Barry and Dana talk about having a baby; not another baby, because the couple does not speak about their stillborn son. But this new discussion upsets their pet cat.

Professor Hebert Stock is a good man. This professor of nuclear engineering at the University of Wisconsin – Green Bay truly believes he is a force for good. All alone, he considers himself a mortal god. His accomplishments support his delusions – Strock here has harnessed cold fusion. He has shrunken this miraculous engine under the size of a clay pot. Not only that, he has brought the dead back to life.Professor Strock has revived whole specimens and their amputated constituent p...

Our Lord Weathercock shares the regional mythology of a damned Southern Wisconsin town. This story of cults, monsters and home-schooled magicians emulates. There are new gods and this is where they manifest. Here in Wister Town, a retired farmer is harassed by a coven of aspiring juvenile witches. His name is Bill De Corbin and the arthritic man spends an inexplicably warm winter alone in his small house. Trouble comes to him when pubescent children vandalize his backyard and steal his kee...

The Doctor appears late in this sordid tale. All the attention is given to the protagonist of Canaanabis Roach. He's special and he's just been given the power of speech. Now he talks about his adventures in past lives, This one happens to include the namesake Time Lord and an impossible girl.

The King of FoolsA Fool must save his kingdom from a tyrant with a dolt for a jester in this hilaric tale of majestic, motley mockery.I'm off to make a fool of a fool, and a fool of a king as well.Only a fool can fool a fool, but, with a kings wits, who can tell!I'm off to make a fool of a fool, and a fool of a kingdom too.I might lose my head by the kings-man's ax, but I'll try to fool him too!"-The King of Fools

In The Stars Will Guide Us Back, thirteen short stories encapsulating the elements of speculative fiction and magical realism travel the themes of mental health, loss, mortality, self-confidence, and finding hope through difficult circumstances. Explore the immersive worlds within, along with a range of peculiar, distinct, and queer characters.Sometimes confidence comes from knowing we have no other choice, and the ones who rescue us come from the strangest places. Dark an...

The bestselling author of This Is Where I Leave You returns with a hilarious and heart-rending tale about one familiy's struggle to reconnect.“Mistakes have been made.” Drew Silver has begun to accept that life isn’t going to turn out as he expected. His fleeting fame as the drummer for a one-hit wonder rock band is nearly a decade behind him. His ex-wife is about to marry a terrific guy. And his Princeton-bound teenage da...

Yann Martel, author of the bestselling novel Life of Pi, returns to the storytelling power and luminous wisdom of his master novel.The High Mountains of Portugal is a suspenseful, mesmerizing story of a great quest for meaning, told in three intersecting narratives touching the lives of three different people and their families, and taking us on an extraordinary journey through the last century. We begin in the early 1900s, when Tomás discovers an ...

Named a BEST BOOK OF 2021 by the New York Times, NPR, the New York Public Library, Audible, Tor.com, Book Riot, Library Journal, and Kirkus!Longlisted for the 2022 PEN Open Book Award“Riveting…[A] tender, ferocious book.”—New York Times“Beautifully fantastical.”—NPR“Masterful.”—Chicago TribuneOne October morning, ...

Jordan Matthews is a good kid, an average student, and has never gotten in trouble at school before. But today he finds himself in the principal's office with fellow classmate Casey Sothern. He doesn't think they've done anything wrong, and doesn't expect much in the way of punishment until Casey's mother arrives.Which means someone's called his parents, too.And they'll know Casey isn't just his best friend, but his boyfriend, as well.Then Jordan sees his father sto...

**THE RUNAWAY NATIONAL BESTSELLER AND INTERNATIONAL SENSATIONWorking at the local processing plant, Marcos is in the business of slaughtering humans—though no one calls them that anymore.**His wife has left him, his father is sinking into dementia, and Marcos tries not to think too hard about how he makes a living. After all, it happened so quickly. First, it was reported that an infectious virus has made all animal meat poisonous to humans. Then governments initiated the “...

The staff of New York's premier supernatural catering company, has their work cut out for them in this outrageous follow-up to Envy of Angels .Love is in the air at Sin du Jour.The Goblin King (yes, that one) and his Queen are celebrating the marriage of their son to his human bride. Naturally the celebrations will be legendary.But when desire and magic mix, the results can be unpredictable.Our heroes are going to need more than passio...