Ed Park: 17 books

In an unnamed New York-based company, the employees are getting restless as everything around them unravels. There’s Pru, the former grad student turned spreadsheet drone; Laars, the hysteric whose work anxiety stalks him in his tooth-grinding dreams; and Jack II, who distributes unwanted backrubs–aka...

“Offbeat, disturbing, and sometimes darkly comical” crime stories set in upstate New York by Joyce Carol Oates, Lawrence Block, S.J. Rozan, and more (Kirkus Reviews).   Buffalo is still the second-largest metropolis in New York State, but in recent years its designation as the Queen City has...

What if everything you think you know about getting older and staying healthy is wrong? Ed Park, M.D., offers the revolutionary idea that disease and aging in humans all arises from a single source: genetic errors caused by shortening of telomeres, or the sequences of DNA at the ends of our chromosomes....

The crime fiction canopy's a broad one, with room to give shelter to writing of all sorts, as editor Lawrence Block shows with At Home in the Dark: "Some of these stories have one or both feet planted in another genre. James Reasoner's story is a period western, Joe Lansdale's is bleakly dystopian,...

A surreal vision of a post-alien-invasion Earth where human beings still have to deal with quotidien frustrations, ennui, and understanding their place in the world. Since the mid-1980s, the British cartoonist Chris Reynolds has been assembling a world all his own. On the surface, it seems...

Bullying prevention starts with helping young children understand and accept diversity—the earlier the better. That's why your school team needs this ready-to-use resource, a simple, fun, and effective way to promote social acceptance in the critical early years of attitude development. Perfect...

A private investigator is hired to investigate the Path of God Ministry, a fast-growing, non-denominational cult in search of a missing woman named Xan. Cult leader Dan Booker seems to possess an uncanny ability to locate missing bodies making people wonder if he knows or even is the killer. Coincidentally,...

2018 Edition: Some might argue that travel guides are history. I agree, and that is why this is not your traditional travel guide. Over half this book covers the fun and exciting dining and nightlife scene of Reno. In addition to covering the traditional travel guide basics, it covers one of the greatest...

Never before in human history, or for that matter, nature has a species dated not for reproductive purposes but for recreation, pleasure, status, or economic reasons. Increasingly, especially with Millennials, dating has become more casual, complicated, and contrived. Instead of beating your head...

Keno in Reno is a story about a San Francisco college grad stuck in the 90’s California Recession who decides to move to Reno, Nevada looking for work. He finds work, but he also encounters a whole menagerie of wild, crazy experiences involving casinos, bars, booze, guns, drugs, strippers, prostitutes,...

4th in the Bill Keane series, we find Bill a career bureaucrat pondering retirement when once again the psychotic ruling class comes knocking on his door to unburden him from the banality and middling mediocrity of a cushy government job and send him at light speed through the intrigues of ruling...

Bill Keane is hired to investigate a company called Pacific Clarity working on artificial intelligence in Las Vegas. His employer, Richard Hall wants to know if it’s worthy of investing billions or simply a scam. Throughout his investigations, Bill himself must wonder, is he onto the greatest invention...

CDO is the sequel to eGo: A Dot-Com Bubble Story. After surviving the adventures of the Dot-com Bubble and Crash in Reno, Nevada, Bill becomes a Collateralized Debt Obligations salesperson in New York City. He enters the bafflingly complex and shadowy world of financial engineering selling what appear...

eGo is a story about Bill Keane, a recent college grad who turns into a disillusioned temp worker during the 90’s Recession in San Francisco. He moves to Reno, Nevada and discovers eGo, a fast-growing dot-com company. There he encounters a demanding, bipolar, paranoid boss who is then upstaged by...