Product Description: Big Ray's obesity and his mean temper define him, at least to his family. When Big Ray dies, his son Daniel puts his feelings aside, for a while. Years later, Daniel attempts to reckon with the enduring, outsized memory of his father...read more

Product Description: Fiction. MICHAEL KIMBALL WRITES YOUR LIFE STORY (ON A POSTCARD) started as a writing performance—with strangers lined up to share the intimate details of their lives while he wrote their biographies for them as they waited. In the end, more than 10,000 years of life was condensed into just over 300 postcard life stories...read more

Product Description: There are past events in the lives of almost all of us we wish we could change - especially if the event was tragic, resulting in the death of someone we loved. Such trauma leads to soul-searching, trying to find a reason that makes sense of something that strikes us as senseless...read more

Product Description: "Michael Kimball is a hero of contemporary fiction." —Sam LipsyteA husband wakes up to find his wife has had a seizure during the night. His wife is rushed to a hospital where she lies in a coma. By day, the husband sits beside his wife and tries to think of ways to wake her up...read more

Product Description: Una profunda desolacion embarga al protagonista de Lo que queda de nosotros cuando su mujer sufre un colapso y comprende que, si se recupera, tal vez se convierta en una enferma terminal. Para intentar despertarla del coma en que se ha sumido, el hombre dispensa a su mujer delicados cuidados y le lleva objetos que le son familiares: sus libros, su cepillo del pelo, flores del jardin, e incluso grabaciones de los ruidos cotidianos de su casa, como pisadas sobre el entarimado o el runrun de los electrodomesticos...read more

Accused of an attack that he cannot remember on a psychiatrist who was having an affair with his wife, Jacob Winter holds himself together for the sake of his son and falls for a woman who would draw him further into the psychiatrist's treachery.

Tracing the nuances of a short-lived life, this involving and sympathetically written novel maintains a tone of finely judged tension between laughter and tears. Jonathon Bender had something to tell the world, but the world wouldn’t listen. However, he left behind him unsent letters addressed to relatives, friends, neighbors, coaches, teachers, classmates, professors, roommates, psychiatrists, employers, his younger self, former girlfriends, his ex-wife, a TV station, and God, among many others. This unsent correspondence forms the narrative of a remarkable life.

Product Description: Four cousins find themselves swamp deep in adventure as they seek to solve five riddles in an effort to free a rambunctious Siberian Husky from the evil grasp of Reggie - just one of several teddy-bears-come-to-life that makes Alligator Bay an intriguing and suspense-filled story! When Cranberry's recklessness leads to Tyler's disappearance out in a swamp called Alligator Bay, his attempt to set things right on his own comes to a sudden halt when he finds his way barred by a fierce alligator...read more

A novel from one of the brightest and most unusual voices in American fiction.

Desperately worried about her teenage daughter, Moreen, when she marries a violent man who will make her life miserable, Ellen Chambers meets a handsome young stranger, Neal Chambers, at the wedding who leads her down a perilous web of betrayal, dark secrets, lies, and murder. By the author of Undone. Reprint.

Following the death of one of their siblings, a three-year-old girl and her seven-year-old brother experience grief, love, and death in their own ways while they travel with their family from town to town. (view table of contents)

Asked by his best friend, Bobby, to trust him in a $2 million scam that involves a fake heart attack and funeral, Sal Erickson finds himself at the center of a horrific betrayal that marks him as a murderer. Reprint. PW.

Answers everything parents and children need to know about summer camps, from obtaining brochures, to determining which camp is right for an individual child, to packing the trunk, in a guide that includes a listing of the top fifty camps in America. Original. 15,000 first printing.

A camp director with more than thirty years' experience answers everything parents and kids need to know about summer camps, from obtaining brochures to packing the trunk, and includes a list of the top fifty camps in America. Original.