Floating
10 best books like Floating (Robin Troy): Thin Skin, Dreamworld, Don't Sleep With Your Drummer, Fake Liar Cheat, Tunnel Vision, Dogrun, Pieces: A Collection of New Voices, The Good Daughter, Stars and Planets: The Most Complete Guide to the Stars, Planets, Galaxies, and the Solar System - Fully Revised and Expanded Edition, Follow the Story: How to Write Successful Nonfiction
| Author | Emma Forrest |
| ISBN | 0743464818 |
From the author dubbed "a literary Lolita" by Vanity Fair comes the perfect portrait of a young actress caught in a downward spiral of self-destruction. Edgy and funny at the same time, Thin Skin provides a realistic glimpse into the dark and inviting world of fame from the writer who penned Namedropper...
| Author | Jane Goldman |
| ISBN | 0671787209 |
When it comes to crime in Dreamworld, the sprawling Florida vacation resort might as well be never-never land. That's because the bad things that happen there never reach the press. As an ambitious rookie cop on the community's security force, twenty-five-year-old Sylvia Avery toes the company line,...
| Author | Jen Sincero |
| ISBN | 0743453913 |
At twenty-eight, Jenny Troanni has decided to become the rock goddess she was always meant to be. Items on her new to-do list include:
1) Quit going-somewhere copywriting job and get going-to-band-practice job.
2) Break up with Hootie and the Blowfish-lovin' boyfriend.
3) Hang out in...
| Author | Tod Goldberg |
| ISBN | 0743400569 |
Lonnie Milton has all of life's essential accessory pieces: a 401(K) plan, a nice TV, a coffee table from Pottery Barn. The only thing missing is an actual life. Trapped in a dead-end job, Lonnie meets Claire, the perfect deliverance from his safe, boring, and even worse, ordinary life. Sucked into the...
| Author | Keith Lowe |
| ISBN | 0743423526 |
Andy's obsession with the London Underground is interfering with his life. On the eve of his wedding, he makes a drunken bet that challenges him to travel through every single Tube station in just one day. Only by completing the entire map will Andy retrieve the Eurostar tickets he needs to get to his wedding...
| Author | Arthur Nersesian |
| ISBN | 0671775421 |
mary bellanova came home to her east village apartment, cooked dinner, and fought with her boyfriend, primo. but soon mary realized that primo's silence in front of the tv set was more than just one of his bad moods: primo was actually dead.
other guys had abandoned mary before,but primo's exit was...
| Author | Stephen Chbosky |
| ISBN | 0671001957 |
MTV has discovered the authors of tomorrow. Read them today in Pieces.
This unique short-story collection is more than a good read—it's an exciting glimpse into the future of fiction. The winners of MTV's "Write Stuff" competition share their voices and visions in tales that are endearingly...
Shortlisted for the 2009 Melbourne Prize, Best Writing Award. Fifteen-year-old Sabiha has a lot to deal with: her mother's mental health issues, her interfering aunt, her mother's new boyfriend, her live-in grandfather and his chess buddy, not to mention her arrogant cousin Adnan. They all want...
| Author | Ian Ridpath |
| ISBN | 0691135568 |
In this new edition of their classic work, Ian Ridpath and Wil Tirion illuminate the night sky as never before, providing novice stargazers and professional astronomers alike with the most comprehensive and authoritative celestial field guide available. With superb color sky charts, diagrams,...
| Author | James B. Stewart |
| ISBN | 0684850672 |
An indispensable guide to nonfiction writing from the Columbia Journalism School professor and Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist behind the bestsellers Blind Eye, Blood Sport, and Den of Thieves.
In Follow the Story, bestselling author and journalist James B. Stewart teaches you...
| Author | Geoff Ryman |
| ISBN | 0312182953 |
Tremendously popular on the Internet, 253 is one of the year's most imaginative, unclassifiable books.
