Submarine
A Novel
Written by JOE DUNTHORNE
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: May 24, 2011
Price: $15.00
At once a self-styled social scientist, a spy in the baffling adult world, and a budding, hormone-driven emotional explorer, Oliver Tate is stealthily nosing his way forward through the murky and uniquely perilous waters of adolescence. His objectives? Uncovering the secrets behind his parents’ teetering marriage, unraveling the mystery that is...
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Submarine
A Novel
Written by JOE DUNTHORNE
Read by Bruce Mann
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: May 24, 2011
Price: $20.00
The dryly precocious, soon-to-be-fifteen-year-old hero of this engagingly offbeat debut novel, Oliver Tate lives in the seaside town of Swansea, Wales. At once a self-styled social scientist, a spy in the baffling adult world surrounding him, and a budding, hormone-driven emotional explorer, Oliver is stealthily (and perhaps a bit more nervously...
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Super Sad True Love Story
A Novel
Written by Gary Shteyngart
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: May 3, 2011
Price: $15.00
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
SELECTED ONE OF 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
MICHIKO KAKUTANI, THE NEW YORK TIMES
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
The Washington Post • The Boston Globe • San Francisco Chronicle • The Seattle Times • O...
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The Social Climber's Handbook
A Novel
Written by Molly Jong-Fast
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: April 26, 2011
Price: $11.99
HIGH SOCIETY CAN BE A KILLER.
Upper East Side socialite Daisy Greenbaum is accustomed to the finer things—designer clothes, summers in the Hamptons, elite private school educations for her daughters, and a staggeringly expensive Park Avenue apartment. But Daisy finds her well-heeled lifestyle on precarious footing after her husband, master...
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The Social Climber's Handbook
A Novel
Written by Molly Jong-Fast
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: April 26, 2011
Price: $15.00
HIGH SOCIETY CAN BE A KILLER.
Upper East Side socialite Daisy Greenbaum is accustomed to the finer things—designer clothes, summers in the Hamptons, elite private school educations for her daughters, and a staggeringly expensive Park Avenue apartment. But Daisy finds her well-heeled lifestyle on precarious footing after her husband, master...
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Enigmatic Pilot
A Tall Tale Too True
Written by Kris Saknussemm
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: March 22, 2011
Price: $16.00
Enigmatic Pilot is Kris Saknussemm’s outrageously brilliant yet profoundly moving exploration and excavation of the American dream—and nightmare. In 1844, in a still-young America, the first intimations of civil war are stirring throughout the land. In Zanesville, Ohio, the Sitturd family—Hephaestus, a clubfooted inventor; his wife, Rapture, a Creole from...
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Enigmatic Pilot
A Tall Tale Too True
Written by Kris Saknussemm
Format: eBook, 448 pages
On Sale: March 22, 2011
Price: $11.99
Enigmatic Pilot is Kris Saknussemm’s outrageously brilliant yet profoundly moving exploration and excavation of the American dream—and nightmare. In 1844, in a still-young America, the first intimations of civil war are stirring throughout the land. In Zanesville, Ohio, the Sitturd family—Hephaestus, a clubfooted inventor; his wife, Rapture, a Creole from...
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Krazy Kat
Written by Jay Cantor
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: March 2, 2011
Price: $9.99
Krazy Kat adores Ignatz Mouse. She sees the bricks he hurls at her head as tokens of love, and each day Ignatz arranges a cunningly different method of delivery for his missile. But when Ignatz and Krazy witness the mega-brick explosion in the desert, Krazy becomes depressed, and refuses to perform...
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Mr. Toppit
Written by Charles Elton
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: November 9, 2010
Price: $15.95
When Arthur Hayman, an unsuccessful screenwriter turned children’s book author, is accidentally hit by a cement truck in London, his dying moments are spent with a passing American tourist, Laurie Clow, who is fated to bring posthumous fame to his obscure series,
The Hayseed Chronicles, and the enigmatic and sinister Mr...
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Mr. Toppit
Written by Charles Elton
Format: eBook
On Sale: November 9, 2010
Price: $11.99
When Arthur Hayman, an unsuccessful screenwriter turned children’s book author, is accidentally hit by a cement truck in London, his dying moments are spent with a passing American tourist, Laurie Clow, who is fated to bring posthumous fame to his obscure series,
The Hayseed Chronicles, and the enigmatic and sinister Mr...
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The Canal
Written by Lee Rourke
Format: eBook, 208 pages
On Sale: October 27, 2010
Price: $14.95
An electrifying debut novel that becomes a shocking tale about... boredom In a deeply compelling debut novel, Lee Rourke—a British underground sensation for his story collection
Everyday—tells the tale of a man who finds his life so boring it frightens him. So he quits his job to spend some time...
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Thank You for Smoking
A Novel
Written by Christopher Buckley
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: September 1, 2010
Price: $11.99
Nobody blows smoke like Nick Naylor. He’s a spokesman for the Academy of Tobacco Studies–in other words, a flack for cigarette companies, paid to promote their product on talk and news shows. The problem? He’s so good at his job, so effortlessly unethical, that he’s become a target for both anti-tobacco...
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Lucky You
Written by Carl Hiaasen
Format: eBook, 353 pages
On Sale: August 18, 2010
Price: $7.99
Grange, Florida, is, famous for its miracles-the weeping fiberglass Madonna, the Road-Stain Jesus, the stigmata man. And now it has JoLayne Lucks, unlikely winner of the state lottery. Unfortunately, JoLayne's winning ticket isn't the only one. The other belongs to Bodean Gazzer and his raunchy sidekick, Chub, who want the whole...
