Syrup

Author	Craig Clevenger
ISBN	1596921021

Bailed out of jail and holed up in a low-rent motel, amnesiac Eric Ashworth's only memory is a woman's name: Desiree. With steadily increasing doses of a strange new hallucinogen, Eric finds that the drug allows him to reassemble his past in broken fragments. But as he begins to lose touch with the present,...

Author	Paul Neilan
ISBN	0312351747

The only thing Shane cares about is leaving. Usually on a Greyhound bus, right before his life falls apart again. Just like he planned. But this time it's complicated: there's a sadistic corporate climber who thinks she's his girlfriend, a rent-subsidized affair with his landlord's wife, and the bizarrely...

Author	Monica Drake
ISBN	0976631156

i am re-writing this review & re-rating this book with a lower rating thanks to a barrage of comments from the book's author, as well as the author's obnoxious ass-kissing friends. these folks made me really stop & think about how i felt about this book, & i came to the conclusion that i liked...

Author	Claire Lewis
ISBN	0312381891

Once upon a time, Claire Lewis dreamed she would take her camera to war zones to document political upheavals and expose grave injustices. Fate led her elsewhere. And while she might not be on assignment for The New York Times, her current job carries its own dangers: Claire is a wedding photographer....

Author	Jeremy Robert Johnson
ISBN	0976249839

Meth-heads, man-made monsters, and murderous Neo-Nazis. Blissed out club kids dying at the speed of sound. The un-dead and the very soon-to-be-dead. They're all here, trying to claw their way free. From the radioactive streets of a war-scarred future, where the nuclear bombs have become self-aware,...

Author

Carlton Mellick III

It is a survival of the fittest world where humans reproduce like insects, children are the property of corporations, and having a ten-foot tall brain is a grotesque sexual fetish. Lincoln has just been released into the world by the Georges Organization, a corporation that raises creative types....

Author	Andrea Speed
ISBN	1632163381

In a world where a werecat virus has changed society, Roan McKichan, a born infected and ex-cop, works as a private detective trying to solve crimes involving other infecteds.

Now Roan is locked in a coma as the struggle between his human and werecat sides reaches a new extreme. All Dylan can...

Author	Stephen Graham Jones
ISBN	1590710088

Nazareth, Texas
Deputy Sheriff Jim Doe plunges into a renegade manhunt after the town's sheriff is gunned down. But unbeknownst to him, the suspect--an American Indian--holds chilling connections to the disappearance of Doe's sister years before. And the closer Doe gets to the fugitive's trail,...

Author	Nick Walker
ISBN	0060532246

Cross a road, take a train, or get on an airplane and you put your life in the hands of a stranger -- every bit as screwed up, every bit as fallible and as human as you are. Then the person turns out not to be a stranger at all, and suddenly it's much worse.

In America and Britain and the sky in between,...

Author	Will Christopher Baer
ISBN	1931561826

Kidnapping, snuff films, amputee geeks and a requiem of lost love.Cast adrift after the blood symphony of Penny Dreadful, Phineas Poe is looking for answers in the form of a woman. He tracks Jude to San Francisco, where he finds her involved with John Ransom Miller, a wealthy sociopath with a mysterious...

Author	Edwin Black
ISBN	0312359071

Internal Combustion is the compelling tale of corruption and manipulation that subjected the U.S. and the world to an oil addiction that could have been avoided, that was never necessary, and that could be ended not in ten years, not in five years, but today.
 
Edwin Black, award-winning...

Author	Scott Dikkers
ISBN	0740700251

I am worthless. I am totally and utterly worthless. Anything that I believe about the world or from people that love me or faith or business or achievement is all a lie. I am going to die, and my life sucks.

So are the various satirical ways in which this book seems to drive self-help in our age of awakening...

Author	Karl Marx
ISBN	0828500592

Karl Heinrich Marx (5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883) was a German philosopher, economic historian, journalist and revolutionary socialist famous for developing Marxism, a socialist movement that has been incorporated by societies around the globe. He published various books during his lifetime,...

Author	Neil Gordon
ISBN	0142004529

Now a major motion picture directed by Robert Redford and starring Shia LaBeouf, Susan Sarandon, Julie Christie, Terence Howard, Anna Kendrick, Nick Nolte, and Stanley Tucci

It is 2006. Seventeen-year-old Isabel Montgomery starts to receive emails from her father, a man who had abandoned...

Author	Arthur Nersesian
ISBN	0060548827

From the author of the cult classic The Fuck-Up comes a vicious new tale of art, drugs, love, and death on the Lower East Side.

Orloff Trenchant is a painter who sells books on West 4th Street in Manhattan and is obsessed with mastering his craft. Desperate for cash, Or agrees to take a commission...

Author	Rob Grant
ISBN	0575078200

'It's unclear precisely when it became illegal to be fat.

Of course, technically, it's not, even in this day and age. Even with the blatant persecution of tubbies, there's no official legislation on any statute book that comes right out and says fatness is against the law.

But it is.'

Rob...

Author

Gianluigi Nuzzi

Non era mai successo. Nessuno era riuscito ad accedere nella stanza del papa e a leggere le sue carte riservate. Centinaia di documenti che svelano la quotidiana precarietà della Chiesa, tra affari assai poco trasparenti e congiure di palazzo. Gianluigi Nuzzi, dopo "Vaticano S.p.a." sullo scandalo...

Author	Christopher Buckley
ISBN	0446579823

President of the United States Donald Vanderdamp is having a hell of a time getting his nominees appointed to the Supreme Court. After one nominee is rejected for insufficiently appreciating To Kill A Mockingbird, the president chooses someone so beloved by voters that the Senate won't have the guts...

Author	Kalle Lasn
ISBN	0688178057

America is no longer a country but a multimillion-dollar brand, says Kalle Lasn and his fellow "culture jammers". The founder of Adbusters magazine, Lasn aims to stop the branding of America by changing the way information flows; the way institutions wield power; the way television stations are run;...

Author	Tom Sharpe
ISBN	0879517336

There’s a hilarious skit from the Monty Python boys where Graham Chapman is wearing the peaked cap and uniform of an army Colonel from the waist up along with a ballerina’s tutu and pink leotards. The comedy is all in the contrast.

Likewise, in Tom Sharpe's 1977 novel The Great Pursuit...