Ramiz Monsef
1) Synchronic
Publisher
Well Go USA
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When New Orleans paramedics and longtime best friends Steve and Dennis are called to a series of bizarre and gruesome accidents, they chalk it up to a mysterious new drug found at the scene. But after Dennis's oldest daughter disappears, Steve stumbles upon a terrifying truth about the supposed psychedelic that will challenge everything he knows about reality, and the flow of time itself." --
2) Just a hat
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In 1979 Texas, 13-year-old Joseph Nissan struggles to trust others and stay true to himself when the Iran hostage crisis, two neighborhood bullies and the local reverend's beautiful daughter put him in danger, until he discovers he's not alone"--
Author
Language
English
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Description
The tenth novel by Nobel and Pulitzer Prize–winning author Saul Bellow
Kenneth Trachtenberg, an eccentric and witty native of Paris, travels to the Midwest to spend time with his famous American uncle, a world-renowned botanist and self-described "plant visionary." After numerous affairs and failed relationships, the restless Uncle Benn seeks a settled existence in the form of marriage—but tying the knot again opens the door to
...Author
Publisher
Cemetery Dance Publications
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
CompWare is in serious trouble after a promised merger falls through, so they do what other businesses have done to bolster their public image: they hire a consulting firm to review and streamline their business practices. But there's something strange about the firm they hire-more specifically, the quirky gentleman who arrives to supervise the project, Mr. Patoff.
Author
Publisher
Permanent Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
You land in prison in your twenties, faced with the likelihood of spending the rest of your life behind the wall. What do you do? Danner Darcleight started writing. He writes about what he sees, what he has done, and the toll that his own past actions have exacted. Concrete Carnival brings us inside a maximum-security prison, introducing a colorful cast of rogues while revealing the day-to-day struggles experienced by millions of Americans now living...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1988.
Language
English
Description
Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung contains the wild and brilliant writings of Lester Bangs-the most outrageous and popular rock critic of the 1970s-edited and with an introduction by the reigning dean of rock critics, Greil Marcus.
"By turns insightful and hilarious, these collected essays by the late, legendary Banks constantly astound."
Author
Publisher
Writers and Readers Pub
Pub. Date
[1986]
Language
English
Description
24 gritty, raw short stories by a famous Chicago author who uses the old Polish immigrant Division Street neighborhood as the setting for most of the tales. Dating from the 1930's through the 50's, the characters often lead hard lives filled with crime, sorrow and suffering. Includes an interview with the author and an afterword by Studs Terkel.
Author
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Formats
Description
This enchanting novel in verse captures one young woman's struggle for independence, equality, and identity as the daughter of Greek and French immigrants in tumultuous 1930s Detroit.
Call Me Athena: Girl from Detroit is a beautifully written novel in verse loosely based on author Colby Cedar Smith's paternal grandmother. The story follows Mary as the American-born daughter of Greek and French immigrants living in Detroit in the 1930s, creating a...
12) The blind owl
Author
Language
English
Description
"Written by one of the greatest Iranian writers of the twentieth century, Blind Owl tells a three-part story of a pen-case painter, an isolated narrator with a fragile relationship with time and reality. In part one, he relates his own story in the first person, in a string of hazy, dreamlike recollections fueled by opium and alcohol. He spends time painting the covers of pen cases only to paint the exact same scene: an old man wearing a cape and...
Author
Language
English
Description
"One of our most gifted writers of fiction returns with a bold and piercing novel about a young single mother living in Harlem, her eccentric aunt, and the decisions they make that have unexpected implications for the world around them. Reyna knows her relationship with Boyd isn't perfect, yet she sees him through a three-month stint at Riker's Island, their bond growing tighter. Kiki, now settled in the East Village after a youth that took her to...
Author
Series
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Sasha, a young computer programmer from Leningrad, is driving north to meet some friends for a nature vacation. He picks up a couple of hitchhikers, who persuade him to take a job at the National Institute for the Technology of Witchcraft and Thaumaturgy. The adventures Sasha has in the largely dysfunctional institute involve all sorts of magical beings-a wish-granting fish, a tree mermaid, a cat who can remember only the beginnings of stories, a...
Author
Publisher
Seven Stories Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nelson Algren sought humanity in the urban wilderness of postwar America, where his powerful voice rose from behind the billboards and down tin-can alleys, from among the marginalized and ignored, the outcasts and scapegoats, the punks and junkies, the whores and down-on-their luck gamblers, the punch-drunk boxers and skid-row drunkies and kids who knew they'd never reach the age of twenty-one: all of them admirable in Algren’s eyes for their...