Rare Bird Books: 181 books
Experimental O'Neill
The Hairy Ape, The Emperor Jones, and The S.S. Glencairn One-Act Plays
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2015
Experimental O'Neill compiles in a single volume six of Eugene O'Neill's early plays: The Hairy Ape, The Emperor Jones, and what are often referred to as The S.S. Glencairn Plays,” four related one-acts. With extensive companion essays and critical analysis, this indispensable volume brings together...
The Vicodin Thieves
Biopsying L.A.'s Grifters, Gloryhounds, and Goliaths
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2013
Investigative reporter Chip Jacobs goes deep into some of his most compelling journalism pieces of the last three decades with his signature spotlight on strange corruption, seedy individuals, megalomaniacs, bright ideas, and transgressive game-changers. Featuring in-depth and expanded stories previously...
by Kevin Wilson, Antoine Wilson, Sofiya Alexandra
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
"A large portion of this money, we of course have now learned, was put toward the scientific enterprise of discovering a new planet in the solar system and then, no other way to describe it, blowing it up."
A fun and poignant collection of real reviews of fake movies by some of today's...
by Luke Davies
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2014
I will fly at last. I will unfold my wings. I will unpack my head. I will step back outside. One day I may even make love again. But one thing at a time. Let's not get ahead of ourselves. Film mogul, aviator, addict, inventor, visionary, recluse, serial womanizer, and political meddler: Howard Hughes...
by James Glickman
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Based closely on the known historical record, Crossing Point brings to life the American Revolution in all of its bloody detail.When the Revolutionary War begins, Guy Watson is a slave to the Hazzard family in Rhode Island, but he is soon engaged in service for the American army by Samuel Ward, head...
Weather to Fly
A Novel in Stories
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
Weather to Fly is a collection of adventure stories, tall tales in the great American tradition. Inspired equally by Mark Twain, Amelia Earhart, Pancho Barnes, and P. T. Barnum, they are war stories, ghost stories, and love stories. There's a World War II warbird that may or may not have a soul or a...
Most Evil II
Presenting the Follow-Up Investigation and Decryption of the 1970 Zodiac Cipher in which the San Francisco Serial Killer Reveals his True Identity
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Most Evil II is Steve Hodel's follow-up investigation (2009-2015) into his father's potential murders and introduces new evidence and additional linkage obtained by him over the past six years.Included in that evidence, is the solving of the Zodiac’s forty-five year cryptic cipher, which gives us the...
Shrink Thyself
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2014
In Shrink Thyself, Charlie Traub decides to leave psychotherapy and live the unexamined life. A noble goal, which would be even more noble if his former therapist (now his friend) didn't turn out to be beyond inappropriate and his mother didn't die in a way that would have made Freud transfer to dental...
From Sand and Time
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2017
The first official poetry installment in David Rose’s unique blend of tenderness and morbidity, From Sand and Time engages a cataclysmic self-reflection coming with the complexities, times, and demands of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. An evocative collection of rhyme and free verse, From Sand...
by Maxwell Neely-Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2014
A dextrous novel centered around the current generation of American teenagers coming of age in a networked world highly conscious of violence and the apocalyptic, Echo of the Boom is literary fiction about the Call of Duty and The Hunger Games generation. While the narrative spans the globe and jumps...
by Sean McDaniel
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2016
Like millions of children, Samuel Bradbury comes from a broken home. Yet he still enjoys the everyday activities of being a kid: playing basketball, shooting his air rifle, and hanging out. Something else, however, exists inside Samuel-something that sets him apart from other children. He enjoys killing.Samuel's...
by Jon Methven
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Jon Methven’s Strange Boat is the story of Danders Wake, a man raising money to build a new planet. The current world is evolving him out-of his home, his job, his religion, his marriage, his sexuality, even his dream of inventing the world’s first pay-for-toilet business, known as Swanktrines. As...
Burn My Shadow
A Selective Memory of an X-Rated Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
Burn My Shadow follows the porn career of Tyler Knight, a black porn star who stars mainly in porn for couples. A star that breaks all stereotypes and barriers, Knight's story is one of race and sexuality that pushes the boundaries of what is thought of porn and porn stars. Tyler Knight is a one of a kind star, and this is his story.
Love, or the Witches of Windward Circle
A Horror Farce
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2015
Venice, CaliforniaHome to the broken, the dispossessed, and other scary folk.In our prayers, we mispronounce the words of the paternoster; we curse the womb of the anomalous woman; we deny Christ and the Eucharist, and we praise Pilate’s decision every Friday. Instead of fasting during Lent, we offer...