Three years after the 1841 British occupation of Kabul, news of the invasion still hasn't reached the remote village of Char Bagh. Here, the biggest excitement of the season is a mysterious vagabond who has wandered onto a nearby hillside. Is he a madman? Perhaps. But he just might be a God-crazed madman, a malang, a man with the power to channel miracles. And indeed, he does soon begin to transform the lives of the villagers-the brooding headman Ibrahim, his djinn-haunted wife Soraya, the headman's charismatic sister-in-law, the widowed Khadija... But the isolation of Char Bagh is about to end. The Widow's Husband, an epic work of historical fiction, is the first novel to tell the story of British imperialism from the Afghan side.

The Widow's Husband

Literature & Fiction

Tamim Ansary

British & Irish

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A haunting new collection of poetry by award-winning Russian-American poet and essayist Andrey Gritsman.

Pisces

Gritsman, Andrey

Poetry

The Da Vinci Code meets Sex and The City in this twisted, page-turning thriller about a virus that cures all diseases, but the only way to pass it to others is through sex. Bill Soileau is the last guy you'd expect to save the world. From the shocking opening chapter of The Sower, Bill is the ultimate bad boy. A deviously handsome player in the world of San Francisco's sexual underground, he doesn't seem to care for anyone except himself. Then while on assignment working overseas in remote Armenia, he's infected with a manmade supervirus that appears to be a cure for all diseases. With the help of a brilliant French doctor, Bill soon discovers he's the sole carrier, and the only way to pass the miracle cure onto others is through sex. When word gets out, Bill finds himself on the most wanted list. He's the ultimate weapon in the culture wars, pitting him against right wing ideologies, religious extremists, and the most famous pop star on the planet.

The Sower

Scott, Kemble

Literary

"Jed Diamond strips away the 'shield of armor,' revealing the naked truth about men's vulnerabilities at mid-life. This is the 'go to guide' every woman must have to save herself, understand and support her mate, and strengthen their marriage. Men will absolutely benefit from this treasure trove of solid information as well." --Nancy Cetel, M.D., author of Double Menopause

Mr. Mean: Saving Your Relationship from the Irritable Male Syndrome

Diamond, Jed

Parenting & Relationships

Cal Lyte, a gun-loving venture capitalist, is tired of paying alimony to his ex-wife Tabytha. Plotting to blackmail her and derail her campaign for Congress, he enlists the help of their daughter's boyfriend, British academic Reid Seyton, to unearth some Lyte family secrets. But the results turn out to be more than anyone bargained for, in an escalating cycle of revelations that will leave nobody's life the same.

All Her Father's Guns

Warner, James

Karen Zumoff, a Russian immigrant, once a successful playwright, is obsessed with Tolstoy. Particularly with his reasons for killing Anna Karenina. His first draft ended with Anna still alive and well. Four years later, the final version culminated in Anna's death. What happened? Karen turns to Tolstoy's journals for answers, and there discovers a voice that is helping her to deal with the suicide of her lover and the disappointment of her career. Gradually Tolstoy's voice not only becomes real to Karen, it becomes her chosen reality. She believes that she has gone to the 19th century to help the great master rewrite Anna Karenina and to keep its original ending, where Anna lives.

The Speed of Life

Gotsulsky, Yanina

  "We, Monsters by Zarina Zabrisky is the kind of unapologetic, visceral novel that explores the tenuous boundary between literature and reader exploitation....the brutal subject matter is leavened with emotion, humor, and an honest exploration of female sexuality. Much like Lolita...slyly funny and richly characterized. As with her short story collection Iron, the brutality and urgency of the subject matter is presented in flights of gorgeous prose."  --Guernica Daily "Literary crumb trails appear and then dry up as Zabrisky, playing a great cat and mouse game, with a wink, slyly shuts the door on the discerning reader... a story that will stick with the reader long after finishing it. "We, Monsters" is a stunning force of a debut novel." --Red Fez"...the literary equivalent of a Jackson Pollack painting: a multi-layered, amazing, and seductive mess... the realm of Art." --Al-Khemia Poetica "... a refreshing feeling, to know that such great characters are still being written and handled this expertly by contemporary authors..." --*Up the Stairs Quarterly"...this is not a book about either murder or analysis, not about the rote realities of dominatrix work, but about what Freud offers in the manner of Artaud, an enactment, fairy tales as hyperbolic truths, nightmares as myths of origin... agony, ecstasy, and enactment, "the experience itself, the plague itself." Which we all need." --decomp literary magazine "In addition to subtly and seductively posing questions of identity, Zabrisky's writing teases the mind, gently stroking the most erogenous of all zones--the brain... Writing sex in this way takes thoughtfulness, dexterity, and a command of the craft..." --Curbside Splendor"an edgy, shocking debut...a troubling, yet tantalizing, world..." --Scott James, author of SoMa and The Sower"An unabashedly pervy, comedically deconstructive romp through modern motherhood, psychoanalytic theory and the sex industry... also surprisingly charming and deeply moving." --Gina Frangello, author of A Life in Men"We, Monsters is a literary kaleidoscope of a novel written with elegant prose evoking a bold and searing modernism. The gutsy, honest "enfant terrible" of Cocteau, Calvino and Genet." --Cybele Zufolo Siegel, Word Performances"On page after page, I am reminded why I love literature so much." --Chalres Kruger, Bay Area Generations              From the Back Cover              "Exciting, fun, tragic, beautiful, and revealing. ...Engrossing and intelligent. An extraordinary read"* Like the nesting dolls of her childhood, she has secrets within secrets: a Ukrainian student of literature emigrates to America, becomes a soccer mom and moonlights as a dominatrix.  Taking the name Mistress Rose, she dives into the darkest desires of the human psyche and writes in the dungeon between client appointments while slowly doubting her own perception of reality. Her novel manuscript ends up in the hands of clinical psychologist Dr. Michael H. Strong, the only man in the world who unlocks her secrets through analyzing Rose at the bondage sessions. Is what follows murder?"...psychologically thrilling and emotional and beautiful and ugly and thought provoking and, oh what a ride!"--Sarah Page, editor and cofouner of Out of Our"... rich and complex, intricately structured... an utterly intense experience: a totally immersive reader-narrator fusion." --Polly Trope, author of Cured Meat "Zabrisky's writing sizzles, chills, mesmerizes."-Yanina Gotsulsky, author of Speed of LifeAbout the Author              Zarina Zabrisky is the author of two collections of short stories, Iron and A Cute Tombstone.

We, Monsters

Zabrisky, Zarina

San Francisco in the 1990s. High tech startups, IPOs, stock option millionaires. Once the cradle of the Beat Generation, the Haight Ashbury, the Aquarian Revolution, Gay Liberation, Bike Messenger Chic, San Francisco finds itself fighting for its own soul, a struggle reflected in the life of Tommy Delacroix, an alternative journalist turned corporate copywriter who has traded in the Good Fight for the Good Life of the dot-com boom: a German sedan, surging stock options, and an ambitious fiancée. But then Blind Johnny Ray stumbles out of his past, spouting wild tales about a glowing messiah who heals the homeless in the park. Hard to believe, except that Blind Johnny isn't blind any more. So begins Sleepwalking in Paradise, a San Francisco novel about Old Money, the New Economy, and the Second Coming. As Tommy chases down the impossible answer, he will stake out a singing messiah, bribe a nurse to hack into medical records, and come face-to-face with a sleepwalking power broker who holds the keys to Paradise. In the end, Tommy realizes that the true answer was within himself all along. His fiancée, on the other hand, is still waiting for a good explanation.

Sleepwalking in Paradise

Dugas, Andrew O.

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