New Libri Press: 12 books

Did your aunt ever get drunk at the holidays and call everyone in your family motherf***rs? If so, you will love this book. If not, you will especially love this book. Meet the Applewhites in the 80s, a clan of Brits transplanted to New York City. Reebee, a fat seven year old with a penchant...

The new growth industry: kidnapping. The shovel ready job: murder. The secret history of the modern world: The Foolchild Invention. Welcome to a world of fantasy called present day America. Economic meltdown, the death a nation as a meaningful entity and the existential confrontation with...

"My mother gave birth to me because she wanted someone to fix her a sandwich." From the first sentence you know that Valentine's life is different. At age twenty-four Valentine has never met her father, Ray.Now he asks to return to her North Carolina home so that he can meet her...

The five families of Katar have ruled The Cites for thousands of years.  Disobedience is punishable by complete draining of all of your ka, your life force, leading to true death. When the Tarth, daemons of legend that the Katar banished five thousand years ago, return, the rebellion...

Jimmy Parker has one major problem in his life. High school. It only gets more complicated when a mysterious female classmate with a special gift enters his life. Jimmy finds out quickly that a simple touch of her hand allows her unwanted clairvoyance into his most sacred thoughts....

BECCA REESE is just trying to get through her senior year of high school and accepted into college before her Career at Carvel nightmare becomes a reality.  She’s a shoe-in for a spot at one of the Ivies – at least that’s the general consensus for a Brainic like Becca.  She tries not...

Myra Benning gazes across the meadow to the sea and the Santa Barbara Channel Islands beyond, unbelieving that she, awkward daughter of the Minnesota prairie, could have ended up in such a place—and with a successful husband and two golden children to boot. Little does she know, her golden world...

14-year-old James Nemo spent most of his youth motherless and under the thumb of a father who hates him. These injustices he quickly forgets, however, in the arms of a beautiful young prostitute named Nelly. Reality conspires against the young lovers, and James is left, alone and angry, to confront...

The Dempsey family takes dysfunctional seriously. The mother has been AWOL for 8 years, 4 months and 18 days, but who’s counting? The father gets up to something of a highly secret nature, details of  which are a bit sketchy at present but possibly a bit kinky, which is detrimental to his hygiene...

Vivian Blue has always been a little different. But she had no idea how different, until Hatch Lancaster, Dragonkind’s bad boy, enters her life on a secret mission. Within a short time, Hatch is her boss, her friend, and a man who haunts her heart and her dreams. And everything Blue has known and...

Raised in Chicago’s Latino working class community during the Sixties, Alicia Barron uncovers her mother’s Caucasian roots when she inherits a time-worn mansion, the remnant of the estate of a Chicago industrialist who, she discovers, is her grandfather. Her search of the house takes her into...

We had run out of small talk. The old rowboat held us up, kept us dry, soothed and dissolved, in its slow revolutions, Tess’s fear of the water and my misgivings … So begins One Who Loves, a novel about the extraordinary conflicts that impinge on seemingly ordinary lives. Liz—passionate...