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Native Tongue
Written by Carl Hiaasen
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 18, 2010
Price: $7.99
"Ruthlessly wicked...Wonderful...His best book yet."
ATLANTA JOURNAL & CONSTITUTION
When the precious clue-tongued mango voles at the Amazing Kingdom of Thrills on North Key Largo are stolen by heartless, ruthless thugs, Joe Winder wants to uncover why, and find the voles. Joe is lately a PR man for the Amazing Kingdom theme park...
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Strip Tease
Written by Carl Hiaasen
Format: eBook, 353 pages
On Sale: August 18, 2010
Price: $7.99
Only in America could an innocent, if drunken, guest of honor at a strip joint bachelor party become a mortal threat against Big Money and Big Government. Only in south Florida, land of roadside honky-tonks and sinister pleasure boats—not to mention blackmail and murder—would a virtuous topless dancer join forces with...
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Stormy Weather
Written by Carl Hiaasen
Format: eBook, 335 pages
On Sale: August 11, 2010
Price: $7.99
When a ferocious hurricane rips through southern Florida, the con artists and carpetbaggers waste no time in swarming over the disaster area.
Among the predators are Edie Marsh, an entrepreneurial young woman whose scheme to sleep with a Palm Beach Kennedy has fizzled, freezing her to concoct a colossal insurance rip-off; Lester...
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Star Island
Written by Carl Hiaasen
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: July 27, 2010
Price: $2.99
Meet twenty-two-year-old Cherry Pye (née Cheryl Bunterman), a pop star since she was fourteen—and about to attempt a comeback from her latest drug-and-alcohol disaster.
Now meet Cherry again: in the person of her “undercover stunt double,” Ann DeLusia. Ann portrays Cherry whenever the singer is too “indisposed”—meaning wasted—to go out in...
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Star Island
Written by Carl Hiaasen
Format: Trade Paperback, 528 pages
On Sale: July 27, 2010
Price: $27.00
Meet twenty-two-year-old Cherry Pye (née Cheryl Bunterman), a pop star since she was fourteen—and about to attempt a comeback from her latest drug-and-alcohol disaster.
Now meet Cherry again: in the person of her “undercover stunt double,” Ann DeLusia. Ann portrays Cherry whenever the singer is too “indisposed”—meaning wasted—to go out in...
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Star Island
Written by Carl Hiaasen
Read by Stephen Hoye
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: July 27, 2010
Price: $20.00
Meet twenty-two-year-old Cherry Pye (née Cheryl Bunterman), a pop star since she was fourteen—and about to attempt a comeback from her latest drug-and-alcohol disaster.
Now meet Cherry again: in the person of her “undercover stunt double,” Ann DeLusia. Ann portrays Cherry whenever the singer is too “indisposed”—meaning wasted—to go out in...
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Corpusculo
Written by Harvard Lampoon
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: July 6, 2010
Price: $13.95
“Estaba completamente segura de unas tres cosas. Primero, Edwart era, tal vez, mi alma gemela, quizá. Segundo, él tenía una parte de vampiro —que yo asumía estaba totalmente fuera de su control— que me quería muerta.Y tercero, yo deseaba incondicional, irrevocable, impenetrable, heterogénea, ginecológica y vergonzosamente que me besara”. Y así...
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The Canal
Written by Lee Rourke
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: June 15, 2010
Price: $14.95
An electrifying debut novel that becomes a shocking tale about... boredomIn a deeply compelling debut novel, Lee Rourke—a British underground sensation for his story collection
Everyday—tells the tale of a man who finds his life so boring it frightens him. So he quits his job to spend some time sitting on...
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Sag Harbor
Written by Colson Whitehead
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: June 15, 2010
Price: $15.95
From the award-winning author of
John Henry Days and
The Intuitionist: a tender, hilarious, and supremely original novel about coming-of-age in the 80s.
Benji Cooper is one of the few black students at an elite prep school in Manhattan. But every summer, Benji escapes to the Hamptons, to Sag Harbor, where a...
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Tell-All
Written by Chuck Palahniuk
Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
On Sale: May 4, 2010
Price: $24.95
The hyperactive love child of Page Six and Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? caught in a tawdry love triangle with The Fan. Even Kitty Kelly will blush. Soaked, nay, marinated in the world of vintage Hollywood,
Tell-All is a
Sunset Boulevard–inflected homage to Old Hollywood when
Bette Davis and
Joan Crawford...
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Tell-All
Written by Chuck Palahniuk
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: May 4, 2010
Price: $11.99
The hyperactive love child of Page Six and Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? caught in a tawdry love triangle with The Fan. Even Kitty Kelly will blush. Soaked, nay, marinated in the world of vintage Hollywood,
Tell-All is a
Sunset Boulevard–inflected homage to Old Hollywood when
Bette Davis and
Joan Crawford...
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Pygmy
Written by Chuck Palahniuk
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: April 20, 2010
Price: $15.00
A gang of adolescent terrorists, a spelling bee, and a terrible plan masquerading as a science project: This is Operation Havoc.
Pygmy is one of a handful of young adults from a totalitarian state sent to the US disguised as exchange students. Living with American families to blend in, they are planning...
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