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The Adulterants

by Joe Dunthorne

Published: 2018-03-06

Hardcover: 150 pages

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For readers of Roddy Doyle, Nick Hornby, and Mark Haddon, The Adulterants is a piercingly funny?and cringingly poignant?take on how hard it is to grow up and how hard it is when you don’t.  Ray Morris is a tech journalist with a forgettable face, a tiresome manner, a small but dedicated...

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Submarine: A Novel (Random House Movie Tie-In Books)

by Joe Dunthorne

Published: 2011-05-24

Paperback: 320 pages

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At once a self-styled social scientist, a spy in the baffling adult world, and a budding, hormone-driven emotional explorer, Oliver Tate is stealthily nosing his way forward through the murky and uniquely perilous waters of adolescence. His objectives? Uncovering the secrets behind his par...

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A Long Way from Home: A novel

by Peter Carey

Published: 2018-02-27

Hardcover: 336 pages

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The two-time Booker Prize-winning author now gives us a wildly exuberant, wily new novel that circumnavigates 1954 Australia, revealing as much about the country/continent as it does about three audacious individuals who take part in the infamous 10,000-mile race, the Redex Trial.Irene Bob...

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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

by Alvin Schwartz

Published: 2017-07-25

Paperback: 128 pages

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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark is a timeless collection of chillingly scary tales and legends, in which folklorist Alvin Schwartz offers up some of the most alarming tales of horror, dark revenge, and supernatural events of all time.In this paperback edition, Stephen Gammell’s artwork...

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Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation

by Robert W. Fieseler

Published: 2018-06-05

Hardcover: 384 pages

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An essential work of American civil rights history, Tinderbox mesmerizingly reconstructs the 1973 fire that devastated New Orleans’ subterranean gay community. Buried for decades, the Up Stairs Lounge tragedy has only recently emerged as a catalyzing event of the gay liberation movement....

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Queer City: Gay London from the Romans to the Present Day

by Peter Ackroyd

Published: 2018-05-08

Hardcover: 272 pages

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PRAISE FOR QUEER CITY “Always entertaining . . . much to be recommended.”—The Spectator “A nimble, uproarious pocket history of sex in his beloved metropolis.”—Independent “Ackroyd has an encyclopedic knowledge of London, and a poet’s instinct for its strange, mesmerizing d...

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Anger Is a Gift: A Novel

by Mark Oshiro

Published: 2018-05-22

Hardcover: 464 pages

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Moss Jeffries is many things?considerate student, devoted son, loyal friend and affectionate boyfriend, enthusiastic nerd. But sometimes Moss still wishes he could be someone else?someone without panic attacks, someone whose father was still alive, someone who hadn’t become a rallying po...

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Refinery29 Money Diaries: Everything You've Ever Wanted To Know About Your Finances... And Everyone Else's

by Lindsey Stanberry

Published: 2018-09-04

Paperback: 336 pages

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Does it feel like you’re NEVER going to finish paying back your student loans? Do you spend more on coffee per month than you put into your 401(k)? Do you avoid looking at your bank balance because it’s easier to live in denial? The first step to getting your financial life in order is...

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When I Was the Greatest

by Jason Reynolds

Published: 2015-08-18

Paperback: 256 pages

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In Bed Stuy, New York, a small misunderstanding can escalate into having a price on your head—even if you’re totally clean. This gritty, triumphant debut that Publishers Weekly calls “a funny and rewarding read” captures the heart and the hardship of life for an urban teen.A lot of...

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The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You

by Elaine N. Aron

Published: 1997-06-02

Paperback: 251 pages

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Are you a highly sensitive person?Do you have a keen imagination and vivid dreams?  Is time alone each day as essential to you as food and water?  Are you "too shy" or "too sensitive" according to others?  Do noise and confusion quickly overwhelm you?  If your answers are yes, you ...