Blackbird Books: 14 books

I Prefer Girls makes its triumphant return! One of the true classics of the golden age of lesbian pulp fiction is back, complete with its captivating Robert Maguire cover and a window in on Greenwich Village, circa 1963. Long out of print, I Prefer Girls has been a favorite of collectors for years and is now available in this new edition from Blackbird Books.

Hurricane Sandy . . . Meet Hurricane Sandy! The hurricane may have hit New York City in 2012, but the melodrama is all Southern, straight from the banks of the Mississippi, in John B. Thompson’s 1953 pulp classic, Sandy. Blackbird Books is pleased to reissue Sandy as an eBook-only special,...

Donald Westlake's nearly forgotten pulp sleaze classic, Man Hungry, is actually one of his first published novels, a 1959 literary take on the genre, complete with lesbians, prostitutes, a swinging college campus, and a washed-up writer-turned-writing professor who's been unable to reprise the success...

New York, 1960...   Take one lesbian editor, well-done, add one sexually curious intern, and one all-man co-editor. Mix thoroughly at a posh Park Avenue women's magazine, and you have another Donald Westlake classic. Cast in the mold of Mad Men with Madison Avenue advertising...

For as long as the written word has existed, the Five Books of Moses has had the power to summon our unique and diverse voices. Its words have the power to stir our minds, our hearts, and our souls. Thousands of years after it was first recorded, we still find our lives reflected in its words and...

Orrie Hitt's 1954 pulp classic is back and better than ever in a brand new acid-free trade paperback still sporting its original Walter Popp cover. From the original: Johnny Reagan quickly learned the slum's depraved rules for survival. At six, he was a petty thief. At twelve, he was a procurer....

The second in a series of noir romance “Blues” novellas, Brick City Blues centers on a chance meeting between two strangers on an airport layover in Newark, New Jersey—the Brick City. She’s shuttling between her teaching job at Cornell and a research project in DC; he’s on his way to deliver...

In a land of unrelenting turmoil, in a city that's been laid siege by Mongols, Huns, Turks, Tartars, Germans, and Russians, a cop from Brooklyn joins the chase for a notebook with a mathematical formula that could turn the world on its head.

Back in print for the first time in fifty years, this classic Donald Westlake bio of Elizabeth Taylor (written as John B. Allan) gives a fascinating look at the life of America’s most talented actress on the cusp of her greatest role, as well as a glimpse of a Hollywood long gone. A fun,...

Dawn breaks, and Emily Williams awakens, hungover and alone in an unfamiliar park. A crazy night with too much to drink and not enough self-control. But, as she soon discovers, she’s not quite alone.   A drunken hookup . . . A night in the park . . . And now he’s dead, and she can’t remember.   What’s a girl to do?

A Wall Street felon serving his sentence at New York's Rikers Island Prison, Sterling Walsh desperately needs to set his life straight. But he gets more than he bargained for when he accepts an FBI offer to infiltrate a Muslim sleeper cell. Set in the dark corners of New York City's five boroughs, Hart Island is a soul-stirring tale of revenge and redemption.

She was the homecoming queen and a college basketball star, but she’s out of college now, living the California life, with her boyfriend, a bunch of roommates, and that Santa Monica sun. He’s got no job, no girlfriend, and no prospects. As their paths cross, they each begin to wonder...

When a traveling saleswoman begins an affair with her road partner, there’s more at stake than just her marriage. Or his. For anyone who has ever sung the blues, this short romance with a musical twist will pull you in and leave you wanting more.

The world erupts in an epidemic of mass insanity, and the only person who can stop it is an unstable rogue hacker. A renegade to the core, she can’t do it alone this time—this time she needs the help of a straight-and-narrow but hardened New York cop. Can they stay alive for long enough...