Steve Solomon and Victoria Lord are back in a free short story. Steve says he's going fishing with Manuel Cruz, a guy who stole a bundle from Steve’s favorite client. Which is when Victoria learns her law partner has an unorthodox method of negotiating a settlement. The Solomon and Lord novels have been nominated for the Edgar, Macavity, James Thurber and International Thriller Awards. Views: 36
A stirring novel of coming of age within a dysfunctional familySweetly funny and deeply perceptive, this novel follows teenager Maya Devine's search for her mother, her father, and above all, herself, offering a fresh take on what it is to grow up and to be part of a family. Maya's mother Marigold is desperate for enlightenment: she drags Maya to library lectures on making money and gardening as part of her home schooling, attends AA meetings even though she never has more than two drinks at a time, and conscripts Maya for the very personal crusade of spreading the words of the Bhagavad Gita from street corners. When Marigold is diagnosed with cancer and vows to spend her final days in the tepee she's set up in the backyard, 11-year-old Maya starts hearing people's thoughts as neighbors and strangers, believing the dying Marigold to be a prophet, camp out on the family's front yard. As her father grows ever more distant, Maya finds solace in the music of Corey Hart, but when... Views: 36
These mad immortal stories, now surfaced from the literary underground, have addicted legions of American readers, even though the high literary establishment continues to ignore them. In Europe, however (particularly in Germany, Italy, and France where he is published by the great publishing houses), he is critically recognized as one of America's greatest living realist writers.Charles Bukowski was born in Andernach, Germany in 1920 and brought to America at the age of two. Eighteen or twenty books of prose and poetry, Bukowski, after publishing prose in Story and Portfolio, stopped writing for ten years. He arrived in the charity ward of the Los Angeles County General Hospital, hemorrhaging as a climax to a ten year drinking bout. Some say he didn't die. After leaving the hospital he got a typewriter and began writing again—this time, poetry. He later returned to prose and gained some fame with his column, Notes of a Dirty Old Man. After 14 years in the Post Office he resigned at age 50, he says, to keep from going insane. He now claims to be unemployable and eats typewriter ribbons. Views: 36
EVERY MAN HAS HIS PRICE…RIGHT?
Her father's will was positively medieval! Blue Blood Courtney Tamberlaine had to select a blue-collar spouse—pronto—or lose her huge inheritance. Luckily, right on the Tamberlaine estate was a raw, earthy carpenter sweating to support his motherless little girl. Surely with Courtney's expert coaching, fiercely paternal John Gabriel would make a most convenient—temporary—mate.
Too bad Courtney didn't count on the toe-curling hunger her muscle-bound groom aroused in her. Or the achingly maternal urges his four-year-old pixie evoked. Had the Tamberlaine millions bought Courtney a husband and child…or sold her into heartache?
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Charlotte and Sally Maynard grew up in a rambling Connecticut country house that belonged to their stepfather, Whit Whitman. Perry and Spin, Whit's sons from his unhappy first marriage, were welcomed as weekend guests. All of the children received Whit's love and attention, but they were also influenced, for better and for worse, by his often misguided ideals and wildly narcissistic personality. When Whit dies, he leaves the estate in the care of his wife, Charlotte and Sally's mother, with the understanding that the home will revert to Perry and Spin when she passes away. But Joan, a stalwart sixty-something, isn't going anywhere soon. She's enjoying the house, which she shares with Charlotte, an agoraphobic mommy blogger, who doesn't actually have any children. She and her sister have a good relationship, and they're close, too, with their step brothers. But when Spin, the youngest, brings his beautiful fiancé Laurel Atwood home for the summer, she manages to subtly crack the... Views: 36
