-
-
-
-
The last words of jack ruby
Late 1966. A sharp young FBI agent finds himself summoned to J. Edgar Hoover’s office for an extremely important and highly confidential assignment: to fly to Dallas and interview a dying man who might just know the secrets behind one of the greatest crimes in American history. A dying man who’s ...
Read MoreRegular price $9.99Regular price $0.00 Sale price $9.99Unit price per -
Infinite blues
June, 1968. An air force astronaut flies to an orbiting observation platform for a forty-day stint spying on the Soviet Union from space—and discovers a plot that will determine the fate of the world.The fourth book in the Altered Space series, Infinite Blues imagines a militarized Space Race in ...
Read MoreRegular price $27.99Regular price $27.99 Sale price $27.99Unit price per -
Resistance
In late December of 1941, two parachutists dropped into occupied Europe on a mission to assassinate Reinhard Heydrich, an SS leader whom one contemporary called “the hidden pivot” of Nazi Germany.Six months later, they succeeded.This is the definitive telling of this oft-forgotten story—its fasci...
Read MoreRegular price $29.99Regular price $29.99 Sale price $29.99Unit price per -
The pleasure you suffer
Saudade reportedly has no direct English translation; it’s a Portuguese word describing the nostalgic longing for something that may never return, or may not exist. This feeling can be strangely comforting; author Manuel de Mello calls it “A pleasure you suffer, an ailment you enjoy.” It permeate...
Read MoreRegular price $9.99Regular price $9.99 Sale price $9.99Unit price per -
Delirium vitae
In 2001, David LeBrun travelled to Costa Rica to reconnect with an old friend. LeBrun, a young writer at the end of a string of dead-end jobs, planned on living cheaply for a winter while finishing the book he thought would make his career. (And, of course, drinking every night and getting stoned...
Read MoreRegular price $18.99Regular price $0.00 Sale price $18.99Unit price per -
Tu conductor ha llegado
Un inmigrante ex indocumentado y actual ciudadano estadounidense documenta sus experiencias por varios años persiguiendo el sueño americano a través de la economía colaborativa como conductor de viajes compartidos en Chicago. A la vez conmovedor e hilarante, este libro es un valioso recordatorio ...
Read MoreRegular price $11.99Regular price $11.99 Sale price $11.99Unit price per -
Strip
Born in the bohemian seventies, Hannah Sward was abandoned by her mother, and lived with her poet father on an island with no stores or cars. Kidnapped and molested by a stranger at age six, she grew up to be a stripper and a prostitute with a taste for crystal meth—which seemed to be a sure-fire...
Read MoreRegular price $9.99Regular price $9.99 Sale price $9.99Unit price per -
The quitters
This hard-hitting collection of creative essays explores the beauty and pain embedded in some of our favorite rough-and-tumble pastimes—roller derby, mixed martial arts, and teaching. Carlo Matos ties it all together with gusto, in a book that will send you reeling to the canvas again and again, ...
Read MoreRegular price $9.99Regular price $9.99 Sale price $9.99Unit price per -
Gunmetal blue
Detective Art Topp has a wife…or rather, had a wife. It’s hard to tell. On one hand, he talks to her every day, and she talks back. On the other, he’s still in shock from the day he walked into his Triple A Detective AAAgency office and found her lifeless body riddled with bullets, the catastroph...
Read MoreRegular price $9.99Regular price $9.99 Sale price $9.99Unit price per -
Also here
As a young girl Brooke Randel knew little about the Holocaust—just that it was a catastrophe in which millions were murdered, and that her grandma Golda Indig barely escaped that fate. But her Bubbie never spoke about what happened, and the two spent most of their time together making pleasant me...
Read MoreRegular price $8.99Regular price $8.99 Sale price $8.99Unit price per -
The temple of air
Linking the lives and tales of a place and its people through tragedy and consequence, blind faith and redemption, The Temple of Air, Patricia Ann McNair’s award-winning collection of finely tuned short stories, spans three decades to present a portrait of working class Americans. From babysitt...
