Fiction. A few years ago, Larry Morvan lost his best friend, his father, his girlfriend and his virginity during a three-day field trip. Now, on the eve of his 17th birthday, he's got a confession to make. Larry is an underachiever searching for a hero among his Long Island hometown ruins. When a knack for drawing earns him a nomination to an exclusive field trip, Larry's set upon a crash course with the real and the imagined, with the opposite of his icons, with the Devil himself--who just might be his daddy. From plastic soldiers in a dollhouse to teenagers in a flaming cabin, Rasmussen weaves a tale of merciless disillusionment measured in betrayal, death, hallucination, and his own ejaculate's distance. Often hysterical, sometimes misanthropic, and altogether controversial, A DIET OF WORMS tells the story of a young cynic's misadventures on the hunt for something to believe in. If Brett Easton Ellis wrote Catcher in the Rye, it might sound like this.

A Diet Of Worms

Literature & Fiction

Rasmussen, Erik

Genre Fiction

Mastodon Publishing

Fiction. Comedy. Irish Studies. He aspires to solitude and sobriety. His parents thrive on exuberance and the production of babies on an industrial scale.

The Pleasures Of Queueing

Martiny, Erik

Parenting & Relationships

Fiction. Savannah sleeps on the roof of her house. Kevin obsesses over Calvin and Hobbes, its relationship with his father. Patrons of a trampoline park break limbs at an alarming rate. A man shears a sheep in a suburban driveway. In "Emerson," Xavier, followed by a tiny T-rex, searches for his brother Charlie, whom he hasn't seen in six years. DEAD AQUARIUM or (i don't have the stamina for that kind of faith) is a collection of twelve stories and a novella, all of which trace the looney of the every day. The real and the imagined are weighed against each other. The dead, the displaced, and Florida's apocalyptic landscape make repeated cameos throughout DEAD AQUARIUM, working to build common ground between the mundane and the sublime.

Dead Aquarium

Sarvis, Caleb Michael

Short Stories & Anthologies

Poetry. Women's Studies. GIVE A GIRL CHAOS (SEE WHAT SHE CAN DO) is a survival guide for challenging times, written in the language we crave now--poetry. Heidi Seaborn's stunning debut collection is a lyric guide to harnessing chaos--from a world swirling in terrorism, war, natural disaster to the chaos of heart, home, body and family. Through poems that ache with beauty and violence, GIVE A GIRL CHAOS (SEE WHAT SHE CAN DO) reveals that by controlling chaos, we can achieve resilience, power and ultimately joy.

Give a Girl Chaos

Seaborn, Heidi

Poetry

Fiction. Drama. Winner of an Indie Book Award for Best Mystery. It's a hot Boston summer, and Nick Young, a washed-up journalist back in town to care for his dying father, is feeling the heat. A major labor strike has everyone taking sides, and a wave of anti-capitalist violence has targeted the city's most prominent companies. When the home of a wealthy suburban family is robbed in broad daylight and their teenage son critically beaten, the police are mysteriously clueless. Nick pokes around out of professional habit and idle curiosity. His closest confidante the 17-year-old activist son of a friend from high school. Robbery. Strike. Domestic terrorism. Somehow it's all connected, and Nick puts his old skills to work to try to piece together the puzzle before the police do, afraid he'll have to choose whether, and how, to protect his young friend from the dangerous impulses--and consequences--of his own zeal.

Headlong

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

MacLean, Ron

Mystery

Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. Women's Studies. A young Gentile and Jewish woman grows into adulthood with an abusive mother and a womanizing father who met on Broadway. The grandaughter of silent film star Helen Gardner, she discovers her own sexuality and empowerment, while navigating the uber wealthy and racist East Egg society.

Gatsby's Child

Biographies & Memoirs

Schumacher, Dorin

Leaders & Notable People

Pages from the Textbook of Alternate History

Fiction. At critical moments in world history, every political, spiritual, and cultural leader foresaw a different destiny. Columbus planned a Western sea route to Asia; Hitler applied to art school twice; Joan of Arc prophesied that she would become a mother. It is out of their failures that history itself is made. But what if the history-makers succeeded in the fulfillment of their best-laid plans? In PAGES FROM THE TEXTBOOK OF ALTERNATE HISTORY, Phong Nguyen explores a myriad of pasts in which these icons of history made a different choice, and got what they wished for.

Pages From The Textbook Of Alternate History

Nguyen, Phong

Literary

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