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Tideland
A look at the world through the eyes of a wildly imaginative young girl in contemporary Texas.
A Slight Trick of the Mind
The basis for the Major Motion Picture Mr. Holmes starring Ian McKellen and Laura Linney and directed by Bill Condon. It is 1947, and the long-retired Sherlock Holmes, now 93, lives in a remote Sussex farmhouse with his housekeeper and her young son. He tends to his bees, writes in his journal, and grapples with the diminishing powers of his mind. But in the twilight of his life, as people continue to look to him for answers, Holmes revisits a case that may provide him with answers of his own to questions he didn’t even know he was asking–about life, about love, and about the limits of the mind’s ability to know. A novel of exceptional grace and literary sensitivity, A Slight Trick of the Mind is a brilliant imagining of our greatest fictional detective and a stunning inquiry into the mysteries of human connection.
Mr Holmes
"Why'd she come here? Why'd she come to you?" A cloud passed over the sun, casting a long shadow across the gardens. "Hope, I suspect," said Holmes. "It seems I am known for discovering answers when events appear desperate." It is 1947, and the long-retired Sherlock Holmes, now 93, lives in a remote Sussex farmhouse with his housekeeper and her young son. He tends to his bees, writes in his journal, and grapples with the diminishing powers of his mind. But in the twilight of his life, as people continue to look to him for answers, Holmes revisits a case that may provide him with answers of his own to questions he didn't even know he was asking-about life, about love, and about the limits of the mind's ability to know.
Undersurface
From acclaimed author Mitch Cullin, whose previous books have been described by The New York Times as brilliant and beautiful...rhythmic and telling, comes Undersurface, a chilling page-turner that recalls Alfred Hitchcock and novelist Kobo Abe at his most existential. Probing the complex relationship between outward appearances and inward states of profound want, it is a story that at turns is intriguing and sordid, poetic and allusive, told in a compact yet intense manner, offering a distinctive take on a society far more complicated than what Americans often gather from their televisions and newspaper headlines.Based roughly on real events, this fictional account follows its oblique prota...
The Cosmology of Bing
At Eric's Rotisserie, Bing sat outside by himself, nursing white zinfandel beneath the large sunshade that jutted from the center of his table, while a blustery wind roamed across campus -- swirling dead leaves and bits of trash around the chairs and tables, flapping the awnings on the massive umbrellas. The weather kept the patio abandoned, and Bing preferred it that way -- no chatty couples nearby, no loudmouth students talking about sports, or, even worse, popular music. On this chilly afternoon, he didn't care that he was alone. He didn't care that he'd left his coat in his office. And, for a moment, he almost didn't mind that his head wasn't quite screwed on tightly today.In Cosmology o...
Notes of a Desolate Man
Winner of the coveted China Times Novel Prize, this postmodern, first-person tale of a contemporary Taiwanese gay man reflecting on his life, loves, and intellectual influences is among the most important recent novels in Taiwan. The narrator, Xiao Shao, recollects a series of friends and lovers, as he watches his childhood friend, Ah Yao, succumb to complications from AIDS. The brute fact of Ah Yao's death focuses Shao's simultaneously erudite and erotic reflections magnetically on the core theme of mortality. By turns humorous and despondent, the narrator struggles to come to terms with Ah Yao's risky lifestyle, radical political activism, and eventual death; the fragility of romantic love...
The Post-war Dream
Hollis and Debra, a couple in their golden years who live in a gated community outside of Tucson, are forced to confront the trauma of the past when Debra, diagnosed with cancer, asks her husband to relive his memories of the Korean War.
Circa 2000
Colm Toibin, David Leavitt, Michael Lowenthal, Jaime Manrique, William J Mann, Christian McLaughlin, Frank Ronan and Bernard Cooper are just a few of the writers included in this collection of the best fiction by male authors at the close of the millennium. Novel excerpts bump up against short stories; science fiction jostles beside literary fiction, punk sensibility elbows its way next to high camp. If it's queer, it's here and this international collection of fiction well illustrates the power and diversity of gay writing today.
The Flash
The Flash edited by Peter Wild 100 writers 100 stories All proceeds to Amnesty International The authors of this book have elected Amnesty International to receive all proceeds from this publication. Amnesty International (AI) is a worldwide movement of people who campaign for human rights to be respected and protected. AI's vision is of a world in which every person enjoys all the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international human rights standards. If you would like to find out more about Amnesty International, please visit our website at www.amnesty.org.
Branches
"There has to have been a word that no other word is like." "There has to have been a Name which is like no other name. A Name that is unique in the sense that it has no counterpart and at the same time has no equal."
