Fiction - Mashups

In an America full of unemployment, late fees, foreclosures, bankruptcy, and loss of hope... there are consequences.This short story collection includes some of the pale misery behind faults in the American working class. Find a cab driver who lost his way, a down and...

From the bestselling author of A Village Affair comes a brand new, laugh-out-loud novel! Joining the family business was never going to be easy...Frankie Piccione is done running away from her responsibilities, well for now anyway. Having escaped Westenbury after suffering a shattered heart,...

With his signature wit, the award-winning author of Anno Dracula, Kim Newman, reimagines the lives of Raymond Chandler and Boris Karloff in this daring and horrifying tale. 'If more mysteries were written like this, I'd read more mysteries.' - Grady Hendrix, author of The...

Tombstone My entire life, I'd never believed in second chances. They're bullshit if you ask me. Then again, maybe I wrote them off as crap because I didn't think I deserve one. I lost my wife a long time ago. All in all, I...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST - The instant classic debut novel from the author of Inland and The Morningside, hailed as "a thrilling beginning to what will certainly be a great literary career" (Elle) "Spectacular . . . [T饌 Obreht]...

The New York Times best seller is now a major motion picture starring Lily James and Sam Riley, with Matt Smith, Charles Dance, and Lena Headey. Complete with romance, heartbreak, swordfights, cannibalism, and thousands of rotting corpses, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is an...

From the author of Blackfishing the IUD, a darkly hilarious novel about familial trauma, chronic illness, academic labor, and contemporary art. In the tradition of Rabelais, Swift, and Fran Ross--the tradition of biting satire that joyfully embraces the strange and fantastical--and drawing upon documentary...

As Seen on Today with Hoda & Jenna "A genre-defying blend of crime writing and science fiction." -Alexandra Alter, The New York Times Winner of the 2013 Edgar(R) Award for Best Paperback Original!What's the point in solving murders if we're all going to die...

Author: Julie HoustonISBN-10: 180024648XISBN-13: 9781800246485Publisher: AriaLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/04/2021Pages: 416Format: PaperbackAbout the AuthorJulie Houston lives in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire where her novels are set, and her only claims to fame are that she teaches part-time at Bridget Jones author Helen Fielding's old junior school and...

Four sisters desperately seeking the blueprints to life--the modern-day retelling of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women like only Anna Todd (After, Imagines) could do. The Spring Girls--Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy--are a force of nature on the New Orleans military base where they live....

Because Queer People Deserve Happily Ever After, Too.For the Bennet sisters, life in quiet Hertfordshire County is about to change. Netherfield Hall has just been let to a single man of large fortune. But while it is true that such a man is generally...

The restorative power of the ocean brings Jane Austen and her beloved brother Henry, to Brighton after Henry's wife is lost to a long illness. But the crowded, glittering resort is far from peaceful, especially when the lifeless body of a beautiful young society...

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD AND THE PRIX DU MEILLEUR LIVRE TRANGER The Centaur is a modern retelling of the legend of Chiron, the noblest and wisest of the centaurs, who, painfully wounded yet unable to die, gave up his immortality on behalf...

A debut historical fantasy that recasts Jane Austen's beloved Pride & Prejudice in an imaginative world of wyverns, dragons, and the warriors who fight alongside them against the monsters that threaten the kingdom: gryphons, direwolves, lamias, banshees, and lindworms.They say a Rider in possession...

What do a family of luchadores, a teen on the run, a rideshare driver, a lucid dreamer, a migrant worker in space, a mecha soldier, and a zombie-and-neo-Nazi fighter have in common? Reyes Ramirez's dynamic short story collection follows new lineages of Mexican and...

"A genre-defying blend of crime writing and science fiction."--Alexandra Alter, The New York Times Detective Hank Palace returns in the second in the speculative mystery trilogy set on the brink of the apocalypse. There are just 77 days before a deadly asteroid collides with...

The Seven Deadly Sins--a legendary order that once served the Kingdom of Liones as the mightiest of its Holy Knights--stand accused of treason and have fled the realm. Princess Margaret and young Gilthunder, the slain commander Zaratras' son, know the terrible truth about the...

In Swerve we return with Jim Lindsay to America in the 1950's, the era of rock 'n' roll, fast cars, and seemingly eternal youth. Discover what it was like to live that life, with the thrills and consequences captured in this exciting sequel to...

"Our collective genesis guides our heartbeat as We run."With nature reclaiming cities and mountainous tides drowning islands, a group of individuals - known collectively as the We - find themselves ravaged by hunger and struggling to survive. When another community - the They -...

"A genre-defying blend of crime writing and science fiction."--Alexandra Alter, The New York Times The explosive final installment in the Edgar(R) Award winning Last Policeman series. With the doomsday asteroid looming, Detective Hank Palace has found sanctuary in the woods of New England, secure...

Keeping a hibernating dragon should have been a simple thing. Should have been, but it was not.Apparently, nothing involving dragons was ever simple, at least not for Anne Elliot, junior Keeper to dragon Kellynch. With the estate in debt, Anne's father in denial, and...

Alistair Ian Blyth's Card Catalogue is a book about books. Set in Bucharest in the decade after the Revolution, it presents a series of dreamlike narratives loosely linked by the subject of libraries: book hoarding, book hunting, book burning, and, above all, the dreams...

