Lawrence: 583 books

KEPT. So you're unemployed, fresh off a construction crew in Albany, and standing on a Thruway ramp trying to thumb a ride, and a babe in a Cadillac convertible stops for you. Hey, these things happen. They never happened to me, but never mind. For you it's different. You're Mark Taggert...

You might be surprised to learn that back in 1961 Nightstand Books published an inquiry into the heartbreak of scoliosis, but—oh, hang on a minute. You say the title refers to characters who are not spinally but psychosexually bent? Oh. Well, never mind. Dave and Nancy Grantland look for...

FROM THE PREFACE: It’s like reaching into a teeming sea of language, scooping up a handful and seeing what’s there. Always there are surprises. We have ideas of our own about each search phrase, our own ways of completing the thought it begins; other people have other ways, contradicting...

With the evil empire under siege, Athuro Nava calls the Assembly of the Confederation to gather in the newly liberated city of Gemeno. There, he races against time to align the political interests of the nobles and clerics who have gathered, struggling to balance ideals with compromises to prevent...

I Remember December focuses on the bond between grandchild and grandparent, and the loneliness of losing someone very dear to your heart at a young age. This short story is based on true events from my childhood, as I remember them.

In the fall of 1976 I moved back to New York after a brief stretch in L.A. I got a small apartment on Bleecker and Sullivan, in Greenwich Village; my ex-wife and kids lived at Houston and Sixth, just a stone’s throw away if you were a major league right fielder. My daughter Alison had just turned...

Fifteen short stories ranging from every corner of my rather peculiar mind. From irate aliens to inept vampires. Is the world really as we believe it to be, or a figment of my imagination?

Three bored old men living in New Los Angeles want something to do. Nothing in their lives is interesting or even the slightest bit dangerous. After they discover a time machine buried in the remains of what used to be LA, all this changes. The man who built the machine is not overly impressed, either....

Can love alone save their child? It's a parents' worst nightmare.....standing helplessly by while your child lies in a hospital bed. How do you cope? How can you help? Mandy's life goes from idyllic to hopeless in a matter of seconds and she feels powerless to change it. She and her husband...

*No sheep were harmed or called Ron or Eddie in the writing of this book*  Embedded within these pages are tales of Eddie’s youthful antics and adventuring in the 1960s & 70s.  They may sometimes come across rather obliquely and irreverently.  However, Eddie’s not really a...

Jill Emerson, whose first three works were gentle explorations of the lesbian experience, took a sharp turn toward candor in THIRTY, her first book for Berkley. As I’ve explained in the book description for that novel, around the time Berkley came calling (via my agent) I’d become disenchanted...

Many languages adopt words from each other. There are quite a few words in Russian that are borrowed from English or from other European languages. Some of the words are pronounced almost the same as they are pronounced in English. Some words have some small differences in pronunciation, but you still...

A double homicide leads Detective Paul Friedman to discover the threat of an imminent terrorist attack on the city of Orlando, Florida. A young teen girl is found beheaded in the wreckage of what appears to be a freak accident. Friedman learns of The Perfect Day, a plot to strike terror into the hearts...

A call from a dying man reignites a fuse that has been smoldering for decades, and secrets long buried are about to be unearthed in this tale of fraud, conspiracy, and deception.  Recovering from the firefight of her life, a wounded Chloe Mather is dragged into an investigation she wants no...