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The Stingray Shuffle | Tim Dorsey In Tim Dorsey's fifth novel, The Stingray Shuffle, have-psychosis-will-travel protagonist Serge A. Storms is back in the Sunshine State with the suitcase containing the same $5 million in cash that has been kicking around Florida for Dorsey's past four books. Between Serge, a hapless cocaine cartel, Russian spies, six small time Vegas nightclub acts, the Books, Booze and Broads club, and the surreal story line of The Stingray Shuffle , the suitcase doesn't stand a chance. Now add to this author Ralph Krunkleton, and how his book, The Stingray Shuffle became a bestseller, and you have the best book Tim Dorsey has written. Read review. |
Screwball | David Ferrell David Ferrell's Screwball takes America's favorite pastime -baseball -and baseball's most cursed team, the Boston Red Sox, and gives them the opportunity to make a deal with the devil. Into the heartbreak that has been the Sox's lot since they traded Babe Ruth directly after winning the 1928 World Series, fate has dropped Ron Kane, who has the potential to be the greatest pitcher who ever played the game. Read review. |
American Psycho | Brett Easton Ellis Patrick Bateman is twenty-six and works on Wall Street; he is handsome, sophisticated, charming and intelligent. He is also a psychopath. American Psycho is a bleak, bitter, black comedy about a world we all recognize but do not wish to face and it takes us to a head-on collision with America`s greatest dream - and it`s worst nightmare. Read review. |
| Since The Layoffs | Iain Levison Imagine being laid off from your job. Not an improbable occurrence these days, and not only are you laid off. The factory that employed you has disappeared, the local economy it once supported has died and your girlfriend has abandoned you for a more viable breadwinner. There is nothing left for you in your town, where only the businesses of desperation are booming. This is the situation in which Jake Skowran finds himself in Iain Levision?s Since the Layoffs. Read review. |
Lullaby | Chuck Palahniuk Carl Streator is a reporter investigating Sudden Infant Death Syndrome for a soft-news feature. After responding to several calls with paramedics, he notices that all the dead children were read the same poem from the same library book the night before they died. It's a culling song - an ancient African spell for euthanizing sick or old people. Researching it, he meets a woman who killed her own child with it accidentally. He himself accidentally killed his own wife and child with the same poem twenty years earlier. Together, the man and the woman must find and destroy all copies of this book, and try not to kill every rude sonofabitch that gets in their way. Lullaby is a comedy/drama/tragedy in that order. It may also be Chuck Palahniuk's best book yet. Read review. |
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