Corey: 478 books

When Mary moved out of her parents' house, she didn't figure being cut off from the family. But that's just what her mom has done--she's not welcome to family dinners, holidays, or any other functions. So Mary is completely caught unaware when her stepdad tells her that her teenage sister, Sally,...

I've got a problem.  A friend of my roommate's is crashing at our place.  His name is Chris.  He's bitter and angry about being dumped by his girlfriend, and is just all-around obnoxious.  But that's not the problem.  The problem is that I've fallen for him.  Hard.  And I don't know what to...

This job was cake…as in cheesecake. Palm Beach socialite Julie Roper was easy on the eyes—and my eyes were on her at her brother’s expense. Then Julie rode out of her hothouse life one midnight, and I had to introduce myself under false pretenses. She wanted to walk on the wild side…escorted...

The Winter 2015-16 issue of Ploughshares. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Two out of each year's three issues are guest-edited by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles, with the Winter issue staff-edited.   The...

An outlandishly funny, unambiguously bloody novel about fame, love, religion, politics, and appetite It is one thing to die, alone and confused, trapped with your pants down around your ankles in the filthiest bus restroom in existence. It’s quite another thing to wake up during the autopsy,...

Desperate for a job, Ben winds up getting more than he bargained for when he's hired on to be the personal assistant to Mr. Jones, a high-ranking executive. Mr. Jones is demanding and orders Ben around night and day, but Ben doesn't mind at all when those those orders get a little more personal. Or...

"WHO IS JENNY KYLE? " Seems as if everybody in Bridal Veil Falls is asking that question. The feisty redhead with the high-powered motorcycle made quite an impression on the little Montana town—even before the accident that stole her memory… Sheriff Tyler Cook—a champion rodeo...

This book introduces contemporary Buddhists from across Asia and from various walks of life. Eschewing traditional hagiographies, the editors have collected sixty-six profiles of individuals who would be excluded from most Buddhist histories and ethnographies. In addition to monks and nuns, readers...

Don't Buy this Book! I guaranty you won't Like it. “It's just $00.99” you say, “What could go wrong?” You ask!   Everything that could go wrong will go wrong! Somewhere Right now This book caused a plague of stupidity to break out in another Galactic Civilization....

What Persists contains eighteen of the nearly fifty essays on poetry that Judith Kitchen published in The Georgia Review over a twenty-five-year span. Coming at the genre from every possible angle, this celebrated critic discusses work by older and younger poets, most American but some foreign, and...

A provocative new way to read and interpret the classic works of John Muir, Mary Austin, and Gary Snyder, and to bring their ideas into the discussion of ecological values and the current environmental crisis. Lewis combines a perceptive discussion of their work and ideas with an engaging account...

After a string of box office bombs, a director heads back to his Southern hometown, in this novel from an “original, clever, funny writer” (Ann Beattie). Eric Warberg went to Hollywood to make it big. For many years, he was successful—until suddenly he was virtually unemployable. So when...

It’s Halloween night 1953, the last night of the carnival in rural Ohio, and a stripper turns up dead. Tom Davis, the chief of police, orders the carnies to stay in town while he investigates, but there are no leads to Mary’s killer—no fingerprints on the murder weapon, no blood but Mary’s...

The girls of Devonairre Street have always been told they’re cursed. Any boy they love is certain to die too soon. But this is Brooklyn in 2008, and the curse is less a terror and more a lifestyle accessory—something funky and quaint that makes the girls from the shortest street in Brooklyn special....