Peeling the Onion
10 best books like Peeling the Onion (Wendy Orr): Saving Francesca, Call Me Evie, Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter, Teratologist, Goon, The Slightly True Story of Cedar B. Hartley, Who Planned to Live an Unusual Life, Thursday's Child, By the River, The Book of Days, Splatterpunks II: Over the Edge
| Author | Melina Marchetta |
| ISBN | 0375829830 |
MOST OF MY friends now go to Pius Senior College, but my mother wouldn't allow it because she says the girls there leave with limited options and she didn't bring me up to have limitations placed upon me. If you know my mother, you'll sense there's an irony there, based on the fact that she is the Queen of the...
In this propulsive, twist-filled, and haunting psychological suspense debut perfect for fans of Sharp Objects and Room, a seventeen-year-old girl struggles to remember the role she played on the night her life changed forever.
For the past two weeks, seventeen-year-old Kate Bennet has...
Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter
| Author | Adeline Yen Mah |
| ISBN | 0440228654 |
A riveting memoir of a girl's painful coming-of-age in a wealthy Chinese family during the 1940s.
A Chinese proverb says, "Falling leaves return to their roots." In Chinese Cinderella, Adeline Yen Mah returns to her roots to tell the story of her painful childhood and her ultimate triumph...
| Author | Edward Lee |
| ISBN | 1892950820 |
This Signed Limited Edition is signed by authors Edward Lee and Wrath James White. The Story: Billionaire John Farrington is obsessed with the idea of offending God to the point that God would want to confront him in person. Farrington has abducted priests and nuns to commit sexual atrocities with the...
| Author | Edward Lee |
| ISBN | 1892950634 |
Six-foot-nine and four hundred pounds, GOON is a one-man gore-machine of the Wrestling Conference. Police captain Philip Straker isn't a wrestling fan. The bodies pile up like dirty laundry: sex-obsessed tramps used as playthings by some unspeakable creature. Straker is determined to solve the...
I don’t usually read a lot of middle grade fiction but whenever I do, I enjoy the whole reading experience so much that I wonder why I don’t read more frequently from this genre. There was this one particular book which kept falling at my feet every time I opened my bookshelf. I took this as a sign and moreover,...
| Author | Sonya Hartnett |
| ISBN | 0763622036 |
Harper Flute believes that her younger brother Tin, with his uncanny ability to dig, was born to burrow. While their family struggles to survive in a bleak landscape during the Great Depression, the silent and elusive little Tin - "born on a Thursday and so fated to his wanderings" - begins to escape underground,...
| Author | Steven Herrick |
| ISBN | 1932425721 |
Through rich, vivid poetry, Harry Hodby brings readers into his remote Australian town. He documents the mundane and unique qualities of daily life and the quirkiness of the townspeople, and gives a lively sense of locale. Three-dimensional characters come alive as Harry offers his insightful take...
Most people believe the best way to forget someone is to throw them down a well. Or lock them in a room with eight keys, or bury them at a crossroad in the thirteenth hour. But they’re wrong. The best way to forget someone is for them never to have existed in the first place.
Madame Marisol’s Unreality...
| Author | Paul M. Sammon |
| ISBN | 0312857861 |
Reach beyond the limits of convention and rationality and into the darkest corners of the human soul in this new volume of taboo-shattering short fiction.
Reviewers called Splatterpunks: Extreme Horror "a forceful anthology-cum-manifesto of splatterpunk [that] makes a strong case for splatterpunk...
| Author | Libby Hathorn |
| ISBN | 0340739886 |
Lara feels completely alone after the death of her mother. She is an intruder in her father's new family, living far away from all that has been familiar. How can she find acceptance and love in this harsh place? Will the hostile Gladwyn and her kids ever really allow Lara to be part of the family she so longs...
| Author | Peter Mayle |
| ISBN | 0818402539 |
The book purports to be a description of reproduction from childhood through sex to birth for the young ones. A typical excerpt (over a picture of a little boy looking at his teeny little willie), "The important thing to notice is that the man has something hanging between his legs that the woman doesn't...
| Author | David Almond |
| ISBN | 0385731701 |
Bobby Burns knows he’s a lucky lad. Growing up in sleepy Keely Bay, Bobby is exposed to all manner of wondrous things: stars reflecting off the icy sea, a friend that can heal injured fawns with her dreams, a man who can eat fire. But darkness seems to be approaching Bobby’s life from all sides. Bobby’s...
Grandpappy, what's a header?
Header is a tale of consummate grotesquerie from the master of graphic horror -- the author of such books as: Succubi, Incubi and Creekers. It is a chapbook of the most extreme fiction you'll ever read! A horrific splatter mystery in the Joe R. Lansdale tradition......
| Author | Edward Lee |
| ISBN | 1936383039 |
You've seen Cannibal Holocaust. You've seen Salo. You've seen Nekromantik. You ain't seen shit! Zombie prostitutes, religious rapists, horny werewolves, death by vomit, and sexual fetishes scraped off the sidewalk. From sex prisons to mafia torture chambers, hold on tight because you're about...
From the author of "Unicorn Western" comes a story of fangs and fast food…
When overweight treadmill salesman Reginald Baskin finally meets a co-worker who doesn't make fun of him, it's just his own bad luck that tech guy Maurice turns out to be a thousand-year-old vampire.
And when...
