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A fun, sci-fi romp where custodian – or space broom – Johnny Gomez teams up with smugglers and is thrust into an unforgettable adventure. Great read for fans of Stringers by Chris Panatier. Everyone aboard Kilgore Station is living their best life. Everyone except for Johnny Gomez. While humans...

18 year old Simon Chapman and his motorcycle mysteriously vanished from a NSW Country town. Previously, a severe storm had caused considerable damage in the town. There were vague reports of a meteorite hitting a property near the town. An elderly woman claimed it was a flying saucer. She was lat...

It’s just a little bag of dolls. They can’t tell you where a murdered girl is buried in a lonely rainforest, rotting away. Ben Hood is given a little bag of dolls and asked to solve a five year old missing person case. One of the dolls is missing. It may be with the girl, presumed murdered and bu...

Ex Police Detective Ben Hood was trained and experienced in the deadly art of Ninjutsu. His teacher often pitted his skills against other students of the fighting art. The beautiful and strangely complicated Italian woman gave little away during their training sessions. When she later went missin...

A combination of fiction and documentation, Sound Museum fearlessly interrogates state-sanctioned violence and the psychology—and banality—of evil. In Iran, a curator has gathered foreign journalists for a VIP tour of her latest creation. As the guests sit to listen to her initial remarks, she s...

A boisterous collection of surreal, darkly humorous short stories that will delight fans of George Saunders and Alice Munro From John Elizabeth Stintzi, the mind that created the daringly bizarre novel My Volcano, comes an electrifying collection of strange and dark tales. In the surreal, often...

On a transatlantic flight between Bilbao and New York City, a fictional version of Kirmen Uribe recalls three generations of family history—the inspiration for the novel he wants to write—and ponders how the sea has shaped their stories. The day he knew he was going to die, our narrator’s grandf...

Retired caterer Valerie Corbin investigates a suspicious drowning in this Orchid Isle cozy culinary mystery, featuring a feisty queer couple who swap surfing lessons for sleuthing sessions in tropical Hilo, Hawai‘i After a vacation of a lifetime in Hilo, Hawai‘i, retired caterer Valerie Corbin a...

With Lance Olsen’s signature flair, Absolute Away is an innovative narrative triptych, a story of one life reimagined. The first movement tells the story of Edie Metzger, a little Jewish girl who bit Hermann Göring’s lip so hard it bled at a Nazi book-burning rally in 1933. In the second, in 1956...

Winner of the 2015 Best Translated Book Award In Mother River, Can Xue, one of China’s most daring and visionary writers, invites us into a surreal landscape where reality is as fluid as a river itself. This collection of thirteen stories weaves together vivid, dreamlike narratives that challeng...