Prospect Park Books imprint: 63 books

This story of a Hollywood wife’s newfound fame and her husband’s new identity as her plus one is told with “wit, warmth and candor” (New York Times Sunday Book Review).** Alex Sherman-Zicklin is a mid-level marketing executive who never expected his wife’s fourteenth attempt at a...

A “mesmerizing and quietly revealing” novel about a woman’s quest to understand her glamorous, cruel, recently deceased mother (Publishers Weekly). “My father proposed to my mother at gunpoint when she was nineteen, and knowing that she was already pregnant with a dead man’s child,...

This “stunningly original” debut novel follows a complex man on a journey of salvation after tragedy (The Jerusalem Post).** Shortly after Orthodox Jewish Brooklynite Jacob Fischer puts his young family on a bus to visit relatives, the bus explodes in a horrifying act of terrorism. His...

Otherwise Fables gives new wit and depth to the beloved mode of the fable Written by respected Belgian scholar and professor emeritus of literature at prestigious Caltech Author has published widely in the fields of poetry, drama, fiction, art history, literary theory, and translations from French and German Book will be supported by a generous marketing and advertising budget

Bertrand Court is a captivating novel told in story form, intertwining seventeen luminous narratives about the secrets of a cast of politicos, filmmakers, and housewives, all tied to a suburban Washington, DC, cul-de-sac. Linked through bloodlines and grocery lines, they respond to life's bruises...

A frustrated corporate admin starts a side gig as a PI in this debut mystery—“Think Monk meets Moonlighting, with a whole bunch of The Office tossed in” (M. William Phelps). Chuck Restic has achieved the American dream: a successful career with a large corporation, his own home, a great...

Three Orthodox Jewish women search for truth amid a lifetime of secrets in this “heartfelt story of loss, hope, and reconciliation” (Booklist). Barbara Blumfield, a big-hearted suburban Milwaukee mom and preschool teacher, was seventeen years old when her mother’s affair ripped her family...

Written by respected Belgian scholar and professor emeritus of literature at prestigious Caltech Author has published widely in the fields of poetry, drama, fiction, art history, literary theory, and translations from French and German Book will be supported by a generous marketing and advertising budget

Leilani Santiago is back in her birthplace, the Hawaiian island of Kaua’i, to help keep afloat the family business, a shave ice shack. When she goes to work one morning, she stumbles across a dead body, a young pro surfer who was being coached by her estranged father. As her father soon becomes...

Using rhyme and beautiful illustrations, Vulture Verses combines whimsical fun with education, helping children understand why we should love such unlovable critters as the vampire bat, vulture, spider, and snake.

Magazine editor and amateur sleuth Maggie Fiori returns in a “deliciously entertaining” mystery that takes her into her own dark family history (Naomi Hirahara).   San Francisco magazine editor Maggie Fiori is stunned when she receives a package from her Aunt Phoebe containing evidence that her...

“If you are a Susan Isaacs fan, you will love” this knockout debut whodunit introducing witty magazine editor and amateur sleuth Maggie Fiori (Jacqueline Winspear). If Maggie Fiori doesn’t have it all, she’s got plenty: a writing job at a San Francisco’s chic Small Town magazine,...

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The essential handbook for any food lover in Los Angeles, with more than 1,300 concise, clever reviews of the best places to eat, drink, shop, and taste.