Barry: 2877 books

The Last Transaction is a deep and fascinating glimpse into the memories, inner compulsions, torments, triumphs, and events in the life of a President of the United States in a world gone mad, from 1980 to 1985. Even more, it is a perceptive vision of the major issues our society will face tomorrow....

It begins with a half-glimpsed vision flickering behind a stand of trees as Sam Bartlett, thirteen years old, finally spies the Grey Lady, the ghostly figure said to haunt the environs of St. Andrew’s church. He and his best friend, Max, were once both choristers at the ancient building. But now...

Kendra Ryder just gave fifteen year old Frankie Dexter a slab of fresh-cut tulipwood along with the advice, "When you’re feeling bad, just scuff the wood with 120-grit sandpaper, grab a whiff and you're guaranteed to feel a whole lot better!”

An action-paced story inspired by your favorite mining survival games!Legend has it that on Halloween every year, chocolate appears in the ground that miners can claim for themselves. However, there is a catch— this chocolate is guarded by a vicious monster.Eric has been a miner his...

Barry Unsworth returns to the terrain of his Booker Prize-winning novel Sacred Hunger, this time following Sullivan, the Irish fiddler, and Erasmus Kemp, son of a Liverpool slave ship owner who hanged himself. It is the spring of 1767, and to avenge his father's death, Erasmus Kemp has had the rebellious...

The characters in this collection of five short stories by renowned poet Barry Spacks are poets, screen-writers, painters, musicians, and actors struggling with the conflicts between their demanding muses and their desires–carnal and professional. Spiritual cravings tug at them as well, and deliverance...

Several years have passed since the Dragon Lord, Damion Omensent, led the people of the south to victory over the Etask invaders. Now, a new evil has risen to threaten the mortal world. After her father is lured away from the tiny mountain city of Sevria, it falls to Leia, the Dragon Lord's only child, to save the world from a terrible fate.

"I remember looking up at my grandmother's back-lit face from my baby carriage on a late-summer day in the minute front garden of our four-family home on Rockaway Parkway in Brooklyn," says novelist and poet Barry Sheinkopf. "I could not have been more than a year old. And I remember...

A young boy spends a magical weekend with his sister, a former collegiate track star crippled in a freak accident. During the visit he learns a poignant lesson about the resilience of monarch butterflies and the human heart

Business was slow for Bear and Gator as they struggled to find clients for their new private investigation service, American Gypsies Investigations, until they heard about a strange shadowy figure that had been terrorizing the people of New Orleans. Hoping the publicity would be good for business,...

Fed up of her unsatisfactory sex life and her two-pump chump of a husband, Cynthia decides to partake in the African mating ritual that her best friend and her husband told her about. Thus, Cynthia embarks on her very first raunchy sexual adventure, journeying to a remote village somewhere in West...

Twenty-eight year-old Jesse Caldwell is painfully shy, lives at home and hates his moronic life. Miranda Huffington suffers from a gimpy leg and equally stunted personality. This is not your standard Harlequin romance.

Barry Unsworth, a writer with an “almost magical capacity for literary time travel” (New York Times Book Review) has the extraordinary ability to re-create the past and make it relevant to contemporary readers. In Land of Marvels, a thriller set in 1914, he brings to life the schemes and double-dealings...

Body hair is making a comeback! Move over hairless twinks. Stand aside waxed wankers and depilatorized dudes – your bodies look like plucked chickens.  Once again, the hirsute look is making inroads into the gay community. Long live beards and moustaches. Here’s to the return of pubic...