Product Description: A study in motives, conflicts, ambitions, and fears as idealistic young newlyweds face unanticipated realities Hortense Calisher's second novel is a multigenerational story of art, family, and marriage. Opening with Liz and David's wedding and chronicling the first four years of their life together, Calisher follows the couple through their evolution into erudite, anti-materialist artists...read more

Product Description: The orbiting Velvet Comet is the most luxurious and expensive brothel in the galaxy. It boasts casinos, elegant restaurants, a 2-mile-long upscale shopping mall, and highly-trained prostitutes of both sexes. And it has its share of enemies, including a leading religious figure who finds himself the center of a moral conflict he never imagined possible...read more

Product Description: Hailed by Stephen King as "my favorite American suspense novelist", Peter Abrahams, who is also known as Spencer Quinn, author of the Chet and Bernie Mysteries, delivers a gripping thriller about a woman caught up in a conspiracy spawned at the 1969 Woodstock Festival...read more

Product Description: Will Self possesses one of the greatest literary imaginations of any writer working today. How the Dead Live is his most extraordinary book, yet a novel that will challenge, entertain, and truly astonish.Lily Bloom is an aging American transplanted to England who has lost her battle with cancer and lies wasting away at the Royal Ear Hospital...read more

Joyce Lackey’s career has spiraled out of control, landing her an early ― and humiliating ― retirement. Destitute and alone, Joyce grows increasingly suicidal, until she receives a mysterious offer from X-Gen Agency. The corporation claims it can return Joyce’s lost youth and vitality. The catch? She must fake her own death and start a new life, kicking back much of her new salary to X-Gen to pay off the cost of the procedure. Desperate for the slimmest hope, Joyce signs the contract and is thrilled when X-Gen fulfills its promise. Yet even as she embraces her new life, she learns X-Gen is concealing a murderous conspiracy ― one that the company will go to any lengths to protect.