Rare Bird Books: 181 books

Ray Goldman will outdrink you, out-party you and, unfortunately for him, probably outlive you. As a hopeless and struggling indie rock musician, Ray's best chance of discovering any beauty and purpose in his dysfunctional life will come only when he ceases to struggle against life itself. These are his...

When the notorious necromancer, Maecidion, dies, the reading of his will goes awry. Powerful heirlooms are given to rivals of the deceased’s kin, Irion, who are no strangers to black magic. Soon, Irion embarks on a bitter quest to retrieve what should rightfully be his. Tinged with traces...

In Black Dahlia Avenger III bestselling author and veteran LAPD homicide detective Steve Hodel presents his four-year follow-up investigation into Los Angeles's 1947 Black Dahlia murder and other serially connected 1940s Lone Woman Murders. This edition includes ten new chapters with all new...

Brett Tanager is the writer/producer of a hit TV detective show until the mistakes of one dreadful night send her life skidding out of control into a downward spiral that takes her job, family, savings and self-respect.At her lowest ebb she is approached by Julia, her sixteen-year-old former stepdaughter...

The healthcare industry has a solution, at its fingertips, to some of its most intractable problems-but it still hasn’t grasped that solution.Its most dominant market segment consists of customers and end users who share needs that cut across health condition, age, ethnicity, nationality, education,...

Eric McCanus is a novelist with the misfortune of having written his one great book when he was young. Struggling to write more, recently divorced, while still missing his ex-wife, Eric becomes convinced that happy relationships are unsustainable. Determined to prove the accuracy of his theory, Eric...

Buffy’s your typical cosplaying, retro-gaming, con-going geek girl, but as her high school graduation approaches, she finds she has an unwelcome guest in her mind: the text parser.Narrating her life like it’s a classic adventure game (cough Zork cough), the text parser forces her to interact with...

“Nina was a thief, technically, although she never defined herself that way. Stealing was sponsorship. Fighting was the passion.”Street-fighter Nina Black lives by her fists in Denver, stealing wallets and taking advantage of men who try to take advantage of her. This symbiosis is upended when one...

Cascade Falls explores the failed promise of the American Dream. Raised to believe that with hard work, anything is possible, a staggering number of Americans hate their jobs and see little chance of ever escaping the grind. In his tragicomic followup to the laugh-ridden Elevating Overman, Bruce Ferber...

The highly anticipated follow-up to SW Lauden's Bad Citizen Corporation, former Los Angeles police officer Greg Salem and his sidekick Marco escape to a remote cabin in the backend of the Angeles National Forest, only to have their peaceful retreat upturned after stumbling across the marijuana farm...

Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University His novel The Quick sold over 10k copies Former editor for Rolling Stone Was a teacher for Ava DuVernay, director of Selma, who may blurb the book Similar to Blade Runner (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?) and Inherent Vice Genre fiction that's written like literary fiction

Corporate recruiters and employers tend to perceive Millennials as a major flight risk, not worth investing in because they’ll be out the door in a year or two. Yet our data reveals this stereotype to be grossly misapplied. While Millennials with a financial safety net are far more likely than those...

Peter Leonard is the son of the late Elmore Leonard This is a continuation of the Elmore Leonard character Raylan The Raylan stories are the basis for the TV series Justified starring Timothy Olyphant We are working to get blurbs from some of Elmore's famous fans—Stephen King...

Punk Elegies arrives like a chemically unstable mixture of Richard Yates and Damon Runyon. Set along Hollywood Boulevard at the birth of punk and the death of the 1970s, the thirty-three melancholic, comic laments of Punk Elegies are a mesmerizing concoction of delusion and revelation. A cultural moment,...