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Black Box

by Amos Oz

Published: 2012-10-16

Kindle Edition: 402 pages

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Seven years after their divorce, Ilana breaks the bitter silence with a letter to Alex, a world-renowned authority on fanaticism, begging for help with their rebellious adolescent son, Boaz. One letter leads to another, and so evolves a correspondence between Ilana and Alex, Alex and Mich...

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Allie and Bea : A Novel

by Catherine Ryan Hyde

Published: 2017-05-23

Paperback: 350 pages

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An Amazon Charts bestseller.Bea has barely been scraping by since her husband died. After falling for a telephone scam, she loses everything and is forced to abandon her trailer. With only two-thirds of a tank in her old van, she heads toward the Pacific Ocean with her cat—on a mission t...

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We the Animals

by Justin Torres

Published: 2012-09-11

Paperback: 128 pages

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NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE In this groundbreaking debut, Justin Torres plunges us into the chaotic heart of one family, the intense bonds of three brothers, and the mythic effects of this fierce love on the people we must become. "We the Animals is a dark jewel of a book. It’s heartbrea...

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The Unreal Life of Sergey Nabokov: A Novel

by Paul Russell

Published: 2011-11-08

Kindle Edition: 385 pages

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In his novel based on the extraordinary life of the brother of Vladimir Nabokov, Paul Russell re-creates the rich and changing world in which Sergey, his family and friends lived; from wealth and position in pre-revolutionary Russia to the halls of Cambridge University and the Parisian salon of Gertrude...

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Saraswati Park

by Anjali Joseph

Published: 2011-03-01

Paperback: 300 pages

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Mohan, a middle-aged letter writer sits under a banyan tree in Fort, furnishing missives for village migrants, disenchanted lovers, and when pickings are slim, filling in money order forms. But Mohan's true passion is collecting second-hand books and he's particularly attached to novels with marginal...

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Hellbent (Evan Smoak)

by Gregg Hurwitz

Published: 2018-01-30

Hardcover: 416 pages

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Evan Smoak?government assassin gone rogue?returns in Hellbent, an engrossing, unputdownable thriller from Gregg Hurwitz, the latest in his #1 international bestselling Orphan X series.Taken from a group home at age twelve, Evan Smoak was raised and trained as an off-the-books government as...

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Firebird: A Memoir

by Mark Doty

Published: 2000-09-19

Paperback: 224 pages

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In Firebird, Mark Doty tells the story of a ten-year-old in a top hat, cane, and red chiffon scarf, interrupted while belting out Judy Garland's "Get Happy" by his alarmed mother at the bedroom door, exclaiming, "Son, you're a boy!"Firebird presents us with a heroic little boy who has quit...

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Acqua Calda: A Novel

by Perseus

Published: 2006-04-19

Paperback: 315 pages

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For years Gerald lived for his twin passions, acting and sex. As a handsome young actor, he found plenty of opportunities to perform in both arenas. But that was years ago, long before AIDS hit the theater world hard — and gay circles even harder. No in demand, Gerald is waiting to die. ...

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Acqua Calda: A Novel

by Keith McDermott

Published: 2005-01-27

Hardcover: 300 pages

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Gerald has been preparing to die. During the last of his three hospital stays, he has drawn up a last will and testament, a living will, assigned a health care proxy, and arranged his own cremation. He has thrown out hundreds of photos accrued over his twenty-five years as an actor, boxes of gay porn,...

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Blue Boy

by Rakesh Satyal

Published: 2017-04-25

Paperback: 288 pages

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“Compassionate, moving, funny, and wise, Blue Boy is one of the best debut novels I have read in years.” —David Ebershoff, author of The Danish GirlMeet Kiran Sharma: lover of music, dance, and all things sensual; son of immigrants, social outcast, spiritual seeker. A boy who doesn...