What it is:
A London tube train, with all seats occupied, carries 252 passengers. The driver makes 253. Each one has a secret history, thoughts about themselves and the world. And each...
| Author | Jake Coburn |
| ISBN | 0142403075 |
Nick and his friends have everything: expensive clothes, beautiful apartments, rich friends. The island of Manhattan is at their feet. But underneath this picture-perfect world of private schools and private parties lies a gang world filled with drinking, drugs, casual sex, and graffiti. And Nick...
| Author | Louisa Luna |
| ISBN | 0743439953 |
Melody is just out of prison. Faced with the absence of her brother, who's serving life in San Quentin, and hardened by her own experiences in lock-up, Mel sturggles to adjust to the harsh realities of life on the outside. She quickly discovers that freeedom is relative...she has no money, no prospects,...
| Author | Joanna Hershon |
| ISBN | 0345441834 |
Critics and readers alike hailed Swimming, Joanna Hershon’s fiction debut. “Compelling,” said the Washington Post, while Vanity Fair called Swimming a “page-turning premiere.” Now Hershon brings us her anticipated second novel, in which she vividly explores the secrets of an American...
The Rest of Life: Three Novellas
| Author | Mary Gordon |
| ISBN | 0140149074 |
Mary Gordon's luminous new fiction introduces three women, each of whom tells the story of the lover who altered her life. In Immaculate Man, a social worker in her forties whose specialty is battered women becomes the lover of a priest. He has never desired a woman until, at forty-three, he desires her,...
Cool Japan: A Guide to Tokyo, Kyoto, Tohoku and Japanese Culture Past and Present
| Author | Sumiko Kajiyama |
| ISBN | 0984633456 |
Written by local expert Sumiko Kajiyama, Cool Japan is a three-part travel guide that explores the heart of Japanese culture and must-see places from a uniquely Japanese perspective. First, visit Kyoto, where you will discover 1,000 years of history from the ancient love story the Tale of Genji to...
| Author | Sharon Raines |
| ISBN | 0615621716 |
From the murderer on death row to the soldier in Afghanistan, priest to prostitutes, housewives to home wreckers--each has a common bond. Each was born of woman. Whether Heaven-sent or Satan's spawn, mothers leave an indelible print on the lives of children. For some, the print is a masterpiece. Carefully...
| Author | HelenKay Dimon |
| ISBN | 0758229070 |
Permission To Approach
According to Judge Bennett Walker, trying to kill him is a dumb idea. They might make him wear a big black nightgown to work, but it covers a lot of muscles, and he's definitely packing beneath it. He's also an ex-prosecutor and an ex-GI Joe. So when his brother brings in...
Third Reich Victorious: Alternate Decisions of World War II
| Author | Peter G. Tsouras |
| ISBN | 0345490150 |
This collection of ten counterfactuals generally satisfies, but is best appreciated by the most serious students of the military arts. The authors are predominantly military historians and analysts, and they're playing to their bench. The real trick is spotting the point of divergence in each case....
When Shay Greene finally decides to enter the world of kink by going to Tempest fetish club, she is thrilled to meet one of the sexiest men that she has ever laid eyes on. Tall and dark with a sexy British accent, Lucas is every inch the Dom of her dreams. Completely taken in by him, she agrees to be his submissive...
The Bishop and Other Stories (The Tales of Chekhov Volume 7)
| Author | Anton Chekhov |
| ISBN | 1846376513 |
I was told by some Russian friends that Chekov was the 'must read' Russian author, and that the short stories were a good place to start. Having finished these, however, I still prefer Dostoevsky and Tolstoy, although being short stories the comparison with complete novels may be unfair.
Chekov's...
Saving Each Other: A Mother-Daughter Love Story
| Author | Victoria Jackson |
| ISBN | 1593157339 |
On the surface, Victoria Jackson is the American Dream personified: from a troubled childhood and unfinished high school education she overcame immeasurable odds to create a cosmetics empire valued at more than half a billion dollars. Married to Bill Guthy—self-made principal of infomercial...
