Rare Bird Books: 181 books
No Joy
A Recon Marine's Tales of (Self) Destruction
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
"Going to war was a finite window to touch the vanquished barbaric world modern reality has so woefully blighted out."Joining the Marines in 2002, David Rose signed up to go fight ... and to go die. On this grim path, rather than finding a violent death, he would find family, purpose, and a brotherhood...
by Joseph Di Prisco
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
Joseph Di Prisco’s latest memoir brings back to life the hustler, gambler, criminal, bookmaker, and confidential informer who was his father. On the street they called him Pope, and he made his bones in Brooklyn during the ’50s and ’60s. Di Prisco discovered by accident fifty-year-old transcripts...
Heavy
A Memoir of Wyoming, BMX, Drugs, and Heavy Fucking Music
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
In twenty heavy chapters, this book chronicles Anselmi's experiences growing up as a straight edge, BMX-riding metal head in Rock Springs, Wyoming, a place with one of the highest per capita suicide rates in the United States. His grandpa was a well-known businessman and politician in the area, and was...
Doing Time Like A Spy
How the CIA Taught Me to Survive and Thrive in Prison
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
On February 28, 2013, after pleading guilty to violating the Intelligence Identities Protection Act, John Kiriakou began serving a thirty month prison sentence. His crime: blowing the whistle on the CIA's use of torture on Al Qaeda prisoners.
Doing Time Like A Spy is Kiriakou's memoir of his...
Adapt or Wait Tables
A Freelancer's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
Inability to adapt is the new illiteracy and freelancing is becoming America’s new normal. What 2008 taught America was not just that derivatives are dangerous and the housing market doesn’t rise forever. It also taught us that survival requires juggling and pivoting, two skills that any freelancer...
Bad Sex On Speed
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
Bad Sex On Speed is a savage, careening, hyper-real nightmare of a novel, taking us to the depths of Amphetamine America. Told with no concession to traditional narrative, in the voices of those in the grips and on the fringes, the stories that emerge are at once devastating, hysterical, and-perhaps...
Notes to Boys
And Other Things I Shouldn't Share in Public
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2013
Notes to Boys: And Other Things I Shouldn't Share in Public is a "mortifying memoir" from bestselling author and tv/film writer Pamela Ribon. Miserably trapped in small town Texas with no invention of the internet in sight, Ribon spent countless hours of her high school years writing letters...
In the Shadow of the White House
A Memoir of the Washington and Watergate Years, 1968-1978
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
For her first forty years, Jo Haldeman’s life followed a conventional path. While her husband, Bob, built his career in advertising, Jo comfortably settled into her role as mother of four, housewife, and community volunteer.
In 1968, Jo’s world changed dramatically. Richard Nixon was elected...
Ambition in Black + White
The Feminist Narrative Revised
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
What do women want? Black women and white aspire to excel, empower others, and earn well in their careers, but confront different hurdles in pursuit of these goals, as they have started the race from different gates. Progress for all women, we posit, depends on first recognizing their differences. In...
Insincerely Yours
Letters from a Prankster
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
When eternal prankster Bernard Radfar created a make-believe character, Mark Black,” a filthy rich eccentric with some highly unusual needs, he had no idea that Mark’s” letters requesting bizarre services would actually bring him responses! Mark” tended to expect a lot-after all, the richest...
by Douglas Light
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
**We're born with a finite number of opportunities. Attrition, bad choices, misspent goodwill, and fucked-up luck. The opportunities dwindle through a process called living. Our portfolio of prospects turns into a tattered novel of outcomes.
I am twenty-two.**
Orphaned by a brutal car...
The Complete A**hole Dad
Random Musings of an Inappropriate Parent
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Dan Indante is a bitter, vindictive attorney most famous for writing the seminal relationship book The Complete A**hole's Guide To Handling Chicks, quite possibly the most offensive work in the history of American literature. Now, still lacking any sense of maturity but beholden to two kids and a wife,...
Hang Time
A Greg Salem Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
Touring in a band is murder. Or is it suicide? After narrowly surviving a hellish season with a murderous drug kingpin, Greg Salem and his sidekick/drummer are back at home in The Bay Cities. A tour looms for their infamous punk band, Bad Citizen Corporation, but first Salem & Associates must...
Bad Citizen Corporation
A Greg Salem Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
An East Los Angeles police officer by day and a beach cities punk rock legend by night, Salem is forced into action when his two worlds violently collide. The search for his friend’s murderer takes him on a treacherous journey through the murky waters of his hometown, forcing him to explore the...