At the center of Leonard's life is Daphne. In their meeting on a Greek island, a contemporary fable of Daphne and Apollo plays out. But even with Daphne, Leonard is shadowed by the other Leonard Cohen, whom he fears is the real Apollo. The ancient myth haunts the fated lovers, and the nobody Leonard Cohen's life becomes at once a mystery, a miracle, and a myth on its own terms.

Once upon a time, Apollo fell hard for Daphne, who turned herself into a laurel tree. No less a fate awaits the protagonists of this slender yet universal novel, where art, love, and fame all fatefully intertwine.

Every day, Mercer Moore was reminded that it was all ending. It was The End of Television, of Civility, of The Planet. Maybe that's why it doesn't seem like the end for Mercer. Sure, his wife Alejandra had been blunt. She hadn't used the word divorce, but she had used I and need and out, all in a row.

Still. It just doesn't feel like the end.

Rather than deal with the reality of her absence, Mercer reports Alejandra as missing to a skeptical detective and prays he's not subsequently considered a suspect. Fearing he's losing his grip, his brother Evan and father Lake suggest a weekend trip in the hopes that time away will lead to some clarity. But the retreat to the family cabin in the New Jersey Pine Barrens only leads to more problems. Evan, recently sober and born-again, offers condescending platitudes while Lake, a widowed former hippie, is too stoned to present any real solutions. As each day passes without word from Alejandra, Mercer becomes more immersed in the sprawling, haunted wilderness of the Pine Barrens and its unsettling mythology. When he stumbles upon an unexpected discovery hiding there, he's forced to reckon with the reality of his marriage or continue crawling further into his comforting delusion.

HOW TO KEEP TIME is a millennial novel reminiscent of Andrew Martin's EARLY WORK and Miranda Popkey's TOPICS OF CONVERSATION. It's THIS IS WHERE I LEAVE YOU narrated with the formal experimentation of Jenny Offill and Scott McClanahan.

The unnamed, somewhat paranoid hero's experiences of In-Between places such as an airport baggage reclaim area, a hotel complex that exists solely to cater for bumped airline passengers, a rest stop, and a shopping mall, are achingly funny. But the humour takes increasingly dark turns: the literary novel is turned inside out as we encounter a plot to kidnap and replace the critic James Wood, an unknown play allegedly by Samuel Beckett (featuring Dr Johnson and his cat Hodge) is discovered and its fugitive production discussed, and, finally, the horror of the Palestinian Nakba is confronted.

First published in 2012, this novel was received enthusiastically before quickly slipping out of print. Our edition, including an afterword by Joseph G Ramsey, is published by agreement with Edmond Caldwell's estate.

Little Birds is a collection of short fiction and poetry that exists outside the boundaries of conventional genres. Featuring Sam Pink, Elle Nash, Nate Lippens, Shane Jesse Christmass, Brian Alan Ellis, and G.C. McKay.

One night, one tuxedo, one chance to change everything.

In the year 2093, Tomasz lives like most of his peers-immersed in virtual worlds with few real-life connections. Yet, deep down, he senses a void, a longing for something real and meaningful in his tech-dominated existence. When he decides to break the mold by attending a musical in a striking Pink Tuxedo, he hopes it might catch the eye of the one person he wants to connect with most.

But a strange delivery request throws his plans into chaos, propelling Tomasz into a whirlwind of unexpected events. Suddenly, he's on the run, crossing paths with an unpredictable group who present him with a life-changing choice: return to the safety of his old life or dive into their audacious scheme.

PINK TUXEDO is a humorous exploration of isolation in a hyper-connected world, blending comedy and speculative fiction for a wild, thought-provoking adventure.

On a bluff above a river rises The House, where elderly and disabled residents live alongside young people who help out in exchange for free rent. The community is led by a former punk singer who never wanted to be responsible for anyone yet now finds herself the caretaker of this precarious collection of lives. It's not a family, exactly, but it's got the complicated, sometimes painful, sometimes hilarious, dynamics of kinship.