"Dark and gripping and tense and beautiful." --Karen Joy Fowler, New York Times bestselling author of The Jane Austen Book Club and Pulitzer Prize finalist for We Are All Completely Besides Ourselves Pride and Prejudice meets Frankenstein as Mary Bennet falls for the enigmatic...

Smugglers. A kidnapping. A fire-breathing fairy dragon? The Blue Order is falling apart at the seams.After months in Bath mentoring Dragon Keepers and Friends, Dragon Sage Elizabeth Darcy actually anticipates traveling to London for the Keeper's Cotillion. Which says a great deal considering the...

A collection of visions shared across cyberspace, Souvenirs, a collaboration between authors Andrew Colarusso and Karen An-hwei Lee, celebrates fragments from the literary afterlife. In Souvenirs, a philosophically astute, poetically searing collection of miniature fictions and contemporary fables, objects take on shapes of their...

A tale of friends, enemies, and the power of love."Thou and I are too wise to woo peaceably." - Benedick, Much Ado About Nothing, 5.2Mr. Darcy's arrival in Meryton raises many people's disdain, and Elizabeth Bennet's ire. An insult at a dance is returned...

WHAT MIGHT HAVE HAPPENED TO IGNATIUS J. REILLY?In this parody of A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES by John Kennedy Toole, John Kennedy Toole Jr. plunges Ignatius J. Reilly into a New York City winter wonderland, where our Falstaffian hero inadvertently becomes vice president of the...

In this thrilling new crime novel that ingeniously bridges Laurie R. King's Edgar and Creasey Awards--winning Kate Martinelli series and her bestselling series starring Mary Russell, San Francisco homicide detective Kate Martinelli crosses paths with Sherlock Holmes-in a spellbinding dual mystery that could come...

The debut novel from Zack Parsons (My Tank is Fight ) is a mind-bending journey through time and genres. Beginning in 1874, with a blood-soaked western story of revenge, Liminal States follows a trio of characters through a 1950s noir detective story and 21st-century...

Gertrude and Claudius are the "villains" of Hamlet: he the killer of Hamlet's father and usurper of the Danish throne; she his lusty consort, who marries Claudius before her late husband's body is cold. But in this imaginative "prequel" to the play, John Updike...

A Seer in the City...While visiting an estate sale to pick up new items for Missing Pieces, Aly gets hit with a surprise: the elderly homeowner didn't have a heart attack--she was murdered. Aly's got the evidence in her hands, and the killer is...

Previously Released in Love Potion Anthology Lilith has spent her life in the ruins of her mother's court that the Horde destroyed. Summoned to her father's court, her entire world is turned upside down. Her father has offered her to the Horde to pay...

When country boys meet a city girl, everyone is in for a wild ride.Slade Bower and Mustang Jackson are living the high life on the professional bull-riding circuit. The prize money is big, the bulls are rank and the women are willing. But something...

Prepare to lose yourself in the mesmerizing voice and worldview of author Darren Speegle... "Speegle's delicious evocation of landscape delivers the reader, quite seamlessly, from places of precisely-evoked geography into landscapes of haunting spiritual menace..." - Graham Joyce In his latest short story collection...

Chilling, funny, devastating: Upton's characters backtrack into the past, then make their way forward with humiliation as their guide.Author: Lee UptonISBN-10: 1938160320ISBN-13: 9781938160325Publisher: BOA EditionsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/13/2014Pages: 232Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.70dReview Citation(s): Booklist 04/01/2014 pg. 22Publishers Weekly 03/31/2014Kirkus Reviews 04/15/2014New...

Intimidating and living by a strong code of ethics, Table's integrity is unwavering, as is his ironclad will when it comes to safeguarding those he cares about. He's the man to guard your back, shelter you in time of need, and be the shield.Just...

What if Beauty stood up to the Beast, the Princess never tried to sleep on the pea (and wouldn't have noticed it if she had), and the Swan Maiden took her revenge on the hunter who kidnapped her? The Adventurous Princess and other feminist...

Alongside meditations on warlords, cat heaven, and orphans, the bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments offers a sly pep talk to the ambitious young, laments the proliferation of photos of oneself, imagines an apocalypse of worms, and recalls Helen of Troy's...

Who or what is responsible for the gruesome deaths of members of the secret society known as the Order of Osiris? Dr. Armiston, an irascible, confirmed bachelor who believes in medicine not mysticism, is certain the deaths are only tragic accidents. But the members...

Run little squirrel... ZeusShe can't hide from me.I caught her fair and square, ... Now LUCY is MINE.I want to mark her all over, so every time she looks at herself she'll think of me.Her every breath, every cry, her every moan of ecstasy...

A ghostly and gloriously witty romantic comedy. Some people just won't take death lying down ...Hattie Hastings is happily married to lifelong sweetheart Gary, until a terrible tragedy leaves her widowed and heartbroken. Struggling to cope, she is left reeling when her deceased other...

When seconds matter in the loss of life, what would you do? What steps would you take to save the lives of your loved ones? Find out what a person is willing to do for love?Author: Lisa JacksonISBN-10: 1979448957ISBN-13: 9781979448956Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage:...

The truth is out there... and it will eat your face."Bigfoot is real." That's what Sarah's father told her before his academic disgrace and untimely death.Now, primatologist Dr. Sarah Bishop is eager to restore her father's good name. Survival show host Russ Cloud is...

The Tragedy of Arthur is an emotional and elaborately constructed tour de force from "one of the best writers in America" (The Washington Post). Its doomed hero is Arthur Phillips, a young novelist struggling with a con artist father who works wonders of deception....