Mp imprint: 249 books

Benjamin Franklin Pinkerton — the faithless young naval lieutenant who abandons Madam Butterfly — was glimpsed fleetingly in Peter Rushforths previous novel, 'Pinkertons Sister'. Now Ben steps out of the shadows and into the center of the stage, a young man haunted by the desolation of his boyhood...

Pearl Starling is forty-five, a hermit with a 'colorful past' — a past filled with treachery and desire, death and survival — who makes her living weaving rugs in a North Carolina military town. For years she has been an object of curiosity and scorn, and now she has defied the societys conventions...

Bite the Stars' is the US debut of the gifted Canadian author Eliza Clark. Writing with a trademark use of rhythmic language and cinematic detail, 'Bite the Stars' is a mesmerizing story of the whirlwind forces of nature and the ravages — and glory — of love. In a uniquely personal voice, Grace Larson...

Fallen from grace and shunned by respectable society, Bobby Long is joyously content drowning his past in cheap hooch and bedding any woman with low standards and high tolerance. His partner, an unproductive writer named Byron Burns, is happy to join him for the long ride down. Their distant salvation...

After years of frustrating fertility problems, Ellen and Eric Sommers are delighted when they find they are expecting their first child. Their friends and family share their joy, but a stranger also revels in the news. Frank Mallory suffered his own frustrations in his attempts to become a family man and believes his destiny is to create a family by whatever means necessary, including murder.

The intricate tale of honor, treachery, power, and intrigue recounts the dynastic battle between the Lancastrians and the Yorkists during the fifteenth-century War of the Roses. A master storyteller, David Falconieri, plunges readers into the early years of Edward IVs reign as the bitter struggle for...

Tom Freshour needs a vacation. It's the dusty, hot summer of 1934, and he'd like to escape both the heat in western Arkansas and his cases at the county prosecutor's office for the calm and solitude of a fishing trip. But his old Ford won't start, and while it's being repaired, an eccentric and enigmatic collector of Indian artifacts is brutally murdered.

A wealthy, erudite, middle-aged loner in search of anonymity settles in the aptly named midwestern town of Oblivion and is swiftly drawn into the town's persistent local mysteries in this idiosyncratic, rather beguiling debut novel. The newcomer is, by any standards, peculiar: He repeatedly changes his...

In this enchanting debut, a young girl faces the secrets buried in the mud-rich, rain-soaked landscape of her mothers childhood. When fourteen-year-old Allies mother, Mae, mysteriously disappears in the dark waters of the harbor, Allie is taken by Julia — an aunt she barely knows — to stay at the...

Phoebe is an artist making very little money designing wine labels for a winery in Sonoma. Her house is in foreclosure, she's divorced, turning forty, and beleaguered on every front. Enter Marc Chagall s ghost, visible only to her, who appears to help her retrieve one of his own paintings that Phoebe...

After twenty years of marriage, Mary Jude has had enough of Benjamin. “A thousand Benjamins couldnt make me happy,” she says. Lost in the monotony of daily life and the undertow of memories, Benjamin meets Kim, a woman eighteen years his junior who bears a sadness in her green eyes that is connected...

Owen McBride stands with his feet in two worlds. Is he a 'Traveller' — the ancient class of proud but downtrodden wayward gypsies living on the side of the road — or a 'Gorgio' — an average citizen with middle-class aspirations, clean fingernails, and no fear of the law. His marriage-minded Gorgio...

Leonard Mooney hits what many might consider the fantasy jackpot: inheriting a deserted tropical island and a chance at a fresh life. Armed with time, scenery, and a healthy ration of rum, Mooney wrestles the ghosts who follow him, amuse him, hector him. Dark and comic, 'Mooney in Flight' follows a disaffected,...

The story of four damaged girls who love and avenge one another in the playground of New Yorks Korea-town. Reminiscent of Jeffrey Eugenidess 'The Virgin Suicides' and Joyce Carol Oatess 'Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang', 'The Queens of K-town' introduces us to twenty-six-year-old Cora Moon. She returns...