Rare Bird Books A Barnacle Book imprint: 47 books

Meet Mary and Mark Black, a mythic couple whose precious love has taken a turn for the worse. A journey across continents, Mecca Pimp is a spirited fable that lays a magnifier over marriage and sexuality. Mark Black lives in Saudi Arabia where he runs a mysterious import company. He’s hellbent on tracking...

Set amidst the backdrop of the troubled town of Blackwater, New Jersey, a Bruce Lee and Bruce Springsteen-devoted young hero journeys toward adulthood in this devastating yet intelligent debut novel from poet and musician Rich Ferguson.New Jersey Me explores an ensemble cast of unique characters, including...

When a mysterious blogger reveals renowned pro-war journalist Arthur Hunt's long-ago incestuous affair with his smart but impressionable younger sister, Emily, Arthur writes a memoir in defense of his life, coming to terms with his shattered sense of self, his skewed political ideals, and the crumbling...

Tom Pistilini has just discovered he’s an unwitting investor in a macabre tourism company bringing wealthy European sightseers obsessed with America’s murder culture to explore mass shooting sites. It’s a business that will make him wealthy, although he might just despise it enough to ruin his...

Charleston Sutterfeld does what people do: shows up to work, tends to assigned tasks, avoids conflict and complication. Sure, he occasionally ponders whether a personal greatness might exist somewhere inside of him - as anyone, he presumes, might naturally wonder. But his life seldom offers occasion...