Unbridled Books: 96 books

Cover of The Descent of Man
by Kevin Desinger
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011

One night Jim, a quiet wine steward, wakes to find two men trying to steal his car. Against the petitions of his wife, he goes outside to get the plate number of the thieves’ truck. Instead, something comes over him and he drives away in their truck until he recovers his wits and realizes what he’s...
Cover of Ad In Ad Out: Collected Tennis Articles of Michael Mewshaw 1982-2015
by Michael Mewshaw
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016

For the past thirty-five years Michael Mewshaw has covered pro tennis with a novelist’s sense of style, a travel writer’s feeling for place and an investigative reporter’s commitment to unearthing the truth. Like Short Circuit, his description of life on the men’s tour – the New York Times hailed...
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by Ed Falco
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2012

Recently, Grand Central Publishing announced plans for a prequal to Mario Puzo's The Godfather, to be written by our very own Ed Falco - of whom the New York Times Book Review noted, "There is in Mr. Falco's fiction a little of Raymond Carver's sensitivity to the menace of the everyday, and a lot of...
Cover of Safe from the Sea
by Peter Geye
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2009

Set against the powerful lakeshore landscape of northern Minnesota, Safe from the Sea is a heartfelt novel in which a son returns home to reconnect with his estranged and dying father thirty-five years after the tragic wreck of a Great Lakes ore boat that the father only partially survived and that has...
Cover of Cranioklepty
by Colin Dickey
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009

The after-death stories of Franz Joseph Haydn, Ludwig Beethoven, Swedenborg, Sir Thomas Browne and many others have never before been told in such detail and vividness.Fully illustrated with some surprising images, this is a fascinating and authoritative history of ideas carried along on the guilty pleasures...
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by Lamar Herrin
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2006

Does a man fall in love with a country first or the woman he finds there?And which love is finally the greatest?In this elegant account of his falling for the Spanish woman he married 30 years ago, Lamar Herrin opens his heart, his natural skepticism, and an American’s awe of history to a complex nation...
Cover of If You Could See Me Now
by Michael Mewshaw
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2014

When Michael Mewshaw receives a call from a stranger who says she has reason to believe he is her biological father, Mewshaw realizes he has been half dreading, half hoping for this to happen for over thirty years. Just like the young woman who wants to find the last piece to the puzzle of her life,...
Cover of The Mistress Contract
by She and He
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011

The remarkable true document that is The Mistress Contract opens with a piece of paper that was signed in 1981 by a woman and her wealthy lover. The contract establishes an exchange that she thinks fair: If he will provide an adequate and separate home for her and cover her expenses, she will provide...
Cover of Miss Entropia and the Adam Bomb
by George Rabasa
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011

No other obsession strikes as hard as the love that hits a teenaged boy - especially if he’s the sort of kid who is no saner than he wants to be. From the moment Adam Webb sees Francine Haggard-in the van that is supposed to return them to the Institute Loiseaux-the two young mental patients are inextricably...
Cover of Afterlives of the Saints
by Colin Dickey
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2012

Afterlives of the Saints is a woven gathering of groundbreaking essays that move through Renaissance anatomy and the Sistine Chapel, Borges’ "Library of Babel," the history of spontaneous human combustion, the dangers of masturbation, the pleasures of castration, “and so forth” - each essay focusing on the story of a particular (and particularly strange) saint.
Cover of Baseball's No-Hit Wonders

Baseball's No-Hit Wonders

More Than a Century of Pitching's Greatest Feats

by Dirk Lammers
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016

Baseball’s No-Hit Wonders honors such legendary pitchers as Cy Young, Bob Feller, Nolan Ryan and Sandy Koufax, while introducing readers to other eccentrics and one-shot wonders who have thrown no-hitters. The book, the first of its kind in more than fifteen years, fleshes out the colorful characters,...
Cover of An Accidental Mother
by Katherine Anne Kindred
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2011

After her divorce, Kate Kindred decided that she would live her life without children. But then she fell in love with Jim, a handsome, caring man who had custody of his two-year-old son, Michael. And she fell in love with the boy, too. During the six years they all lived together, Kate learned the deep...
Cover of The Evolution of Shadows
by Jason Quinn Malott
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009

In July of 1995, the news photographer Gray Banick disappeared into the Bosnian war zone and doing so took away pieces of the hearts of three people who loved him: Emil Todorovic, his interpreter and friend; Jack MacKenzie, his mentor who taught Gray to hold his camera steady between himself and the...
Cover of Reading Lips

Reading Lips

A Memoir of Kisses

by Claudia Sternbach
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011

Kisses, even the ones that don’t happen, can be the trace of what’s constant when life changes. In childhood, when what seems to define everything is competition-for style, for knowing, for experience-a kiss is the first first. When a girl’s father moves out and chooses a new family, a kiss on...
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