When two kids--Nola and her little cousin James--show up on The House's back porch in need of refuge, the whole experiment is thrown into question. All are welcome here, or that was the idea. But the authorities are looking for these children, and The House's finances are teetering on the edge.

Zumas's long-anticipated third novel wrestles with America's crisis of care in a taut, aching, polyphonic tale that moves as fast as the crackling comebacks that fly between The House's residents over breakfast. As the rules of the outside world start to press in on this safe haven, readers will find themselves asking, what would the world look like if everyone had a place to belong?

Nine Lives is the fourth novel in the CIA thriller series that continues the story of former CIA operator Woody Stressel and previous KGB agent Ava Volkov's attempt to avoid capture and prolonged torture by the KGB or hired crime syndicate killers. In the prior novel, Meltdown, Woody and Ava flee to the armed compound of Woody's psychotic Uncle Wilbur in the Trans-Pecos Texas Desert. There they find an inhospitable 16-year-old runaway girl who has escaped from being held captive at a desert whorehouse. Leta has a Mensa-plus IQ, a sharp tongue, and a quick trigger finger. Woody's Uncle Wilbur is mysteriously missing.

The compound has many secrets, including underground rooms, enough stored weapons to outfit a small army, and lethal booby traps designed to eliminate Nazi agents whom Woody's paranoid uncle is convinced are seeking to kill him. Woody and Ava give Leta a crash course in street fighting and weapons. When the protection of U.S. Marshals is abruptly withdrawn, paid killers overwhelm the compound and trap Woody, Ava, and Leta in a small underground room. The three are all running short on their allotment of cat lives. There is no choice but to pull the Armageddon lever that crazy, but brilliant, Uncle Wilbur had designed to be used as a last resort.

The catastrophic explosion that follows totally destroys the compound and anyone in or near it. No one could possibly survive. In this continuation novel, the scene shifts to the Mexican Baja Peninsula and three young American expats who are running a beachside restaurant. They refuse to pay a local criminal group a weekly fee for protection. All hell promptly breaks loose. The body count climbs rapidly as the expats demonstrate their skill with street fighting and the use of weapons. The story evolves with many twists, turns, and shocks to finish with an utterly unpredictable ending.

A new work of literary fiction for a new American era; one that celebrates life, freedom and opportunity for all.

Morris is a wanderer, a dreamer, a barroom philosopher and an incurable - some would say insufferable - romantic. By the time he arrives in a trance at JFK International, on the eve of a new and dauntless century, he is also nine and a half thousand miles from his tiny coastal hometown on the other side of the planet.

Unmoored in a bold new country, which is hurtling through time at a blistering, maniacal pace, and set wide-eyed among its strange and wonderful citizens, Morris at first struggles to understand the 'Idea of America' and, by extension, his own place within it.

So begins a classic adventure tale, one spiriting readers across America, past and future, as told through the uniquely observant eyes of an outsider looking in.

Our hero is Turing, an interactive tutoring program and namesake (or virtual emanation?) of Alan Turing, World War II code breaker and father of computer science. In this unusual novel, Turing's idiosyncratic version of intellectual history from a computational point of view unfolds in tandem with the story of a love affair involving Ethel, a successful computer executive, Alexandros, a melancholy archaeologist, and Ian, a charismatic hacker. After Ethel (who shares her first name with Alan Turing's mother) abandons Alexandros following a sundrenched idyll on Corfu, Turing appears on Alexandros's computer screen to unfurl a tutorial on the history of ideas. He begins with the philosopher-mathematicians of ancient Greece--discourse, dialogue, argument, proof... can only thrive in an egalitarian society--and the Arab scholar in ninth-century Baghdad who invented algorithms; he moves on to many other topics, including cryptography and artificial intelligence, even economics and developmental biology. (These lessons are later critiqued amusingly and developed further in postings by a fictional newsgroup in the book's afterword.) As Turing's lectures progress, the lives of Alexandros, Ethel, and Ian converge in dramatic fashion, and the story takes us from Corfu to Hong Kong, from Athens to San Francisco--and of course to the Internet, the disruptive technological and social force that emerges as the main locale and protagonist of the novel.

