Blatty's tale concerns John "Wrong-Way" Goldfarb, a former college football star who once ran 95-yards for a touchdown in the wrong direction. Now a U-2 pilot, his plane malfunctions and crashes in the mythical Arab kingdom of Fawzia. The country's leader threatens to turn him over to the Soviets unless he agrees to coach a football team.

A woman flees her evangelical family to settle in quirky Venice Beach-but a homecoming awaits-in this glorious new novel by the author of The Hallelujah Side. Francine Ephesians Didwell has been living two separate lives: one with her evangelical, charismatic family, and another with her lover in a state of emancipation and rebellion. Now, after she loses the love of her life, a bereaved Francine relocates to Venice Beach, California, to start...

Despite everything they have been through together, Wales' two most debauched outlaws have made their dream come true. They outwitted a serial killer, got away with murder, committed a bunch of other crimes and even managed to slip through the fingers of both the seen and unseen British authorities. Mark and Toby somehow managed to make it to Amsterdam and open their very own coffee shop. But the past has a way of catching up with you, and when it...

August 1977... A time when Elvis was king, Iceland had recently won the bitterly disputed 'Cod Wars' and Hull City started a new football season that would ultimately end in relegation. For 12-year-old Tony, it meant going to East Yorkshire for two weeks of holiday and spending time with caring relatives who doted on him. All the ingredients were in place for a memorable vacation. After all, what could possibly go wrong in just 14 days? Praise...

Sphinx is the remarkable debut novel, originally published in 1986, by the incredibly talented and inventive French author Anne Garréta, one of the few female members of Oulipo, the influential and exclusive French experimental literary group whose mission is to create literature based on mathematical and linguistic restraints, and whose ranks include Georges Perec and Italo Calvino, among others. A beautiful and complex love story between two characters,...

In this "deeply original" (Elif Batuman) and "violently funny" (Myriam Gurba) story, a young lawyer finally confronts her dark past so she can live in a more peaceful future.

To the outside observer, Vivian is a success story—a dedicated lawyer who advocates for mentally ill patients at a New York City psychiatric hospital. Privately, Vivian contends with the memories and aftereffects of her bad childhood—compounded by the...

With Whispering Pines refusing to give up and die, Jace "Long Pork" Stanford has nothing better to do than find out who the heavily-armed newcomers in town are. Well, while he's not busy dealing with the ever present Z hordes. Or running for his life from paramilitary mercenaries. Or possibly blowing up more of the zombie-infested city because he can't help pressing buttons. Buttons are meant to be pressed, even in the apocalypse, right? Looks like...

Journalist and amateur detective Philip Trent investigates when a powerful and ruthless American capitalist is found dead in the garden of his English country home. His young widow is relieved at his death, although Wall Street panics.