Following his two amazing short story collections, Mr. Van Booy's first novel has arrived!  This tale of three friends in Athens charts the joy and hearbreak of love, and the difficult task of finding the wherewithal to move forward and begin again.  Displaying an uncanny ability to convey emotions, spirituality and humanity within the simplest of sentences, Mr. Van Booy's skill with language and imagery is unparalleled -- this book is so finely written it will leave you breathless.  Highly recommended.

In the wake of an alarming number of suicides commited by gay teens, Dan Savage and his partner Terry Miller started a website where people - both gay and straight - could post videos reassuring young homosexuals that life will become easier in the future.  Now, for the first time, the text of these inspiring videos is available in a printed format.  This is one book that belongs in the library of every school, church and community center, and in the office of every counselor, coach, religious leader, teacher, advisor, psychologist, psychiatrist, community leader, principal and an

If Mary Shelley were still living today -- she'd be 214 years old -- and a group of friends dared her to write another horror novel, The Last Werewolf might be her response.  Glen Duncan's new novel is a thrill ride of a story:  our hero, Jake, is educated, wealthy, sexy, over 200 years old and, oh yeah, a werewolf.  The last of his kind, in fact.  And he's suffering from a bout of ennui that's bordering on severe depression.  Mr.

This debut novel from Mr.

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Loosely based on Norse culture, Mr.

On the eve of World War I, in what today would be modern Iraq, an English archaeologist digs in search of an ancient Assyrian tomb, accompanied by his wife, an assistant, and a female grad student.  This quarted is joined by a British major charged with assessing the locals for their military strength and loyalties, an American geologist (pretending to be a historian) searching for oil, and an Arab servant desperate to raise 100 pounds in gold to buy his wife-to-be from her uncle.  Mr.

A rollicking adventure that reminds me of the novels of Robert Louis Stevenson, The Good Thief is the story of Ren, a twelve-year-old orphan.  All he's known of life has been the Catholic monastery and orphanage -- he doesn't remember his parents, or how he lost his left hand.  Things are fairly miserable until a man arrives at the orphanage claiming to be Ren's brother.   Off they go into a world Ren has never experienced, and we follow along their escapades as they travel through mid-19th century New England.  Ren is just about the most charming kid you'l

Leningrad.  WWII.  A city under siege during  the worst winter in its history.  Two  men -- a naive Jewish teenager arrested for looting and a  wordly lothario in the Red Army arrested for desertion -- are slated for execution, but are given a reprieve if they can locate a dozen eggs for the commanding officer's daughter's wedding cake.  What follows is an odyssey of a budding friendship as these two mismatched men navigate the dangers of a world gone mad.  Cinematic in its scope, and by turns hilarious and horrific, this is a must read.