Read MoreRegular price $8.99Regular price $8.99 Sale price $8.99Unit price per -
The dark will end the dark
A group of tugboat passengers grapples with a disturbing loss. A record-holding hiccuper confronts his condition—and a troubling secret. A wife wonders what to do when her husband’s head stops working—but his body stays alive. A man struggles with the memory of the time he saw his friend swallowe...
Read MoreRegular price $9.99Regular price $9.99 Sale price $9.99Unit price per -
The virginity of famous men
The Virginity of Famous Men, award-winning story writer Christine Sneed's deeply perceptive collection on the human condition, features protagonists attempting to make peace with the choices—both personal and professional—they have so far made. In “The Prettiest Girls,” a location scout for a Hol...
Read MoreRegular price $15.99Regular price $15.99 Sale price $15.99Unit price per -
In lieu of flowers (illustrated)
In this surreal series of dreamscapes, bears roam the subway, and fathers become fish. But for all of the fantastic imagery in this stunning debut poetry collection, there are equally memorable explorations of more familiar terrain: the landscapes of our lives and relationships.
Regular price $16.99Regular price $16.99 Sale price $16.99Unit price per -
Rescued me
Nestor Gomez was sure he had found love with his new girlfriend. The only problem? His girlfriend was still in love with a real dog. No, really—a seventy-pound pitbull mix. And after having been…well, nearly emasculated by a dog that bit him high on the thigh when he was a young boy, Nestor had d...
Read MoreRegular price $14.99Regular price $14.99 Sale price $14.99Unit price per -
What we build upon the ruins
Like an arrowhead, the title story in this collection pierces through our tough skin and through to what’s delicate within. It’s the first piece in a triptych that elegantly holds together this stunning collection about love and loss and longing—our feeble human institutions and fragile relations...
Read MoreRegular price $12.99Regular price $12.99 Sale price $12.99Unit price per -
Fishhead
Amidst the teeming tenements of 1970s Bombay (Mumbai), a hungry teenage boy struggles through life in a poverty-stricken family ruled by a domineering alcoholic father, when suddenly he faces another challenge: the affections of an upper middle-class girl. In this exploration of poverty and pleas...
Read MoreRegular price $9.99Regular price $9.99 Sale price $9.99Unit price per -
Caves of the rust belt
The natural successor to Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg collection, Caves of the Rust Belt: Ohio Stories travels to the Heart of It All, where drowned sailors reminisce over a hot meal, and the rules of the yard sale are law. In his stunning debut, Joe Kapitan captures the modern Midwest in devast...
Read MoreRegular price $15.99Regular price $15.99 Sale price $15.99Unit price per -
The master is here
An Episcopal priest has a fateful encounter with an Amsterdam teenager who may be a prostitute—or something else entirely. An Iowa supermarket patron repurposes Bible verses for a love note to a handsome cashier, with consequences both tragic and transformational. A disgraced seminarian shows up ...
Read MoreRegular price $16.99Regular price $16.99 Sale price $16.99Unit price per -
Staggerwing
This irresistible collection of stories brilliantly skewers the close-to-rich and not-so-famous of 21st century America. With keen yet kind perspective, Kaltman revels in the triumphs and travails of misfit trophy wives, psychic hotel maids, jilted bridegrooms, showtune-singing security guards, a...
Read MoreRegular price $9.99Regular price $9.99 Sale price $9.99Unit price per -
Love in the time of time's up
With pathos and insight, each of the sixteen accomplished authors—among them Lynn Freed, Karen Bender, May-lee Chai, Gina Frangello, Cris Mazza, and Amina Gautier—featured in Love in the Time of Time’s Up skillfully explores the complexities of desire, intention, and what it means to be a woman i...
Read MoreRegular price $9.99Regular price $9.99 Sale price $9.99Unit price per -
White flight
Chicago’s western suburbs. Young Joe Walsh is making a go of it at a new school, still haunted by his rough-and-tumble city upbringing. He’s got some great opportunities—a summer seminar at one of the world’s top physics laboratories, a hard-hitting Catholic clergyman and boxing instructor who th...
