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Seventeen-year-old Tyler lives in one of Edinburgh's most deprived areas. Coerced into robbing rich people's homes by his bullying older siblings, he's also trying to care for his little sister and his drug-addict mum. On a job, his brother Barry stabs a homeowner and leaves her for dead, but that's just the beginning of their nightmare, because the woman is the wife of Edinburgh's biggest crime lord, Deke Holt. With the police and the Holts closing...

An entire day of the week has disappeared. That's normal, right? In What About Tuesday? Adam Wilson reminds us that should you ever wake up to find a day of the week missing due to a freak abnormality in the nature of space-time, it's probably a good idea not to mention it to anyone. Seriously. Just leave it alone. Definitely don't hire a private investigator. Oh, and definitely don't ask questions. Forget anything happened. Because, technically,...

Does the food taste different if you know the family behind it? Rae finds herself at the Lost Face Restaurant in search of the perfect crepes her husband perviously surprised her with as take-out-tempted by their gushy sweet cream that balanced so well with the strawberries. She feels sure the tasty food means the place itself earns her high-standard approval. But now that she waits here, she finds the restaurant itself is harder to love...

The New Yorker's legendary Paris correspondent explores life and love in the Jazz Age in this novel inspired by her days in Greenwich Village. From the 1920s to the 1970s, Janet Flanner kept Americans abreast of the goings-on in Paris with a biweekly New Yorker column written under the name Genêt. But before she became one of the country's most famous expats, she lived among the artists and writers of the Algonquin Round Table. Flanner shares a vivid...

Sybil White Brown returns from Boston to the small West Coast city where she once lived, hoping to heal after a terrible loss. Summoned to jury duty, she is dismayed to be assigned to the jury of a murder trial alongside her ex-husband with whom she had a rancorous divorce. As the trial progresses, she and her ex tiptoe around each other but eventually become disastrously entangled. Meanwhile, Sybil obsesses about the female defendant, whom she believes...

Life at the Complex Arms is just one disaster after another. Adeen is the resident manager of the Complex Arms, an apartment building in the Mill Woods neighbourhood of Edmonton. With no help from her deadbeat husband, Frosty, who sees himself as the next big thing in Nashville, she struggles to maintain the building while coping with the needs of a daughter with disabilities. As a distraction from her problems, Adeen grows more and more involved...

Vancouver. A day like any other. Kyle, a successful cosmetic surgeon, is punishing himself with a sprint up a mountain. Charlotte, wife of a tech tycoon, is combing the farm belt for local cheese and a sense of purpose. Back in the city, their families go about their business: landscaping, negotiating deals, skipping school. It's a day like any other- until suddenly it's not. When the earthquake hits, the city erupts in chaos and fear. Kyle's and...

A sharply witty novel about social ambitions and artistic pretensions by the author of Brave New World. The widowed Mrs. Aldwinkle will tell anyone who will listen of her love for art, and in a quest to surround herself with her intellectual equals, she invites an entourage to an Italian palace. One guest, who supports his poetry habit by editing a magazine for rabbit fanciers, will become the target of her amorous advances. Another guest will use...

Meet Nelson Smart. Beer is his life. He thinks about beer, talks about beer, dreams about beer and obviously drinks beer, a lot actually. Nelson doesn't drink any standard run of the mill type of beer, he will only drink craft beer and nothing else. Join Nelson and his two friends, Xxxxavier Geld and Stella Erfleur on their fun adventures navigating the craft beer world in their hometown of Ladideea. Over ten short stories, Nelson and his friends...

We all know it's not easy being a 21st century middle-aged, well-educated American with a decent job, no major health issues, no legal or financial problems, and plenty of family and friends. But most of us are pretty short on details. What exactly are the day-to-day challenges, not to mention the innermost mental and emotional processes, of folks struggling through this existence? REVOLUTION attempts to illuminate these mysteries, and many more as...