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The Phantom Father by Barry Gifford Gifford’s father, Rudy Winston, was considered a “good man to know” in the wild and woolly Chicago of the 1930s, ’40s, and ’50s. His list of friends and... More about this book »	Out of the past: Adventures in Film Noir by Barry Gifford For a tour of noir cinema this handbook is the perfect companion and Barry Gifford is an ideal guide. His choice selection of films exposes the menacing, moody, and... More about this book »
Small Town Odds by Jason Headley Eric Mercer made a mistake when he was eighteen years old. Then he made a habit of it. Trapped in his one-stoplight hometown, Eric fills his days taking care of his... More about this book »	The Prince of Ireland and the Three Magic Stallions by Bryce Milligan When the king of Ireland’s eldest son and his stepmother argue, she curses him with impossible task. He must bring to her the three magic stallions that the giant... More about this book »
With the Wind, Kevin Dolan by Bryce Milligan Milligan notes in his prefatory remarks that the names of certain families and ships in With the Wind, Kevin Dolan are drawn from documentary records... More about this book »	Lost and Certain of It by Bryce Milligan From the Introduction, by Sudeep Sen The first work by Bryce Milligan I read was Working the Stone in the mid-1990s. I was moved then by the lyricism of his... More about this book »
Gutted by Justin Chin While trying to make sense of this ever-churning, terror-filled world, poet Justin Chin found himself traveling repeatedly home to Southeast Asia-a region unnerved... More about this book »	American Falls: The Collected Short Stories by Barry Gifford The stories in this collection range in period, style, and theme from the 1950s to the present, from absurdist to romantic, from childhood innocence to murder and... More about this book »
Do the Blind Dream?: New Novellas and Stories by Barry Gifford The author of Wild at Heart and Night People reaches the height of his powers in Do the Blind Dream?, navigating with ease the new, more fragmented, imaginative... More about this book »	Bordertown by Barry Gifford Delving into such pastimes as kidnapping, prostitution, drug dealing, robbery, rape and murder, Bordertown is stunning story which combines Gifford’s fictional... More about this book »

Shaken by JA Konrath Since her debut in Whiskey Sour, Lieutenant Jacqueline “Jack” Daniels has dealt with her fair share of criminals. But she may have finally met her match in “Mr. K... More about this book »	The List by JA Konrath A billionaire Senator with money to burn... A thirty year old science experiment, about to be revealed... Seven people, marked for death, not for what they know,... More about this book »
When the Killing's Done by T. Coraghessan Boyle T.C. Boyle's most powerful and fully realized work yet-"terrifically exciting and unapologetically relevant" (The Washington Post). Principally set on the wild... More about this book »	The Women: A Novel by T. Coraghessan Boyle From "America's most imaginative contemporary novelist" (Newsweek), a novel of Frank Lloyd Wright and the women in his life. Having brought to life eccentric... More about this book »
Black Cow by Magdalena Ball Freya and James Archer live the high life in a luxury home in Sydney’s poshest suburb, with money, matching Jags, two beautiful teenage kids … and they couldn’t... More about this book »	Applying Mathematics To Construction by Kenneth Williams Williams’ formulae, factors and accurate shorts were first used to help his students, but then the author saw that many professional construction workers also... More about this book »
Suspended Heart by Heather Fowler In an explosion of love's metaphors, Fowler's debut collection of stories, SUSPENDED HEART, takes on American fabulism with a cast of unexpected heroines in the... More about this book »	In the Path of Falling Objects by Andrew Smith Jonah and his younger brother, Simon, are on their own. All they have left in the world is ten dollars, a backpack full of dirty clothes, and a stack of letters... More about this book »
The Marbury Lens by Andrew Smith It’s a place worse than Hell. And Jack keeps going back to it. He can’t help himself. Nobody can. Jack has his reasons. He has his doubts, too. See for yourself.... More about this book »	Stick by Andrew Smith Stark McClellan (“Stick”) hears the world in a different way. He is surrounded by cruelty and ugliness, but holds on to a powerful sense of wonder, faith, and... More about this book »