Read MoreRegular price $22.99Regular price $22.99 Sale price $22.99Unit price per -
Dwell here and prosper
Dick, a blunt and bawdy Philly sports fan, finds himself in an assisted living facility following a stroke. Determined to regain his independence, he does daily laps around the grounds with his quad cane. But when recovery never comes, and days swell into years, Dick finds purpose instead by stud...
Read MoreRegular price $8.99Regular price $8.99 Sale price $8.99Unit price per -
My half orange
In his late thirties, John Julius Reel left his native New York for Seville, hoping to reinvent himself, find his voice as a writer, and cast off the shadow of his famous father. When his girlfriend dumped him after a month-long visit, the last tie was cut, and he had to face his future from his ...
Read MoreRegular price $17.99Regular price $17.99 Sale price $17.99Unit price per -
Me rescató
Néstor Gómez estaba seguro de que había encontrado el amor con su nueva novia. ¿El único problema? Su novia seguía enamorada de un verdadero perro. No, en serio, una mezcla de pitbull de setenta libras. Y después de haber sido... bueno, casi castrado por un perro que lo mordió en el muslo cuando ...
Read MoreRegular price $14.99Regular price $14.99 Sale price $14.99Unit price per -
The pueblos
In 2014, author and bullrunning expert Bill Hillmann was gored in the streets of Pamplona by a bull named Brevito who left a baseball-sized wound in his thigh. Two years later he returned to Spain, eager to run with the bulls again.Bill was on a mission to run a hundred and one bull runs over the...
Read MoreRegular price $19.99Regular price $19.99 Sale price $19.99Unit price per -
Jerks
With Jerks, Sara Lippmann rides the proverbial clutch between wanting and having. Ambivalent mothers, aging suburbanites, restless teens, survivalist parents, and disaffected wives—desire is a live wire, however frayed; a reminder that life, for all its sputtering stall outs, is still worth livin...
Read MoreRegular price $9.99Regular price $9.99 Sale price $9.99Unit price per -
Moxie
Jax, a magazine model, has had half her face destroyed in a bomb blast. Drowning in whiskey and self-loathing, she must rebuild her life now that her beauty is gone. Part love letter to New York, part social justice commentary, Moxie is a timely and raw portrayal of the sometimes self-destructive...
Read MoreRegular price $16.99Regular price $16.99 Sale price $16.99Unit price per -
Ninety-nine bottles
The local bar—the true, no-frills, nameless dive bar—offers its patrons a refuge, a place to express their doubts, dreams, regrets, and failures. Here they can escape or celebrate life; tell tall tales and jokes, or rage against the inherent unfairness of the human condition. Chances are you've s...
Read MoreRegular price $15.99Regular price $15.99 Sale price $15.99Unit price per -
In lieu of flowers
In this surreal series of dreamscapes, bears roam the subway, and fathers become fish. But for all of the fantastic imagery in this stunning debut poetry collection, there are equally memorable explorations of more familiar terrain: the landscapes of our lives and relationships.
Regular price $6.99Regular price $6.99 Sale price $6.99Unit price per -
Upstate
Featuring dark character studies of childhood, middle age, and (lack of) grace under pressure, these stories are among the best work of Tanzer's career, and voracious fans of his writing will surely be pleased and satisfied to have these small masterpieces collected together into one easy-to-read...
Read MoreRegular price $16.99Regular price $16.99 Sale price $16.99Unit price per -
Frank buck: chicago hitman
Frank Buck is a fat f*ck. A slob, a middle-aged loser, he’s living in Chicagoland with his mother and collecting disability checks, drinking Svedka vodka and driving aimlessly through the nighttime city in the one thing in his life that brings him joy and freedom—a 1989 Cadillac Brougham D’Elegan...
