These stories about love and loss, some comic, some dark, range from lyrical to laugh-out-loud funny.

“…smart, funny, biting, and above all, touching. A collection to savor over and over.” --Michael White

An ancient manuscript and the hidden bones of St. Thomas Becket lead a historian into unexpected danger.

"Duke used to say that the individual sound of a musician revealed his soul. Mick Carlon is a 'soul' storyteller."
--Nat Hentoff

"[A] ripping good yarn that plunges the reader into the world of Duke Ellington." --Brian Morton

"Honestly strange and strangely honest… Remarkably compelling and powerful. Weaver's authenticity of characters, situations, and by-gone eras emanates from sheer originality of style. This amazing novel is a stellar achievement--gritty, funny, fresh, and bold. It will make your eyes bug out and your pulse race.  And how it shines, shines with humanity!”

--Sena Jeter Naslund, author of Ahab's Wife

"An important, even invaluable book, a moving farewell to the old, more humane way of life as China and all the world become technologized and globalized."

--Maxine Hong Kingston

The fusion of art and politics in America: Fifteen creative forces discuss art in the service of social justice. Profiles include: the late Howard Zinn; Pete Seeger; Yoko Ono; John Yau; poet Quincy Troupe; punk-rock activist Franklin Stein; comedian Maysoon Zayid; screenwriter Ron Nyswaner; filmmaker Gini Reticker.

"This book is part of the fight of our time." --David Shapiro

“A brave neuroscientist rushes in where angels fear to tread. A challenging yet accessible, charming and thoroughly enjoyable book – it provokes thoughts in a way that reminds one of the reasons for books to exist.”

—Robert Sapolsky, author of Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers

"An important, even invaluable book, a moving farewell to the old, more humane way of life as China and all the world become technologized and globalized."

--Maxine Hong Kingston

Mussolini clones that won’t stay dead. The power to re-create others — forever. Memory and identity that are no longer unique. Trapped inside the cloning facility at a time when humans are undergoing their final death rattle on a prion-infected earth, Fausto struggles to recreate the world he once knew of family and friendship. Or did he ever know it?

Jem's father turns himself into a 9-foot orangutan, then leads Jem on the ultimate adventure: to find the last resting place of Leonardo da Vinci.

"A delightful book that readers will be unable to put down." -School Library Journal

"A lost man finds his calling, and an oceanographer with dimming eyesight illuminates the dark sea. An inspiring story of dedication, perseverance, courage, and love."

--Deborah Cramer, author of Great Waters: An Atlantic Passage and Smithsonian Ocean: Our Water Our World.

“In this marvelously original novel, Zlotsky has done for conjoined twins what Gunter Grass did for midgets in The Tin Drum…A weirdly hilarious Russian fairytale composed with the comedic zeal of Gogol and the rhetorical brilliance of Nabokov.”

—Lee Siegel, author of Love in a Dead Language

“A rugged and tender tale. Bawdy humor, snappy dialogue, colorful sea myths and rich lobstering details add to the immense appeal of this textured narrative about a lobsterman’s inward and outward struggles.”

--Publishers Weekly

"In this darkly inventive work of fiction, Graziano deposits his protagonist among the despairing crowds of an institutional hell. [This] grim allegory interrogates human existence with its visceral, sensuous description."

--Publishers Weekly

"A delightful, passionate and memorable rendition of a familiar and glorious tale."

--Governor Mario M. Cuomo

"An impressive fiction debut... Malloy mixes history and fantasy with flair and delivers a wonderfully satisfying puzzler."

--Publishers Weekly