Roadswell Editions: 30 books

"Fascinating . . . laugh-aloud funny." - The Los Angeles Times In December of 1968, Phyllis Raphael landed in London as the restless wife of a Hollywood movie producer. With their three young children in tow from L.A., she was prepared for a London vacation on MGM's dime while...

A short story about waiting and believing — but mostly waiting — by the New York Times bestselling author of Eleanor & Park, Fangirl and Carry On. All proceeds go to the ACLU Foundation.   When Elena decided to camp out for the next Star Wars movie,...

In her mesmerizing novel, Kink, Kathe Koja explores the many dazzling facets of obsession - intellectual, emotional, and sexual - created and refracted by the ever-changing dynamics of a three-way relationship between a man and two women. Set in a gritty downtown urban milieu of late-night clubs...

"Koja can pack a lot Dickensian humor into a sentence."—The Plain Dealer Under the Poppy is a brothel owned by Decca and Rupert. Decca is in love with Rupert but he in turn is in love with her brother, Istvan. When Istvan comes back to town, louche puppet troupe in tow, the lines...

"We’re pursued by no one, now." Having fled their comfortably dangerous brothel-and-theater known as the Poppy, Rupert and Istvan have traveled far to land in a city of sepia and silver, where they make new allies and settle old grudges. Ancient families clash with municipal thugs...

How many lives they have lived, if only for a night! Puppets and peril, lonely streets and glittering salons—Rupert and Istvan have played through it all, and sought to make the road their lasting home. But that road winds through the past—including the brothel called the Rose and Poppy—while...

Still reeling from his divorce, would-be painter Austen takes a fall in a 7-Eleven parking lot that leaves him with brain damage and strange visions, a madness that sends him on a cross-country odyssey of debauchery and pain. Kathe Koja’s books include The Mercury Waltz, Under the Poppy,...

Two complete YA novels by Kathe Koja KISSING THE BEE Senior year is flying by, the prom is approaching, and Dana, her best friend, Avra, and Avra's boyfriend, Emil, are about to encounter the pains and pleasures of that intricate beehive called adult life. While Dana plans on college,...

Two complete young adult novels by Kathe Koja, including Straydog, winner of the ASPCA's Henry Bergh Award and the Humane Societies KIND Children's Book Award, and the lush, dark fantasy, The Blue Mirror   STRAYDOG Rachel is happiest when she's volunteering at the animal shelter,...

Three lives. One man. Christopher Marlowe was the first rock star poet, a spy, an atheist, a gay rebel whose controversial plays thrilled audiences and challenged the government. CHRISTOPHER WILD is Kathe Koja’s new novel, a daring remix of eras—the glitter and threat of Elizabethan...

Two young adult novels from award-winner Kathe Koja TALK Kit Webster is hiding a secret. Carma, his best friend, has already figured it out, and pushes him to audition for the high school play, Talk. When he's cast as the male lead, he expects to escape his own life for a while and become a different...

How can a madman fall in love? "I will marry you," Perdita Halley said to Alexander von Reisden at eighteen, "but not until I study music." Now, at twenty-one, she has come to Paris, his city--but music still stands between them. She is pursuing her dream of becoming a concert...

"A well-researched history of virginity . . . In an era marked by a 'chaotic maelstrom of virginities,' Blank's book is a useful . . . antidote to our confusion." - The New York Times Book Review VIRGIN: The Untouched History is a fascinating and wholly original look at the history...

"I consider every moment of my life spent unaware of the existence of novelist Tama Janowitz a complete and utter waste of consciousness...I would build a city of pearl and onyx for Tama Janowitz with my own raw and useless hands." -- Mallory Ortberg, The Toast From the bestselling author of Slaves...