Read MoreRegular price $8.99Regular price $0.00 Sale price $8.99Unit price per -
Music to my eyes
Author and artist Dmitry Samarov has written for the Chicago Tribune, the Reader, and more; here he turns his eye and pen towards the musical stage, sketching and describing a host of independent musicians he's seen, crossed paths with, offered sofa space to, and taken out to breakfast over the c...
Read MoreRegular price $24.99Regular price $24.99 Sale price $24.99Unit price per -
Hidden river
Thirty-five year old Cassandra (aka Cass, Cassie, Cassidy, and Cassiopeia) Trout is going nowhere fast. Stuck in her hometown of Philadelphia, she spends her lackluster days working retail and running, and then rinse, repeat. But a surprise wedding invitation from an estranged childhood friend is...
Read MoreRegular price $19.99Regular price $0.00 Sale price $19.99Unit price per -
Your driver has arrived
A former undocumented immigrant and current American citizen documents his experiences chasing the American Dream through the gig economy years as a rideshare driver in Chicago. By turns heartwarming and hilarious, this book is a valuable reminder of the values we all share. A dollar from every ...
Read MoreRegular price $9.99Regular price $9.99 Sale price $9.99Unit price per -
Run-on
Have you ever drowsed through the night with a sleeping infant on your chest, and you love your child but you just want him to get a little bit of sleep, and you want to get some sleep too, but that’s sometimes impossible, and you’re lost in a fog of exhaustion and dreams and love and maybe you d...
Read MoreRegular price $15.99Regular price $0.00 Sale price $15.99Unit price per -
North and central
Andy's a bartender in North Austin in the late 1970s. For years, he's been slinging beers to corrupt cops and fat Zenith employees, but given the neighborhood's ongoing decline (and his own serious health issues), he's starting to wonder how long it can go on. He's serving workers from a dying fa...
Read MoreRegular price $15.99Regular price $15.99 Sale price $15.99Unit price per -
Meiselman
Meiselman has had enough. After a life spent playing by the rules, this lonely thirty-six-year-old man—"number two" at a suburban Chicago public library, in charge of events and programs, and in no control whatsoever over his fantasies about his domineering boss—is looking to come out on top, at ...
Read MoreRegular price $19.99Regular price $19.99 Sale price $19.99Unit price per -
Lech
A mother recovering from an abortion in a Borscht Belt rental. An eccentric aging landlord, haunted by a mysterious death. A grief-stricken Hasid. A scheming real estate agent looking for her break, her dogged daughter longing for her way out (specifically, a career as a human mermaid), and her a...
Read MoreRegular price $9.99Regular price $9.99 Sale price $9.99Unit price per -
In that number
A unique hybrid memoir, Regan Burke's In That Number chronicles one woman's struggle to find grace and peace amidst the chaos of politics and alcoholism. It's an important public book from a longtime Democratic Party activist, one whose beliefs led her from protesting the Vietnam War at the Linco...
Read MoreRegular price $17.99Regular price $17.99 Sale price $17.99Unit price per -
Jenny in corona
Tyrone has a problem. Several problems, in fact: a girlfriend who sleeps around, a boss he's sleeping with, and various types of guilt (Catholic, Jewish, White) he can’t live without. Plus, there’s his deceased mother, his pill-popping father (who at least shares the good ones), the death metal g...
Read MoreRegular price $16.99Regular price $16.99 Sale price $16.99Unit price per -
The beast in aisle 34
Sandy Kurtz has problems. He's got a baby on the way, his wife doesn't love him, and he's struggling to find passion or purpose at his big-box retail job. And, once a month, he turns into a werewolf. In Darrin Doyle's deft hands, Sandy's story is a tall tale for our times, an absurd and darkly co...
Read MoreRegular price $17.99Regular price $17.99 Sale price $17.99Unit price per -
In another sun
In Another Sun is a lovely and eloquent look at one woman’s journey towards, and away from, the American Dream. We follow its protagonist, the child of Mexican immigrants, through love and loss, career ascent and personal crisis. It’s a specific and detailed story focused on one slice of the Amer...
