantasy historical novella that gives a supernatural twist to the Ku Klux Klan's reign of terror“A fantastical, brutal and thrilling triumph of the imagination...Clark’s combination of historical and political reimagining is cathartic, exhilarating and fresh.” —The New York Times**Named a Best of the Year Pick by NPR | Library Journal | Book Riot | LitReactor | Bu...

Welcome to the hilarious, strange, elegiac, outrageous world of David Sedaris!In Naked, Sedaris turns the mania for memoir on its ear, mining the exceedingly rich terrain of his life, his family, and his unique worldview-a sensibility at once take-no-prisoners sharp and deeply charitable.A tart-tongued mother does dead-on imitations of her young son's nervous tics to the great amusement of his teachers; a stint of Kerouackian wandering is undertake...

The deepest waters hide the darkest secrets....When the body of a murdered man literally falls at Elizabeth Stuart's feet, she's able to wash away the blood--but not the terror. Unwelcome newcomers to Still Creek, Minnesota, she and her troubled teenage son are treated with suspicion by the locals, including the sheriff. Yet nothing will stop her from digging beneath the town's placid surface for the truth—except the killer.Running from a messy divorce, Elizabeth believed b...

Thirteen “dazzling” (Associated Press) and “wonderfully wicked” (USA TODAY) stories from #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King.A book salesman with a grievance picks up a mute hitchhiker, not knowing the silent man in the passenger seat listens altogether too well. An exercise routine on a stationary bicycle takes its rider on a captivating—and then terrifying—journey. A blind girl works a miracle with a kiss and the touch of her hand....