Mp imprint: 249 books

In the tradition of 'The Hours' and 'The Master', 'The Jungle Law' offers a glimpse into the life of Rudyard Kipling, author of the beloved classic, 'The Jungle Book'. In 1892, at the age of twenty-six, Rudyard Kipling arrived in Vermont, virtually penniless, with a newly pregnant wife and the gem of...

From the author of 'The Locklear Letters' comes 'Corrections to My Memoirs', a collection of humorous stories filled with offbeat characters who are slowly learning the truth about the world: that the difference between perception and reality is often more significant than they would like to admit.

Caitlin Gray has come to remote Alabaster Island to escape her troubled family life, which is falling apart because of her husbands affair and a horrific car accident. She meets Freddy Orcutt, an old-time islander who embraces her as a daughter, and Ozalik Mosely, a Native American who is trying to preserve...

Jerusalem lies at the end of an ancient Roman road, a city swathed in light and sorrow. Coming to Jerusalem to fulfill her grandfather's dying wish, Eve Cavell finds herself poised on the seam of three worlds — Muslim, Christian, and Jewish. Inspired rather than frightened by the ghosts and warring...

In a moving retelling of 'Hansel and Gretel', a woman is murdered during a terrorist attack, leaving her three sons in the care of their grandmother, Lilli. As the four prepare to celebrate Christmas without her, Lilli is drawn into a lonely world of memories, forced to confront the horrors of the Nazi...

A smart, sexy debut about a young woman coming to terms with a life she hadnt planned. After being dumped by her boyfriend, Jane quits her job in New York City, drives west, and lands in Salt Lake City, where she takes a job answering phones at a Mormon-endorsed escort agency. As Jane struggles to find...

While his parents shop for reconciliation in European furniture stores, 13-year-old Fish Becker is sent to spend the summer with Miles and Ariana Lambert. Ariana can't sleep for fear of who she'll be when she awakens, and Miles is touched, perhaps to a fault, by the romanticism we know first in our lives....

Bobby DuBois comes from a long line of misfits. Basically a good kid, he can t shake an inherited propensity for violence and drug abuse. When his father gets arrested it appears likely that Bobby, too, is headed into the system. Then Uncle Thaddeus rescues him and they take to the backwoods, managing...

Moby Dick for the blog generation. Cat food cannery worker Gus Openshaw has one goal in life: to kill a whale. Not just any whale, but a big, blubbery whale that ate his wife, child, and arm during a vicious and unprovoked attack. With a rickety boat and a heavily restrictive whale-hunting license, Gus...

Two thousand years in the future, the Moon has become a run down experiment in terra-forming and colonization with a dusty patina and a bright red sky. To sixteen-year-old Hieronymus Rexaphin, however, it is the only place he has ever known until he meets a girl from Earth called Windows Falling on Sparrows....

In her first novel since the acclaimed memoir 'The Toaster Broke, So Were Getting Married', Pamela Holm brings us a poignant, funny story about monogamy, motherhood, and the wonders of gardening. Dawn, an exterminator by day and an artist by night, and her charmingly morbid nine-year-old daughter, Jewel,...

A turn-of-the-century love story about a millionaire pornographer and a spiritualist medium. Set in New York City at the close of the nineteenth century, 'All Will Be Revealed' opens in the photography studio of Augustus Auerbach, a wheelchair-bound recluse whose only interest is his extraordinarily...

San Francisco, known to residents as simply The City, is one of the most beautiful and colorful cities in the world. So why is someone trying to burn it down? The question drives newspaper columnist Ed Rosenberg to delve into the unseemly world of city politics, kinky sex, and family secrets.The morning...

When I was younger, I wished I had been born in a concentration camp like my mother, instead of in boring Englewood Hospital. I used to imagine all the prisoners crying mutely with joy while my grandmother lay swallowing her screams so the guards wouldnt hear. So writes Deborah Gelb, the teenage daughter...