Read MoreRegular price $9.99Regular price $9.99 Sale price $9.99Unit price per -
Morning will come
Alan and Audrey Taylor are an ordinary married couple raising three children and coping with the demands of busy careers when the unthinkable happens: their eldest daughter, Isabel, on the verge of precocious womanhood, goes missing in the middle of the night. Thus begins this intimate portrait o...
Read MoreRegular price $9.99Regular price $9.99 Sale price $9.99Unit price per -
The surge
Larry Chandler knows what his fellow soldiers don’t—that war scars you and haunts you, leaving you with memories you’d prefer not to face. They’re all National Guardsmen serving together in Iraq, but he’s already done a stint in Afghanistan, whereas they’re fresh-faced youngsters on their first ...
Read MoreRegular price $8.99Regular price $8.99 Sale price $8.99Unit price per -
American sfumato
American Sfumato consists of nine mesmerizing stories, each designed to function independently and form a unit with the rest. The action is set in several present-time locales (Chicago, the Balkans, New Orleans, Germany, Brazil), and the narrative revolves around a protagonist who's caught up in ...
Read MoreRegular price $15.99Regular price $15.99 Sale price $15.99Unit price per -
Scoundrels among us
A mysterious man appears suspended in the air above a major American city. A foul-mouthed posse of machete-wielding scoundrels wreak havoc on a small-town mayor. A cocaine-addled boxer starts a torrid affair with the wife of the Invisible Man—who just might be watching (and enjoying) all the frea...
Read MoreRegular price $15.99Regular price $15.99 Sale price $15.99Unit price per -
The birthparents
The Bronx. It’s America at its most vibrant and chaotic; it’s also where one foster care caseworker—a would-be white savior from New England, a twentysomething kid prematurely jaded by the system—takes it upon himself to reunify a troubled birthmother with her children, against the recommenda...
Read MoreRegular price $18.99Regular price $18.99 Sale price $18.99Unit price per -
Public loneliness
October, 1967. Yuri Gagarin sits atop a Proton rocket, ready to launch. After several turbulent years in the public eye, he's been chosen in secrecy to captain the Soviet Union's latest space spectacular: the first manned flight around the moon.The second story in the Altered Space series, Public...
Read MoreRegular price $9.99Regular price $9.99 Sale price $9.99Unit price per -
Island of clouds
April, 1972. Three legendary astronauts embark on mankind’s boldest space voyage yet—a yearlong mission to fly past our nearest planetary neighbor, Venus. What follows will be a journey more harrowing than any of them can imagine. Island of Clouds, the first full-length novel in the Altered Spac...
Read MoreRegular price $19.99Regular price $19.99 Sale price $19.99Unit price per -
Afterward
In an unnamed city, a young woman deals with an unspeakable tragedy, and her boyfriend’s subsequent hospitalization.Torn from her normal routines—coffee, sex, barhopping, and disc golf—she finds herself in an unfamiliar world of hospital visits and doctor’s appointments, all while navigating an u...
Read MoreRegular price $18.99Regular price $18.99 Sale price $18.99Unit price per -
Fly over this
These compelling stories offer a detailed look at a part of the country many Americans only glimpse through an airplane window from 30,000 feet—the small towns of the rural Midwest. The characters here—struggling to raise children and build a better future, or just to escape their past; searching...
Read MoreRegular price $16.99Regular price $16.99 Sale price $16.99Unit price per -
Casualties
A teenage girl victimized by assault and prejudice. An office worker holding on to his boss’s cat after a failed workplace romance. A father struggling through a ceremony for a son lost in combat. A family whose members can often predict the day they’re going to die.The characters in Casualties a...
Read MoreRegular price $17.99Regular price $17.99 Sale price $17.99Unit price per -
Forty-five minutes of unstoppable rock
An unadulterated look inside the lives of those hardest hit by the Great Recession, Steve Passey shows with great clarity that when all else fails, it’s our relationships that keep us afloat, even if we’re drifting to nowhere. Narrators shaped by the generation decaying around them proclaim an er...
