Product Description: A magician's parrot recommends against donating a kidney to his girlfriend.  Inside an antique grandfather clock, a dying child explores Ancient Athens.  Rural Virginia is swept by an epidemic of human resurrections.  An alien disguised as a Latvian chef opens unwittingly his restaurant opposite an abortion clinic...read more

Product Description: From the acclaimed author of The Biology of Luck comes a hilarious, Kafkaesque satire Arnold Brinkman is a shy and retiring botanist; he loves his plants more than his country. But when his refusal to stand for the national anthem at a baseball game causes a major media incident, he is thrown into a world of pushy patriots, preachers, and press...read more

Product Description: Fiction. Each of the characters in SCOUTING FOR THE REAPER faces an unanticipated challenge: transporting a truckload of penguins across the country, arranging a proper Jewish burial for the remains of Gregor Samsa, and selling tombstones dressed as a Girl Scout...read more