Alternately pedagogical and romantic, Turing (A Novel about Computation) should appeal both to students and professionals who want a clear and entertaining account of the development of computation and to the general reader who enjoys novels of ideas.

History is like tapestry. History is like compost. History is like a roadmap through time, only seen in reverse; or a thoughtmap laid over time (whatever that is) in retrospect. There are lines, there are paths, there are tangled threads, but there is also compaction and lithification. And there is also space. Five hundred years of time is vast and vacant. It is full of forgetting. Forgetting is the erosion of the matter of the world in a process sympathetic to the erosion of matter in the brain. History is a certain kind of space, then, with certain paths through, certain threads, with certain compaction simultaneously.

Heidelberg is the third book in Holly Myers series, including the titles Road Noise and Wild Rough Country all from then/and.

A new work of literary fiction for a new American era; one that celebrates life, freedom and opportunity for all.

Morris is a wanderer, a dreamer, a barroom philosopher and an incurable - some would say insufferable - romantic. By the time he arrives in a trance at JFK International, on the eve of a new and dauntless century, he is also nine and a half thousand miles from his tiny coastal hometown on the other side of the planet.

Unmoored in a bold new country, which is hurtling through time at a blistering, maniacal pace, and set wide-eyed among its strange and wonderful citizens, Morris at first struggles to understand the 'Idea of America' and, by extension, his own place within it.

So begins a classic adventure tale, one spiriting readers across America, past and future, as told through the uniquely observant eyes of an outsider looking in.

Mother in Name Only is the transparent, sometimes painful, and always poignant portrait of Myrna Kaye-held inside for almost her entire life. She is a modern, educated woman who confesses her innermost reflections on a life sculpted in the '50s and '60s. Broken family bonds stalk her into adulthood, as a twice-violated wife and mother of three sons, one born during marriage but out of wedlock. The order by her husband to give him up for adoption and other harrowing secrets ticked like time bombs through the decades. Her fairy-tale reunion with one son after thirty-five years is interrupted by the nightmare same-night distancing of her other two sons.

Through yoga, meditation, and personal growth practices, Myrna makes peace with a violent past and a mother's struggle with loving her children so much, enough to let them go. Healing complicated grief, overwhelming depression, and unspeakable loss through self-forgiveness, she is liberated. Discovering her Higher Power through Twelve-Step programs, Myrna saves herself, recovers superwoman strength, and triumphs in her spirituality.

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic that began in late 2019, the author worked as a solo hairstylist in the front parlor of an old Victorian house in the Pacific Northwest.

This work is a collection of intimate, fictionalized stories that were inspired by true events and hundreds of conversations the author had with his customers about what it was like to live through the unprecedented disaster that conquered every nation on Earth.

Written in vignettes that are woven through the backdrop of politics and popular culture of the time, this compilation is an honest depiction of the impacts of pandemic life as told through the experiences of a gay man.

The events captured in this final volume of the Beauteous Maximus trilogy show how COVID pulled society into the most volatile flashpoints of human conflict. More importantly, Volume Three depicts how the Spirit of Truth can guide us out of darkness and fear by teaching us how to embrace the beauty of compassion.

A novel of a father, a son, and the mayhem a lie can wreak: Mission is a book that will stay with me. A remarkable debut. -Sarah Haywood, New York Times-bestselling author of The Cactus

A five-year-old boy and his father are separated by an unforgivable lie. Twenty years later, they meet, and the father, dying, tells of the con men who cheated him of all he had-and the small Northwestern town called Mission that spurned him. Now it is time for revenge.

What follows is a twisting story of guile and brutality, mud and gold, as the father's enemies are played by a young man with the crooked snout and the pocketful of hatpins . . .

A powerful narrative which charts one man's attempt to overcome adversity and reclaim his family's land. -Tamar Hodes, author of The Water and the Wine

Paul Forrester-O'Neill reveals himself to be an ambitious prose stylist. -Nicholas Royle, author of The Director's Cut