Read MoreRegular price $14.99Regular price $14.99 Sale price $14.99Unit price per -
Before evil
Should we humanize the world's most inhumane leaders?Adolf Hitler. Joseph Stalin. Benito Mussolini. Mao Zedong. Kim Il Sung. Vladimir Lenin. These cruel dictators wrote their names on the pages of history in the blood of countless innocent victims. Yet they themselves were once young people searc...
Read MoreRegular price $9.99Regular price $9.99 Sale price $9.99Unit price per -
Adult teeth
A suburban lawyer obsessively searches for her out-of-work husband’s sex doll; a grieving man buys a parrot for the stranger who saved his life; a retired Florida lineman discovers a power more vital than electricity. In his debut collection Adult Teeth, award-winning short story writer Jeremy T....
Read MoreRegular price $15.99Regular price $15.99 Sale price $15.99Unit price per -
Zero phase
May, 1970. After a one-month launch delay, Apollo 13 lands in the Fra Mauro Highlands of the moon—and then the trouble starts.The first in a series of what-if stories from the golden age of space exploration, Zero Phase was written based on meticulous research, and with assistance from two Apollo...
Read MoreRegular price $8.99Regular price $8.99 Sale price $8.99Unit price per -
She said what?
Radio. It's almost as easy as marriage and motherhood.The excitement of a career on the air! Listeners asking for advice on dressing their girlfriends in leather bustiers; managers who believe every professional woman longs for a bouquet on Secretaries' Day; Saturday nights giving away free T-shi...
Read MoreRegular price $21.99Regular price $21.99 Sale price $21.99Unit price per -
Old open
Aging widower Russ Lanaker knows he doesn't know his neighbors—but when he finds out one of them was a witness to, and career expert on, the strange UFO phenomenon known as the Phoenix Lights, he realizes that's a situation he'd like to change. What follows is an odyssey out of his air-conditione...
Read MoreRegular price $13.99Regular price $13.99 Sale price $13.99Unit price per -
Alone on the moon
May, 1970. A two-person Soviet crew approaches the moon, ready to accomplish the greatest feat in human history—provided they can overcome their own petty jealousies, and the unforgiving harshness of space. Alone on the Moon chronicles a Soviet moon mission through the eyes of Boris Volynov, a b...
Read MoreRegular price $17.99Regular price $17.99 Sale price $17.99Unit price per -
Broken bottles
After growing up with an alcoholic mother and an intermittent stepfather, Alex pines for connection, even as he sabotages his life with substances, and substitutes one failed relationship for the next. Shuffling from troubled home to chaotic institution, he narrates his strange search through Chi...
Read MoreRegular price $16.99Regular price $16.99 Sale price $16.99Unit price per -
Tandem
Mike Kovacs is an economics professor who's trying to get over a bitter divorce. He’s barely on speaking terms with his only child. And he’s just killed two bicyclists in an inebriated hit-and-run at a deserted Michigan beach. (In his defense, he hadn’t meant to get that drunk. And what’s the use...
Read MoreRegular price $9.99Regular price $9.99 Sale price $9.99Unit price per -
Nothing's ever the same
Itzel’s 13th birthday party starts in just about the unluckiest way possible—with her dad having a heart attack. In those frantic moments, the piñata and the frosted sheetcake and the Styrofoam cups of orange soda are forgotten; the day’s highlights end up being CPR, an ambulance ride, and angiop...
Read MoreRegular price $15.99Regular price $15.99 Sale price $15.99Unit price per -
Thirty-six fighting holes
The few. The proud. The Marines. Do you have what it takes…not just to join them, but to talk others into joining? Can you occupy an isolated outpost—a strip mall, a small office, a lonely building on a busy street—and work the phones and set appointments and bring people in? Can you dress up in ...
Read MoreRegular price $22.99Regular price $0.00 Sale price $22.99Unit price per
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
