Fiction - Mashups

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...

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...

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....