Fiction - Mashups

BlakeThe first thing you learn as a kid is 'stranger danger', but they don't tell you what to do when a tall, tattooed, dangerous man shows up out of nowhere.I know I should make him leave. He's surely capable of fending for himself, but...

Sometimes Christmas Really is All About the Cookie!Camden Connel never has time for women. His days are all about the US and his nights are all about Japan's stock markets. As a CEO on Wallstreet and working with the world's most prominent investors, his...

When Maddy's marriage falls apart, she flees to Paris to find peace and heal. From a cute apartment in the 14th arrondissement and with her trust in men shaky, she plunges into a new life. A simpler life without men.Enter Dimitris, the owner of...

From USA Today Bestselling Author Morgan Jane Mitchell comes the next installment in her Royal Bastards MC: Nashville, TN Chapter series, Royal Surprise.Kingpin and Sky are back.It ain't easy being the Ol' Lady of the President of the Royal Bastards MC, but Sky never...

Jodie was born into a small but close-knit family and community in an old rundown neighborhood. What they lacked in wealth they made up for in love and support of each other. Little by little her childhood was taken away from her. She lost...

Life is never as easy as they make it out to be. FaithFinding my way back to Axel, well, him finding me, it's been as if we're sailing on cloud nine. But what happens when another woman comes into the picture claiming she's Axel's...

Nothing's fair in love and war.AND...The only way to save her was to make her his Treasure.Takoda, Alpha of The Shoshone Tribe, knew the laws were clear when you came upon a lone pup during the rebellion. You either take the babe in as...

What if you could be young again? Would it be a dream come true or truly a nightmare?That's the startling reality retired circus trapeze artist Breena Bal zov awakens on the world of Eleutia in her own re-engineered younger body. For a woman whose...

Lambda Literary Award finalistIn Sassafras Lowrey's gorgeous queer punk reimagining of the classic Peter Pan story, prepare to be swept overboard into a world of orphaned, abandoned, and runaway bois who have sworn allegiance and service to Pan, the fearless leader of the Lost...

Here is the great Irish novel of Berlin, way back before the Wall came down. Dallan Weaver, a writer and professor who's been f黎ed and flattered but has seen better days, has come to the great divided city as a guest of DILDO (Deutsche-Internationale...

In this miniature masterpiece, Róbert Gál―whom Joshua Cohen has called "a phenomenon"―conducts a noble experiment in uncategorizable prose. One long, unbroken paragraph, blending memoir, fiction, and philosophy, Agnomia takes the reader on a transcontinental journey from Lower Manhattan to the Little Quarter of Prague,...

Meet Vanessa Salomon, a privileged and misanthropic French-American translator hailing from a wealthy Parisian family. Her twin sister is a famous movie star, which Vanessa resents deeply and daily. The only man Vanessa ever loved recently killed himself by jumping off the roof of...

"If I'm guilty of anything, it's arrogance. I received my most fervent wish and Victor returned to me. In an odd way, I actually got all I wished for. My family is all with me. Cord is involved with my half-sister, my daughter Cable...

Broken Theory is a jettisoned collection of fragmentary writing, collected and collaged by new media artist, writer, musician, and theorist Alan Sondheim. Folding theoretical musings, text experiments, and personal confessions into a single textual flow, it examines the somatic foundations of philosophical theory and...

*Adult language, descriptions, and content*Summary: Steven Seagal's aunt dies and leaves him her old house. Steven decides to live there to feel closer to his loving aunt and also mourn the loss of his ponytail. As creatures hunt him in the dark of night,...

A full-length STANDALONE crime thriller from Award-Winning Author Alexi Venice.Recharged from a romantic spring break, Attorney Monica Spade is hired to represent a plastic surgeon whose patients are being murdered and spray-painted with a sinister message. An impending deadline forces Monica to take matters...

PirateMy ex hates my guts. She feels like my brothers and my club always came before my family.Every moment with her was a constant roller coaster ride of emotion and wild passion.Our love was intense, fast but worst of all our love was toxic.Both...

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...

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...

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...

"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...

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...