Mp imprint: 249 books

John Vincent Dolan is a talented young forger with a proclivity for mathematics and drug addiction. In the face of his impending institutionalization, he continually reinvents himself to escape the legal and mental health authorities and to save himself from a life of incarceration. But running turns...

This collection of thirty Southern writers gathers some of the finest authors in the country — with stories, essays, and a poem. Demonstrating a range of styles, topics, and themes these stories display each writers craftsmanship and talent and together form a testament to the grand literary tradition of the South.

Like the parlor chorus of conversation at a Southern family reunion, the voices in the 'Stories from the Blue Moon Café II' anthology are loud, or they are soft. They are crazy, but not asked to be quiet: “Go ahead, Uncle Ralph, where was it they landed?” And no one laughs. Or they do, and somebody...

The gripping, behind-the-scenes, true account of a critical time in modern history, brought to new life through the portraits of three remarkable men at its core. The history of the Second World War is typically told through its decisive battles and campaigns.

From their experience in theater, Tanya Taylor and Pamela Thompson know the power of dramatic monologues. Each of them also knows firsthand the tremendous impact cancer has on individuals and their families. Taylor and Thompson realized they had something to offer that wasn't available in treatment centers...

The Anomalies' is the story of five quirky nonconformists who come together to make rock music in their small Midwestern town primarily inhabited by tiny-minded, walking stereotypes. Twenty-four-year-old Luster, who lives in the ghetto with his crack-dealing brothers, wants the ultimate form of the American...

“Praying is not enough — better put it in writing!” Bong Bong Luwad is living with his selfish Auntie Yuna in L.A., far from his Philippine village, the Marcos regime, and his mother who helped him escape. Bong Bong spends his nights watching old movies on TV, while Auntie Yuna writes pleading...

A beautifully written epic novel about one womans search to recapture a sense of home in a complicated and violent world.Two years after her fathers brutal murder, Veronica returns to her hometown to decide whether to sell her familys coffee farm.In her abandoned home she stumbles upon her teen journal,...

A small book that tackles one of lifes great mysteries: where does fate end and coincidence begin? Fifty-five million years ago, a sudden burst of lightning frightened a herd of small prehistoric horses. In the ensuing panic, one of the horses, a five-year-old mare no bigger than a fox terrier, fell...

Available for the first time in three separate volumes, 'To the Edge of the World' is a seafaring adventure in the tradition of Patrick OBrian, chartering the lives of Captain Robert FitzRoy and Charles Darwin, their friendship, and the historical voyage that ultimately drove them apart. In 1831, FitzRoy...

Hidden forces are willing to kill any and all who stand in the way of untold billions.  To toss the authorities off track, they borrow the modus operandi of a brutal serial killer — 'The Chessman' — who stalked the corridors of power in Washington, D.C. some years earlier.  The ruse is working...

Rich in metaphor, written in spare but powerful prose, 'Surveyor' is a poignant novel about two old friends, their magical and mysterious desert home, and archaeology of friendship.

The magnificent Ghosthead Oak has stood watch over coastal Alabamas mysterious backwater bays and slow-running rivers, where bull alligators rumble the nerves of lesser creatures and every living thing has the capacity to kill, for five hundred years. Some say the fabled giant tree was once a knee-high...

We are a nation of consumers. But where does what we buy come from? And how are these things made? In this meditation on manufacture, Susan Neville journeys to factories and plants in the heart of Indiana, looking for the sources of things.