Rare Bird Books: 181 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...

Their lives were centuries apart. Their spirit was one and the same. Desmond De Leon grows up in the outskirts of 1980s San Francisco, avoiding gangs, dodging bullets and caring nothing about the petty politics of his troubled part of town. He’s far too fascinated with the bloodier and bolder...

Ronald Colby was a producer for Francis Ford Coppola for his entire career Colby, Coppola, and Robert Duvall all moved to Los Angeles together from New York, when their first attempt at film production failed, Coppola and Duvall moved back to NY and raised more funds, when they came back to...

The apocalypse happened, but no one knows how. What’s left is a barren world ruled by a high-powered caste of bookies, The Odds. Scurrying around underneath is our hero, Eldridge-a big-hearted, bumbling drifter with an estranged family he loves dearly. He’s deep in debt and deathly sick, so he places...

All young men want to run away and join the circus. For Stanley Douglas, a naïve but determined young man, the closest he could find is The Maycliff. When Stanley takes the first real job in his life as a bellman at an historic mansion turned luxury inn on the majestic coast of Maine, he has...

Brother Stephen dies suddenly. That’s when things get complicated. Is Stephen’s death his wake-up call? This possibility slowly dawns on him. Soon, though, he is behind the wheel of a Prius, driving through his afterlife, listening to himself being interviewed on NPR. “It’s just like high school,...

Coverage in the Contra Costa Times Events all over the Bay Area and in Brooklyn Appearance at the Bay Area Book Festival Promotion to local media Promotion to online lit mags like Lit Hub and The Nervous Breakdown

‘‘They will use the flashing patrol light to force the sky-blue Honda to pull over—an old trick, but it often worked. They will manacle their captives and switch license plates. They will drive the four men back toward the dunes. In the first instance, there will be knives and bludgeons. Then...

"A perverse respectfulness compelled the demon within to acknowledge at the very last possible moment that it was about to take a human life."Every time he sees a commercial on TV, Lloyd kills someone. His randomness has thrown the law off his tracks and left a trail of broken lives in it's wake.Marty...

During his many years writing for publications such as LA Weekly, the Los Angeles Times, Slake, Surfer's Journal and more, Joe Donnelly has driven to Texas with Wes Anderson, shot pool with Sean Penn, surfed with Chris Malloy, sparred (verbally) with Christian Bale, gone on a date with Carmen Electra,...

A collection of eleven one-act plays. With hints of Samuel Beckett, Sam Shepard, Neil LaBute, and Tracy Letts, Scott Caan grapples with the emotional interiors of people in a fractured world. Whether writing about actors, lovers, or co-workers, Caan takes on the complicated tension between what we say...

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...

Set in ancient Rome, Your Caius Aquilla is composed of hilarious letters between a doting and brave but quite bumbling legionary and his beautiful, zaftig wife, Lora. While Caius fights barbarians (and fights off—often unsuccessfully—homosexual feelings for his fellow soldiers), Lora cossets her...

Enver Eleven is twenty-five years old and ready for adventure. He’s the Agency’s newest recruit, eager to leap through his first gate into an unfamiliar time. In Enver’s home city of Johannesburg, fair-skinned people are a rarity and have been for centuries. The people of Johannesburg...