Black Cloud

Author	Kevin Barry
ISBN	0385540310

In the dark waiting room of the ferry terminal in the sketchy Spanish port of Algeciras, two aging Irishmen — Maurice Hearne and Charlie Redmond, longtime partners in the lucrative and dangerous enterprise of smuggling drugs — sit at night, none too patiently. It is October 23, 2018, and they are...

Author	Scott McClanahan
ISBN	0985023554

"You can tell McClanahan feels something when he writes and when he lives. He wants you to feel something too."—The Huffington Post

I walked up to the side of the mountain like I used to do when I was a little boy. I looked out over Rainelle and watched it shine. The coal trucks and the logging trucks...

Author	Rene Denfeld
ISBN	0062698184

After captivating readers in The Child Finder, Naomi—the investigator with an uncanny ability for finding missing children—returns, trading snow-covered woods for dark, gritty streets on the search for her missing sister in a city where young, homeless girls have been going missing and turning...

Author	Paul Russell
ISBN	0452268370

To begin with, this is a very difficult book to read. The subject matter is very controversial and gritty. Following the main character, Tony Blair, a teenager who is fustrated with his small town life in Kentucky, he runs away with a movie crew to New York City. Falling in love with the leader of the group,...

Author	Elle Nash
ISBN	1938604431

In Elle Nash’s stunning and powerful debut, a girl with no name embarks on a fraught three-way relationship with Matt, a satanist and a tattoo artist, and his girlfriend Frances, a new mom. The liaison is caged by strict rules and rigid emotional distance. Nonetheless, it’s all too easy to surrender...